I Want to Say, "Thank You" - PeteBrookshaw.Com reaches 100,000 Hits!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank those who have read, commented and supported my petebrookshaw.com site over the years. Way back in July 2006, I launched off with my first few blog posts. I called the Blog, Revolution Earth, and tentatively put a few thoughts up on the web. Have a read of one here. Who would have thought 7 years later, I'd still be offloading my thoughts to a wider audience...

100,000 hits is a bit of a milestone... I don't care much for accolades though. The fact is most of my website hits no doubt come from my Mum and that anonymous Atheist from down the road. Nonetheless, praise God!

What interests me though, is the change in Blog Readership over the last 7 years. When it came to blogging 7 years ago, it was the next best thing since sliced bread. Everyone was blogging. Teenagers were writing blogs about their latest I.T. Gadget, and people were reflecting on their latest journal entries.  Christians were launching blogs quicker than Apple were creating Apps. The blogosphere had well and truly taken off.

Blogging then took a dive in the number of writers (at least from within my realms of influence), as people gave up on the continuous need to update their readers on their particular topic of choice. The blogosphere in a sense became more specialised. People were seemingly reading more articles and websites that were more informative and more specialised. Readers didn't care what you ate for breakfast! Readers for the most part, were not wanting to listen to the dribble of the intricate details of a person's emotional life. They were desiring to read things that will add value to their day. They were wanting to read what interests them, from writers who had some level of credibility within their blogging genre.

Funny enough, this blog is still going. 

So, with that all being said, I still have a few people here and there that are wanting to read what I write. If that continues, I'll continue to write.

I am passionate about people reaching their potential in life. I unashamedly want each and every person on planet earth to choose to follow God's son, Jesus Christ, and live a life that pleases him! I want to see leader's rise up, grow up and stand up to lead their generation to the purposes of God.

If my blogging helps at all towards that end, then I'll keep blogging.

Let me ask you:

What do you seek most from a Blog?

What Blog post has most inspired you?

God bless you and thank you for joining with me, in partnering together with God, in the work of the Gospel!



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How to Grow your Blog Traffic by 300%

This is not a trick blog, nor some marketing technique to sell you my latest book. What I am about to tell you in relation to growing your blog traffic is absolutely true. I'm not a 'blog traffic' guru, but this may be worth reading.

The problem with this post, is that many of you will not like the answer. I believe the assertion I am about to make to be true and though it may be able to be debated by you, I am sticking by it 100%.

When I have followed the following, I have increased my blog readership by literally 300% or more per post. I bet you are intrigued.

Now, I am not a scientist, nor do I work as a statistician and I cannot verify what I am about to tell with with clear, scientific, empirical evidence. Maybe this post takes a little faith.

In fact, to grow your blog readership by 300% takes faith. Let me explain the premise of my discovery...

How to Grow your Blog Traffic by 300%.

Call me crazy, but EVERY BLOG I have written, where I have sensed a CLEAR PROMPTING from GOD to write that particular post, has generally had 300% higher traffic than other posts.

If you are not into the faith thing, stay with me for a few moments. I am merely trying to explain to you MY story. See, I am a Christian, and I ask God to reveal to me what I should blog about. Sometimes I sense nothing, and I blog about whatever I am passionate about (leadership, communication, the Bible, etc). The blog traffic literally goes up through the roof, when I have a deep, deep sense from the Holy Spirit (some of you know what I'm talking about!) about what to write about.

I wrote The Most Important Truth About Leadership after I sensed that God had said something into my spirit. Now the way I write the post is not really different to any other post, and the timing and way I promote the post was not any different. Though the blog traffic of this blogger post, has gone through the roof.

I wrote The Church will Grow back in January 2012, to explain a little move of God we had in our local Salvation Army church. Next thing I know, the blog went viral.

Now, there are many bloggers out there passionate about increasing blog traffic. And this says something about increasing your blog readership, sure. But it actually says something a lot deeper about the nature of God, and this intangible thing we call success. Let me attempt to sum it up here:

Any Godly success, perceived rightly or otherwise, will be directly proportionate to the believer's faithful response to the Holy Spirit's leading in their life.

You could spend the next few years attempting to increase your blog traffic. Go for it. You could spend your time finding tips on increasing your blog readership and rating on the top of Google. If that's your cup of tea, then great.

Though why not take a moment, and grow your faith in the one who created you.

Handing over your life, your blog and all that you have over to Christ, might just be the single biggest, most important thing you have done or will ever do.

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