Happy 1 Year Birthday, GuitarFlame.com!

I usually don’t post over the weekend, but today, 16th November, it’s a big day for GuitarFlame.com and for me.

Today, this site celebrates 1 year since the first post, 1 year of constant posting and searching for new ideas, 1 year of meeting great people, finding about new technologies and guitars, 1 year of new experiences.

I want to tell you I have enjoyed every moment of it, I loved answering every comment and writing every article. I have had some good articles (I like to believe so) and a lot of bad ones (I take credits for them too)

During this year I have met people that were here before my blog came to being, I loved speaking to them, exchanging emails, comments, stumbles, chat by Skype-phone, during this time I have seen disappearing blogs that I have looked up to since day one (IG’s blog, for example) and during this time I have started again to rehears with my band, after about 2 years with no activity.

I have had a contest, which was a great thing for me, new thrills, you know, I had great people guest blogging here, Dr J, Jack Pribek and IG. I promised these guys I will guest posts on their blogs too, as a return favor for taking the time to write a post for my blog. Unfortunately, I haven’t managed so far, so I think I will just publish a TO DO list one day…

I have received a lot of request to publish news about various sites, products, etc, I have stored them in my local TO PUBLISH list, one of these days I will do it.

I have started a dare, a contest with myself, to reach in 5000 visitors per day in 6 months. Some may say I’ve failed. Some, as in STATS NUMBERS. Well, I gained a lot more. I have only reached 550-650 visitors per day, but, as a commercial here in Romania says, a small number, but, mine! How true! I worked hard for everyone of these 600 visitors per day. By the way, trust me I have worked for those spikes of 2500, 3500 visitors in 24 hours too! (Thanks, fellow stumblers!)

Also, for those of you wondering, yes, I have made some money from this blog, I guess around $600, not much, but hey, they paid the bills for hosting and for a part of my guitar, you know, but honestly, I didn’t put too much weight on this, even if I constantly try to find something to make this site bring in some money because I would like it to work a bit for itself, it is 1 year old now, this blog it’s a big boy now! However, that’s not a priority and for sure it is no secret that sites make money. Some of them, big money. Well, not this one.

Thanks to your support for this blog I have gained again my interest for everything that guitar means, I bought a new guitar, my surfer-blue Variax that I really enjoy, I started to experience home recording and man, I learned a lot about blogging! Before this site I was not into blogging much.

By the way, this first year anniversary was celebrated a few days before by a new and lovely spike, with a few days when my traffic was somewhere between 1500 and 2500 daily visitors. Well, thanks for the present, guys!

So, for this, I just wanted to write this post and tell you that you are all part of it, because without your constant participation here, I wouldn’t have gone that far. For me, GuitarFlame is not just a site, it is not just a blog, I like to believe it is a nice community, made of everyone reading my posts and commenting here.

To all of you I want to say thank you for being part of it!

Happy 1 year birthday, GuitarFlame.com!

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