Mechanically, you just can’t get that many visitors in that short a time. I don’t think Acrobat Reader (the most visited website online) could get that many visitors in a week, if they simply switched their website address. The search engines have to find your site, and find all the links to your site to get you high enough into the result pages to get the visitors.

But, knowing that, and knowing what I’ve learned through failure, I’d suggest nixing “Keep it simple.” What’s the fun in that? lol When I decided to do stained glass, I took your approach and didn’t bother to research and study every single thing before “just do it.” The result was that I had the one piece of glass done and was working on the piece that went next to it, before I found out “you can’t make an inside cut” in stained glass. It’s too complicated, and the properties of glass aren’t supposed to allow for such silliness. Fortunately, that piece I finished before reading that was an inside cut, and I naively pulled it off, simply because I didn’t know I couldn’t. (Hey, the project got finished, but I hadn’t learned enough about the proecess of soldering it together well enough for it to last but a year. THAT was my failure. lol) More of my successes have happened from the sheer naiveness of my plan than any amount of thorough research before trying to do something new. lol

Thanks for your lessons learned. They reinforce much of what I’ve learned about failure over the years, and this article was so wonderfully written that I’m still smiling. I’m not the only “failure” in the world, but, if we’re honest, no one in the world can say they’ve never failed – including those who never tried.

Thanks for the fabulous and helpful post!

Cheers!

Also, on a larger level, I wonder how good the content was for the second blog. I mean, this seems like a publicity challenge more than a blogging challenge.

@ Mary – I’ll be a launching a blog in July, so how will I do it? My goal will be based around a two month window, and my co-bloggers are already planning how we are going to launch it.

I think setting goals is very important. Unrealistic goals won’t motivate you to reach them. And if a goal doesn’t motivate you, whats the point? So we’re setting bottom level goals, and motivating higher goals. A lot of our goals don’t even involve web stats, but real world acheivements. I’d rather make a goal to get 20 guest posts published; this is something to work for.

@ James – I agree with a lot of your points. There are two things a successful blog needs, great content and publicity. One without the other is pointless.

#5 recording videos is the scariest part, but I am working on it.
#10 is something I always keep in mind.

Thanx for a wonderful post!

Kind Regards,
Klaus