Since I started blogging for Creative Weblogging through the Java Entrepreneur site I've been watching the traffic statistics just a little too much. I find myself checking them two to three times per day. This is the first time I've ever really cared about generating traffic on a web site and to be honest it is the first time I've ever put any effort into it. Such a thing does relate to entrepreneurship, if a person is trying to start a business on the Internet, so I'm looking at this whole thing as a learning experience.

Anyway, one of the things I've been watching is the Google PageRank metric. When I started the blog back in September and up until a couple of days ago my rank was 0 out of 10 (There is a very detailed explanation of Google page ranking here). Since that time I kept thinking to myself "oh wouldn't it be nice if I could score just a 1, 2 or maybe even 3 on the Google PageRank." Well today I checked and saw that my Java Entrepreneur blog is now scoring a 6 out of 10... WOW!

I'm getting traffic on the blog and I'm pretty happy about it. I've tried to create at least one backlink from other blogs or forums related to Java programming and or entrepreneurship every couple of days. It seems that it is starting to pay off for me. However, the fact that all the other blogs in the Creative Weblogging network, of which there are about 50 blogs now, have links to my site helps a lot.

The only drawback is the realization that with all those page hits and unique visitors I need to keep it fresh. I hate going to blogs and seeing them simply cut and paste news articles from other sites. Now my goal is to try and get more RSS subscribers. I'm not sure how to track that type of thing so I guess I need to do some more homework.