One year of bacon… and still burning!

1994 Original burning the bacon logo

It’s been one year since I launched burning the bacon with barrett as a way to add to the conversation in the mobile and interactive marketing ecosystem with an emphasis on the Canadian market.

You can check out my first post here.

Some people doubted that I had the patience and enough things to talk about to keep the conversation going beyond the first few months. The blogsphere is littered with dead blogs - sites that are perpetually on hiatus.

I’m proud to say that in 12 months I’ve generated 441 tags, 122 posts in 19 categories with 183 approved comments. I’ve also continued the conversation by consistently commenting in other blogs and have started contributing to both onedegree.ca and the Canadian Marketing Association blog.

This site has gone through a few redesigns and now incorporates 16 plug-in widgets. I’m struggling a bit with how to continue to get link love from articles that are still relevant… but aren’t easily findable because of the volume of content I’ve generated.

What do you suggest?

In celebration of the one year anniversary of this site, two things happened this weekend

1. My domain host did not renew my domain name… so it was temporarily down & redirecting to one of those spammy looking directory search pages.  Luckily it was resolved within 6 hours and it happened on a Saturday… the lowest traffic day of the week.  I’m working on a separate post with additional thoughts and insights into the domain business
2. I’ve updated the site with new widgets and an updated blog roll that reflects sites that I’m currently following

Every month attracts a larger audience than the month before. Thank you for following my conversation and thank you to those who actively participate with comments and personal emails.

I’m looking forward to the next 12 months and welcome (as always) your feedback