Cooking with Alison was created one year ago, today! So, like I do every year on my own birthday, I’m going to reflect on the past year’s lessons, appreciate the people that made a difference, and make plans for improvement over the next year. Here’s to you and, hopefully, to another year of Cooking with Alison!
Statistics From the First Year of Food Blogging:
Total number of views: 58, 764
Number of views on the busiest day (Jan. 13, 2011): 529
Number of posts: 232
The most popular posts were: Four Different Sauces for Mushroom Ravioli, How to Steam Cook Food, and Cheong Fun (Rice Noodle Rolls) With Shrimp
Number of email subscribers: 45 (plus 8 wordpress.com subscribers)
Number of email subscribers lost: 4 – It is at this point that I’d like to give a shout out to my dad, because he is one of the people that unsubscribed, haha. (I was posting too frequently for him.) Love you dad! 🙂
Unfortunately, I don’t currently have a way of knowing how many RSS subscribers there are (or how many I’ve lost). 😉
Number of websites inspired by Cooking with Alison: 1 (My love affair with everything)
Most Importantly, Thank Yous:
First and foremost, Thank You to Everyone who has ever visited my site! I really appreciate you taking the time to look at it! A Special Thank You to the subscribers!
Thank You to Everyone who has ever shared a comment! Your comments truly influence the direction of this site. For example, in response to a question that Cathy asked about my steaming equipment, I wrote the post “How to Steam Cook Food” which became the second most popular post on this website!
I’d like to give Lily Ng (owner of the Very popular – and one of my favourite food blogs – Lily’s Wai Sek Hong) a Huge Thank You for adding Cooking with Alison to her blog roll. Thanks to her kindness, this site gained more exposure which encouraged me to keep food blogging.
A personal thank you to my sister, Krystal, who is my self-appointed Food Blog Manager 🙂 She is a gracious taste-tester, she provides excellent constructive criticism, and the Recipe Index and How To category were her great ideas.
Ed deserves some serious recognition for putting up with the incessant [often one sided] conversations about the food blog 🙂 Back when I had an average of 5 hits per week, I called or emailed him Every single time someone visited my site, haha.
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge WordPress.com. I’ve never blogged before, so I can’t make comparisons to other providers, but WordPress.com has the BEST support team I have ever encountered. They are extremely helpful and have always responded to questions and fixed issues promptly. Furthermore, they are regularly updating their system and offering new features/functions. They’ve made my first blogging experience extremely pleasant and user-friendly.
Congrats on your one-year anniversary!!! Your blog is awesome 🙂
thank you Krystal 🙂 I hope you liked the shout out 😉
Congratulations! This is has been pretty interesting and fun to watch and to being the taste tester!
I can’t believe it has been a year. I really enjoy reading your recipes. Now I just need the time to try some of them. Congrats Alison. Happy Cooking!
thanks, Linda 🙂 I can’t believe it has been a year too. When I told my brother, he joked, “Wow, I’ve already been ignoring your food blog for one whole year?” haha
Warrior Wilson congratulates you on conquering a unit of earth time!
thanks so much 🙂
alison
i love your blog and i learn alot from you. Ir was my pleasure to link you. I too would like to thank you and your fans who have supported me and A HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR to all.
Lily, you are Too kind 🙂 and so wonderfully gracious 🙂 Thank you so much for stopping by 🙂
Hi, Alison.
This is Ryan from the WordPress.com Happiness Engineers. We saw your compliment and I just wanted to stop by and say “thank you!”
Congrats on blogging for one year and best wishes on many more.
Thank you so much Ryan! I’m so glad you stopped by 🙂 Thank YOU for everything that you guys do!
Good on ya!
Thanks so much 🙂 Glad to see that your blog is going strong too!
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