One Thousand and Twenty One Small Potatoes!

It was a big surprise to see 1,021 subscribers when I logged into Feedburner this morning. I’ve been waiting patiently to cross the one thousand mark, but wasn’t expecting to cross it this soon, especially on a Friday. Tuesdays are usually when this blog gets the most readers. (Feedburner statistic is based on how many subscribers reading your content on the previous day.)

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As you can see, the number of subscribers has been growing steadily, despite some minor glitches here and there.

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What caused the number of subscribers to jump? I have to thank Leonid Mamchenkov for posting about this blog on WP Bits. He also added Wpdesigner’s tutorial category feed to his sidebar, which I have no doubt has helped traffic-wise and subscriber-wise.

But, the most important person to thank is YOU. Through all the ups and downs, all I can say is thank you…very much for reading my little blog. I wish I had the right words to express how rewarding it feels to get to this point and how much I appreciate the simple fact that you take out a bit of your day, everyday, to check on what I write about.

I started this blog back in May 2006, to publish free WordPress themes, not to blog. Blogging doesn’t come to me naturally, but that’s what it took to cross the one thousand mark so getting here definitely took hard work.

Again, thank you for reading and thanks for your patience through all my mistakes. For example, I realized now that posting nine posts per day wasn’t a smart move. For the past several days, I’ve been very picky with what I blog about to make sure that you’ll benefit from every post. I’ll continue to do that because that’s the best way to show that I appreciate my subscribers Small Potatoes. ;)

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m-alo:

Maybe another reason why your number of subscribers has jumped, could be the fact that your e-book only can be downloaded when subscribed to the feed?

I’m sure that also helped, but it has been released for a long time and I haven’t seen any noticeable jump until WPBits linked to this blog.

I one of your subscribe. nice blog ever and I love your currently theme..when you release it to the public..?

Thanks Bent. Unfortunately, I probably can’t release it without a major re-work of its structure simply because there’s so many custom features that only this blog can use.

Congrats on that milestone! This is a sign indicating the quality of your content.

Wishing you to get thousand times more readers than this :)

Shankar Ganesh

Congrats!

One of your Small Potatoes …. ;-)

I am your subscriber,too. Your blog is good, especilly the theme.

Keep up the good work!

(and thanks for the link back) ;)

Congrats man you have a great blog and content. You posts have helped me a lot when making themes. Been a regular reader for a long time.

As a longtime RSS lurker to your site, congrats on the mark and keep up the good work. This site has the best signal-to-noise ratio on good Wordpress theme implementation that I’ve seen in the thousands of sites out there. The content really sells itself.

Congrats! That is amazing feed count you have there and you should be proud. You have a lot of great tips and your designs are amazing. Keep up the good work!

Very nice blog, Thanx a bunch and keep up the good work!

//Anders

it’s the beginning, you will get more… come on!

Congrats. It just shows how much we all love you. ;)

I am a small potato :D

Congrats. That’s quite an accomplishment!

Congrats. Keep up the good work.

Good job, Small Potatoe. I have subscribed before in the past but unsubscribed when I realized you were posting so many times a day, it was wasting my time in the feed reader but I recently subscribed again a week ago or so when I noticed you posted less.

1) Remember its quality content that matters

2) Blogging about what you enjoy is what blogging is about and you obviously like to help people with their WordPress so as long as you continue to enjoy that, stick with it. Don’t worry anything else.

Keep up the good work.

Mark

I read you because of your quality posts. Also via feed.

Keep up the good work.

A little late on the congratulatory party, but all the same, congratulations on passing 1,000 small potatoes! Testament to your excellent content.

Here’s to the next 1,000 spuds!

Nice!

Hi.

I want to thank you for making the consistent effort.

I’ve been blogging for two weeks and I’m just trying to get my feet grounded. It’s a work blog so I’m just trying to do the best I can. Anyway, congrats on your milestone. I am very small potato but I enjoy what you do.

Best
Mark R.

Thanks Mark :)

Thanx a bunch and keep up the good work!

:)

i am a smallpotatoe too :D

thanks!

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