I don't have a massive amount of visits to this site as yet and my post frequency has been dropping rapidly over the past few weeks. I had a quick look at my Google Analytics stats last night and for the first time since I kicked off this site the traffic seems to have stopped growing.

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I'm not overly surprised by this as I'm guessing that a lot of the visitors of this site to date are people that know me. If the frequency of my posts goes down then people check in less as they get used to seeing the same posts stuck at the top of my page for 3 or 4 days. I'm a bit dissappointed with myself that I've let this happen as I was pretty happy that the traffic here was growing exponentially week on week. I have been busy with other projects such as lucky.ie, look at the number of times I've posted on there since the 1st of August. Between myself and Sean we've cranked out 49 posts in 20 days.

I haven't really promoted my blog as much as I could and I have held back as I'm not 100% happy with it yet but it just go to show the difference between working on a site that you're lazy about or working on one that you're actively promoting. When I say promoting I mean the lucky.ie logo ad that you see in the top corner of this site and myself and Sean have both been blogging about the site on our own blogs so we're getting some from this. Apart from this we haven't done a whole lot else except set up a Twitter account, but the traffic growth for Lucky.ie has been very impressive for only being active for 18 days! Long may it continue.

I now need to readdress the balance and try to work on some sort of schedule where I can keep up the good work at lucky.ie but also allow this blog to continue to grow. It's either that or I post weekly on here only as I'm reluctant to step back from lucky.ie as it's a great site to be involved in!

I'm beginning teacher training on September and it's going to be a tough year so finding time to juggle all this is going to be hard work! Apparently the teaching course is ultra time consuming so this is a big challenge for me! In all honestly though, I'm actually thinking of creating another site dedicated to my year as a trainee teacher so other students can have a look and maybe learn something from my experience or teach me something about theirs. Let's see how the next few weeks go!