Give a Little Love – February

Yea so I’m referencing a Coke commercial, shut up. NBB isn’t quite at its two month birthday yet, but I thought I’d celebrate anyway by sharing some love with some of the folks who have contributed to its success so far.

Nate @ Infinfx

For about a month after NBB launched the site was crashing pretty bad everytime it got Dugg. It was going down even before articles got 100 Diggs. Many of my stories got buried as a result. I was using iPowerWeb and lost out on a ton of traffic because of it. I started asking around for some better hosting solutions. This site isn’t getting the amount of uniques to warrant its own dedicated server, but I really needed it to withstand the spike traffic. There’s where Nate came in.

Nate was able to give me a great deal on hosting on his dedicated server through his company Infinfx. Since I switched to Nate’s server the site hasn’t crashed once and has withstood 3 Diggs – all for what I was paying for before. Nate is also responsible for fixing the obnoxious comment line break bug! Lets give him a big hand.

Top Commenters

A blog isn’t nearly as fun if you don’t get much feedback in the form of comments. So thanks to Scott, Jane, Nate, Derrich, Allen, John, Raghu, Collis, Ajith, and Radu for giving me so many comments over this last month. I appreciate everything every reader has to say, and I love to see so much activity on such a young blog.

Bryan Le and John Chow for their Reviews

Bryan and John both reviewed my blog this month. They did a lot of research and gave me some great comments. I love hearing what other people in the industry think about my blog, especially successful people such as these two. I’d also like to thank John for letting me guest blog with him (in our little switcheroo) a couple days ago.

If anyone else wants to review this blog I’d be more than happy to give you a hardy link back in the next love-share post I do!

And Finally the Diggers, Deliciousers, MyBlogLoggers, and Stumblers

A lot of people whine that these sites don’t create return or quality visitors. I, however, have to give the credit for the majority of my success over the last month to these sites. My content has reached audiences that I couldn’t have began to target with my limited resources. Sure the 20k or so uniques Digg sends my way every week or so doesn’t stick 100%, but a lot of Diggers actually do find their way back here. Same goes for the other sites mentioned. I really appreciate everyone who finds my content to be good enough to bookmark, Digg, etc.

I hope this blog can continue to grow at the pace it has so far and that I’ll have plenty more love to give out next month.