This is my post for Blog Action Day 2009, this is a global thing that bloggers do all over the world in order to make people more aware of climate change and other such matters.

So here are some things that you can do to help preserve the environment, and change your health habits at the same time. Food processing and transportation can be responsible for many CO2 emissions but we do need to eat obviously.

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It’s two years today since I moved this blog over to this domain and the WordPress platform, and what a fantastic year fact it has been. Traffic levels during the first quarter of this year, and the second quarter have been very consistent throughout. I have been getting more enquiries through my contact form, for various things such as link exchanges, people wanting to submit content and a few people have expressed. A interest in advertising.

Which means that more people are now finding the blog, through which ever means its syndicated on more sites now than it has ever been. And this will be the case hopefully as time goes on. All of this in the long run, will build higher levels of traffic. It is really satisfying to see something that you have gradually grown, over a period of time.

Not only that as well, it’s also made me realise how passionate I am, about getting the message out of the benefits of eating healthily and general overall well-being. So from what I can see if things are just going to, keep on the up as far as traffic levels are concerned and the people subscribing to the RSS feed.

I would like to say hello to the new subscribers, who have the updates delivered in their inbox and hope you are enjoying the posts. I can always remember when I first thought about, moving over to WordPress what it would actually be like. And how long it would be before the novelty wore off and I would get bored.

Well I am still here and enjoy every minute of it even the littlest thing sometimes, can be a big thrill like seeing some traffic coming from somewhere else. Or someone leaving a comment that hasn’t done so before, I think I have found my true calling in life. And this is definitely it is so all that remains to do now is, just keep on trucking along.

And thanks to everybody, who has joined me just recently and I hope you are enjoying the ride.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Mark

Webmaster http://www.losethattyre.co.uk

Writing this blog has become one of the best things, that I have ever done in a long time it has made me realise how passionate I am about. Health and fitness and other associated matters, the reason for the title of this post is I have a dream is it reminds me of Martin Luther King’s speech all those years ago about how he wanted to change things.

And I am at the stage now where I want to do the same with my blog. Some of the things I am going to be doing are writing a press release for distribution, having a new theme designed, the main reason for this is in order for people to be able to see my content more on the front page rather than as it is now.

But one of the reasons for writing this post is I want to be able to get more interaction going with people, in the form of comments which seems to be at present on a bit of a go slow, as regards things such as traffic levels things aren’t too bad.

The ultimate dream I have for my blog is to have my content go viral where ever is possible, and be on as many sites as is possible. So what I would like to ask of my readers now, is if you have any friends or relatives, in your e-mail contacts list.

That you could send my site address to or even a link to feed burner where they can sign up for e-mail updates, my ultimate goal for this blog is to make it as well known and is big as is possible, things are certainly moving in the right direction there is no doubt about that, but every little thing that people can do all helps. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Thanks to everybody who has got the word out for me you know who you are.

Mark

Webmaster

http://www.losethattyre.co.uk

Being as it’s coming up to Christmas I thought I would do this last post for this year, and take a early break from blogging just for a while I have been blogging consistently throughout this year, although there have been some gaps I have managed to put content out most weeks apart from the odd few.

So this post is about some of the highlights from this year and even though it seems to have gone rather quickly, there has been some really good ones for me at least anyway. It was a relatively quiet start in January and traffic levels were not quite where I wanted them to be.

So after feeling under the weather for quite some time, I decided that enough was enough and at the beginning of February started to look at, my blogging mastermind lessons and also ramped up the amount of content creation I was doing.

I think it was about March time, that some of my posts started appearing on Reuters, which came as a nice surprise all of a sudden seeing traffic coming from sites like USA Today Reuters and many others. Was totally mind blowing to me in fact when I first saw my first post on Reuters I couldn’t believe my eyes.

That to me was the ultimate highlight of the year, apart from getting links from some authoritative blog’s like Pro Blogger, I ended up submitting my site to fitness to alltop, and they welcomed me with open arms this which was very gratifying to say the least.

Someone called Larisa contacted me from Wellsphere, said how much she liked my blog, and would I like it to be syndicated on their website naturally I agreed to this and as time has gone on I do get traffic from Wellsphere now this which was another well added addition to getting my blog noticed more. This year has been extremely good for growth as far as traffic is concerned even though my RSS subscribers have gone up and down somewhat I do hope one day that I will have over a hundred or more.

Also traffic levels have continued to rise throughout the year, there have been some occasional dips but I expect that anyway it is quite normal, it is something that I have learned to just except, if traffic levels dip sometimes after a while they do come back. I can’t wait one day to look at my stats and see 500 –1000 visitors per day to me that would be the ultimate thing.

But for now I am really happy with where I am, with my blog as it stands. You have to compare where you were from the beginning or where you were earlier on this year, November has been one of the best months I have had as far as visitors are concerned according to my web stats program awstats.

I have received some nice comments from people, about how much they enjoy reading my blog which is very gratifying also, there have been other ones which have been little bit critical in nature but nothing too bad, that is just one of the things about blogging it’s a open forum and you have to develop a bit of a thick skin as regards the comments side of it is concerned.

And I would just like to give a shout out to Pete Cohen who has been plugging me where ever he can thanks Pete, also I have an a lot of links coming in from forums where people have linked to a post of mine which has been a nice surprise at times, I can honestly say that even though at times you do to tend to think is it worth it I would say definitely yes it’s hard work no doubt about it but seeing something gradually grow over time is a very satisfying experience.

I would wholeheartedly say to anybody who is thinking about starting a blog be prepared for a long haul but if you put the work in you will reap the benefits. And the only way that you will get noticed is by writing decent content which people will want to read over and over again.

At times it seems like my posts pop up all over the place and this is the sort of natural growth that Google loves, and surely enough I do get plenty of traffic from Google but at times it seems to come all over the place.

I dare say that sometimes even site meter doesn’t always pick up all the visitors the I get so I could be getting referrals from lots of other places also, there is only one way to summarise this year really that’s to say it’s been absolutely fantastic. And I think next year will be even better here is a nonexhaustive list of where I have promoted my blog.

E-zine articles I wrote about 10 to 15 articles which brought me some natural organic traffic.

My posts go out on twitter once they are posted to my blog if you would like to follow me on twitter then here is my profile address http://twitter.com/markcoruk, I also have a presence on Face Book and have posted my posts on their also feel free to add me as a friend

I am part of a service called friend feed which amalgamates all types of social media services like you tube, Flickr and many others if you would like to become a friend of mine on friend feed then please feel free to do so my blog is also part of my blog log and blog catalog which are two of the biggest social media blogging directories.

I think in part this is probably one of the reasons for my blog success because my content is being syndicated all over the place and this builds up relevance on the search engines. There are other things I have done as well like setting up blogs with content on on places like blogger etc and pointing the content to my blog this all creates relevance as well in the search engines and improves overall ranking.

So on that note I would just like to say to all the people who read my blog on a regular basis no matter how few or how many there are. I would like to say thank you so much for supporting me in what I believe to be to be a very worthwhile cause in helping people to become healthier and keep their weight under control.

So Merry Christmas and have a great New Year I look forward to seeing you in 2009 all the best.

Mark

Hello everybody hope you’re well I had a nice surprise the other day yesterday infact, had a quick look at my RSS feed stats and have now reached 88 subscribers this to me is great news, I was so moved the other day when I saw it. So to me it marks another notch on moving forward. I am hoping over time that it will grow and grow, and more people find my blog and enjoy what they read and become inspired to become healthier and lose weight.

I have decided now that it I am here for the long haul, so won’t going anywhere soon. If you know of anyone who would benefit from reading my blog please by all means do tell them, word of mouth is probably the best form of advertising. All I want to achieve here is have a quality resource for people to enjoy for many years to come. I do hope this is what I have achieved already, and so glad that so many people enjoy coming here and enjoy what they see.

Thanks Mark.

Hi just to let you know that the blog has been having a lot Internal Server Errors which means that, its been using to many resources, so I have had to upgrade my hosting package to accommodate for this, hopefully the transfer should be smooth. But lets just see how things go, when the transfer is done I am hoping that it will stop the problems.

Thanks Mark.

Webmaster of http://www.losethattyre.co.uk

Hi just to let you know that the blog has been having a lot of Internal Server Errors which means that, its been using to many resources, so I have had to upgrade my hosting package to accommodate for this, hopefully the transfer should be smooth. But lets just see how things go, when the transfer is done I am hoping that it will stop the problems.

Thanks Mark.

Webmaster of http://www.losethattyre.co.uk

I am very pleased and excited to put forward my new blog which was launched yesterday, I was going to wait a bit longer but being as I had quite a few posts on it the time seemed right, so yesterday I submitted it to a few social bookmarking sites etc.

Here is the URL for my new site http://www.a-newbeginning.co.uk it’s about my life, life in general and anything else I can think of to blog about, which is related to life as a whole.

If you have time please surf over and have a look because any feedback would be greatly appreciated, so far I am quite happy with what is on their so far, for quite a while I was in two minds as to whether or not to start it but am glad I have now because it will be interesting to see how it grows over time which is what I am hoping for and if it’s anywhere near as successful as this blog is now then I will be well pleased.

It’s always a gamble starting a new online venture but somehow I quite enjoy it now setting up sites and seeing how well they do. As is normally the case I am going for quality rather than quantity again to me this seems a better balance for a way of writing.

Actually I can’t think of a better time to launch this new blog because it was the first year anniversary of this one being on WordPress, that’s just something that just crossed my mind thinking about it while composing this post.