First update on stats.

Google PR = 2 (No Change)
Alexa Rank = 888,619 (Up 229,051 points or 18%)

Link Popularity

Note: this only shows links from sites that are indexed within the Search Engines (I have also changed the link checker tool to the one at http://www.searchengineoptimising.com/ as it offers additional information which can be tracked).

Google = 3 (+50%)
Yahoo = 515 (+0.19%)
All The Web = 87
Altavista = 545


Article Land Stats

Number of Articles =8332 (+20.9%)
Number of Authors = 1489 (+15.4%)
Average Number of Visits per day = 221 (+166%)
Average Adsense Revenue = $2.82 per day (+77.4%)

Web Site Value = $869 (+15.8%)

After the first week, it can be seen that massive gains have been made on the site stats. No real changes to incoming links, though. However, the Alexa Rank has boomed!!!

the value of the website as estimated from the FREE tool at http://www.cwire.org/website-value-calculator/ has also increased.

So what did I do? This week I started a blog. Pinged it after every post to let the blog directories know it's been updated. Added the blog to various social networking sites, like Del.icio.us, Digg, Yahoo, etc...

Next issue details further social networking steps I have taken.