My Blog
This blog was first created in November 2006 and is now my most successful website. It contains over 1200 blog posts, 300,000 words and 14,000 comments from readers. Traffic currently averages over 12,000 unique visits and 15,000 page views per month. Approximately 53% of traffic comes from referring sites, with a further 31% coming from search engines (primarily google). Year on year growth has been exponential and the blog shows no signs of slowing down.
My Roles: Founder, Owner, Admin, Blogger, SEO, Developer, Designer, Marketing
CMS: WordPress
Website: http://www.smemon.com
The Leaving Cert
This is an informative website aimed at irish secondary level students. After completing my own leaving cert in 2006, i set up this site and it’s grown in to one of the largest leaving cert sites in the country. It is ranked above wikipedia, irish government websites and a lot of strong competition in google for popular phrases like ‘the leaving cert’ and ‘leaving cert tips’. On average the site receives 2000 unique visits and 5000 pageviews per month. 89% of traffic comes from google.
My Roles: Founder, Owner, Admin, Writer, SEO, Designer, Developer, Marketing
CMS: WordPress (originally Joomla)
Website: http://www.theleavingcert.com
