A Year Ago Today, best-tatto-design Was Born

When, on July 31, 2007, I posted my first installment of the weekly best-tatto-design feature on BillyBlog, I didn't know what I had started.

Had you told me then that, a year later, best-tatto-design would have spun off from BillyBlog, that it would have set a personal best in July '08 with over 13,000 hits, and that I would be posting daily, I would have been skeptical.

Nonetheless, that's what has happened. And, although I expect a drop-off in visits as summer ends and shorts and tank tops give way to jeans and long-sleeve shirts, I am pleased with how best-tatto-design has progressed.

I want to thank everyone who has visited and contributed to the success of best-tatto-design. It's still a little baby blog by blogosphere standards, and its stand-alone self (apart from BillyBlog) doesn't celebrate a full year until September 8, 2008, which is BillyBlog's 3rd anniversary.

The lingering question is this: will best-tatto-design surpass BillyBlog in traffic by then? As of July 31, best-tatto-design had just over 48,000 hits in a little less than 11 months, whereas BillyBlog is at 63,500 hits just a month and change shy of 3 years. Check back on September 8 to see what happens.

Inkily yours,

Bill