Lucid Practice is growing by the day. We want to really thank everyone who has visited our site and hope that you will come back. Thank you!!

We hope to inspire people and have a website that is 100% positive, all the time. Our goal was to affect one person’s life positively and and based off of your feedback, we have done that and much more! It’s humbling to have any type of impact on this world by sharing and writing positive, inspiring pieces on yoga, travel, wellness, art and more.

We would love for the Lucid Practice Community to continue to grow and affect people. In addition, we would love to see members of our community start their own blogs and websites and dig deeper into themselves. We’re happy to help you with this process.

With that, I think it very important that we share our outreach with people with a “transparency income report.” This marks the end of the first six months working on LP and it will be fun to include everyone on the month to month journey of growth (whether that be positive or negative!).

Summary: 

AWStats Traffic: Traffic has continued to grow since inception in April. We want to first promote our statistics from our web host’s, Blue Host, traffic program AWStats. People argue which program presents the most accurate look at traffic. It’s interesting to see our outreach through AWStats.

In April, we started this blog for ourselves as a medium for journaling and posting interesting material. In May, we decided to share the blog with a few friends and family members. On May 24,  we decided to stream our posts on Twitter which opened up the process of “sharing our blog.” We are very excited to say that in September we reached nearly 4k unique IP addresses (3,955) whether that be people’s computers, tablets or mobile devices.

To see that our readers have come back over 12k times (12,393) in the month of September alone is very inspiring. We believe that we are sharing great content, and we hope that people feel some of the positive vibes we are feeling when reading some of the material shared.

Google Analytics Traffic: We just finally set up our Google Analytics code correctly last month (we are new to this). We had previously been using a GA plugin that was not working efficiently. Their is definitely a disparity in statistics between AWstats data and Google Analytics Data. There are many arguments on the internet which traffic counter gets the best data. We only think its fair that we go with the two most popular sites for traffic. Even with the disparity, we would be very happy with September bringing 2,321 unique visitors to our site.

Social Media: 

Twitter has been the main driver of traffic to our website. We are very happy to have over 4,500 twitter accounts “following” us on twitter. We felt in May when we started the Twitter feed that people may be interested in reading about travel, wellness, and yoga among many other topics. We love interacting and connecting with many of our readers through Twitter and hope to do lots more in the future. Please, if you have not, reach out to us. We want to learn from you.

Facebook Likes on the Lucid Practice Facebook page have been harder to come by. We have not promoted our Facebook page and I’m not exactly sure when we will begin. Facebook has 1.2 billion users. We would certainly love to connect and share positive, inspiring messages with some of those users!

I have not maintained a personal Facebook page for 2 years so the functionality is a bit foreign to me. With a blinding total of 6 likes we would love if you clicked the like button (click here!) on our Facebook page. We have also started Google Plus and Pinterest pages but have not managed them as much as we would like to.

Advertising: We’re not currently doing any advertising though we have been approached and we are starting to get interest from advertisers in preliminary discussions. We are in a blog consultation program and learning everyday about how to make this a full-time job. Being location independent is something we believe is a true Lucid Practice. Hopefully, with time and practice, we can develop a strategy that stays true to our values and promotes links, products, activities, trip information on our site that we feel will benefit our readers.

Total Revenue: $0

Google Page Rank: (0/10) Google has not updated PageRank since February 4, 2013. LP commenced in April 2013. We are looking forward to the next updated ranking!

Domain Authority: 14 (Via OpenSite Explorer)

Page Authority: 19 (Via OpenSite Explorer)

Alexa Ranking: 10,601,728 (Via Alexa)

Sites Linking In: 27 (Via Ahrefs)

One of the keys to the growth of Lucid Practice has been our readers encouraging and sharing our blog. We can’t thank you enough for each positive message thanking us for what we’re doing. We also appreciate you sharing our blog (via email, Twitter, etc.) with your friends, family, and network. This is how we’ve been able to spread our positive, uplifting messages at a rate that has immensely surprised us.  We are honored and humbled to have so many readers and such a loyal community in such a short period of time. Thank you and remember that by sharing an uplifting, informative message, you have created a positive ripple in the universe. Where that ripple stops? No one knows….