Keyvan Nayyeri

Today is the second birthday anniversary of my site while it has changed a lot from the early days.  During these two years, I tried to share my knowledge with others via my blog and get community feedbacks on them.

Since the last year, my site experienced major changes in content and I moved from some simple short posts to descriptive posts that can be considered as articles as well.  This could bring more traffic to my site and improve its rank on community.

Speaking of traffic, I never could stay on a server for a long while to monitor my traffic but I've been using Smarter Stats on my hosts anyway.  The results were very impressive and I always had a growing number of visits per day.

Although Nayyeri.NET was my first experience on technical writing but during the last year I experienced more aspects of technical writing like publishing tutorials and articles on communities and co-authoring a book.  This blog helped me to get involved in that book and gave me good experiments to write better content regarding the feedback that I had gotten from my CS Dev Guide series.  It was also a good writing sample for publisher to test my writing skills.

The other change in the last year was disabling my photo and file galleries and limiting my site to a single blog in recent months to be able to manage it better and improve my content.

A few months ago I began my required military service and went off for two months for training but the nice point (at least for myself) was I could keep my blog up to date in that while as well.  Also in the recent 2.5 months, I've been busy with the rest of service but tried to keep regular blogging and community activities as well.

However, here is a quick review of last year:

• Upgraded to Community Server 2.1 Beta 1 (July 15, 2006)
• Upgraded to Community Server 2.1 Beta 2 (July 28, 2006)
• Updated blog theme to Kid Congo (July 28, 2006): This beautiful blog theme was on my site for a long while!
• Upgraded to Community Server 2.1 RC1 (August 5, 2006)
• Upgraded to Community Server 2.1 RTW (August 10, 2006)
• Pagerank 6 (October 7, 2006): After some months, a few SEO problems on my theme returned it to 5 again but it should go back to 6 on next updates.
• XFN relationships came into the blog (October 11, 2006): I frequently use this feature to let my visitors know the relationship between me and others who I link to.
• Joined to Hidden Network (October 17, 2006): I joined to an advertising network that focuses on jobs.
• Joined to Lake Quincy Network (October 29, 2006): I joined to another advertising network that primary focuses on .NET and is completely related to my content.
• Reached to 500th post (February 3, 2007)
• Upgraded to Community Server 2007 pre-Beta 1 and updated site theme to Mollio (February 15, 2007)
• Upgraded to Community Server 2007 Beta 2 (March 22, 2007)
• Upgraded to Community Server 2007 RTW (April 16, 2007)
• Moved to VPS (April 18, 2007): This new place is absolutely better and more stable than all my previous hosts.  After moving to VPS I disabled my photo and file galleries as well as Atom and tag feeds.
• Updated blog theme to Elite Circle (April 19, 2007)
• Upgraded to Community Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (May 11, 2007)

The next upcoming year is a special year in the way that I should pass it as an army guy who has a more limited time for his interests but I hope that I can keep current progress since the hard part of service is gone!