Happy 5th Birthday Marketing Gorilla Blog

Today is the day I chose to celebrate the fifth birthday of my little spot here on the internets. As I said in an interview on Murray Newlands’ Marketing Blog last week, I started the blog as an experiment to keep my name in the search engines. I was working on a business blog for the company I was with at the time and it seemed like a good idea to have my own branded blog. Then later on, I took the branding a little too seriously, as you’ll read in a minute.

I admit I was never consistent and didn’t have award winning content but I’ve always wanted to deliver useful information. The traffic has gone up and down over the years but now that I have a dedicated audience of affiliates the content is improving and traffic is up. I’d like to highlight the top 10 posts on both the old version in blogger and the new version here on WordPress. These are my favorite posts over the last five years because they either generated the most conversation or they just made me happy:

10. Why Attend Affiliate Summit?

9. A breakthrough for Greg Hoffman Consulting

8. My brand of affiliate management

7. Cigar Blog press release

6. Certified Affiliate Manager

5. When Gregg Hoffman died

4. A happy moment

3. Meeting my new love

2. My gorilla tattoo

1. Resume taped to the box of donuts trick

I hope you enjoy the posts and I promise to keep improving the content. Meeting other bloggers and attending some of the sessions on blogging really motivated me at Affiliate Summit West. Please feel free to comment.