{"id":1425,"date":"2011-03-21T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justrw.net\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2012-03-02T13:53:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:53:49","slug":"justrw-canadas-un-chef-is-one-year-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/justrw.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/21\/justrw-canadas-un-chef-is-one-year-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"JustRW – Canada’s Un-chef is one year old today!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cake made as per recipe in The Un-Cookbook Pg. 112<\/p><\/div>\n

If I had known you were coming, I would have baked a cake! Wait a minute, I guess I did… \ud83d\ude09
Today marks a significant milestone\u00a0 for this blog. It is exactly one year ago to this very day that I wrote and posted my very first entry. At that time, I only had a very general idea of what I wanted to achieve. Someone once said: ”\u00a0If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?” But then someone else countered: “It’s all about the journey, not the destination!” \u00a0Well, \u00a0we have certainly had quite a journey and have not yet reached our destination, wherever that may be!<\/p>\n

I know that statistics can be dry and boring but I feel that it would be the right time to share a few with you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 JustRW Website Statistics<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/caption>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0Visits<\/span><\/td>\nPageviews<\/span>\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0Google Searches<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\u00a0Mar. 2010<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0767<\/td>\n\u00a02,245<\/td>\n\u00a027<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Feb. 2011<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a04,715<\/td>\n\u00a015,134<\/td>\n\u00a0857<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Total Yr.<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a039,826<\/td>\n\u00a0180,962<\/td>\n\u00a05,476<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Avg. Daily<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0109<\/td>\n\u00a0496<\/td>\n\u00a015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Current Daily<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0197<\/td>\n913\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a031<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As you can see from the table above, we have experienced significant growth. In March of 2010,\u00a0our site was receiving\u00a0an average of 24 visits a day where today, we are approaching 200! Our increase in Google Search engine exposure is even more dramatic with less than 1 search a day in March of 2010 where now we average 30+ searches each day. Other than Google, our two main sources of referred traffic are from our Facebook Fan Page<\/a>and Urbanspoon<\/a>. These three sources combined account for almost 50 percent of our total traffic.<\/p>\n

Within the last 12 months we have authored almost 100 individual posts. The majority have been restaurant reviews: 62 in Ottawa, 10 in Florida, 2 in Ontario, 2 in Upper New York State, and a few in Europe. In October, we finally completed the 2nd edition of our cookbook: The Un-Cookbook: The Art of Cooking without Recipes<\/a>. So, you can see that we have not exactly been inactive….<\/p>\n

Although we have mostly stayed under the radar of the local media, there have been some interesting highlights:<\/p>\n