Well, it's not even 48 hours since I wrote that I was considering creating a new blog for my online trading blog posts, and here I am welcoming my readers to Trading Graphs! The blog will contain only trading related articles, covering stock trading, forex trading and Betfair trading topics, at least in the beginning. I won't be moving or copying any of the trading posts found here, so the content will be original and fresh. The blog is very new and I have done my best in testing it, but if you find a bug, please let me know. So, welcome to my new blog and hope to see you there if you are interested in online trading!

Posting your winnings or losses in your blog won't increase visits. Usually a gambling blog includes the gambler's trading or betting tips and their results. Winnings tend to be more often posted than big losses, proving that the gambling blog's owner is a winner in online gambling. Do readers care though for your performance or should you not publish your P&L? I believe your blog's traffic would increase if you posted something for useful for the casual gambler than brag about your profits.

Blogging is fun, but what about live broadcasting of sports trading, betting or online poker videos? Live streaming of me trading, betting or playing online poker fascinates me but what about my gambling blog's readers? Would they be interested in joining and viewing such a live broadcast if it was available? After all, I should not bother at all unless someone is watching. So, here is your chance to let me know if you would watch that kind of a live event.

How was my gambling blog's traffic in 2009? According to Google Analytics my gambling blog was visited more than 71,000 times, each visitor viewed 2.71 pages, they usually stayed for less than 4 minutes and more than half of the visitors came from search engines! My blog's average bounce rate was about 60% and 62% of the blog's traffic were new visitors. Here are the traffic statistics of my trading, betting and poker blog for 2009.

2009 has been a good year for my online gambling and blogging business. I don't really know what 2010 will bring as both of them are not that predictable, but I know that I will be focusing on my 2010 goals for what's worth. My 2010 blogging goals include page rank improvement, traffic increase and more advertising deals along with launches of new blogs. My 2010 gambling goals consist of achieving Supernova Elite status at Pokerstars, winning a 6-figure amount of money at online poker and better money investing in financial markets. According to a saying, your goal should be the sky in order to reach the top of the trees.

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My sports blog had around 200 to 250 visitors per day until mid-September. In two weeks' time that figure has increased and yesterday my gambling blog hit 1000+ visitors! Is such a big increase in blog traffic possible in just 14 days? Obviously yes but the reason was a post I published discussing the forthcoming Greek Election which attracted a lot of attention and nowadays it receives about half of my blog's traffic. In a way I predicted such a development due to other posts resulting in traffic spikes and in fact I added more content about the Greek Election which also received a lot of traffic. Those two posts get about 80% of my daily blog's traffic nowadays!

My new BMW X6 has already covered 3,000km but I had yet to take it for a photo shoot, like when I bought my Mercedes SLK in 2005. Today I decided to wash the car and take some photos of my BMW X6. Both exterior and interior photos were taken in the afternoon without direct sunlight on the car. I haven't forgotten the requests for a photo shoot of both cars side by side, but given the fact that the parking space is limited, I have to find a more suitable place.

It seems the surveys showing that the most gamblers come from UK, Greece and USA do not contradict at all with the nationality of my gambling blog's visitors. Truthfully, UK readers of my gambling blog are the majority of the visitors but Greeks and Americans are not far away. United Kingdom, Greece and United States are the top 3 among 137 countries my sport blog has reached! It is a small world after all!

I received an email today by a journalist from a very well known Greek newspaper which made me wonder how popular political betting is. The 2008 US presidential election is in 2 weeks and online betting on Obama or McCain has exceeded 10 million euros just in the Betfair markets. I guess people are not only interested in who the next US President will be but also betting on their own political prediction.