The milestones add up, and make you a little proud, don't they?

My biggest site, sliceofscifi.com, is approaching 11 years old now, running WordPress for all but the first 6 months or so of that time. In that time we've racked up almost 16k posts, over 42k comments, and quickly closing in on 750 podcast episodes. The site started out with me plus 2 other editors and a random assortment of contributors, and an entire cast of scifi geeks talking about movies, tv and interviewing actors, directors, producers & scientists, but now it's down to just me and a fresh new bunch of movie reviewers. I think I'm still pulling in some cool interviewees, though.

And yes, that site's database is largish but still speedy in response time; for me, the biggest challenge I'm STILL trying to recover from is 2 years of Panda punishment from 2011-2013 because one of the other editors posted tons of junk & thin content for that 2 years and I was too busy with all of the sites and my own freelancing to notice what he was doing until it was too late (I fired him once I figured it out). First thing that made me realize there might be a problem in the dropoff of organic traffic was the large decline in the number of comments I had to moderate every day! :) Yes, I still have a lot to learn about SEO, but I started paying attention to it when I uncovered that mess, let me tell ya.

Here's to 2016 and more milestones for us all!