One of the things I have been working on very hard over the past year is Searchcowboys. This website focusses on search and social media and has a strong focus on Europe. When we started the blog we believed there was a need for a European voice in search. Nine months after the official launch I believe the original thought still stands and is successful.
When I’m visiting conferences a lot of people tell me they like the concept and are regular visitors of the site. That’s a good feeling. I do however believe we should be able to get a lot more visitors than we do now. And we are working hard on that.
On Searchcowboys I wrote a special 1000th post in which I look back on the past nine months. Here’s a little part of that piece:
"1000 posts on Searchcowboys. Is that something to be proud of? Well yes, I believe it is. 1000 posts in less than a year. That’s an average of 3 posts a day. However, since we do not post in the weekends, that average is actually higher.But what I’m more proud of than the 1000 posts is what we’ve accomplished on other parts. We wanted to be a European voice in search marketing. Though not every post is about Europe, I do think we succeeded there. Many people come up to me at conferences telling me they like the European angle we take. And that makes me proud. I love it when people address me like that. It means that what we were aiming for is actually what comes back in peoples minds: a website about Search with a specific European view. Also we notice that we are becoming more and more well known in the industry. Many have heard of Searchcowboys and when I visit a conference I meet a lot of people who visit the site, maybe not every day, but regularly."
What I didn’t do there is talk about what Searchcowboys has done for me in person. That I will tell you here in short:
- Searchcowboys first of all has given me a lot of pleasure. I’m doing something I really like: writing and even better, writing about search.
- Searchcowboys has brought me a lot of new friends. People from all over the world are now on my contact list and I talk to them regularly. When I visit conferences there is always someone there I know.
- Searchcowboys makes it possible that I visit a lot of events, which bring me network opportunities, knowledge and fun
- Searchcowboys has given me the chance to build my personal brand
- Searchcowboys gave me business opportunities: I have done workshops where people first gotten in touch with me because they knew me from Searchcowboys
- Searchcowboys gave me the opportunity to speak on conferences and write for Searchengineland
I do have to say: Searchcowboys gave me the opportunities, I myself made it work 
Off course there are also always things I would like to see different:
- I would like bloggers to write more than they do know
- I would like more revenues from the site
- I would like even more visitors to the site
- I would like more possibilities to make changes to the site
- I would like to have the time to write more in depth articles.
All in all: Searchcowboys has been good for me! And I will be doing this for a while I think 
I still think you should tweet about it, since it’s so close to your...
It is my first time @ this blog and I really liked your articles, great work