Unofficial Spiceworks is a year old today!!!

The post that opened Spiceworks-News was this time last year, taking 2 weeks for Spiceworks to find it and to declare what a big hit it was.
Since then we have changed our name to Unofficial Spiceworks and we have gone from having a blue coloured theme to a Spiceworks Orange one.
So what have we ( well I ) done in the year?
- 150+ unique visitors a day
- ~50 returning visitors a day
- 18 Google subscribers
- 300+ Track able referrals + countless none track able
- 360+ posts (just under one a day)
- 30+ Categories
- 130+ comments
- 840+ tweets
- Made it into the Spiceworks monthly update email twice
- Got 120+ links back to us
- Got 3 guest posts by Justin Dorfman
- Was the inspiration for SpiceworksLounge.com the Hebrew Spiceworks site
With some outstanding and loved posts like
- How good can support for FREE software be?
- Ups and Downs of working in the social media / community world
- HTML Email Templates
- All the latest beta and sneak peak reviews and info
- The invention of SpiceRex who made it to America
As well as then creating Let Me Spiceworks Search That For You and working hard on the community to answer questions.
I know were not the biggest blog but its not bad?
So what’s to come?
Well my plan as with any website is to continue to grow. Some key things coming up will be:
- New logo and slogan, this has been in the works for a while. I will be shorty posting up more information about this and how you can get involved.
- A new theme? Maybe, Maybe not… not sure on that one.
- The closure off spread-spiceworks.org.uk, this was the inspiration for Unofficial Spiceworks but quickly found it copied too much off the official Spread Spiceworks area and recently ended up being a holding page with not a lot of info or visits. I’m in the process of deciding if I want to port the theme on to Unofficial Spiceworks. Either way in the coming months the site will just redirect to here.
- Better insider information, hopefully I can try and wiggle my way into Spiceworks HQ more this year to get some more information to you first.
- More guest posts, from doing things in the community to making plugin’s, what ever people want to talk about. If you want to guest post drop me a email via the the contact form or add a comment
anything Spiceworks related. - Work on my spealing, I know its really bad at times, I’m working on it…
And thank you
Too all the readers for continuing to read
It’s what makes it worth while.
And as always if you have any comments or suggestions for this site drop me a email via the contact form or add a comment
Birthday wishes from SpiceworksLounge.com
Thanks Yasaf and SpiceworksLounge.com for their Happy Birthday Post
Unofficial Spiceworks is celebrating its first birthday today! Launched just a year ago Unofficial Spiceworks quickly became the best source for Spiceworks community news. Andy is doing FANTASTIC job spreading the word by bringing us Spiceworks news and reviews from the underground

Hi Andy,
April 30th, 2010 at 8:23 amThe Lounge has arrange a bday party (nothing fancy, just some hail and praise and bday cake).
Everyone is invited -http://www.spiceworkslounge.com/index.php/2010/04…
MAZAL TOV!
Whoop, its getting hot in here so take off all your peppers
April 30th, 2010 at 8:32 amUpdated the post with a link and pic
April 30th, 2010 at 8:48 amHay Andy, a bit late but Happy Birthday to Unofficial Spiceworks..
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:32 amHow did you like Yasaf and the Lounges birthday cake, looked great.
Tremendous effort and really great work on your part.
Again I'm sorry I did not get to this on the day..
Cheers
Spent the evening getting drunk in celebration
felt like a great day knowing i managed to last this long.
May 2nd, 2010 at 1:31 pm[...] Spread Spiceworks is open again!Yes I did think it was going to close but recently found a project I started last year and brought it back to life.Spread Spiceworks now [...]
May 11th, 2010 at 4:34 pmHey Andy, happy belated birthday! We still love Unofficial Spiceworks! And you can see I found this about 11 days late this time, not 14 like last year so you can conclude we're getting faster. Now if I just had some time to keep up on email, twitter, etc. I could get close to real time. Cheers!
May 18th, 2010 at 3:07 am