Turns out I've just be awarded author of the month at Know More Media…I'm grinning. The post about this is in one of our internal blogs, so I can't just give the link, but I can post parts of the post, by Dan Smith, below:

"…Also this week, Marshall Sponder was chosen as the KMM Incredible Author for Jan. His blog, WebMetricsGuru, is ranked #1 in our network in Technorati rank, Alexa rank, and RSS feed subscribers, as well as being in the Top 10 in traffic. He writes excellent content, promotes tirelessly, and is well-deserving of this award. Nice job, Marshall!"

Here are the numbers, incase anyone wants to know -and I'll put my own Self Portrait here, instead of the picture they have of me on KMM (can't help feeling good about this - and do I want to show off my self portrait ….yes - bacause at heart, I'm an artist).

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"..Here are some of Marshall’s accomplishments:

• WebMetricsGuru has a current Technorati ranking of 6,369—the highest Technorati-ranked blog in the Know More Media network—having accrued 18,463 links from 418 sites.
• WebMetricsGuru has a current Alexa ranking of 57,109—the highest Alexa-ranked blog in our network.
• WebMetricsGuru has 512 RSS Subscribers—the most of any blog in the our network (leading by a margin of over 80 subscribers!).
• He has achieved steady and strong traffic growth over the past year; in particular, in the past 5 months, his traffic has increased over 200%. WebMetricsGuru is one of the Top 10 blogs on our network in traffic.
• He published 110 blog posts in Jan: almost 4 per day.
• He has attended many conferences and reported on them in real-time on his blog, the last one being the AlwaysOn conference in NYC Jan 29-31.
• WebMetricsGuru is a member of Blogburst.
• He has fully incorporated the KMM standards for posting, adding great images, links, and concentrating on high quality content.

Marshall has really developed a name for himself, carving out a solid niche in the blogosphere and in his industry of expertise, and then constantly expanding upon it, actively networking and promoting his knowledge and content. He is a prolific writer—I am amazed at the amount and quality of the writing he publishes continually.

Marshall, you are certainly an Incredible Author, well-deserving of this award. We have highlighted you and your blog on KnowMoreMedia.com today, and we will send you (of course) a Mr. Incredible PEZ dispenser. Congratulations!

Wow!  I'm grinning!