With the end of 2006 approaching, it seems like the right time to reflect on what's been achieved in the last year.

Probably the single most successful online enterprise me in the last year was thanks to the browser, Firefox.

It just over a year ago - November 30th to be exact - that I was winding down for the evening and and suddenly had an idea for a website about Mozilla Firefox. It's no exageration to say that I had a domain registered and a small site ready to go within an hour or so. It's also no exageration to say that I've hardly had to do any work on the site since then - maybe another hour or so, here and there.

My intention was to pick up search engine traffic for a particular term including the word firefox. What I hadn't realised was that I was able to rank very highly on one search engine for the term "firefox" itself, which meant more traffic than I had anticipated.

Since that night last November, almost 10,000 people have downloaded Firefox through my site. When monetising sites works as brilliantly and simpy as that, this seems like the perfect job and if only every idea worked out as well, I'd probably be spending this Christmas on the beach somewhere.

Labels: adsense, firefox, progress