Craving Tech’s traffic statistics summary for April 2010: 50,938 unique visitors and 62,111 page views.
Traffic details:
- Referring sites: 12,492 visitors.
- Search Engine: 32,675 visitors.
- Direct Traffic: 5,724 visitors.
- Other: 47 visitors.
Total money made online in April 2010: $453.29
April 2010 Referring Sites Breakdown
April 2010 Visitor Demographics
Money made online in April 2010 breakdown
- Google AdSense – $127.13
- Private Advertising – $168
- SocialSpark – $123
- Amazon Associates – $22.45
- Chitika: $12.71
Total: $453.29
Still not a bad month but traffic is just steady without any new surprises. I’m trying Infolinks this month on this blog – I hope it’s not too intrusive as I personally don’t really like it. Lots of big tech sites/forums seem to use it though so I’m giving it a go for a few days and see what happens. Anyways, it will only appear on the landing post if you come from the search engines 
I also got a lot of review units for the past few weeks from around the world so I’ll be busy testing and writing reviews this month. If you have products to be reviewed or marketed, don’t hesitate to contact me through the Contact link on the top!
And oh, don’t forget to be a fan of Craving Tech on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/CravingTech
April 2010 Post Highlights
- Play Starcraft Tower Defense Flash Game
- A review on my first DSLR Camera, the Canon EOS 500D or Rebel T1i
- How to add Facebook’s Like widget on WordPress posts
- Check 10 days of Melbourne’s Weather Forecasts and other useful info
- Craving Tech now has its own Facebook URL!
- HandyBackup gives you a new alternative for an all around backup solution
- Using Google Docs? Then find out how to enable the new Google Docs Editor
- Adobe Premiere Elements 8 Review – edit and publish videos easily yet professionally
- Broken hearted funny pic by Cyanide and Happiness comics
- How my Amazon earnings increased by ten fold and how to increase yours too
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I can see a clear shift from Stumble upon dominance to Google organic visitor increase, You are doing good, at 50k visitor Adsense earned only $127 , well that can be work out to milk more. Good to see you you have private advertising earning.
Hey, How much Thesis helping? when you changed to thesis ?
Hi Shanker! Glad to see you pop back in. Well I still miss my Stumble upon traffic because it always gave me surprises every day. Gonna do some tweakings this month in a hope to increase my AdSense earnings.
I’m planning to write about Thesis some time soon (well it was supposed to be in January lol procrastinating….)
wow good static, can you tell me how CAD forums working? i mean its good to get traffic as i can see you have good number of visitors from there also, btw you have good earnings but work on adsense i mean you can earn more from it just try other size like 336×280 and 300×250 .
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I’m not active on that forum. It appears that someone did and posted/linked back to my post in the past.
I actually use 336×280 but only if you come from the search engines. If not, you’ll be seeing the 468×60 as I thought it’d be less intrusive to my loyal readers like you
Nice digits you got there Michael. Though the search traffic at 32k could’ve earned you more, but still good results. Scheduling tweets on hours in the western hemisphere might help to get some more action on your US traffic, specially now that Google has real-time tweets going on.
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Thanks for the tip. Honestly it’s been long since I’ve thought of schedulingmy posts and tweets on the US hours. Do you know the best time to schedule your posts/tweets? (ex 8.am in the morning EST or something like that)
I spread tweets and posts throughout the day in UK/US hours and try my best to not look like I’m driving links down people’s throats.
I’m wide awake and is actually working during UK and US hours so I don’t have to schedule them.
Good to see, you earning not depend only on Adsense. Still good traffic but less earning but wish next month we will see some more. By the way where is your social spark earning?
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ARGH!!!!! Thanks for reminding me! Post now updated with Social Spark’s income from last month (+ $123)
Mike, seriously I envy your earning from private advertising and socialpark.
Still great achievement bro, Congrats and hope next up date will be better
Thanks Latief, let’s hope so. I’m gonna do some AdSense overhauls this month with tests!
It seems your income is good last month. Keep it up mate!
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Thanks Dana..I hope it can break $1000 a month one day
I saw your traffic graph is keeping on a line
How about traffic between reviewing article and other?
I have a few posts doing a few hundreds organic traffic a day. Some of them are review posts (about 20-30 visits for one review post) – it depends on the position in Google. “Razer Imperator Review” gives me #4, which isn’t bad at all!
Hello Michael, First of all congrats for getting over 1000 Unique a day from search engine which means you have good content within your site and Search Engines glad to gives you traffic thanks to your content but when I see your Adsense earnings I must say you have something wrong within your customization of ads.
I am not experts so don’t mind for my suggestions but however I will suggest two points:
1. Use 300 x 250 ads block instead of 468 x 60 as from my experience this 300 x 250 is best conversion block and gives better CTR for me. Second things with this box chose font same like your post title so it blends very well with your content which make your chances higher to get clicks.
2. I would say use Google Custom Search option on your site, honestly you will get better earnings because you have Tech niche and it will gives you some time $1-$2/click!
I hope you like my idea!
Regards
Shaswat
ShaswatPatel.com
Thank you so much for the great comment, Shaswat.
1) I am already using the 336×280 (do they work the same like the 300×250?) if visitors come from search engines. If not, I make it so that the 468×80 appears instead as I think it’ll be less annoying for loyal readers like you
2) I’ve been trying to add Google Search on my blog for some time. I never got happy with the layout and haven’t revisited. I’ll think about putting back in and try again, thanks!
Yes Micheal, it will works better then any other blocks and I asked many Adsense earners who makes over $100 daily and they also suggest it!
For Search Option, you can add it same place like you have in right sidebar and also try to add ads in Feed to if you have good Feed readers they also provide good earnings. Although it wouldn’t be more but you will happy to earn extra money.
Hi Michael, congrats on your earning.
Wow, I would love to keep your traffic levels on my main site. I’d be rich with targeted traffic of 50k a month.
lol thanks Deneil. Unfortunately this blog’s audience is a bit too wide unless if I have a more niche specific blog
I’m impressed with your income, Michael, and envious, too.
You’re heading towards becoming a full time internet entrepreneur, I guess.
Hah! Still a long way to go, Marlene, although that idea doesn’t sound bad at all. I need more traffic, especially from social bookmarking sites (or getting into a front page of Digg or Slashdot once a while will be nice too)
I can only hope for that amount of non-Google traffic. Well done
Maybe you should list what review unit you’ve got, non-monetary earnings.
Hm..not a bad idea really, although you can actually find out by going to the Gadget Reviews section
It’s a bit of a hassle to list my earnings breakthrough down + the review units every month..easy, but tedious
Decent stats but I prefer using adsense..Its pays much more than any other ad network.
I know, but it’s kinda hard for me because most tech readers know about AdSense/Ads and they don’t tend to click them
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