It’s the first day of a new month again! As usual, I always post my traffic/income statistics for last month on every beginning of the month.
Getting better towards the end of the month
My blog’s August 2008 statistics: 25,841 Visits, 42,796 Pageviews
- Referring Sites – 12,658 visits
- Search Engines – 8,464 visits
- Direct Traffic – 4,595 visits
- Other – 124 visits
Although it may look like the traffic is even worse than July 2008, it actually is not. The only decreasing traffic is traffic from Referring Sites (especially StumbleUpon). Other traffic has increased quite significantly, especially towards the end of the month.
I’ve made a few changes to the blog gradually, mainly for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes (you can refer back to some of my posts in August in regards to these changes). These changes paid at the end of the month and I’m confident, also for the months to come!
I’ve also added some easy bookmarking buttons at the end of every post, to make it easier for my readers to submit my post to some popular bookmarking sites:
Hope it encourages some clickies
Total money made in August 2008: $88.85
- Google AdSense – $63.85
- Private Advertising – $15
- ASE Adnet – about $10 (the last day hasn’t been finalized yet)
I had a contest last month and it was quite successful. By the end of the contest:
- There are more RSS subscribers to my blog than before.
- I’ve found some new friends (especially the participants). You guys rox!
- My blog has gained more exposure, thanks to the participants’ effort.
- I’ve established a relationship with the sponsors and hoping to be in contact again with them at some point in the future.
Some post highlights on August 2008:
- Why you should care with the IMAGE ALT attribute
- A Virtual weird world called Plurk
- Beware! Your new theme can kill you!
- Monetize your 125×125 empty ad slots
- Ready for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2?
I’m really looking forward for next month, especially noticing how I got more traffic from search engines and direct traffic to this blog. I don’t know whether Google Analytic is buggy, but I suddenly had 947 direct traffic yesterday (usually, it’s around 150-250 direct traffic a day)!
Thank you for all of your support so far. If you had any interesting life stories happening to you last month (not necessarily in blogging), would love to hear it 
*UPDATE* As requested by Rjani on the comment section, here is a breakdown on the Referring Sites:
- StumbleUpon – 6,439 visits
- Entrecard – 1,987 visits
- Images.google.com – 447 visits
- Entreard.thegermz.com – 421 visits
- Digg – 305 visits
- and so on……
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Congrats Mike.
Keep up the good work and come up with more and more posts….
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Hi that is a formidable rise in page views. What system do you use to see your traffic/ I was going to use Google analytics but not sure where to embed that code into my html lol.
I have also got a great widget on my left side bar of my yanjiaren blog foir quick social bookmarking..I am gonna buzz and stumble you up now since you put in those buttons. I also have the stumbleupon toolbar on my Mozillla and it’s so easy. BTW this is yanji and this blog is my new one I am doing for my Fiance lol. Hope you like it. It is taking though all morning to manage my blogs and all afternoon to do my Entrethlon lol.
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By the wya these are my digg, stumble and buzz aliases:
qiwoman, yanjiaren5 and wu chi
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Nice stats, but doesn’t that adsense revenue look a little slim considering you have such high traffic?
And I know I asked this before, but could you please post here the traffic sources, and how many visits are from them? I know there is a page in Analytics that can tell you this info, but I dunno if it’s against the TOS or not.
Digged and Stumbled, thanks for sharing the statics, much much better than my blog,
envying!
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cool! such an improvement. I used google analytic too before but i dont know exactly how it works so instead i’m using counterize 2 plugin for WP. I’m only monitoring my daily unique hits
maybe i should start monitoring the entire statistics of my blog too just like yours.
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Here’s mine for the month of August 2008.
83,632 Visits
155,534 Pageviews
Search Engines 53,301 (63.73%)
Direct Traffic 18,789 (22.47%)
Referring Sites 11,542 (13.80%)
Google AdSense Revenue for August 2008 – $96.59
Your Alexa rank is still better than mine though. -_-
Thanks for sharing Michael.
August 2008 was one of my best months ever:
168,025 Visits
359,392 Pageviews
Google AdSense Revenue for Aug 2008: $780.40
I tripled my Adsense from following month using the techniques I outlined on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/6r65nn
They are so simple to implement, it’s not funny…
Cheers,
Arn
Thanks guys. I’ll update the post with the top traffic sources.
@scart: You should. That way you can learn the overall SEO and also what posts you may want to optimize (ads for popular posts, improving keywords, etc)
to Arnold and Deimos: Man, I envy you
Michael, we can talk strategies when we go to lunch next week. Don’t worry.
Also what comment plugin do you use? I like the admin highlight feature.
I found your blog on first page with keyword “Yahoo buzz button”, this is good result that regarding your change (i think so) – i’m also on page 3
(. I’m thinking i’ll need a SEO teacher, maybe he is Nihar or you..^^!
I didn’t see any new post on your blog since august 25th until i have changed my connection. My stupid ISP save all caches for my IP, that’s such >.<
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@Arnold: It’s called Highlight Author Comments
@Van: Wow, you’re right! Rank 5! I honestly don’t know what I do to get that. No, seriously… and lol about the cache. No wonder I haven’t seen you lately on my blog
By the way, I’ve updated the post by adding my Top 5 Referring Sites traffic as Rjani requested
Good statics, hope I can gain more visitors for my weblog,
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