This blog’s December 2008 statistics: 35,214 visits, 52,339 pageviews.
- Referring Sites – 16,677 visits
- Search Engines – 15,427 visits
- Direct Traffic – 3,098 visits
- Other – 12 visits
Referring Sites Breakdown
I honestly didn’t do much posts marketing last month, so I’m not surprised to see a reduced number of traffic compared to the month before. I’m quite happy to see that my organic (search engines) traffic has increased quite significantly, though, thanks to my Red Alert 3 wallpaper & iPod Nano review posts.
Income made online on December 2008
- Google AdSense: $76.58
- BuzzLogic: $65.43
- Private Advertising: $50
- ASE AdNet: $24.57
Total money made online: $216.58
Interesting things happening last month
Hm nothing much, really. I know I can do better to get more visitors and market this blog more. Oh, my blog on Technorati Top 10K for a few days last month 
It may not mean much but some bloggers seem to feel proud when their blogs are on Technorati Top 10K. If you like this blog, don’t forget to fav this blog on Technorati
Last month I also received a bunch of new Twitter followers (thanks to Entrecard community for the initiative).
December 2008 Post Highlights
- Beware of fake subscriber counts
- Julian Beever 3D Chalk Drawings
- C& C Red Alert 3 Review
- Fight Against Spam – Round II
- Convert to whatever format you want
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You received much lower traffic, mike. I hope this month will be a better month. Best of luck to you.
I know, man
Well this is the “real” traffic without me doing any social bookmarking or marketing. I’m actually happy because my organic traffic is catching up with my non-organic’s
more traffic, more money! happy new year to you, Michael!
Wish you all the best for this month and the entire coming year. You have a good blog and deserve to be successful.
Thank you for the encouraging words, Ann
You should be able to make more money then that with the traffic you have try writing a product reviews on something for an affiliate program show them the best deals and thy will be will to buy if they are interested. My web hosting cheap site does well doing this I just need to get to page 1 from page 2 on google good to see your trying hosting pad not sure if hosting is right for your site but it worth a try maybe let me know if it works for you. you could try to put in a ad rotation script and try several different ads the trick to affilae marketing is to promote the best products at the best price
Hi Mike, here are my stats for the month of December 2008.
144,900 Visits
214,008 Pageviews
Search Engines 112,136.00 (77.39%)
Referring Sites 19,032.00 (13.13%)
Direct Traffic 13,732.00 (9.48%)
1. google / organic 100,926
2. (direct) / (none) 13,732
3. yahoo / organic 8,653
4. armorgames.com / referral 6,966
5. kongregate.com / referral 3,489
6. images.google.com / referral 1,343
7. live / organic 937
8. blogcatalog.com / referral 743
9. fncgamesblog.com / referral 647
10. msn / organic 529
Income made online on December 2008
Google AdSense: $121.48
Cheers!
Wow deimos. You get a ton of organic hits from Google. You must have really optimized your site for some really crucial terms.
Happy New Year Mike! THough lower, but still I envy your traffic. Hehe. Though I can’t complain since I’m not really working too much for it. My traffic is now mostly from search engines, accounting to about 75% of all the traffic every month.
Deimos’ got some monster traffic in there. Congratz to the both of you! And more power blogging this year!
wow $216.58.. it’s motivate me to be more gain my earning (gym)
Mike, I am happy to hear that you are now getting more traffic from search engine. Keep working and hope you got more traffic.
I need to some how start getting traffic from social networking sites like you get.
I know, man.. I want your search engines traffic and you want my social networking traffic lol Wish we can share in between
Very nice stats! Congratulations, and hope to see more earnings in the future
very nice stats indeed; Just a quick query the SE traffic do you target it? or is just because you have loads of posts it is just increasing exponentially?
Regarding entrecard; I actually dropped that a while back; just wanted to see if it was still a viable traffic solution?
Lastly BuzzLogic…I haven’t heard of that, what exactly is it? and I can see it works well but doe sit really?
The SE traffic is just because I have loads of posts mostly. Some posts are searched more than the others (and I didn’t do any research or anything before hand). Entrecard is alright, especially for a small blog (it can give you 100-ish traffic daily or more if you play it right)
As for Buzz Logic, you can check the site at http://www.buzzlogic.com. It has a CPM based ad but I think it’s only for technology niche
Just had a second look at your stats and noticed 11k from stumbleupon! I regret my younger self buying a .tk domain now…because stumbleupon does not work on it!
I might have to revisit entrecard then; though it does seem to have diminished in interaction since when I first joined.
Will also check out buzz
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Nice income and traffic organic I think is ok>Please share me how long did it take you to get thjat kind of income, since I am doing research relation between alexa rank, page rank.Thanks in advance
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Hm it took me a year to get that
Some people can get $100 a day in a few months of blogging (or a few weeks). It all depends on a lot of things, but mostly my niche (technology) sucks. It mostly pays 2-5 cents a click
@Michael thanks for sharing, a year I think that is normal?I just couldn’t believe myself if the proof were given that you can made US$100/day unless it was black hat seo, what do you think? I am still struggling to get traffic that is steady enough, two months back I was loaded visitors 500 /day came from socialbookmarking, suddenly it drop, now I am changing strategy, doing blog comments to get inlinks enough for organic search engine, need your advice on this one?
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Well you can never get a steady traffic from social bookmarking, that’s for sure
The most steady traffic are probably through search engines and direct traffic. I’m sure that you already know what to do to build traffic (commenting on other blogs, twitting, be active in community, submitting your posts, etc). But the more you posts, the more you’ll get visitors, that’s for sure (assuming your posts are topics that mostly searched by people on search engines)
Stumbleupon have .tk domains blacklisted
but oh well!
Yea I was fairly active with EC back in the day; and even automated the drops (yes I know sneaky:p) though I found the traffic was kinda useless.
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Haha well we could be sneaky at times but luckily you’ve stopped. If you’re caught, you’ll be banned from Entrecard
It’s true that they are not the best traffic but a traffic is a traffic and honestly most of my readers+commentators here are from Entrecard
The process was ‘un-catchable’ :p though after a few weeks of testing and using it it required an update I could not be asked to do it :p but v1 of the code is still on my blog (check projects area)
Though recently I’ve been looking at adgitize and that is basically Entrecard except it pays you for dropping post page view etc etc. once it grows a bit I expect it to be a nice income base.
Saying that though I did actually find your blog first via entrecard :p
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Nice stats and like your Search Engine stats. I have increased mine to around 7K and hope to get 20K by April with a few campaigns I am running.
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@Michael
Thanks for the input, now I know what to do, I have to change the traffic strategy and tested like funnel system backwards.Of course at the moment I am hitting a plateau…lol.Cheers mate, have a nice weekend
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Wow, Michael. Your stumble upon numbers are really strong. Do you have any tips for how to get a strong presence on stumble upon?
Not really.. I’m not active in there so most of the time, my post gets stumbled by visitors to my blog. Found that the most popular posts to get stumbled are the “Jokes & Funny” sections
Stumblers rarely have time to read a long post
Getting traffic from social bookmarking, based on my own experience is not having lengthy time to stay.Now I am changing my SEO strategy to get traffic from search engine, first if the visitor came from search engine that means the person is curious about something then making investigation to search engine to find more deeply about something, that in my opinion is the real visitors.From Social bookmarking they know all the game as just doing favors to their friends and will look your blog for courtesy, then….nothing happens.But that is my opinion, and I could be wrong
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Search engine visitors are real visitors looking for information on your posts and they are the one who usually converts to money. The traffic is also more consistent than social bookmarking traffic, so you are doing the right thing, Ari
@Michael, thanks for follow up reply I appreciated, hope you get more revenue.Cheers
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Oh? I never know .tk will not work with StumbleUpon. Any reason why?
Entrecard is alright. It requires you to be active on the community though in order to get good traffic out of it. But it won’t give you thousands of traffic
I’ve looked at Adgitize before but didn’t have any interest on it (at least yet). Although I blame that solely on the dodgy looking site