This blog’s January 2009 statistics: 35,722 visits, 51,180 pageviews.
- Referring Sites – 15,120 visits
- Search Engines – 17,888 visits
- Direct Traffic – 2,706 visits
- Other – 8 visits
Total Income made on January 2009: $291.80
Referring Sites Breakdown
Income made online on January 2009
- Private advertising – $100
- Google AdSense – $74.04
- BuzzLogic – $27.67
- Affiliate Sales – $79
- ASE Adnet – $8.59
- Neverblue – $2.50
Total Income made on January 2009: $291.80
January 2009 Post Highlights
- How to fix Windows 7 Sleep problem
- A check list on what you should do after reinstalling Windows
- A review on the most innovative puzzle game up to date
- PS2 Persona 4 game review
- A new anti-spam plug-in enters the war and succeed, for now
Things to say
This is probably the first time that my search engines traffic has ever beaten my referring sites traffic (social bookmarking traffic). Didn’t do any SEO optimization, but a few posts popular on Google seem to help a lot to increase my search engines traffic (and also the clicks to my Google AdSense ads).
I’m still wondering how to get traffic out of Technorati though. I’ve tried putting Technorati tags in the past but it didn’t seem to bring any traffic (apart from 2-5 visits a month from Technorati). If you get a good amount of traffic from Technorati, I’d be interested to hear tips from you.
I’ve also tried to put some Amazon Affiliate Links on my iPod Nano review post. It gave around 25 clicks last month, but didn’t convert any. I guess I’m going back to using ASE Adnet ads and replace the Amazon’s one.
As always, feel free to post your traffic & income statistics here (or link to your post).
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Wow, you made decent money from private advertising. I think I should try my luck on that too.
You do really well with stumbleupon which has been something I keep trying for but failing at.
Do you know why you have those three random spikes in your visits?
Those were around 1000 traffic boost from Reddit. Reddit traffic is like a once off and they’re gone. Don’t expect a good bounce rate as well
Oh! Wow! You have good stumbleupon traffic. I have not figured out how to get that massive traffic from them.
And good Google traffic too – without doing SEO. I hope I can do that!
Well.. write more posts (especially those that are likely to be searched by people on Google) and you’ll get more traffic, basically
Hi, Osome stat, I hope one day, I will become like you. Thanks for the inspiration. Btw I have started contest for RSS subscribers, which is worth 200$ USD, I will be glad if you’re part of it
You’re welcome. As for your contest, I’ve just joined. Great blog too!
Brilliant stats again man;
Again after reading yours I fired up analytics;
Saw a 17% increase in SE traffic (about an extra 400 this month)
But an 18% drop in referral
Added with a 38% increase in direct/rss etc traffic brought my monthly traffic up 2.91%!
Whey hey!
Direct Income 0 but a steady amount of returning visitors (about 20%) So I am to improve this and SE traffic…all with 4hr work per week
Congrats again!
Thanks for the compliment! Somehow I still envy those who are having hundreds of thousands traffic per month. Maybe one day we’ll all get there
Here are my stats for the month of January 2009.
122,894 Visits
181,846 Pageviews
Search Engines 96,171.00 (78.26%)
Referring Sites 15,347.00 (12.49%)
Direct Traffic 11,376.00 (9.26%)
Top Referring Sites:
1. google / organic 85,208
2. (direct) / (none) 11,376
3. yahoo / organic 8,553
4. armorgames.com / referral 4,624
5. kongregate.com / referral 2,529
6. images.google.com / referral 1,544
7. live / organic 890
8. twbbs.net.tw / referral 558
9. msn / organic 553
10. blogcatalog.com / referral 466
Google Adsense Earnings:
$118.69
Cheers!
Wow..your stats just get better and better, dude. Excellent stats!
Deimos, I think you could really monetize your site further. Have you considered diversifying your ad networks beyond just Google? That’s all I use right now as well and so I was curious to see why you’ve opted out of it.
I would suggest a epcm banner somewhere …they pay about $1 per thousand.. so about 122$ extra
Mike, Congrats for Search Engine traffic crossing your referral traffic. I have to also say that you have got good advertisers. Earned 100$ in private advertising thats great!
Thanks, Nihar. One day, I’m gonna beat Deimos’ traffic!
Just saw your site on the Aussie top 100 and thought I would come for a visit. Oh to be ble to get that kind of traffic would be good! The stats are really interesting. It takes a lot of commitment to get involved in the social networking sites – I just cant seem to put in the time but would like more traffic though. I have so much to learn!
Hey Lilly, welcome! Wow.. I never realize that I’m at rank 11 on the Aussie blog top 100 list!
Well I honestly can say that I haven’t spent much time in social networking sites besides submitting my posts every now and then (I’m being selective at which posts I’d submit)
Nice stats. It’s good to see your search engine traffic getting up there. Most of my traffic (75-85%) comes from the search engines. I noticed that once my search engine traffic increased, so did the number of clicks on my Adsense.
You made a good amount also. Keep it up!
Not bad at all. Great to see that there’s growth in your stats, which means a great performance of your blog.
Thanks Ruby. I did less work on social bookmarking part last month
Dropped in from twitter.. nice stats mate.Stay focused more on search engine traffic as it will help you in a long run
Good luck!
Thanks buddy. I’ll c u back at Twitter!
Mike,
Check my Jan 2009 stats http://www.niharsworld.com/2009/02/04/january-2009-blog-traffic-income-statistics/
look at my referral traffic too poor. I want you to give some tips on increasing it.
Well I don’t know what tips to give.. it all depends on the people who stumble or submit your posts to social bookmarking sites.. Like they always say, write good content and people will submit it to social bookmarking sites
Impressive statistics! I like the look of your blog and its loaded with some great articles and info. Keep up the great work!
Matt
Thanks for the compliment Matt!
Thats not too bad Mikey! Congrats on your earnings =) keep it up!
You know Michael you are one of the honest blogger here and that’s the reason I have subscribed to your feeds and i always wait for this post every month ..because it inspires me a lot…:)
Thanks, man. The reason why I’m doing this post is to inspire & encourage people like you and others too! I’m still way off compared to the other big bloggers out there but I’m certainly glad if I can still inspire other small bloggers like me
Mate you are mentioning Private advertising in all of your stats posts but i cannot see any private ads on your blog.Can u please tell me where do u put these private ads.
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