A pretty bad month in traffic due to lack of marketing and a temporary Google de-indexing due to a sitemap crawl error. This blog’s July 2009 traffic statistics: 22,483 visits, 31,649 views.
- Referring Sites – 7,153 visits.
- Search Engines – 12,968 visits.
- Direct Traffic – 2,362 visits.
Total money made in July 2009: $108.53
Referring Sites breakdown
Money made online in July 2009 breakdown
- Google AdSense: $67
- BuzzLogic – $21.50
- Social Spark – $20.03
Total: $108.53
July 2009 Post Highlights
- How to put your post’s title on a Feedburner email subscription subject
- 14 Reasons to get a dog than a wife
- Don’t be a Darren Rowse, don’t be a John Chow
- How to redirect your site’s URL from http to www
- How to attribute Flickr copyright images properly
- A mini mouse that works on almost every surface
- A review on Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1
- My impression on tweeting with Seesmic Desktop
- A compact digital camera with DSLR quality
- How to solve network unreachable or robots.txt unreachable error on your sitemap
- A true 5.1 surround sound gaming headset
- An all in one solution for mobile gamers from Razer
Not too happy with the traffic last month. I blame it on my busyness in life (for the lack of marketing towards the end of the month) and also a temporary Google de-indexing for about 2 weeks. Thankfully, an unexpected-to-be-a-killer post, “Don’t be a Darren Rowse, don’t be a John Chow”, saved this blog’s traffic a bit. Also for the first time Darren and John took notice of this blog and they re-tweeted the post. It was an honor for me but the novely wore off pretty quick (simply because this blog’s niche doesn’t really suit their readers’ taste 
). The post itself received 720 visitors though as you can see from the graph below (mostly from Twitter):
It’s not much but I’m sure the post gave some sort of positive encouragement to those who read it!
I’ve also realized that traffic and money are not really everything for a blogger. As for myself, to review new technology innovations first hand, is truly what I’ve been searching for through this blog. Last month, I’ve made new connections with Razer, Ricoh, CyberStore, Logitech, ASUS, and many others. Some are willing to give review units away, which makes the reviewing process much easier for me.
What do you really after from your blog? Money? Fame?
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God, you deserve more than what you get. Your blog is old and has some useful information. And did you make any money from your shop?
That’s what everyone told me. Maybe I need to change my theme to Thesis for a better SEO? (although I doubt that it’ll “cure” the traffic problem)
As for the shop, I only made $2 out of it (even from the Amazon links out of my review posts). Although honestly I’m happy enough getting the review units in exchange for the review posts, it never hurts to earn more
Better SEO might help increase your traffic a bit, but it won’t really help your conversion rates. Try mixing up the ad placement.
Ouch, that’s not a lot, clearly the monthly income can’t be the main incentive for such a blog. I suppose that the holiday period is also partly responsible for your drop in traffic.
I’m surprised to see that the suppliers give away test units, I suppose that they get lots of such requests. Keep up the good work.
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Thanks, Luc. I’d be lying if I say I don’t need the extra cash
I dont know man I still think the traffic is nice (3times mine!) revenue yes $100 is a bit less but hey you got to start somewhere
Yea but he’s been working his ass off for months. He should be getting $500+
$500? That’d be great if it’s true
Maybe I need a real consultant for this blog
Traffic took a blow but at least you still over the $100 mark. Keep working at it. The income levels will rise.
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Long time no see from my side to your blog. Happy to see you Michael.
I wish you to cross the $100 target from Adsense in August.
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my july 2009 stats
223,696 Visits
397,673 Pageviews
Search Engines 192,467
Referring Sites 15,938
Direct Traffic 15,290
Other 1
1. google / organic 175,153
2. (direct) / (none) 15,290
3. yahoo / organic 11,373
4. armorgames.com / referral 3,180
5. bing / organic 2,949
6. kongregate.com / referral 2,370
7. search / organic 1,549
8. aol / organic 858
9. images.google.com / referral 824
10. pencilkids.com / referral 682
google adsense $283.98
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I’m sure Nuffnang will get you a better result that Google!
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Thanks. I’ve decided to put Nuffnang tag in for trial
I’m amazed you get that much traffic. What do you do to get it? I get only a tiny fraction of that to my blog and I have content on it that’s valuable, not just this self-serving fluff or marketing stuff.
Tell us what you do to “market” this blog.
Nothing much, really. Most of the traffic come by themselves through the search engines (Google).
Social bookmarking and some sites who link back to my posts, that’s all!
That’s pretty impressive, Michael. At least to me, the stats is totally desirable. Search engine is a great traffic source and sure hope to learn more about it. Just moved to WP so need to work hard on the knowledge. ^^ Wish you all the best, Michael. No worries, your stats and earning will have a better turn soon since you got some great content going.
Also, brilliant post on the “Don’t be a Darren Rowse, don’t be a John Chow”. I saw Darren tweet about it earlier, that must have got you some decent traffic there. You deserve the credit, Well done!
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Here is the same news. Lowest traffic and lowest earnings so far in this year for me.
But great news better than traffic and earnnigs is big guys noticed your blog post and tweeted…
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