My blog’s June 2008 statistics: 49,660 Visits, 65,645 Pageviews
- Referring Sites – 34,324 visits
- Search Engines – 9,444 visits
- Direct Traffic – 5,876 visits
- Other – 16 visits
Money made in June: $64.42 $109.42 ($64.42 from Google AdSense, $20 from SocialSpark, and $25 from PureProfile)
Search engines traffic has gone down from the previous month, 11,361 visits 
I guess I’m still pretty bad at optimizing my blog for search engines. Hopefully this is because I only have a PageRank of 1 from Google at the moment.
More Referring Sites traffic details:
- StumbleUpon – 25,495 visits
- Entrecard – 4,338 visits
- Reddit – 340 visits
- BlogCatalog – 199 visits
- and others..
Many thanks to my friend, Elvi Lioe, who sent me the Pregnant Italian joke to my email, in which it got stumbled 50 times and has 29,360 page views so far. It seems that some people had sent the joke through mailing lists, and I got some stumbled down (people thought I was the spammer oh well).
Other interesting events happening during the month:
- My Alexa ranking is improving from 163,278 to 120,402. Now I just need a better PageRank before I can start looking for private advertisers (don’t know how).
- I got my first check from Google AdSense for my hard work heh heh.
- David from IZEA and Xuyen from PopCap Games contacted me. What they were about, is a secret
- In touch with great people and their great blogs/sites (Van @bastillwork.net, Ameo @bluecirclet.com, and many of you here that I can’t mention one by one, sorry!)
What I’m looking forward for next month:
- Looking for another change of theme (hoping to get someone who can design a personal theme for my blog). If you’re interested and confident with your design skills, please contact me I’ll try to mantain the white-black-orangey look though, as I think it’s simple, elegant, and easy to read.
- I still have a 1 year hosting + free domain name from think411.com. No one has bought it yet. I’m thinking to trade that with a personalized theme or I’ll probably throw a small contest, I’m still not sure yet. Suggestions?
- I only got 4 traffic out of Technorati last month. Will try to find out why and hopefully can tweak something to bring me more traffic from it.
- Thinking to change my anti spam plug-in on my blog (WP-SpamFree). Scott, the developer, is a great guy but I’ve been getting some feedback from my annoyed readers that they couldn’t make comments. I guess I have to do something before you get annoyed too.
- My second Google AdSense’s check should be coming too this month ^^
- Hoping for more exciting people to contact me and form some sort of relationships/partnerships with them.
Looking forward for another great month! How’s yours? Any exciting stuffs happening last month
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64 $ for the month of june, this is great. Nothing much if you compare yourself to the top bloggers, but you are starting to get there, keep on the good work.
Can’t wait to see your new theme this month, I always love to check the new designs and ideas some bloggers have.
I have no ads on my blog, but I was able to make a first money gain out of it, Blogengage top article of the month made me 15 USD
Chessmasters last blog post..My Blogengage Experience
nicee traffic… or maybe greaaaaaat… I dont have traffic that much, and I start using google analytics since 10 june, and my visitor from referral is half from your direct traffic… I think I really need to follow your way
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Congrats, looks like another successful month!!!
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Good luck to you in July, your stats are pretty good, so I will be curious to see what July brings for you.
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Very nice stats. I think you have made a lot of folks jealous (myself included). Well done.
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so now I know who’s stealing my visitors.. J/K
great stats keep up the good work!
ainfotblogs last blog post..Traffic report – June 2008
A secret? I love secrets! So when will you spill–the best part about secrets is finding out the details.
LuckyGirls last blog post..Need More Luck? Get the Poop!
Wonderful stats I could just envy at the moment. May the month of July be a better month for you and everyone here.
BTW, $64 is the figure for adsense alone?
Yan
Nice stats Mike, it comes from your dedication.
We had ourselves a nice June. Keep up the good work!
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Your Alexa rank is 113,821 isn’t 120,402
Gratz!
My friend, i’d like to put your link ( or a small banner ) into my homepage ( PR3 ) , i hope i can give small support for you to increase your page rank
If you like my suggestion plz email for me, looking for your blog’s growth
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Congrats…..
Can you give some tips me on how to get traffic frm stumble upon? i never get traffic from there
Great, consistent performance, Michael. hardwork really pays well
Have just updated my money making figure, lol. I forgot to include non-AdSense’s income.
@Nihar: Well if you have random people stumbling your posts, you’ll certainly can get the traffic too
Although honestly, I’d prefer a consistent traffic than a StumbleUpon traffic.
Don’t give up blogging, guys! It’s always nice to see you guys around like friends
It shows that your blog is rocking! Good traffic from StumbleUpon. BTW, thanks for your comment on my blog.
Happy Blogging.
well done .
nice job for june
ameos last blog post..opera browser and stumbleupon
Now that you are rich, can you spare me some change? j/k ^^
I know how you feel about getting traffic. I have had my site going for one month now and just made it in the top 100,000 on Alexa traffic rank hitting 70,000. Lets hope it continues to improve.
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Wow, I’m interested to know how did you get to the 100K on Alexa within a month. I’m scratching my head as I type this…
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Today Alexa went back to 153,000 and the way I did this is in my New Hair Styles comment name at the top here. I put the link under there for anyone else to see how I did this. Proof is in whois to show the launch date and of course Alexa traffic. If it helps anyone else then I do not mind at all.
New Hair Styless last blog post..Comment by stutin
The way I did this just click on my name here as I embedded the url for anyone else to see how I did this. Alexa has the site at 153k today so it is fluctuating at the moment. The tactics do work, and very simple to do. I hope this helps others as it has me.
New Hair Styless last blog post..Comment by stutin
Thanks guys. Well, Entrecard traffics helped me a lot in achieving that Alexa ranking (that was before they changed their rainking algorithm to include the bounce rate, lol)
You got monstrous traffic stats! O_O
Here is mine for the month of June 2008:
21,721 Visits
34,509 Pageviews
Breakdown:
Search Engines 16,300 (75.04%)
Referring Sites 3,304 (15.21%)
Direct Traffic 2,116 (9.74%)
Other 1 (> 0.00%)
I beat ya in search engine traffic!
Deimos Tel`Arins last blog post..Shift 3 – Achievements
Hey, I’d definitely trade that with yours, Deimos
I love Search Engines traffic, as much as Direct Traffic. Guess I should learn more SEO from you, eh?
Can i join to this class ?
You have very nice traffic and I believe you will earn more once you start your private ad sales.
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Thanks jeflin, getting the private advertisers are the hard part, I guess, considering my PR is still 1