Why becoming a product reviewer is not as easy as you thought – Part 1

I had a bit of discussion with a friend of mine a few days ago. She said how lucky I am (because I’ve been getting those wonderful gadgets to try and review on) and how easy it is to review those “free” review products. I tried to defend myself and told her that it wasn’t [...]

June 2009 Traffic & Income Statistics







by Michael Aulia on 2 July, 2009

in Blog Statistics



june 2009 traffic statistics

This blog’s June 2009 traffic statistics: 27,576 visits with 38,648 pageviews.

  • Referring Sites – 10,776 visits
  • Search Engines – 14,745 visits
  • Direct Traffic – 2,055 visits

Total money made online in June 2009: $181.08

Referring sites breakdown

june 2009 referring sites

Good traffic came from Whirlpool and XDA-Developers forum on my HTC Touch Pro 2 first impression and HTC Touch Pro 2 review post but overall I’m quite disappointed with last month’s traffic. Was it because of a Summer break where you tend to get less traffic?

Money made online in June 2009 breakdown

  • Google AdSense: $83.11
  • BuzzLogic: $27.94
  • Private Advertising: $70

Total: $181.08

June 2009 Post Highlights

Plenty of great quality posts in June. So if you miss out some of the posts, don’t hesitate to visit and read them!

Although it’s a quiet month despite of my effort in commenting on big blogs and also more active on Twitter, I made lots of great connections with new PR agencies having big clients. Tons of new review opportunities await in this blog! The Microsoft Explorer Mini mouse, Ricoh CX1 digital camera, and the CyberSnipa Sonar 5.1 Gaming Headset are some of them.

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Megaphase.info 3 July, 2009 at 12:50 am

Mike, you deserve more cash than that! Especially with that many hits.

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Michael Aulia 4 July, 2009 at 12:26 am

I know, buddy. Tell me how lol

Kevin Eklund 3 July, 2009 at 7:16 am

Great stuff Michael, looks like your doing well. Congratulations on your success. By the way, I really like that “sharing is caring” SexyBookmarks plugins. Did you ever use Sociable? If so, did you find that SexyBookmarks outperformed Sociable for the number of shares/bookmarks? My guess is that it would for the following reasons: 1) it points to the bookmarks requesting action to be taken by the visitor, 2) it’s a more interactive/pleasing design, and 3) the buttons are larger.
Kevin Eklund´s last blog ..Cool Google Android Apps For Sharing Photos, Videos, Audio My ComLuv Profile

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Michael Aulia 4 July, 2009 at 12:28 am

I’ve tried almost every social bookmarking plug-in out there :D Sociable, Add to Any, ShareThis, etc. In my opinion, I haven’t seen one better than the other. It all depends on the people who actually bother to bookmark my post (which is not many unfortunately).

But I guess the Sexy Bookmark plug-in does look the sexiest among them all (which is the main reason why I use it at the first place)

Donace 3 July, 2009 at 7:46 am

Nice traffic figures; though yes your earnings are lacking in comparison. I may have mentioned this before but have you tried CPM advertising?

For me I need to work on my site a bit more… I got 1/6th of your traffic (est.) and earnings yet to come :p

Good luck with next month!

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Michael Aulia 4 July, 2009 at 12:29 am

I only have 1 CPM ad at the moment (the big box under the Sponsors area). Since I only get around 800-1000 a day, the CPM is not much although it’s better than nothing.

Deimos Tel`Arin 3 July, 2009 at 10:06 am

here are my june 2009 stats:

277,854 Visits
462,354 Pageviews

Search Engines 241,908
Referring Sites 20,890
Direct Traffic 15,056

june 2009 google adsense earnings $318.94

referring sites:

1. google / organic 221,987
2. (direct) / (none) 15,056
3. yahoo / organic 14,891
4. armorgames.com / referral 4,646
5. kongregate.com / referral 2,653
6. bing / organic 1,898
7. joemonster.org / referral 1,465
8. search / organic 1,429
9. aol / organic 919
10. bing.com / referral 891
Deimos Tel`Arin´s last blog ..The Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 – Walkthrough My ComLuv Profile

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Michael Aulia 4 July, 2009 at 12:29 am

Wow man, your site is getting better and better each month. Congrats!

Nihar 3 July, 2009 at 2:47 pm

I agree your June traffic is low. but no problem. keep posting nice reviews you will get good traffic and returns.

Check out my June 2009 blog traffic and income….
Nihar´s last blog ..June 2009 Blog Traffic & Income statistics My ComLuv Profile

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Michael Aulia 4 July, 2009 at 12:31 am

Thanks Nihar. I’ve left a comment on your traffic & income stats post :)

DannyArcher 3 July, 2009 at 6:21 pm

hmm… as long as there are improvements, you are on the right track. keep up on the good work, remember, less is MORE.

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Michael Aulia 4 July, 2009 at 12:32 am

Thanks Dan. Looking forward to share my next month’s stats

Jayce 3 July, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Woo… so many referring sites traffic. I need to work hard to more traffic.
Jayce´s last blog ..No controller == the best controller? My ComLuv Profile

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Michael Aulia 4 July, 2009 at 12:33 am

Like others said, write good stuffs, it will come by itself (although you also need to do some networking to get your friends to bookmark/refer to your posts)

Steve Yu 3 July, 2009 at 8:41 pm

I hope you don’t get discouraged with your last month traffic figure. Keep up the great work buddy. Hope to see better traffic figure and adsense earning on your next month blog report. :-)
Steve Yu´s last blog ..June 2009 Blog Traffic and Income Monthly Report My ComLuv Profile

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Michael Aulia 4 July, 2009 at 12:33 am

Thanks Steve. Same to you too. You beat my traffic for this month, grr

indr@ 4 July, 2009 at 3:20 pm

why you don’t try PTR? let me guess.. you have another blog that used for PTR right? so u earn $181.08 +++
indr@´s last blog ..Affordable webhosting in the US My ComLuv Profile

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Michael Aulia 6 July, 2009 at 11:44 pm

Hi Indra, what’s a PTR? Paid To Review?
I only have this blog and another at writeforgod.com but I don’t monetize that site at all

Stefan 16 July, 2009 at 3:53 am

Interesting to see so many visitors from Digg and Stumbleupon. I always try to encourage people to use more images because it will get new visitors to your site, just look at your stats.
Stefan´s last blog ..Spam Will Not Kill Twitter My ComLuv Profile

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Michael Aulia 16 July, 2009 at 11:58 pm

Yeah. I mean images can give life to a post. But again, some good blogs like problogger.net has no images at times on a post and it’s still popular :)

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