My blog’s November 2008 statistics: 51,190 visits, 93,051 pageviews.
- Referring Sites – 34,938 visits
- Search Engines – 11,453 visits
- Direct Traffic – 4,792 visits
- Other – 7 visits
Referring sites traffic breakdown
Nothing fancy happening in last month’s traffic statistics.
Income made online on November 2008
- BuzzLogic: $77.50
- Google AdSense: $59.61
- ASE AdNet: $19.46
- Private Advertising: $15
Total income made online: $171.57.
Interesting things happening last month
As you are already aware, I’ve made another face lift for this blog. The main reason to go to a less-personal blog layout was because I’ve had received quite a number of professional review requests last month. I thought that this is the time to take my blog to the next level. My dream one day through this blog is to be one of the main sources of news/reviews on products or gadgets from the giant companies such as Logitech, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
The only thing that I regretted though, is this blog’s domain name. I should have made this blog a professional blog since day one and not tied it into my personal name. However, I’m very happy to find that lots of people have grown a love into this blog, even though its “name” is no where sound professional 
November 2008 Post Highlights
- A fully featured professional premium WordPress Themes
- iPod Nano 4th Gen Chromatic Review
- Warhammer Online Guides
- Goodbye, Privacy?
- Adding password to a zipped file in Windows
What’s your dream/vision through your blog?
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Well.. remove the google earning reports.. it violates TOS. you will be in trouble.. Just use hints for google earnings amount hereafter..
Thanks.. I think i should concentrate on stumble upon too.
Why regret about blog name… Does John Chow do? Make Ur name a powerful brand on the web. You really can do it.
Congrats
Hi Quakeboy, it’s not against the TOS if you only post the total earnings. I think you are not supposed to post the CTR (and a few other statistics along with it) but the total earnings is definitely fine.
Yeah I guess you’re right about John Chow. I’ve also found some visitors coming by searching my name on Google
Where did ma comment go ?
This post must have been cached and therefore you couldn’t see your comment.
[Well.. remove the google earning reports.. it violates TOS. you will be in trouble.. Just use hints for google earnings amount hereafter..]
It is okay to disclose the total figure.
Here are my stats for the month of November 2008.
131,022 Visits
188,962 Pageviews
Search Engines 100,876.00 (76.99%)
Referring Sites 20,583.00 (15.71%)
Direct Traffic 9,563.00 (7.30%)
Referring sites traffic breakdown:
1. google / organic 92,502
2. armorgames.com / referral 11,283
3. (direct) / (none) 9,563
4. yahoo / organic 5,865
5. kongregate.com / referral 3,828
6. blogcatalog.com / referral 1,296
7. live / organic 848
8. msn / organic 638
9. images.google.com / referral 528
10. aol / organic 516
November 2008 Google Earnings $148.87
Peace.
Awesome organic traffic as usual, Ahkong!
@Quakeboy: It went online of course! xD
And I’m sure that sharing the sum you made Adsense is acceptable – just the other, more detailed stuff (click per pay rates or something like that I think) you can’t share. If it really was illegal in the ToS then I think half the websites that use Adsense would soon be without it!
Great job Michael. Once again, I really like this new layout.
Defintely makes it look more professional! About the name, I wouldn’t worry too much – it’s true, you would’ve “looked cooler” if you had your own technology name for your blog or even maybe a made up name, but like Quakeboy said, now that you’ve used your name anyways, make that name work to your advantage – keep dreaming that one day people will recognize it in a second, as they do with John Chow.
One day your dreams will come true – look how far you’ve already gotten! ;D
Thanks for the encouragement, man
Well, a dream is something that you have to turn into reality, isn’t it? When that day comes, I’ll celebrate with you guys somehow 
Very good stats. you have a good traffic from stumbleupon.
Cheers Nihar. Just wish that I have a large number of subscribers like yours do!
Your regular updates on your stats always serves as a motivation for me to keep going. Congratulations on the great stats once again.
Hi Lyndi, I never know that. I never thought that my stats would motivate other bloggers, so it’s certainly a great comment to see
Your name is the brand name Michael
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Thanks, man. Maybe one day I can make my own dolls and merchandise too
you have nice blog, and your earning is better then my no-update blog. I guess to make money from blogging is really hard for me but it’s nice to know your stats and earning.
Thanks Melinda, but believe me, I’m still not happy with the earnings (especially if you look at those who can make thousands of dollars from their blogs!). It certainly is not easy for me (and for this blog’s niche), but persistence is rewarding in its own ways
Congratz Michael. I agree with SG Entrepreneur, you have successfully made your name a brand. So keep it up.
And yeah, this template is really good. I used the free version in one of my blogs, but this one is wickedly good. I believe the license is about 78USD right? I was planning to actually purchase this for my bloggista.com blog however, hot so sure if the thumbnails would work with my hosting which is hostmonster. Too bad.
I love your theme and not every premium theme is a good one
The thumbnail is generated automatically and as far as I know, the theme did it with a script and it worked out of the box (unless of course if it’s disabled on your hosting)
Aw, my comment was not displayed..
Owww, okay, I should press F5 to refresh and see my comments.
Sorry, coz I have caching installed on this blog so sometimes it hasn’t updated its cache yet (that’s why you can’t see your comments straight away sometimes)
Your new template looks professional. About your domain name, it’s doesn’t matter much. Many blogs like hongkiat.com are so successful even though they use their name as the domain name. People come here for the content. Anyway, keep up the great work mike!
Hey Steve, it certainly is nice to see you back in action!
Great stats, esp. stumbleupon performance.