Last month’s traffic statistics: 57,796 unique visitors and 77,732 page views.
Traffic details:
- Referring sites: 32,632 visitors.
- Search engines: 19,330 visitors.
- Direct traffic: 5,709 visitors.
- Other: 125 visitors.
Referring sites breakdown
All thanks to my Office 2010 Beta post that received around 24,000 visitors in a few days:
If you check my analytic graph (the first image on this post), that nice traffic only came once and afterwards, it pretty much went back to a steady 1000-ish visitors a day 
A lot of things were happening to this blog recently:
- A new fresh domain name (and branding): Craving Tech.
- A few days ago, I finally took the step and migrated to the Thesis theme. It’ll take some time before we can find out whether this blog will really get a better ranking and more search engine visitors from the theme’s optimized codes. Still plenty of tweaking to do (which is not easy since I don’t know much about CSS styling).
- I applied for a Sole Trader early this week so Craving Tech is officially a “business” now! I took it as a hobby when I started but nowadays I’m not so sure anymore (which is a good thing, I guess)
I also upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.9 Beta 2 so I can try its new Post Image Thumbnail feature. I’ll write up a post about it soon.
Money made online in November 2009
- Google AdSense: A$128.70 (around US$118)
- Amazon Associates: US$17.03
Total money made online: US$135.03. I need to find private advertisers to earn more!
November 2009 Post Highlights
- Google Wave Invite (still have lots left!)
- A Husband and a Wife Jokes
- How to prepare your blog for a huge traffic
- A review on a Flash puzzle-based game, Machinarium
- Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 Review
- A new Twitter client for Windows
- HP SimpleSave review
- Microsoft 2010 first beta impression and screenshots
- Razer Orochi Review
- How my friend found her lost dog through social media
- Fix YouTube slow loading problem
- What is Twitter List and why you should care about it
There is no weekend fun post this week but feel free to watch me went into a coma last Sunday on our church’s Christmas play:
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Very interesting stat and best of luck for coming year. By the way I have some what similar stat, I started earning from July I think and till now I earn $500, all from Adsense. I just quite depress with my earning stat but after seeing yours I just think I earn something better.
Yeah, Technology in AdSense sucks. Most of the clicks I got were around 3-6 cents each
here are my stats for novemeber 2009:
based on google analytics:
245,779 Visits
448,093 Pageviews
Search Engines 215,277
Referring Sites 15,685
Direct Traffic 14,815
Other 2
referring sites:
1. google / organic 195,876
2. (direct) / (none) 14,815
3. yahoo / organic 10,733
4. bing / organic 5,333
5. kongregate.com / referral 1,930
6. search / organic 1,901
7. stumbleupon.com / referral 1,795
8. armorgames.com / referral 1,716
9. images.google.com / referral 1,360
10. pencilkids.com / referral 702
november 2009 earnings:
google adsense $465.26
cpmstar $44.23
text link ads $96.08
sponsored reviews $65.00
Wow, just wow, dude! Your site is getting better and better every month! Congrats!
Yeah, you must find direct advertiser to increase the earning.
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..which is a bit hard to do
Maybe you can get sponsored by GoDaddy? They’re usually happy to take any popular blog and advertise on it…
I tried asking GoDaddy last year, I think. Their respond was to use the affiliate banner to sell their services to make money instead
Totally off-topic, but there’s Wordpress Betas that I can install? Should I though? What do they offer? Is it better to wait for an “official” release? And what’s the thumbnail feature you’re talking about? Because I’ve tried out a few themes where you can just type in the Value “Thumbnail” and the URL of the image and it’ll appear as your thumbnail. How do you do it?
I’m planning to write a post about the 2.9 Beta some time today or tomorrow, so stay tuned!
Congrats for the new look and new website.
But, i guess the traffic is still on the lower side.
Why don’t you try info-links or kontera…I hope your overall earning will increase.
I just think that they are quite intrusive/annoying to have…. I used them in the past before (like 2 years ago)
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