Last month’s traffic statistics (from http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs, before I rebrand my “Michael Aulia’s Blog” to “Craving Tech”): 34,787 unique visitors and 47,650 page views.
Traffic details:
- Referring Sites: 9,476.00 (27.24%)
- Search Engines : 22,037.00 (63.35%)
- Direct Traffic: 3,241.00 (9.32%)
- Other: 33 (0.09%)
Total money made online in October: around USD 157.47.
Referring Sites breakdown
A quite stable traffic for last month, nothing fancy. A new referring site traffic came from the Nuffnang Blog Awards page (272 visitors). Not much, but maybe it was because nobody knew about this great blog yet 
(before the award night).
Money made online in October 2009
- Google AdSense: AUD 117.09
- Nuffnang: AUD 23.94
- BuzzLogic: USD 16.69
- Amazon Associates: USD 10.38
Total around USD 157.47.
Not a bad month even though I know I could have racked up more with that kind of traffic (what my readers said). Amazon has been slowly catching up ever since I’ve put more Amazon ads on the review posts. It’s weird though how people actually bought unrelated stuffs on Amazon but I still got the commission out of it (the good thing about Amazon). So if you want to try making money with Amazon, don’t hesitate to join the Amazon Associates program.
October 2009 Post Highlights
- Identify and watch out for Facebook email scams
- The latest SideWinder X8, a wireless gaming mouse from Microsoft
- Nuffnang Blog Awards 2009 in Singapore coverage (a whole dedicated page with posts covering the big event)
- Cat betrayed his girlfriend funny video
- Configuring Mailman with Google Apps
- How to backup Firefox (and other browsers) with 1 single free application
- A new bladeless fan from Dyson
- Best aCapella from the Voca People video
- How to add multiple language support to your blog with Google Translator
- A review on PopCap’s Zuma Revenge game
Looking forward for next month’s traffic which might go down or go up since I’ve changed my blog from “Michael Aulia’s Blog” to “Craving Tech” (http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs -> http://www.cravingtech.com).
I was quite surprised looking at the Google Analytics though as this blog actually got more traffic after the switch (a big boost from Google Image search mainly):
On Saturday 7th November, I got 1,754 unique visitors and on Sunday 8th November, I got 1,777 unique visitors! Normally this blog only got around 800-1,200 unique visitors (and that’s during the weekdays!). Not sure that I did anything but this move seems to make the Google Bot Image happy? Or it can just be a pure coincidence…?
If you compare my Google Image traffic on the referring sites’ figure for last month on the top vs the one below (just on the 7-8th November alone), you can imagine the crazy traffic I might be getting in a whole month from Google Image! It’ll be exciting to see.
(Or maybe I made a mistake somehow on the robots.txt, sitemap, or any other settings from previous blog?? I still don’t understand why)
I am planning to switch to the Thesis theme one day too just to test whether it can really bring more search engine visitors as people said in the past. But yeah, one at a time, I guess.
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Good result even i think it could be better.
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nice results!
Are these fro all of your sites?
Just on this one alone
Thats a lot of traffic
My best is 120$ for a month from adsense
Wow, now that’s a shocker (in a good way of course!). Now who would’ve thought the change can bring such instant result on the Google Image? It’s something to look forward and into! So proud of your effort Michael as I’m sure you’ve been in and out, considering the risks involved. I’m so glad the statistics have showed something encouraging. Impressive job my friend!
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I think your revenue is not good. Why don’t you try to sell banner ads and sponsored reviews?
Advertisers will choose high profile bloggers to buy ads and sponsoredreviews sometimes kill PR
Hmm, It’s not bad. But you can try to make money with others programs, not only adsense.
yes thats good Traffic but i guess you are having only one adsense ad on post page and no adsense on homepage. i think placing more ads will surely increase your Adsense income, maybe double
Congrats to your earning. It is much lower than mine but it is fine as your blog is still small. Keep up your good work
Hope you can increase the traffic and earnings also.
All the best!
I too have been contemplating Thesis. Not sure if my coding is good enough to be able to do all the tweaking to personalise it though. Nice to see how someone goes about monetising their blog.
Congrats on another good month of traffic and revenue!
But how come so much traffic came though Google Images and Google Images UK?
That’s pretty awesome!