Craving Tech’s traffic statistics summary for October 2011: 150,636 unique visitors and 194,908 page views, compared to September 2011 with 127,219 unique visitors and 163,778 page views.
Traffic details:
- Search Traffic: 132,019 visitors.
- Referral Traffic: 7,649 visitors.
- Direct Traffic: 10,885 visitors.
- Other: 83 visitors.
October 2011 Traffic Sources Breakdown
Total Newsletter subscribers: 279
Facebook fans: 1633
Money made online in October 2011 breakdown
- Google AdSense: USD 409.66
- Amazon Affiliates: USD 365.84
- Affiliate Sales: USD 0
- Sponsored Posts (Unruly Media, Nuffnang, etc): $489.14
- Private advertising (Banners): $540.00
Total income made online in October 2011: $1,804.64
I put a more aggresive 336×280 format for Google AdSense at the top of every post, compared to the 468×60 last month. I found that I could squeeze a few more dollars a day (not much) but apparently I got good $ per click on a couple of days last month.
It’d also be interesting to find out how much Amazon Affiliate earnings I can rack up this month and next month (normally it was like doubled, so I’m looking forward to it 
).
I’ve also decided to switch my weekly newsletter and RSS feed to a full feed. I think if you are subscribing, then you deserve to read the whole story and don’t have to click to come and read it on this blog. Though I would still encourage you to come and interact by commenting 
How’s your stats for last month?
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Those are some great numbers, Mike. It looks like the days of the Panda Updates are behind you. It will be interesting to see how your income increases over the next two months with the holiday season.
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Thanks, Paul. Let’s have a look at this month then, shall we? How’s yours?
Wowza! Those are breathtaking numbers. Keep going mate!
My blog, TechiesGuide, was badly hit on 14th October with 70%-80% decline in traffic and Adsense revenue almost 0/day. It was really saddening.
Ouch.. 70-80% decline was huge, not to mention that your revenue goes down as a result
Any ideas why you think Panda might penalize your site?
Google’s Panda animal is too mysterious to dig any information or causes.
I also came to know from my Facebook wall that many other of my friends’ blogs were badly hit too, on the same day (14th Oct).
Anyways, I hope to recover some bit in the next update.
I guess the Bad Panda days are over for you now
Certainly is over ever since I published the “Goodbye Google Panda” post
At least for now
Those are some great numbers if I may say so. This year you’ll have a happy Christmas LOL
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Hey Michael, that’s a great flow of traffic, considering that it’s been rising and you’ve been mostly immune to Panda.
The word Panda is almost synonymous with “endangered”….here it looks like Panda is endangering bloggers…
Haha yeah, at Craving Tech, I’m loving Panda
Of course, I’m sad to hear when Panda affects genuine bloggers who work hard writing unique and long articles
Hi,
You deserve these. You know very well which technique when to use for get good response for get traffic and make money.
Congrats for this.
Hats off!Very awesome figures sir Michael. When that figures come to my way I think I should quit on my IT job then, focus on full-time blogging.Congrats!
BTW, I have to ask your permission I collect all your income stats for a special review to be written by me about your super earning blog.Hope you like.ty in advance.
Hey bennix, don’t! I’m still working full time in IT too. This is still so far away from full-time blogging. Not to mention I’m relying too much on search engines traffic, it’s unstable
Sure, don’t see a reason why I wouldn’t want to. Feel free
let me know of the URL when you’ve written it, will u?
Thanks a lot sir Michael for the advise.Yes, I will share the link to you soon, hope I will have your good feedback. One more question, I have seen before that you’re using MGID.Is it good with adsense? what can you recommend?I really need your advise…
I broke $600 in October and broke 5,000 visitors, which I’m really pleased with.
I’d be interested to now which sponsored post companies you do business with as I’m a big user of them but the ones I go with “Sponsored Review, ReviewMe, etc) only pay $5 per post. You seem to be earning considerable more per post than that.
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Congrats, Dean. $600 in a month is not bad at all! I was struggling last time to get $500, then $1,500. Now my aim is $2,000 a month
I’m still with them though as you said, if you go with the dashboard, it’s only $5-20 per post. I normally get a “private offer” from SocialSpark, etc so they offer good amount of cash >$100 normally
Another great month for you! Like all of your sources gave you more than $300, that’s really great. I bet you’ll get much more than $2000 in December, perhaps even in November! These two are the best months an affiliate or any technology site could get. As usual, please keep us updated as it’s great seeing your success
My site has been constantly growing and I finally found enough time to start a new one, which will hopefully be much bigger (different and bigger niche, same topic).
Possibly, since the Amazon should be getting around $500 (I got that last year so this year should be the same or even better!)
Wow, everytime I start on a new blog, I always end up closing it after a week.. just can’t have the time to write more! All the best for your new blog
Reading your income report adds more spirit to me that someday I can reach that.. Yes I think you will make much more income in the next two months..
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I hope so too as Google updates another Panda, hopefully it doesn’t affect this blog too much
Earnings are impressive specially private banner ads sponsored posts. My all the the earnings come from Goggle adsense and Google affiliate network.
Google Affiliate Network? That is something that I’ve never been into so far. Was playing around with it some months ago but decided to leave it aside.
@Madhav Tripathi Yes, the private banner ads section of the data also caught my eye, something impressive that I’ve not seen too much of.
For us, the next step will probably be AdSense on a forum.
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awesome figures Michael, i take my hat off to you…well done. loved this blog by the way you have inspired me greatly!!
Great statistics, you really did a great job last month and no doubt about it you really deserve it. It is very awesome to know that beyond all of your effort there is a reward which you know that you really deserve it so, keep it up man!
Michael, Awesome number congrats
I heard Unruly Media is for video advertising do they provide sponsored post also? Mean while I read your Panda recovery story too.I am also hit by recent update..Can you suggest your views pl.I just started to try seopressor.And what is the best keyword density in a articles and also in meta tag how many times can we use it..They say maximum of 3.What your view on that ?
What about Unruly Media ? How can we make money with them ? Expecting a detailed review on them from CravingTech
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