Craving Tech’s traffic statistics summary for September 2011: 127,219 unique visitors and 163,778 page views, compared to August 2011 with 117,001 unique visitors and 149,166 page views.
Traffic details:
- Search Traffic: 108,814. visitors.
- Referral Traffic: 8,614 visitors.
- Direct Traffic: 9,719 visitors.
- Other: 72 visitors.
September 2011 Traffic Sources Breakdown
Thanks to the help of some guest posts, we have more articles here at Craving Tech and I’ve noticed that some of them get good amount of search engine visitors/queries and good feedback. To the guest posters, thank you for your contributions here at Craving Tech and let me know if the others are interested to write a piece too.
I’ve also decided to make a record of the number of newsletter subscribers and Craving Tech’s Facebook fan. This way, I can monitor the progress compared to last month’s. Hope you like it.
Total Newsletter subscribers: 272
Facebook fans: 572
Money made online in September 2011 breakdown
- Google AdSense: USD 308.83
- Amazon Affiliates: USD 347.89
- Affiliate Sales: USD 50.00
- Sponsored Posts (Unruly Media, Nuffnang, etc): $779.33
- TechMediaNetwork CPM banner: $177.71
Total income made online in September 2011: $1,663.76
Quite a steady month although there is a decline in Google AdSense earnings as I was trying a few different placements (to make it less intrusive for you though at the expense of less money for me, which is cool). There was quite a big jump in Amazon Affiliates as you can see, which is great, and I can’t wait to see how much I can rack up in December (as people crazily search for review gadgets to be gifted for the holiday season 
)
I still can’t break through into affiliate marketing as most big bloggers get the money from. I guess it’s hard when I don’t use much paid/affiliate services to offer/pitch. And I don’t want to promote affiliate products/services by pretending or lying about the results – it’s just not my method.
To those who are subscribing to my newsletter, do you mind to receive partial feeds like last week’s? Or do you prefer to have a full newsletter with all the post contents? Check here if you don’t know what I mean: Partial vs Full.
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Wow! That’s a good amount of traffic. Did you happen to check the Real-Time Google Analytics? I’m lovin’ it.
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I haven’t seen the new feature in my Dashboard, are they still rolling out it and how did you enable it?
Btw, great stats for your site, Michael. I always feel comfortable reading your blog as it is not overwhelmed with ads like other blogs. That’s great as you can increase your earnings at the same time.
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Real-Time Google Analytics feature is still being rolled out by Google. It’s not yet available to everyone, but Google is rolling it out slowly. I guess everyone should have it enabled in a week or so.
Thanks, guys. Real-Time Google Analytics? Shame on me for not hearing about it at all. Honestly I still love and use the old analytics – this is the first time I’ve taken screenshots using the new interface
Somehow the old one is easier to find out my most top contents and what the keywords + sources are, compared to a few clicks needed on the new interface
@Tuan: I guess I can squeeze more pennies by putting bigger ads and the infolinks stuff, but I find them intrusive (my opinion) so I decided not to. Glad to know that it has an effect
Michael,
The new Google Analytics interface is way better. You can make custom dashboard, in which you can select you own sections and save it. Real-Time is simply fun. I’m constantly looking at it since today morning and discovering on ways how people act on my blog.
Large Rectangle (336 x 280) Adsense block, near the top of the content works best for me. It gave $143 USD last month, with just 20K unique visits.
Wow didn’t know about the custom dashboard. Guess I need more time to play around with it. Feel free if you want to make that as a topic of your next post (a guide)
Hm… tempted to give the 336×280 a try, perhaps next month. I’m trying the 468×60 for this month (the least intrusive but only show 1 ad
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Sign up for early access to Google Analytics Real-Time ,
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/realtimeanalytics/
Thanks, buddy! I’ve just signed up using the link
Nice work mate. Always good to see how well people I know are doing
Great! It’s nice to know that you are not struggling online by yourself, haha
Lol.. You’re hardly struggling. Remember I’m not even close to 1 year since launch yet.
Those are some great numbers. I’m still trying to hit the 100,000 visits/month mark so I am a little jealous
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I just started to get more into Amazon Affiliates and have seen some good earnings the past two months – at least good for what I was earning before. I am looking forward to the holiday season to see what my Amazon earnings will be.
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Hey Paul, honestly it’s not like a few months ago since I’ve got the 100,000 visitors a month, so you’ll get there one day too
You’ll be surprised in December to look at your Amazon earnings
Hi Michael, very impressive traffic! You always do such a great job bringing people to your blog. Do you use shared hosting?
Congrats on the earnings too
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Yes, I’m still on a shared hosting, amazingly
So far HostGator works great with my W3 Total Cache + CloudFlare
Congrats Michael,
This is very good result for you and i hope it will increase day by day. One more thing you deserve it.
Thanks
Wish I can get more with that traffic, but I should be grateful with what I’ve got this far
Nice one! What is your record of visitors in one day? Your Google visitors amount is truly amazing.
For affiliate stuff, I agree with you one the “not promoting stuff I dont try” and thats the best. It’s better to earn a few bucks less than slowly losing visitors’ trust. November – February are my best months in Amazon, so I hope it will be the same for you too.
Good luck man !
I have around 5,000 unique visitors a day now but average is 4,000-4,500 normally. Mostly come from the search engines though – whether it’s good or bad, I’m not sure
I can’t wait for this November-February then as I’ve grown lots of traffic for the past year
impressive stats michael and your income is awesome man! its my milestone set for next upcoming year! hope atleast i reach the midway of my target easily!
All the best for you! Keep the hard work and you’ll reap the rewards
Hi Michael, I am glad to see that your traffic is increasing after that disastrous Panda update. Hope to see you achieve greater heights in the coming months
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Thanks, Harshit. Yeah my traffic went down from 3,500 a day to around 2,000. Got them all back (and more) after I did some in-post SEO optimisations
Wow Michael, that’s impressive traffic stats.
What is the quality of the traffic like that hits your blog because you don’t seem to be making that many sales considering the vast amounts of traffic you’re getting?
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Thanks, Wayne!
Yeah, many people told me about that. Most of my visitors come from the search engines who search for a specific information. They normally get it from my post and I guess they left afterwards.
For review posts, sometimes I get lucky and get a buyer from the Amazon ad
Michael, congratulations for achieving fantastic traffic from google and hope you do well in coming months as well. Thanks for sharing the traffic and earning data.
Thanks, Lalit. It’s my pleasure to encourage the other bloggers
Michael, thats really a good amount of traffic and 336×280 ad unit works well above the content.
Thanks, Rohith. I’ve decided to give it a try and display it to search engine visitors on the top of the posts. Let’s see the clicks
Hi Michael Aulia
That’s great achievements and congratulation.. However, it is on the contrary for my blog as the traffic decreased in the last two month from around 1k daily to 100 visitors. I still don’t know the problem as I post as usual.. ?
Hm, you might be affected by the Google Panda.. either you get penalised (duplicate contents, etc) or your posts are not SEO optimised and lose the rankings compared to the other blogs..
Try reading this blog post of mine: http://www.cravingtech.com/goodbye-google-panda-im-a-sad-panda-no-more.html