Stats For October 2009

Koala — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:19:40 +0000

Lets start off this month by saying…yes, once again I’ve been slacking on all fronts of my internet business. I did not add many posts nor did I work much on any of my websites. On the plus side I saw major increases in pretty much every category.

Number of articles published:

Site 1: 10

Site 2: 0

Site 3: 0

Site 4: 0

Total: 10

Income September 2009

AdSense – $269.10

Amazon Associates – $26.34

Total – $295.44

We reached our goal of clearing the $200 mark. In fact we almost cleared the $300 mark. I’m going to pull it back in and assume the Halloween season caused much of the added income this month. I’ll set next months goal at $200 again.

I made some changes on several sites…I added adSense link units to site 2 (they are not converting well so I might remove them). I changed my affiliate offer on site 4. I updated my logo on site 3. Overall I guess I did do a little bit to try and increase income.

Subscribers

Blog 1- 1705
Blog 2 – 5
Blog 3 – 3
Blog 4 – not using feedburner

Only bumped up by 76 subscribers this past month. This probably has to do with lack of posts. Numbers are usually better when I post daily. Lets keep the goal at 150 as I’d like to finish the year at 2000 subscribers.

Traffic

Site Usage

Visits = 29,104+ 2,600 + 13 + 348 = 32,065 + 2,802
Page Views = 51,430 + 3,847 + 20 + 539 = 55,836 + 10,832

We came up short on the number of visitors (33K), but we shattered our goal of 52K page views. As I mentioned last month we had several Halloween articles picking up thousands of pageviews last month. I don’t expect the same this month although I think I’ll plan out a few Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years articles. If we’re lucky enough to increase by another 15% this month from our original goals then we’re looking at about 38K visitors and 60K page views. I totally don’t expect to hit these numbers, but we’ll see. By the way, our numbers bumped slightly because site 2 got a number 1 listing in Google Images and site 4 started rising in the SERPS.

Here is my month-by-month comparison chart:

Goal	Apr 2009	May 2009	Jun 2009	Jul 2009	Aug 2009	Sep 2009	Oct 2009	December 2009 – Projected
Unique Visitors	27,433	21,133	19,827	22,184	24,924	29,263	32,065	200,000
Page Views	50,134	36,200	34,826	35,630	40,484	45,004	55,836	500,000
Revenue	$173.74	$119.10	$135.75	$142.57	$135.10	$195.06	$295.04	$5,000
RSS/Email List	985	1,094	1,245	1,361	1,510	1,637	1,713	11,000

I think October 2009 is a spike month similar to April 2009. I’m expecting a drop in numbers in November. However, I’m still hopeful as I’ve really been slacking on building articles for my sites.

Something else that might hold me back this month is my dedication to working on a new membership site. On the plus side I think I’m going to have more free time on weekends to work on these projects. Plus, I might take time off during Thanksgiving to put forth more effort in my online ventures.

Are You Having Google AdSense Issues Today?

Koala — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:45:19 +0000

Is there a Google AdSense Bug going around? I don’t about you guys, but yesterday I noticed my page impressions in Google AdSense were spiking (too bad my click through wasn’t doing the same). I figured…”another spike from StumbleUpon”, but upon further analysis I noticed that my channel numbers did not add up to my total page impressions. In fact I had approximately twice as many page impressions as I should have had according to my channels.

I dug a little deeper and took a peek at my Google Analytics data and sure enough I had way more page impressions according to Google AdSense compared to Analytics. One final test…my AWStats. AWStats were also at a normal level leading me to believe that there was an issue with Google AdSense.

Google AdSense Bug?

My initial thought was that someone copied some of my pages and pasted it into their own site Google AdSense code and all thus accounting for my increased page impression number. I did some research and sure enough came across a few forums mentioning this possibility. Hmmm…time to contact Google and let them know that trouble is afoot? Nope…time for more research. I went to the Google site and while looking for a contact form I came across AdSense Help. I searched the forum and found that people were having a similar problem in a thread started yesterday. Here’s the thread I came across: Unusual Page Impressions.

People in the forum are calling it a Google AdSense Bug, but I don’t think anyone is really sure what we’re experiencing. My main concern was that someone scraped my publisher ID and I was afraid of a Google Ban. However, if it’s a Bug or Google just making changes to the way they report AdSense statistics then I’m not really concerned.