Stats for August 2009

It’s that time again…yep the monthly stats report.

When I think of a blog I usually think daily or at least weekly posts.  When I think of a micro-blog I think of something like hourly posts.  I’ve reached the point on this blog where I’m pretty consistent with my monthly stats report, but besides that nothing.  What would that be considered?  A macro-blog?

Anyhow enough ranting.  This past month I got more consistent with my article posts and completed almost the entire Thirty day Challenge.  I got stuck around day 25 because I hadn’t received enough traffic.  In a few more days I will have enough traffic to consider the “Go, No Go” question on my micro-niche.

My micro-niche numbers for the Thirty Day Challenge will be included in this blog post.  By the way, here are a few preliminary numbers I don’t normally produce in this report:

Number of articles published:

Site 1: 16

Site 2: 8

Site 3: 1

Site 4: onsite: 5; offsite: 7

Total: 37

Income August 2009

AdSense – $132.82

Amazon Associates – $2.28

Total – $135.10

Once again I fell short and I did nothing besides article creation to try and create more money for my web properties.  I only monetize one of my 4 sites.  I will wait till the other four sites receive a minimum of 100 visitors a day average before considering monetization.  The Thirty Day Challenge engulfed much of my time this past month and the new site is starting to generate a little traffic from 10-20 visitors a month from search traffic.    I’m going to keep the goal at $150 till I actually reach that number.

The clickbank stuf doesn’t seem to be converting at all.  I’ll probably pull those advertisements this month.

Subscribers

• Blog 1- 1,498
• Blog 2 – 9
• Blog 3 – 3
• Blog 4 – not using feedburner

The grand total for RSS subscribers this month is 1510 an increase of 149.  Fell one shy of our goal of 150.  I was higher at some point last week, but dipped a little over the past few days.  Lets shoot for 200 again this month.

Traffic

Site Usage

Visits = 23,494 + 1,250 + 30 + 150 = 24,924 + 2,740
Page Views =  38,371 + 1,791 + 63 + 259 = 40,484 + 4,854

So close to our visitors numbers goal!  76 unique visitors off.  We fell well short of the page view goal…I’ll have to think about some ideas for making the site a little more sticky and getting each unique to view more pages.  We increased the number of visitors by 11% and the number of page views by 12%.  Lets shoot for another approximate increase of 15% on both.  That would put our goals at:  29,000 visitors and 47,000 page views.

Here is my month-by-month comparison chart:

Those are some lofty December projections.  Honestly, I’m going to hope for a 15% growth rate between now and the end of the year.  That would put more realistic December traffic numbers at around 45K Unique Visitors and 72K Page Views.  I guess I was feeling ambitious several months ago after our April traffic spike.  Secretly I’m going to hope for 50K uniques and 100K Page Views by the end of the year.

The goal this month is to continue to output articles as well as work on a more structured backlink program following some of the methods I learned in the Thirty Day Challenge.

See ya next month!