Stats For September 2009

I’m still not progressing quite as I’d like with my web properties.  Yes, pagesviews and uniques are up…Yes, earnings are up.  However, I’m not putting in enough time and effort.  I need to get more diligent with newsletters and posts.

That being said lets get to the numbers

Number of articles published:

Site 1: 15

Site 2: 4

Site 3: 0

Site 4: I’m not going to post to my TDC site anymore and just see how traffic grows from here on out

Total: 19

Income September 2009

AdSense – $158.51

Amazon Associates – $36.55

Total – $195.06

Yay! I cleared the $150 dollar mark this month and almost cleared $200!  Dare I set a new goal of $200…I’m not too sure it’s attainable, but we’ll take a shot at it.

Still no clickbank conversions.  I’m going to look into a blog redesign this month to try and increase affiliate conversions.

Subscribers

• Blog 1- 1,627
• Blog 2 – 7
• Blog 3 – 3
• Blog 4 – not using feedburner

There were some spikes here and there on blogs 2 and 3, but we ended on a down note.  We increased our total subscriber number by 129.  Lets shoot for 200 again this month.

Traffic

Site Usage

Visits = 27,787+ 1,138 + 11 + 327 = 29,263+ 4,339
Page Views =  42,811 + 1,613 + 16 + 564= 45,004 + 4,520

Wow! Our goals were 29K and 47K.  We reached our visitors goal, but fell short on page views.  The reason numbers were up is because we have a holiday specific article that’s been getting hit that will probably continue through the end of this month (can you guess the holiday).  Said article is getting a lot of StumbleUpon traffic and that is why the increased visitors is not equating to a large increase in page views. Do you think we can have another month with 15% increase.  That would put us at a goal of around 33K visitors and 52K Page Views. Lets go for it!

Here is my month-by-month comparison chart:

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

Those are some lofty December projections.  I’m sticking with what I said last month:

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.

I’m going to set forth some hard numbers this month:

Blog 1: 20 total articles with a marketing effort on 4 of the twenty following TDC backlink program.

Blog 2: 8 total articles no marketing effort.

Blog 3: 12 total articles with a marketing effort on 4 of the twelve following TDC backlink program.

That’s a total of 40 articles plus I anticipate an additional 40 backlink articles.  It’s going to be a crazy writing month, but I think I’m up to the challenge.  We’ll report back at next months stat session.