Comments on: Blog Stats for April 2008

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:36:20 +0000

Tyler – good stuff! It’s always a thrill when you look at your stats and see them going in the right direction, lets you know that you are on track with your goals. I’ve started showing my blog stats as well… though I’m not making the equivalent to a certain Vancouver dot com mogul, I made just enough for a Tim Hortons coffee last month!!! LOL!

By: The Goal For Tyler Ingram dot Com :: A Vancouver Web Developers Blog :: Tyler Ingram Dot Com

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:27:44 +0000

[...] of Life In The Internet brought up an interesting point this morning as I scanned through my list of daily RSS feeds (yes I subscribe to my own RSS feed [...]

By: Thom

Thom — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:29:20 +0000

Hey Tyler,

Nice looking blog man, have to admit its my first visit. I’m curious though based on this post what your goals are. If you are trying to make money from this blog, you may be going about it all wrong.

Certainly a 250% increase in traffic is a good thing. Its also good that the majority of it comes from search traffic. I may have missed it but I don’t see any revenue generators on your site other than ads (please correct me if I’m wrong). If that’s the case, you only make money when they click the ads (i.e. bounce) so why to you want them to stay on your site? Wouldn’t the whole idea be to get them to click an ad and bounce?

I think you also hold a popular but grossly incorrect view that you have to have lots of traffic to make money. Certainly with a low click thru that logic would seem to make sense, and it is what everyone preaches. But what if you could get 10 visits a day and make just $1 off each one? Wouldn’t that be better? And with only 10 visits, not thousands! I’d rather have one visit a day from a buyer than 1000 visits a day from readers.

Don’t get me wrong. You’ve put together a wonderful site here to be sure. And if your goal is to develop a social network and speak your peace, the please forgive me for taking everyone down the bunny trail. But if you’re looking to make some money, I just wanted to let you and your readers know you don’t have to wait months or years to make a couple of hundred bucks. There is another way.

Thanks and good luck!!

Thom

By: Asia'h Epperson

Asia'h Epperson — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:18:14 +0000

I just loved to read every blogs stats. Congrats on your traffic and RSS increase.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:51:58 +0000

I think a lot of the increase also has to do with the fact that you post about “top of mind” things, you take blogging serious and your site is organized.

I personally enjoy your blog!

Regards,
Miranda

By: GH3 Cheats

GH3 Cheats — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:21:46 +0000

Good start for revenue. I made virtually nothing the first couple months. Reinvest.

By: GH3 Cheats

GH3 Cheats — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:20:43 +0000

If you want to grow definitely do some keyword research and link building. addurl.nu. ive added my site to a majority of these directories and saw huge jumps in traffic as a result.

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:41:10 +0000

Thanks Derek for the heads up. hehe
Silly “G” always ruining our fun.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:33:13 +0000

Very impressive Tyler! That is a really nice boost in traffic and RSS numbers. As for the earnings, don’t get discouraged as it does take time and I am sure that will continue to grow as well. Just be careful about disclosing CTR and certain stats as the “G” doesn’t take too kindly to that.

By: Tyler Ingram

Tyler Ingram — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:59 +0000

Raul – Next time! I’ll be there

Gus – I need to look at what people can do with wordpress to get the most out of it if they don’t choose the self hosting way.

ClickForNick – Oh 2k in Google Adsense huh? Nice work.