We’re almost a week into December so I hope you’re all close to getting in the Christmas spirit now that the holidays are closing in on us.
So, November has ended and it’s time to wrap-up and see what November brought to TechPatio.com in terms of visitors and income.
Here are the numbers…
November ’10 |
Oct ’10 |
Sep ’10 |
Aug ’10 |
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| Visitors | |||||
| Visits: | 25,554 | 23,681 | 28,464 | 28,948 | |
| Pageviews: | 33,515 | 31,638 | 38,473 | 40,673 | |
| Pages/visit | 1.31 | 1.34 | 1.35 | 1.41 | |
| Bounce rate: | 78% | 77% | 76% | 74% | |
| Avg. time on site: | 0:50 | 0:50 | 0:48 | 0:59 | |
| New visits: | 92% | 92% | 92% | 93% | |
| Blog comments: | 263 | 244 | 315 | 245 | |
| Traffic Sources | |||||
| Direct traffic: | 12% | 11% | 9% | 9% | |
| Search engines: | 61% | 59% | 59% | 55% | |
| Referring sites: | 25% | 28% | 30% | 34% | |
| Other: | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | |
| Earnings | |||||
| Google Adsense: | $51 | $45 | $76 | $47 | |
| MyLikes: | $0 | $0 | $1 | $1 | |
| Ebuzzing: | £120 | £40 | €40 | €40 | |
| ReviewMe: | $0 | $0 | $10 | $20 | |
| Amazon: | $34 | $18 | $0 | $3 | |
| Sponsored Reviews: | $45 | $0 | $0 | $70 | |
| Sponsored Tweets: | $1.19 | $1 | $1.19 | $0 | |
| TweetAdder: | $0 | $0 | $0 | $94 | |
| NewsHosting and UsenetServer: |
$30 | $0 | $0 | $0 | |
| Thesis | $0 | $0 | $0 | $25 | |
| Direct ads/reviews: | $100 | $300 | $10 | $40 | |
| PayPerPost: | $0 | $0 | $20 | n/a | |
| Kontera: | $5.83 | $1.66 | $2.73 | n/a | |
| Infolinks: | $0.63 | $1.30 | $1.83 | n/a | |
| ClickBank: | $0 | $52 | $0 | $0 | |
| TOTAL: | $452 | $481 | $168 | $351 | |
Conclusion: November ’10
In the last income report (October) I said that I was sure November would bring in more visitors but less income. I was right, but not by much. Now let me make another prediction, December will be much lower both in terms of visitors and income. Personally, I won’t have much time to visit blogs with Christmas just around the corner nor will I have much time to update this one. So whatever income will come in December, will probably be from Google AdSense – and hopefully some Amazon sales for Christmas presents 🙂
Top 5 Most Viewed Posts: November
Below you’ll find top 5 most viewed posts last month. When a post has been published doesn’t matter, it’s how many views each of them have had in the previous month. Here they are:
- HTC Desire HD vs HTC Mozart – Froyo vs WP7
- Aperture 3 Performance Fix – Make Slow Aperture Run Faster
- Funny Pictures: Google Street View Launched In Denmark
- Top 10 Gadgets I Want For Christmas – And Maybe You Would Too? [2010]
- Gmail Tip: Trick Gmail Into Checking Your POP3 Accounts Often
If you’re a blogger/webmaster – how was last month for you? Leave a comment below & get a free do-follow* link back to your site!
I reserve the right to “no-follow” links if your site is not yet indexed in Google or if your site seems questionable or just an attempt to spam. In almost all cases, a real comment from a real human being will get a do-follow link, unless you enter keywords instead of your name, which is not allowed!
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Not bad.
You need a product that’s yours. Or a product that you can resell for like a 30-50%margin. Or both.
That will ramp you into the thousands.
Rob McCance recently posted… Atlanta Real Estate and Atlanta Homes
Yes but it’s not easy to make a product for a blog like this…
Klaus recently posted… Photo of the week- Birds pigeons
Believe me, I know. If it were only so easy.
Great blog though. As you can tell, I like it and have become a regular. I like how it has a nice spread of topics, all lightly linked under the “technical” umbrella.
A lot of sites that specialize in any one area, like photography, mobile phones, Apple, etc., etc., are too narrow and become boring quite quickly.
I know going wide is more work and requires more expertise but you are managing to hold it together quite well.
How old is this site?
Thanks, Rob in Atlanta
Rob McCance recently posted… How This Website Can Help You
Yeah it’s nice to see you coming back every now and then.
I don’t think there’s any question that if seen from a money standpoint, a narrow approach is the way to go. But that’s really not what I want to do. It easily becomes “work” rather than “enjoy” if you have to stick within a very narrow topic and I’ll be unable to share my content with the world in other topics, unless I open more blogs which means more work and more maintenance, so no thanks. I’m keeping this blog the way it is (for now) so people who will read it are likely to be people with the same interests as me (Apple, photography, general web stuff).
This site was launched Summer 2009.
I know what you mean. I have three sites right now and my overwhelming thought at the moment is the drop the two smaller ones, move their content to the main one and redirect everything.
Just not looking forward to it.
Rob McCance recently posted… How This Website Can Help You
That’s still a very good month, Klaus. I mean, you’re on point to averaging $5,000 a month online; that’s not shabby. Not where you want to be, but way ahead of the game; congrats.
Mitch recently posted… Sunday Question – How Does Your Personal Community Flow
$5,000? I wish 🙂 But $500, yeah, it’s getting close.
Klaus recently posted… Photo of the week- Birds pigeons
You know, I was thinking “year” and still typed “month”; ugh! lol
Mitch recently posted… How Can I Be Useful To You
Who cares, I’ll have to make do with $5,000 a month then, just to satisfy you 😀
Yeah, you do that for me… slacker! lol
Mitch recently posted… Don’t “Stink” Not Quite A Rebuttal
Not bad obviously. It seems that you are trying to make money with affiliate programs, such as Amazon, is it easy or difficult?
GB recently posted… Using Business Cards to Promote Your Business
I find it difficult, regarding Amazon. People usually don’t come to my blog in a “buying mood” but because they’re searching for solutions on google or to read whatever I write.
Klaus recently posted… Photo of the week- Birds pigeons
Wow, that is quite good income that you are getting from your blog in the sense that more than half of the bloggers do not even earn that much
$452 is not bad at all, especially when it comes from one sinle blog/source!
Cole Stan recently posted… Get Personal Christmas Gifts For Your Wife
Yep, I’m also satisfied. Thanks for stopping by, Cole 🙂
Klaus recently posted… Photo of the week- Birds pigeons
Another great month for you.
Do you have other blog where you are getting your income from?
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Thanks. I have more sites but the income listed here, is only for this blog.
Klaus recently posted… Photo of the week- Birds pigeons
Great income mate. i wish that you reach your target soon.
Yeah I’ve been getting quite a lot of sales recently from Amazon. Guess it’s time to rack up those affiliate earnings for Christmas!
Good to see your visitors are slowly building up again
Its nice of you sharing your income as not many blogs do that. Probably because the earnings are not as high as what you are getting here. I wish you more success in the future! Thanks.
I have just started my blog last month.So lets see how the coming month goes.Till now I have just few $
Your income report is great.
Thanks for sharing. But I’m just worried that sharing your adsense income earnings is against TOS. Just a heads up.
I doubt it. I’m not showing any screensots or anything. In fact, I could be lying about the numbers 🙂
Actually, I just checked – it says:
“However, You may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments to You pursuant to the Program.”
it’s in section 7: https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms
I would say that you are probably right about December but only because it is the holiday season. It is always interesting to see how I am doing compared to others.
This seems to be a nice income. Hope you reach $500 very soon. And I agree with one of the comments above “Not even half of the bloggers earn this much!!!”
All the best.
Rajesh Chaukwale recently posted… How to hack Youtube- Gmail- Orkut account password using Mailinator
Looks like you had a great improvement this November. I can’t wait for the result of your blog earnings by december. I am pretty sure you did far more greater than this earning. I thought it was not allowed to have both Google Adsense and Infolinks? I just read about it in the other blog, would you mind confirming or disapproving on it?
Cole Stan recently posted… Baby Einstein Take Along Tunes
Not a bad earning at all!!
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