So two days ago I received my first Google Adsense payout and it was $105 and some change, it took 5 months for my blogs to reach my first Adsense payout. I average about $7 per week from adsense earnings and I am still running that average. I am hoping the more articles I have, and the more content I publish this number should steadily increase but it certainly won’t be a big money maker. I have a friend who has run a website for about 4 years and averages about $90 per month from adsense. That is some pretty nice side cash from just leaving ads up on your site.
Meanwhile my blog analytics have been doing pretty well the last 30 days for Dragonblogger.com, my site is up almost 10% visitorship since previous month and averages around 400 unique visits per day according to Google Analytics. This is about 100 more visits per day than I was receiving in December, so my blog at 6 months old now is just shy of around 13,000 visits per month.
You can see though from my traffic sources that 50% of my traffic comes from Google searches, 20% from Entrecard (down from 33% last month) and 20% from direct traffic. A little bit from yahoo and stumbleupon there in the 2% mark. This is good, you want most of your traffic to come from google searches, not entrecard or a social media site. That means that your traffic would vanish if you were to remove or lose that social network. As 50% of my traffic comes from google, it means if I dumped Entrecard (which I am not going to do), I would lose only about 80 visits per day out of my 400 per day average.
If you think about it though, I almost always drop 300 EC’s per day, and to only get 80 visits per day back means I am not getting back nearly as many drops as I am giving out.
In looking at my keyword searches you will see that my blog is a Technology and Entertainment blog but clearly 7 out of my 10 top keyword searches are related to my NBC Heroes section. 2 are related to technology posts, and one is related to my Kung Fu Panda review. This only proves that entertainment is more popular than technology. My Heroes section is extremely valuable portion of my blog and has a large visitor base.
I should note that my #1 search result was for Shiny Search, this was a paid post I did for SocialSpark, so this paid post brought 221 visits in 30 days just to their product. To me that tells me it was a successful paid posting, as I probably brought at least 700 people to read about their website in the last few months since I did the post.
Those are my metrics for the last 30 days, I will do an earnings post when the month turns to March.
In Summary, I am right on track for about a 6 month old blog, averaging 400 visits per day and 12,500 for the month. My growth is a steady 8% and I hope to keep that kind of growth up as I try all different tactics. I am glad that only 20% of my traffic comes from Entrecard, this shows my blog is growing on google and I can be less reliant and dependant on the network. I love entrecard, but it is getting harder and harder to do 700 drops per day for all my blogs. I would like for them to stand on their own two feet without the forced traffic from the EC network.
-Dragon Blogger
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February 27th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
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