How is your blog doing?

This is one question that has been asked by many of my friends and also some of my readers. I really don’t know how to measure if my blog is actually doing well as I have no benchmark. I am still very new to the world of blogging and I keep discovering things almost everyday. So I thought about publishing some of my blog statistics and let my readers’ judge if I am on the right track.

My first post was in mid November last year & then I tried to come up with new articles at regular intervals. Since I did not register with any website analytics provider before mid-December it’s difficult to compare my performance month on month basis.

 

I registered with Hitstats.com in mid December and have been tracking my site from then. I also registered with Google analytics recently in mid January and from next month I would be using the same.

So my January statistics is as follows:

Page views: 2887

Visitors: 1028

New Visitors: 622

Page Views per Visit: 2.8

Referers:

Websites:

This lists the websites through which visitors came on my blog. I am listing top 5 of them:

http://www.jagoinvestor.com/

http://twitter.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

http://www.r2iclubforums.com/

http://mail.zoho.com/

Search Engines:

I got mainly traffic from google and very few from ask

A lot of searches were related to Insurance, Demat Account, Mutual Funds, ELSS

Revenues

Well I believe my blog is too new to generate any revenues. But still I am running some advertisements to see how it goes. It’s mainly for my learning purpose. I have signed up with 2 advertisements networks last month.

Infolinks: These are the green colored double underlined texts you see in my blog. If you hold your mouse on these texts a bubble pops up to display an ad. I don’t think it’s a high revenue generator but then it can run with any other advertisement. It takes around a second for the ad to load and I guess visitors are not very patient to see what ad is loading and then click on it. I registerd with the Infolinks on 10th January 2010 and for this month has generate $ 2 as revenues.

Shoogloo Network: I signed with this around 10 days back. This is mainly for websites with majority Indian viewers. It has mostly Indian clients like Policy bazaar, Indiatimes, yatra, etc and you need to display its ads on your site. Most of the clients here pay on either lead generation or % commission on actual sales. I have signed for Policy Bazaar and also got approval for Indiatimes Shopping. I would be displaying the same in few days. But as for revenues are concerned I have not made any this month.

New Features added to blog:

I have added the following new features to my blog:

Most Popular Pages

Related Posts

Live Traffic Feed

Still to come

Email Subscription – I am getting some issues while setting up for email subscription. Lets see how can I resolve it. IF any one can help me with this please let me know.

Comment LUV – It’s a way of rewarding your commenter. As you comment, a link to your last post in your blog is automatically generated. I am facing some problem in integrating the same in blogger. Lets see how fast I can do this.

Finally I don’t know how good or bad it is? But then it’s just the start and it inspires and encourages me to continue blogging. And I hope that I would see more participation form my readers in form of comments. So please do comment on how I can make http://www.finwinonline.com/ a better experience for you.