When I visit blogs which have grown over time I am always curious to know when the blog started, how was its journey, how it grew through years, what’s its revenue potential and much more.
But I rarely find such posts in many blogs. So in order to answer my readers & friends curiosity, I had started reporting my monthly statistics for my blog from last month and plan to do it going forward every month.
This would serve the following three purposes:
- First being it would let me and my readers know how is my blog progressing
- Second it helps me look back, analyze and plan my blog ahead and
- Third it would help any new blogger to know how is his blog doing by comparing to my blog
Top 5 most read pages - February 2010:
If you missed it may be you would go ahead and read it.
www.finwinonline.com/ statistics (February 2010):
January 2010 statistics was based on Hitstats and I had signed for Google analytics in mid January. Going forward I would post data only for Google analytics.
(Figures in Bracket show % rise from last month)
Page views: 4539 (57%)
Visitors: 1823 (77%)
New Visitors: 1011 (63%)
Page Views per Visit: 2.49 (-11%)
Bounce Rate: 56.77%
The growth rate of more than 55% seems to be quite satisfying for me. I think the blogs grow at a very fast rate in the starting months and it would slow down in few months. A worrying thing probably seems the Bounce Rate and I need to figure out how I can retain visitors.
Traffic Source:
This gives an overall breakup of my traffic sources:
Direct Traffic 28.3%
Referring Sites 36.7%
Search Engines 35.0%
The traffic source has been increasing from search engines significantly. I am started getting around 20-30 search traffic daily from mid February which seems good.
Indiblogger: My indiblogger rank has improved to 71 from 43 last month
Alexa: figures around top 2.2 million sites in the world and around top 1 Lac in India
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.
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 of February has generate $ 2.13 as revenues. So in two months I have made around $4.
Chitika: I have signed with chitika a few days back and so obioulsy has not genrerated any revenue.
New Features added to blog:
I have added the following new features to my blog:
Table of Contents Page – Now you can view all my posts arranged by date here.
Navigation Bar
Widgets – Added four wowzio widgets – tag cloud, thumbnails for posts, slideshows & live traffic feed.
About me section
Still to come:
Email Subscription – Wanted to start it last month but am not able to sort it out. Lets see how can I resolve it.
Navigation Bar – I would try to make the navigation bar more appealing and convenient.
I am satisfied with the progress of my blog and I hope going forward I would be able to fulfill my readers expectations in a better way. And I hope that I would see more participation form my readers in form of comments and testimonials.
Please do comment on how I can make http://www.finwinonline.com/ a better experience for you.
Keep the good work up mate. I like your presentation style and with time I am sure it will become quite popular.
ReplyDelete@ Gurdial
ReplyDeleteThanks for your encouraging words. Let me know what articles interest you most and what more would you like to read here.