Traffic

Last month I considered a “truth” month because there were no spikes in traffic, so it gave me a chance to see what traffic was really like. This month was similar, but I did get a couple of posts linked around the net…the result doubled my traffic from the previous month. This goes to show you how important it is to write good content, that other people will want to link to.

June brought 4,202 unique visitors and 6,733 pageviews. You can see around June 18th, traffic started growing quite a bit higher than previously. This was mainly due to my third installment of best corporate web designs post I made.

Of the visitors, 18.54% of were returning:

Monetization

This month I put AdSense back on the site, and implemented Text Link Ads. Here’s the breakdown of all income:

Text Link Ads: $6.57
AdSense: $13.85
AuctionAds: $0.19

Money from Text Link Ads came in the form of the one link purchased from Carl Ruderman as well as a specific post being sponsored. AdSense was doing really well in the beginning of the month, as the revenue per click was much higher than normal, but then it has since come down for whatever reason. AuctionAds just has a couple of ads left over on some posts, so it’s barely getting any clicks or impressions on those and wasn’t expecting anything.

Monetization is not a true concern of mine at this time, as I am more concerned about writing good content and building traffic.

RSS Subscribers

RSS subscribers slightly went up in range, but not by much. I hit a new daily high on normal traffic days, and ended up averaging 71.2 subscribers for the month.

Here’s a couple of charts of RSS subscribers with the linear trends from all time as well as just June:

June

All-Time

Search Engine Goodness

This month my search engine traffic grew by 28.2% from the previous month alone. My search engine traffic has been getting better and better over time, and hopefully will help build the foundation for the blog to continue growing. Here’s a list of top 10 keywords that were searched for to get to my site:

1. e92 m3
2. new virginia traffic fines
3. blog title ideas
4. new virginia traffic laws
5. linkin park at bamboozle fest
6. best blog designs
7. $10 plane ticket
8. new va traffic fines
9. best wp theme to base new design off
10. virginia mansions

A lot of traffic has been coming in to the article I wrote on the new traffic laws in Virginia. In fact, it was the main reason for a new all-time daily high in search engine visitors (106).

We can see here how search engine traffic has been growing since the blog inception:

Popular Pages/Content

Here was the most popular content in May:

1. The 45 Best Technology Sector Corporate Web Designs: A-G
2. The Best Blog Designs From The Technorati Top 100
3. The 45 Best Technology Sector Corporate Web Designs: P-Z
   
4. David Pitlyuk (Homepage)
5. The 45 Best Tech Sector Corporate Web Designs: H-O
6. Who Is David Pitlyuk?
7. New Virginia Civil Fee For Traffic Tickets Is Nuts
8. My Home Office??And Tagging You For Yours
9. 2008 BMW M3 (E92) Production Pictures
10. New Design Beta – What Are Your Thoughts?

A lot of sites out there linked out to my best tech sector corporate web designs series, and they were all cross-linked to each other. This of course is the reason these pages generated the most traffic. I noticed that many of those people then wanted to find out more about who I was, which is why they clicked the “Who Is David Pitlyuk?” tab.

Top Referrals

There are two main statistics we want to look at with top referrals. First, which source referred traffic, and then which specific sites referred traffic.

While search engines went down 22% of the total traffic from the last month, it actually brought more visitors since there were more visitors in the first place.

Here are the top referrals for websites (not search engines) that referred traffic to my blog:

1. bildirgec.org
2. CSS Globe
3. Digg
4. html.it
5. TimeForBlogging
6. DesignWalker
7. Smashing Magazine
8. StumbleUpon
9. HarpzOn
10. del.ico.us

This month I hope to launch my new design, and I have a feeling it will better build the brand for my site. We’ll find out over the next few months!