Traffic

I started this blog in March, and overall I’ve definitely seen a good amount of daily traffic growth. September was no different with a 13.4% increase in uniques and a 8.7% increase in pageviews. Earlier in the month I decided to change my posting schedule to something a little less frequent, so I knew that this would more then likely affect traffic in a negative way. I think when the new design launches, this posting schedule will work better. I hope to have that launched by the end of the month.

We can see a big spike in the beginning of the month, this was from some coverage on my Transparent Screens Effect article from Pollycoke. It’s always interesting to see how a post will get picked up by somebody, even though I wrote it back in April.

Monetization

There were three sources of advertising this month:

Text Link Ads: $2.13
Kontera: $10.12
AdSense: $11.85

Total: $24.09

This is more than half as much as I made last month, but October is already much higher due to a very unexpected profit. I’ll talk about it in next months report!

RSS Subscribers

Last month I peaked at RSS subscribers, and this month I peaked again (111). I have noticed and expected the numbers to drop slightly due to me posting less, but it seems to have leveled off around the mid-high 90’s. This is ok, and I think it may slightly drop further before starting to slowly grow again.

Search Engine Goodness

This month search engine traffic decreased by 19% to 2,280 unique visitors. Let??s see how traffic from each top engine differed from last month:

Google: -18.10%
Yahoo: +10.10%
MSN: -47.13%
AOL: -40.26%

Google provides the largest number of search engine traffic by far, so the 18% drop was a good 500 unique visitors that I had lost over the previous month.

Lets take a look and see which keywords were used most to find my blog last month:

1. e92 m3
2. best blog designs
3. blog title ideas
4. magento
5. mansions in virginia
6. virginia mansions
7. mercedes blk
8. internet boardroom
9. atlantic city
10. blog post ideas

I’m surprised that all this time e92 m3 as a keyword has been up there as a top keyword…bringing in close to 300 unique visitors alone.
Popular Pages/Content

Here was the most popular content in September:

1. April (Month)
2. Transparent Screens Effect
3. Dining At Chima Brazillian BBQ Steakhouse In Tysons Corner
4. David Pitlyuk (Homepage)
5. The 45 Best Technology Sector Corporate Web Designs: A-G
6. Hot Import Nights 2007, Washington DC Pictures
7. The Next Multi-BILLION Dollar Idea
8. Internet Comments In A Real Life Boardroom
9. New Virginia Civil Fee For Traffic Tickets Is Nuts
10. Cars (Category)

A couple of these pages like Dining at Chima and The Next Multi-BILLION Dollar Idea were brought up due to being Stumbled.

Top Referrals

Here’s a list of the top referrals that do not include search engines:

1. StumbleUpon
2. PollyCoke
   
3. G35 Driver
4. Problogger
5. Nevblog
6. Naver
7. My350Z
8. Magento
9. YoungGoGetter
10. MySpace Blog