I'm not one to brag about achievements (mainly because I don't have much to brag about), but the recent trend among bloggers in the blogosphere seem to involve publishing a post displaying various statistics. This probably won't become a reoccurring or regular thing, but at the moment, it does seem like a great way to give out some link love, and express thanks to my visitors.
Visitors, Pageviews Numbers
- 11,145 Unique Visitors - 88% Were New Visitors
- 41,865 Pageviews - Average of 2.15 Pages per Visit
- 219,086 Hits
- 3.65 Gigabytes of Bandwidth. - 2:15 Average Time on Site
- 917 Directs (Bookmarks, No Referrals)
Top 5 Referring Sites
- SiteHoppin.com (118 Uniques) - Browser-Within-Browser Site Discovery Tool
- Digg (82 Uniques) - User Driven Content
- EntreCard (74 Uniques) - The Internet Business Card
- PowerDropping.com (45 Uniques) - EntreCard Power Dropping
- JimmyR (25 Uniques) - Web 2.0 Mashup
Top 5 Referring Search Engines
- Google - 2,808 Uniques
- Google Images - 216 Uniques
- Windows Live - 41 Uniques
- Yahoo - 31 Uniques
- AOL - 13 Uniques
The Earnings (Revenue)
- Commission Junction - $195
- Google Adsense - $126.72
- Paypal Payments - $50
- Money Spent on Advertising: $31
- Grand Total: $340 (net earnings)
That seems to cover the majority of what people are interested in seeing. If you ask me, the numbers just don't add up, but who can argue with Google's Analytics? So far, March is looking really promising. Since landing on the top of Shoemoney's Top Commentators plugin, he's sent me an ass load of cell phone comment spammers, and 4 unique visitors, none of which were new comers.
You might be wondering how I know all the cell phone comment spam is coming from Shoemoney (the referrers are often blocked on these comment bots), but the truth is, I don't know for sure. This claim is based explicitly on the coincidence that the very same day I started showing up on his top commentators list, my spam comments went from the usual,
"nice post!"
and
"very good! I like your site in google searchs."
to,
"GET 60,000 RINGTONEZ FOR J00R TMOBILEZ ELITEZ PHONEH0H0 BY VISTIN: http://some.garbage.co.uk/?eat-me.affiliate=12223391 THEY AM FREE FOR YOU NEW PHONE, GO NO!!! G0G0G0G0!!!one111eleven!!!"
The comments haven't stopped, and before you ask, no, I don't use Akismet. I'm temped to just blacklist ringtones, ring tones, cell phone, cellphones, etc. Just take the keywords from my PPC campaigns and dump 'em into the Nullamatix comment keyword blacklist. Don't get me wrong (Jeremy, if you read this), I'm sure the human traffic I receive from Shoemoney will outweigh the amount of cell phone spam (66 and counting), but so far it's not looking good. And again, as I mentioned, I have no way of proving the spam is coming from Jeremy's blog, unless anyone has any tips or suggestions?
Some Other Misc Stuff
The Webmaster Journal recently asked me a series of questions and posted them up on their web-site. Click here to check out Webmaster Journal's question an answer session with yours truly.
Dan from PowerDosh.com implemented full RSS feeds as a result of the remarks in my previous post, 5 ‘Make Money Online’ Blogs Worth Subscribing To. Since the announcement he's only posted one entry, but I'm sure there are more to come.
Jason from The University Kid is holding a huge online contest, probably the largest I've ever seen. After reading the post, I decided to offer 750 EntreCard credits to give away (contribute) in the contest. A comment and a GChat session later, absolutely no response - to either. 30 to 40 minutes after offering the credits via GChat, he changed his status and signed off (or blocked me). I doubt Jason cares, but considering I've done business with this guy in the past, I just wasn't thrilled by his behavior, or lack of for this matter. At least have the guts to say, "No, thanks."
Finally, some link love goes out to Our Blog Review for reviewing Nullamatix.com. Thanks guys!
I know this post was a little out of the norm, so expect some more technical stuff in the very near future. If you have any questions about anything in the post, don't hesitate to leave a comment.
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