Daily Moolah September Blog Statistics
October 2, 2007
September was a busy month in my life and brought about many changes in Daily Moolah’s progress. Keeping the buzz going on DailyMoolah has definitely been a challenge while balancing university, my job as a seo consultant at Search Engine People, and keeping up with everything else in my life. Let’s take a look at what kept Daily Moolah ticking, with an update on traffic, earnings and other relevant factors in this blog’s progress.
Ranking Roundup
Daily Moolah started off the month with an Alexa ranking of 220,000 and a predicted Google Page rank of PR4. After writing 36 blog posts in September, my Alexa ranking has improved to 105,433! I’ve had over a thousand backlinks since August, with 1760 backlinks as reported by Yahoo Site Explorer. This has been a major improvement from the 759 backlinks to this domain as described in my August income report. Technorati ranking has also increased by 100% close to doubling from my August authority of 56 to September’s 101 authority. My ranking has improved from 103,426 in August to 52,103 as of the end of September.
The most popular blog posts for September were:
- The Ultimate Guide to Leveraging StumbleUpon (Still a winner I know
) - Guide to Marketing on Digital Point
- The 24 Hour John Chow Effect
- 12 Killer Keyword Research Tools
Traffic Statistics
September traffic was lower than August due to throttling I encountered from StumbleUpon traffic, which is one of this blog’s major traffic contributors. Traffic picked up towards the end of the month, when StumbleUpon seemingly liked my blog again, and sent me a fair bit of traffic.
There’s definitely loads I can do to improve on this, and I’m setting up an action plan so that October turns out much better.
- Total Pageviews: 15,140
- Total Unique Views: 7,153
- %New Visits: 78.95%
- Avg. Time on Blog: 3 minutes 08 seconds
While traffic overall was down by about 900 visits from August, I am happy to see a shift in the traffic mix. With search engine traffic growing, I can see a passive method of getting traffic to this blog based on the merit of the posts, rather than any direct or aggressive marketing. At just under 20%, I plan to make search engine traffic account for 25-30% of the blog’s traffic within the next two months.
Surprisingly, direct traffic accounted for 18.02% of the visits to this blog, indicating that the branding and domain name is easy to remember for type-in traffic. I’d like to thank all the folks that visit this blog regularly by taking the time to type in the domain into your browser
Top Keywords for September
- make money online
- making money online
- Moolah
- PaidWiki
RSS Subscriptions
RSS Subscriptions grew from 66 subscribers on average in August, to 116 subscribers as of the end of September. A boost of 100 RSS subscriptions has certainly been welcome, and I intend to have an average of 150-175 readers by the end of October.
Earnings Report
I am absolutely itching to get to the three month mark of posting and for the Google PR to update so that I can get the advertising dollars rolling in for Daily Moolah (this is a make money online blog after all 
). September income was as follows:
- Text-Link-Ads $25
- Google Adsense $20
- Smorty $12
- PayLoadz $5
- Affiliate Marketing $ 90
- Blog Consultancy $500
- TOTAL Income $652
Nothing spectacular, but certainly not bad either. Going forward, I expect to gain advertising revenue and more income from paid reviews.
How I Got Here
Well, you made it possible! Between getting featured for a day on John Chow dot Com, making it to the top 100 make money online blogs list at 45n5, and many more little milestones, my readers make me as successful as I am today. A big thanks to the loyalists, Adtracker, GnomeyNewt, Caroline Middlebrook, Fred Peterson, and SteelTownDubber. If I’m missing anyone please comment on my posts because I’d love to hear from you. I’ve not been getting as many comments as I’d like so don’t be shy! I’ll cook up some ingenious scheme for getting commentators the limelight - perhaps the top commentators plugin.
That’s it for my September roundup! I look forward to having all of you along for the ride through October, and wish you a successful and productive month ahead.
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October 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 am
Congratulation! That’s a great success for a start… I like your blog very much, there are lots of content and valuable information to learn from.
October 3rd, 2007 at 2:48 am
I’m not sure why people see Middlebrook and think it said Middleton
Happens all the time lol! Anyway, I really like seeing these kinds of posts, it’s really interesting to compare how different blogs are doing in what ways. I haven’t even started to look at things like Technorati, I assume that’s kinda out of my hands anyway. Well congrats, looks like you’re doing great and this is one of my daily reads now 
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:13 am
What do you mean with “Blog Consultancy” in your earnings report? Because that’s a lot of money what you earn with your blog. What is it exactly? Which tool do you use to see your RSS Subscriptions? It’s not Google Analytics, no?
Congratulations to your blog!!
October 3rd, 2007 at 6:02 am
Congratulations on your growth! You’ve got a great thing going here.
Thanks for the great contest you ran and thanks for the link love
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:23 am
Thanks everyone!
@ Mirco - Blog consultancy covers everything from optimizing a client’s existing blog from a usability and seo standpoint, or even creating a new business or personal blog from scratch. Last month, I took the latter on for $2000 and this month was just optimizing an existing blog for SEO.
I don’t use anything fancy to measure RSS metrics - Just Feedburner
@ Caroline - Sorry for the mixup with your last name, it’s been fixed now.
@ Everyone else - Please don’t be shy to comment. Your opinion counts heavily and it fuels me to produce better content on this blog
– Dev
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 am
Hey… It is good to see a local blogger reaching sucess. I’m just down the 403 in Hamilton… lol..
Keep up the good work, I really enjoy visiting your blog. You’ve got a good thing going!
Rich
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Thanks Rich! It’s great to have loyal readers like yourself coming back and keeping this blog alive and kicking
- Dev
October 4th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Looking good! That is really cool that you got featured on John Chow. I think top commentors plugin might help out. Seems to be something that is becoming a norm around this blogsphere thingy a ma jidge :c). Thanks for the link love too and keep up the good work!