Posts Tagged ‘hits’

Goodbye Entrecard?

// January 19th, 2009 // 7 Comments » // The Internet

I am thinking of removing the Entrecard widget on this blog as it is not doing much in way of traffic these days. When the blog was new it was a great way to bring in some traffic, but now I think the blog is doing well enough to survive on its own.

I get a handful of hits per week from Entrecard, and those users do visit the blog from Entrecard just drop their card and move on to the next site anyway – so the traffic isn’t traffic that is going to keep on coming back.

I think Entrecard is great for new blogs and for bloggers who want to bring in easy traffic. In the early days most of my traffic was from Entrecard but now as the blog has gathered a bit of pace and is doing well in the search engines I reckon only about 5% of my monthly hits actually come from via Entrecard.

It takes a bit of work to drop cards and get credits so you can advertise on other blogs, and this does not always convert into hits. When I do campaign I might get a small increase in traffic for that day but then the next day I am back to normal.

I rather good traffic – people who read my content and want to come back. Entrecard users just come here to drop their card so they can increase their credits, so my content isn’t really being read.

I think I’ll remove the widget sometime this week!

December Looking Better!

// December 19th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Project Blogger

The past two months have been tough for danielfelice.com. After a great September, traffic started to head south in October and got even worse in November. However I am pleased to say that December is looking better!

So far hits have surpassed November and slowing catching October, however with the holiday season and Christmas around the corner, things might start to slow down next week so I am not expecting to beat October by too much, if at all.

However it is good to see that traffic is getting better and it would be nice to start the new year on a high note.

Thanks for your support!

Record Month for danielfelice.com

// July 31st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Project Blogger

It has been a record month for danielfelice.com! My hits improved by over 100% and revenue grew by about 361% on last month. Hits have been constantly on the rise over the past month, rising day by day.

Revenue is improving, and although a 361% increase sounds like a lot, it still really doesn’t equate to much in terms of dollars. But that’s not the point – the point is that the blog is growing at a fantastic rate and our users are continuing to return.

Traffic

Looking at the statistics for the month of July, traffic is increasing on a weekly basis. Each week this month was an improvement on the previous one and although there are some dips in the daily traffic, on average each day was an improvement.

Traffic seems to be coming from a number of sources, including a few domainer based websites that are also associated with NameSeek. DNtrade.com.au and AUDomaining.com were the two best performing referrers and Google, StumbleUpon and Entrecard were the best of the rest. Referrers made up about 60% of the months traffic with the remaining 40% from search engines and direct hits through type-ins.

Top Posts

Top performing posts this month were “Patience Is The Key” and “Blog Mastermind” with the all time top performing being “How I made $2.99 in 3 Months“.

This seems to tell me that people want to know more about “Project Blogger” and my success and failures as I attempt to make revenue on the internet. I will listen and focus more of my efforts into this next month.

Revenue

A great month in terms of revenue. A massive increase on last month and it is good to see finally. Although dollars were not huge, it was still an increase and very encouraging.

The biggest money maker this month was my affiliate marketing with a massive (!) $13.50 which made up the majority of the total for the month.

Overall it was a good month for danielfelice.com. I still have a lot of work to do if I want start making the big bucks, but after a few months at it the results and encouraging and are giving me the drive to continue.


Hopefully August continues to show signs of improvement and growth. I am not making any predictions, but I would like revenue to improve by at least 100% and hits to keep on doubling.

I am on holidays for the first 5 days in August for my big 25th birthday which is ont he 2nd, so I will try to post as much as I can, but probably won’t be able to every day.

Thanks for your support!

Not as Easy as it Looks!

// May 29th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // Project Blogger

So the blog has been up for nearly two months now. Initially the blog was set up to keep track of me and the experiences of trying to make money online. Well, I have to admit, there hasn’t many experiences as I have not had the time or motivation as I would have liked.

I think it is something that every blogger would go through from time to time. Why waste a few hours thinking and writing about something that 1 maybe 2 people will see? What is the point? It is hard to get motivted to blog every day when I look at the sites stats and see that there is barely a hit a day. But then I get one good day where the hits improve by about 1000% and it puts a smile on my face.

At least once a week the hits seem to go crazy for a few hours, then back down to where they have been for the majority of the time.

So why low hits? Well, if you look through the archive there hasn’t exactly been a great lot of content added to the site over the past two months. Due to a mixture of lack of time and lack of motivation, I have not put as much time as I would have liked into this blog.

I work with computers, I am on the internet every day for mroe than 8 hours, so surely I have enough to write about. I am currently working on Nameseek, which I mentioned in my last few posts. I am constantly searching ways to bring hits to the site, so I could write about that too. I could also write about my daily experiences at work. So there is definately no excuse not to blog at least a few times a week.

So hits or no hits, I am making more of an effort to blog at least 4 times a week. I might even spend some time creating a new design for this place, its a bit plain isn’t it??

Hits:

In the past two months the site has received a few hundred hits, mostly come from Entrecard. I doubt many of the visitors from Entrecard spend more than a minute on the site, let alone read the content. I am guessing everyone would drop their card and move on to the next site.

Google has brought me a handful of hits, and one user, also called Daniel Felice, contacted me via the form to see if I was the Daniel Felice who grew up in Sydney and played in the same cricket club as him. I am that Daniel Felice and we exchanged a few mails and determined that the world was pretty small as Felice would be a rare Maltese name, so to have two in Sydney and who played at the same cricket club, grew up in nearby suburbs was one in a billion.

Revenue:

In terms of revenue the site has made about $5. Not bad considering I have updating the blog a few times and not make much of an effort. Most of the money has come from Bidvertiser, and the rest from Kontera. Dealdotcom has not made me anything, so I might drop them and replace it with something else. But, I’ll wait another month or two and see how it goes with my new found motivation.

So thats the two monthly report, I’ll be back to report on the next month and on the progress of my current online project, Nameseek.com.au

 

Some Stats

// April 7th, 2008 // No Comments » // Project Blogger

I have been up and running for nearly a week now and actually have some traffic coming to this site! Over the past week I have submitted the site to Google and tried to advertise where ever I can get a free plug.

The stats for the first week are as follows:

  • 707 Pages Requests
  • 123 Hosts

Most of the traffic entering the site is coming from Entrecard, with a few hits from Google but the only search words that got hits were “Daniel Felice” and “Daniel Felice Blog”, which indicates that people were who knew me were the ones searching.

It is not a bad result considering a week ago the blog was unknown and didn’t even exist, but it still is not enough to relax just yet.

This week my aim is to try to increase the number of hits to the blog, as well as try to keep the same people coming back.