Blog Stats September 2008
Table of contents for CAN Blog Self-Rating 2008
This is a monthly feature at Damien at the Speed of Life where I measure my 3 blogs’ progress toward goals. You can browse current and past entries in the CAN… category.
CAN stands for:
Circulation: Incoming links.
Analytics: # of visitors
Net: Money made or key takeaways. (Because money isn’t everything.)
I often use shorthand in referring to my blogs:
PFTFF: Postcards from the Funny Farm
DATSOL: Damien at the Speed of Life
DLP: Dynamite Lesson Plan
Below are my results. I invite your comments on this topic.
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PFTFF:
C – 15/20
A – 4325/4000
N – $335/$400
DATSOL:
C – 7/10
A – 540/1140
N – $27/$50
DLP:
C – 4/3
A – 465/500
N – $29.63/$40
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My Notes:
As you can see I met most my blogging goals across the board. But the blues came in a few days ago like a storm over a pirate ship.
I’ve learned with life as with blogging that most things are not worth letting them get me down. But I am down folks. Thanks to some “weeding” I did in the way Google views my site, specifically with the canonical www, Google saw fit to knock PFTFF from a strong PR4 down to a miserable PR1. *sigh* Google is just calibrating the change but I could have avoided this ding and that gets me the deepest. It will last about 6 months.
I am still strong in my spirits and not into blaming Google this time. I’m back on the “CAN” system full force since I can’t rely on Google’s PR1 to dictate my worth to the blogosphere. I made just as much money when I was a PR0 it was just a heck of a lot more laborious finding the work. But as I noted above, money isn’t everything. Respect is important too. Watch for my October goals in another post.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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September 29th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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September 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Aww, that really sucks about the PR! You’ll get up there again soon!
So when you say 4325/4000 views for PFTFF, does that mean you received 4325 views this month on that blog?
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September 29th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Correct Katelyn. I use Google Analytics to get my data.
September 29th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Dude, your #’s are fantastic, sorry to hear about your Google PR dropping, it may take only a month or so to go back up.
A – 4325/4000
Means your goal was 4000 and you had 4325 unique visits this month right, not page views?
Man, I would give my left arm to bring in $400.00 for one of my blogs, so far my primary blog has just brought in $57.50, but it is only the end of my first month, so I shouldn’t complain too much.
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September 29th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
That’s an impressive visitor count apparently but if you look back at some other CAN posts you’ll see it is right in line with what Postcards has been getting:
June 2008: 2554
July 2008: 4504
August 2008: 3376
September 30th, 2008 at 7:35 am
I think it’s quite impressive! Making money blogging is not my personal thing, but I think $400 a month is incredible!
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October 5th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
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