4th stats report on my 6 months goal of 5000 visitors per day dare

Today is that day again. The day when I look back to what I have done this month and publish here my stats.

As you probably already know, I am on a quest to get 5000 visitors per day. While it is not an easy thing to do and to be honest, my efforts were a bit slower in the last period of time, I experience new things each and every day and I find a great joy in everything that happens with this site.

To make a long story short, here’s what happened:

A very good StumbleUpon activity

Yes, this is one of the parts that made me very happy: out of those 30 days of a month, I had 10 days with good traffic caused by SU. I am not speaking about 3-4000 visits per day, but something like 500-700 visits per day from SU, which is great. Also I had 2 days with 1100 ans 1200 visits. So, if you have the pleasure of stumbling me, be my guest, you’ll make my day!!

Growing traffic, day by day

Beside SU I can say that this site grows in traffic with each passing day. Or week, to try to look for an average. If I speak about the first 2 weeks of this month, I can say 250 visits per day as an average. If I speak about week 3, I have around 300-350 visits per day while in the last week I had around 400 visits per day.

Where is this growth coming from?

Search engine traffic is growing day by day and it is normal, if you write every day, but also being stumbled a lot means you get a lot of recursive, residual traffic from SU. StumbleUpon is good from this point of view, if you have something on SU, you will receive traffic long after the spike has gone.

New layout for my blog and experimenting with ways to make some money from this blog

This month I have also redesigned my blog to have 3 columns. This is because I have started to think of a way to monetize it, to make some money from my blog, because it needs to earn it’s living. It pays rent, you know, hosting, traffic, and I want to have it pay for it. That is why I have set an advertising page that I invite you to read.

New plugins

I have installed and tested a few new plugins, some of them were OK, others were not OK so I removed them. One of the thing I intend to use is the plugin for having some posts only for RSS readers. I intend to publish the results of my dare to also monetize this traffic, to let you know how it goes, what I do and how much I make with this blog, because it could be interesting for everybody running such a guitar blog. You all write out of your love for guitars, but why not make some money out of it so you can pay your hosting expenses easily?

So, I will tell you how it goes, every step of the path, just that I will only publish money stats on RSS so subscribe to my RSS feeds to get these stats.

And now the numbers for this month:

• 14200 visits
• 19600 pageviews
• 1.38 pages per visit
• 10 StumbleUpon spikes
• highest SU spike: 1200 visitors in one day, the article that caused this spike, and at the same time the article that has the most page views is the one about why I love my guitar.
• RSS readers: 129 and grows day by day

Also, for the previous reports, see them below:

• First stats report on my 5000 visitors per day dare
• Second report
• Third report

And remember: starting today I am going to also publish stats on the money I earn from this blog, but they will only be available to my RSS readers, so subscribe now and get my experience on how I try to monetize a difficult traffic: social media blog traffic!

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