September 2nd, 2010
Ricardo V
To keep a long story short I thought it would be a good idea to keep up with my “>monthly statements posts. In the past I used to divide the monthly blog statements into Earnings and Traffic. Since I don’t want to bore anyone I thought I’d just combine the two for an easier and more efficient presentation of my progress. The last statements I published were in May of 2009, it’s been a while an as such the traffic and earnings from this blog specifically have been reduced to practically nothing. As you know when I came back about 2 weeks ago I mentioned that this site would have a new layout and a new focus. I believe that by trying “not to try so hard” and by just doing what comes naturally that I will be in much better shape for the future as far as blogging on NYW. But enough about me, onto the results:
NYW's Aug '10 awstats Traffic Statement
Traffic for August 2010 – Compared to Best Month
- Unique Visitors: 1,081 –
2,041
- Number of Visits:3,209 –
5,096
- Page Views:11,557 –
28,229
- Hits:29,415 –
160,918
Ouch, looks like pulling teeth here with traffic compared to the “best” month which is still scores away from any of my other sites lol. On the upside I had a site hit 1million hits in a month back in January 2010 (Yes, I know unique visitors + pageviews > hits but I was still stoked). Okay so the traffic shown above is pretty low. There is only one place we can go from here and that is up, because if we don’t go up (aka get better traffic results) I may just have to quit my day job ;P .
My SpyderMate ranking is a 50/100 with obvious room for improvement. My goal for next month is 52 minimum (going to add a few back-links and see what my compete rank logs at.
Next comes an August ’10 Earning Statement: Grand Total – $7.45 from (CPC) – Haven’t checked any other networks for NYW specific cash, usually just focus on my other sites so it may be more. I find it quite astonishing that even with 14 months without fresh content this blog continued to make anywhere from $5-20 a month through CPC (I use adsense and adbrite mostly). Below you’ll find an image of the earnings:
NYW august 2010 adsense earnings
It’s not large sum of money by any means but it certainly pays for the
yearly domain name charge and the
monthly hosting services which NYW are using. Stay Tuned!
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August 31st, 2010
Ricardo V
As I began to update my other blogs (an ongoing process which was started about 2 weeks ago) I began to look at three main things:
1. Website Loading Speeds vs Size of Site
2. Visitor Ease of Use – Easy Blogging Simplified with Wibiya
3. Search Engine Friendliness
Looking at a blog’s search engine friendliness is perhaps one of the best and worst aspects of building a blog. On one hand it’s the best because a job well done will officially cement your blog and future into a high page rank. Likewise on the other hand if you have poor SEO development within your blog your content goes unseen and blogging becomes less enjoyable. Below I will explain a few natural and easy to implement tips to help SEO your WordPress Blog.
- 1. Start with a good domain name
This is very simple and often overlooked (I mean look at “nurtureyourwealth” lol). The domain has to be easy to remember, brandable, and most importantly related to your niche (unless your using your name for attraction marketing). If your building a niche blog it may just be a good idea to get a domain name related to your niche.
- 2. Activate a SEO friendly wordpress theme
Try to get a theme that reflects your niche and has proper sidebars to harness your end users experience. A well maintained footer with essential links will also help build your keywords. Try to keep tags and keywords relevant to the theme of your blog so the keywords can have more authority.
- 3. Download SEO WordPress Plugins
Helpful SEO plugins include “All-in-one-seo”, “Google XML Sitemaps”, “SEO Slugs”, “SEO Smart Links”, and “Platinum SEO Pack”. These plugins will make your meta tags and titles shine through to search engine spiders when they index your blog’s content.
Of course those aren’t the only things you can do but they are a solid start to get started. I just started a new niche site, it’s seasonal but I have a few months left to build up backlinks and traffic to it – am keeping a detailed journal which will be published sometime this upcoming month for progress purposes.
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August 24th, 2010
Ricardo V
As I began to update my other blogs (an ongoing process which was started about 2 weeks ago) I began to look at three main things:
1. Website Loading Speeds vs Size of Site
2. Visitor Ease of Use – Easy Blogging Simplified with Wibiya
3. Search Engine Friendliness
I never really built pages for speed, or cared about file sizes/loading times. Recently while at work I was working on a dinosaur computer from say 2000 or so. This computer had 512 ram, a 14 gb harddrive, and the slowest DSL ever clocked in the area (according to dslreports.com). As I tried to load a few of my sites I soon realized I had a bunch of unused graphics, bells and whistles, and excess material cluttering my sites. Needless to say I understand the entire worldwide computer isn’t on the fastest of Internets or able to purchase the best/newest of computers. So I have embarked on a cleaning like no other. The first tool which I suggest for all of the NYW readers to use is a basic data gathering tool. “You gotta know where you are to know where your going.” (kind of).
The above tool is a website speed test by iWebTool (dot) com. It’s free to use for 5 queries (10 sites per query) every hour. I hope it helps you start on your journey to make your site load faster/test different approaches to presenting your site to others.
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