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Self Made Minds » Blog Archive » $100K Site History - Quarter One 2006 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:06:08 +0000

[...] a rather tame December 2007 I was hoping income and traffic would start picking up in 2006, which it did but certainly not in [...]

By: Al

Al — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:37:19 +0000

Same here Matthew, I’m an aid stat head. I try to only analysis older stats though rather than following them on a daily basis (though I did used to do that too)

Thanks for the correction tecwzrd. The affiliate link with TG went directly to the product and if people buy anything from there after getting there from my link I get a commission. I still get a few sales of the GPS tracker every month now, it does look a really cool product and I’m tempted to buy one myself. The traffic stat I gave for that post is over all of 2006, it was started with a Digg front page (Digg users do buy things sometimes I’m pleased to report), got a fair few natural links and then a steady stream of visitors from the search engines.

Good point about the comments, I’m still pretty amazed at how many comments this place gets (thanks everyone), I still reckon Scott is getting more (but he did cheat some what).

By: tecwzrd

tecwzrd — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:24:29 +0000

I assume you meant to link to this page. That is a lot of traffic for one post. Did the original affiliate link for think geek go directly to the GPS receiver? I got a generic page for think geek or does it matter i.e. anything they buy through the affiliate link gets profit.

I am guilty of reading but not commenting on CG as well

You probably get so many comments on this site because unlike gadget posts these tend to spawn more questions then answers.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:59:06 +0000

I am the same with stats. I spend a while looking over them to compare days, months and years. I have stats for another site going back a few years now and occasionally look at them.

By: Al

Al — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:39:29 +0000

Thanks Matthew, I do finding looking back at my stats interesting (nerdy or what) nut I do wonder if other people find it as interesting or useful as I do.

Hi Ash, off the top of my head paid writing would of cost ~ $600. hosting $50, miscellaneous stuff $100, making a Net profit of $350.

I’ve found getting to traffic and links to CG was fairly easy and natural but comments were generally in short supply. I guess people liked to read the stuff without commenting on it. The top post of 2006 traffic wise got 58,091 views and 37 comments, I actually sold more GPS trackers than the number of comments it received, I know which stat I prefer

By: tecwzrd

tecwzrd — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:23:51 +0000

What surprised me even more is that 2000+ people probably looked at the Deflexion post and you only got 8 replies on it (not including the one referencing this post).

I’m sure you have statistics on your most viewed post on CG, could you share that when you have time.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:56:44 +0000

I’m interesting in the fact that although revenue was around $1000, the site only ‘just’ turned a profit.

What was your breakdown of expenditure? Links, Hosting, Paid writers etc.

Ash

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:13:13 +0000

Thanks again Al. This was another good post to read. I am interested in Jan 06’s stats now with you mentioning the slight decline.