June was a hard month for this site. Somehow the WordPress install became corrupt and was having issues with the database. Hostgator support quickly got the database issues figured out but that left me with figuring out how to repair WordPress.
With only two posts for the whole month, traffic was still coming in to last months content. Mostly from StumbleUpon.com at 188 hits.
Total unique traffic hits were 312 with 114 returning visitors.
My income for June was $323.71
Affiliate Referrals: $302.23
Google AdSense: $21.48
Private Ad Sales: $0.00
Paid Reviews: $0.00
Total Revenue: $323.71
Now that WordPress is back up and I have figured out the cross-browser issues with the layout, things should go much smoother and I can bang out more posts this month and hopefully increase my traffic stats as well as my income.
Update: The following revenue report is from this blog only and does not include the income coming in from the BANS eBay Affiliate software . I will be reporting on that sometime this week.
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I see you’re taking Mr. Chow’s idea and using it. Bravo. Just wondering, what do you strongly suggest as a good “traffic generating” tactic?
Regards
http://online-multiplayer-mmorpg.com
Oops, I’ve posted my incorrect link.
Heres the real one: http://online-multiplayer-mmorpg.blogspot.com/
I like using StumbleUpon to generate quick traffic but only about 2% of it is sticky traffic. Most Stumblers spend about 5 seconds on the site and hit the stumble button again.
Other than that I like Entrecard for meeting other bloggers and actually had a few of them purchase BANS software.
Spending some time on the forums and blogs also help. Make sure to use your url in your signature and watch out with sticking URL’s in your comments. I prefer to stick my url in as my name so when people comment back they refer to me as CreatingRevenueOnline.com and it earns me extra points by upping the name count on the internet. Search engines crawl the comments too so it helps.
Very true. Thanks for the tips! Another idea that comes to mind would be to try out Digg. I haven’t found much success with it, yet, but I am trying! =)
Regards
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I have been following the founder of Digg, Kevin Rose, since he was the host of ‘The Screen Savers’ on TechTV back in the day. I opened my Digg account a few months after Digg started up as a beta site.
So yeah, I have tried the Digg route. It is hard for a MMO blog to get more than a few diggs unless you have something really original and even then, it is hard.
It is best to leave Digg be though. For people who host their own blogs, the “Digg Effect” can bring your server to a crawl and the spike of traffic will get your account frozen with many hosts. I used to be a network admin at Hostgator.com so I know from actually banning accounts that it can happen easily.
If my traffic increases enough for me to have to worry about being shutdown by my host, I will just get a dedicated server from thePlanet, which is who Hostgator colocates all their servers with.
Wow good warning. That would be a shame for my servers to “a-splode” in the middle of my hard work.
What do you suggest to earn the most money with little amounts of traffic?
Your blog is doing relatively well for such a “small” blog.
Tips are appreciated!
Regards
http://online-multiplayer-mmorpg.blogspot.com/
P.S. I also commented on your “guest blog” post.
To tell you the truth, pairing people with BANS and Hostgator earns you $94 per person and $25 more if you break 6 accounts. I have had people email me asking if I would really recommend Hostgator if I wasn’t getting money from the affiliate program and the answer is yes. Being a network administrator for them let me learn a lot about how they do business and 95% of the issues are from human stupidity and not with the servers.
The only issue I have is they suspend your account if your traffic peaks too high, like from getting on homepage of Digg. This isn’t to keep you down though. It is to keep the other sites on that server from going down because of your traffic.
Those people usually go onto buy BANS and Hostgator accounts and I earn some money it.
Putting up a post for BANS won’t get you sale though. People want to see that you actually use it and make money from it. That is why I post links to my BANS sites for people to see.
It actually does make money so I don’t feel bad promoting it. I won’t promote anything I don’t test first. I tested a dropship service called SMC for a possible eBay selling solution but I found that their products were really not that good. So I decided not to promote them.
I test out everything I promote. I host with Hostgator and I use BANS. Tried and true and tested out the ying yang.
As for guest writers. I decided against it for now. When I get a little bigger I will bring some guest writers on board.
Great information! Thanks again for sharing and being descriptive. =)
Regards
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