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Hello and welcome readers. Hope you are having a good weekend. The past week, I probably have written two of my best posts ever. Kathy, Cynthia, Joyce, and Carmen Go Black Friday Shopping and Living Well on Less Than $10,000 a Year: Habits of Skilled Visa Workers. Do visit the two links and leave your comments if you can.
These days, my first aim is to grab media attention. To grow my blog organically I would need years to get a decent visitor number. There is one way to achieve this faster, and that is by grabbing constant media attention.
I have been successful in the recent past where Consumerist, Business Insider and Huffington post mentioned my work and gave me link backs. I am getting just the curve I was hoping for. Hope it lasts, I need to sustain this momentum and there is no shortcut to writing unique content.
I track my stats on Google Analytics, which in its new avatar started providing loads of interesting representation of the data it collects from your visits to my site. Although it doesn’t tell me what dress you are wearing or which adult site you visited a while ago, it does tell me which part of the world you are from, what browser you are using, how long you stayed on my site, how you came to my site and few things else.
Bloggers, if you want to know about the new features of Google Analytics (still in Beta stage), you can follow this guide.
Monthly Update
Caution, you might be an established blog and find my numbers laughable. Have mercy, this blog is just 8 months old.
Using new time frame comparison option, I compared October performance with September performance. News media exposure stared since first of November. I expect to see a higher rate increase in next month’s update.
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Average time on site and pages/visit saw a reduction as a lot of visitors came in through searches and typically they only have interest in a particular subject and not to explore the site. These two numbers are now normalizing with the established blogs.
Here’s a quick snapshot of my traffic sources.
Penniless Parenting is at surprising top because of picking me as the top post in Festival of Frugality hosted by them.
The visitor quality (pages/visit) from GRS is outstanding and its natural as we share the same audience type. In October, I was pretty much engrossed with work related pressure and could not utilize Twitter and Facebook potential fully.
Here is the timeline comparison of visitor numbers between Sep 2011 and Oct 2011 and a glimpse in to November performance till date. Brown is the higher month.
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 First 12 days of Nov vs Oct |
Another update I am proud to provide you, One Cent at a Time is now a PR3 site as per latest Google PR update. Thank you Google for the rank update and Providing improvement to analytics tool.
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Congrats on the improved stats in October. The more search traffic equals more money!
That’s true. I am in dilemma now. Should I write for the media attention or should I write for search engine?
Congratulations on your success! I’d love to see what posts you were mentioned in to read them but didn’t see any links. It’s great to see them highlighting bloggers!
This is the link to consumerist round up where I was mentioned. http://consumerist.com/2011/11/personal-finance-roundup-223.html I searched a lot on BI and HP but the incoming links are showing as page not available. so I decided to not include any link. here is another link from money talks news where I was included and brought me decent visitors lasting 3 days.
Thanks for your comment Shannyn
Congrats on the continued success OCAAT! 🙂
Thanks a lot, and congrats to you too for getting included on Wisebread.
Absolutely amazing stats last month! Also, great job on the bump in PR, couldnt have happened to a better blog.
Thanks Justin
Congratulations on your continued success SB. It’s competitive pressure like this that motivates me to work harder. Let’s see where you are in 12 months!
I am always curious to know your numbers, but you don’t provide blog updates. Mind putting up one? You are way ahead of me in advertising. I never considered monetization seriously. Need to catch up.
SB- amazing numbers. Explain to me how funancials is a PR4 off 700 visitors a month? It doesn’t make sense.
Strange things do happen in this world. Check the link backs of all of your guest/sponsored posts. There must be either huge back links some one set up for you or some very good quality links from high PR site. PR and visitor numbers have correlation but it’s not linear. Do set up your advertisement page and mention your PR in bold. Don’t let this opportunity go by. In all replies to advertisers mails, don’t forget to mention your PR.
Congrats on the stats! I’m a PR3 too!
Yeah saw it, now concentrate on getting more visitors. SEO strategy n all can only bring you up to a certain level, to go beyond you need to have content.
Congrats on the success! I’m curious what other media outlets are you contacting to post your material / link to you?
I added reporters on my twitter and some of them followed me back that’s the route I am taking. Consumerist and business insider included me in their round up they were not initiated by me.
Congrats on your success! I would love to see another update in six months.
Thanks Elizabeth for your comments. Hope you are doing well…after a long time.
You are doing so great! Well deserved! Hard work always pays off.
When it comes to my blog, I just know that I would lose interest in writing if I had to write either for media or for SEO. Writing for me is a hobby and Ienjoy it because it is means of my self-expression. I write for myself and I write what interests me at the moment. Otherwise, it all becomes meaningless. I am not in the rat race to get anywhere for now. If my blog grows slowly, I will be happy with it.
Well your hobby shall remain just that if you write aimlessly. If you want to grow your blog in to a entrepreneurship you need to write targeted content.