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July 2010 Blog Traffic and Earning Report

By on August 8, 2010

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Traffic Report

Traffic stat for July 2010 : 75,005 (-6,072) unique visitors and 110,375 (-13,616) page views.

The traffic sources are as follow :

  • Search Engines : 48,462 (64.61%)
  • Referring Sites : 19,733 (26.31%)
  • Direct Traffic : 6,644 (8.86%)
  • Other : 163 (0.22%)

Blog Earning Report

Here is the breakdown of my earnings for June 2010, with total money made online : USD$373.79.

  • Google Adsense : $327.01
  • Kontera : $46.38

Almost nothing to shout about in this July 2010 report card. Unique visitors, page views and blog earning, all have headed to the south. Plus, I didn’t post sufficient number of articles, with only 19 articles last month. Actually, I’ve involved an accident earlier last month, which caused a minor tissue injury to my finger. So, that’s explain why there was not a single post published between 10 to 18 July.

Traffic Exchange Program with MarketGID

On mid July, MarketGID (MGID) has contacted me and offered a free traffic exchange program to increase hits to my blog. All I need to do is place their News Widget (I’ve placed them between the articles and comments) on my blog. For the number of visitors I’ve send to their site, they guarantee 150-300% amount of visitors back to my site in the same day.

I was so tempted to accept their offer because in their email, they’ve claimed that my blog can potentially fetch 30,000 – 40,000 extra visitors from MGID monthly. So did I get 30k – 40k extra traffic last month? Of course, not and far from getting to the number they’ve claimed!

I received merely 1k visitors from MGID. If you are interested, visit this page for more details.

Accepted, then Got Rejected by Burst Media

Early last month, I’ve decided to apply and join the Burst Media network. Burst Media is a CPM-based online advertising company. Initially, they have accepted my application and included my blog as part of their network. I was a happy man and looking forward to earn more money online.

But, only after one day serving their CPM ads, came an email from Burst Media that informed me about their rejection for Burst Media membership.

Here’s an excerpt of the email.

Burst Network is looking for niche, specialty content websites of editorial content on one subject, a very narrow demographic, high-quality professional content and design and a minimum of 25,000 pageviews a month.

It is our opinion that our sales efforts simply are not a good match for the content you provide. We are not passing judgment, only relying on our years of experience as to what works for Burst and what does not.

Well, taking on the positive side. This should boost my motivation to write better, quality and consistent content in this blog. I should make them regret for not accepting my application to join their network.

So, to all bloggers out there, keep up the great blogging work! Good luck on your blogging and make money online journey. :-)

Steve Yu is a technology blogger with five years blogging experience (since 2007). He is the founder of MyTechQuest.com.

  • http://ineeddiscipline.com Dean Saliba

    I’ve never understood how people make such good money with Kontera. I barely make $0.05 a month with them and that is on a good month.

    I made just under $300 last month, hoping to break that barrier this month. :)

    • http://www.mytechquest.com Steve Yu

      You need a lot of traffic to earn more, and how is your click-through rate? If you have no luck with Kontera, maybe you want to switch to Infolinks.

      Well, good luck to you, hope that you can break the $300 barrier this month! :-)

  • http://www.cravingtech.com Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com

    I was offered too by MarketGID. and I have to admit that they’ve been giving quite a good traffic (about 2500 visitors last month). Maybe not that many, but it’s alright

    I’m almost catching up with you on the AdSense earnings…always amazed at how you can rack that much dollars from adSense on a techie blog

    • http://www.mytechquest.com Steve Yu

      Maybe MarketGID will send more traffic this month, but it’s also depends on how much traffic I’ve sent to them.

      Agree, you are earning more and more especially from private ads and paid reviews. I’m really envy with your skill to write great reviews. :-)