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Blogging One Year After – The Unseen Statistics

November 30th, 2009


dsc_0131Time flies and it’s been a year since this blog has been up on the Internet.

Most of my friends who read this blog (and commented) has been quite faithful in the earlier days (I assume :-P), and was thinking that I’m up to something, probably trying to get rich from blogging.

It’s very natural to think so, as there are quite a number of bloggers who made it, blogging full-time.
So for non-techies/non geeks, having a blog indirectly equals to make money online or having a presence (fame) online. I would like to be corrected if you do not think so.

Well, to be honest, I wasn’t expecting anything like that at all when I first started, as it’s spelt out on the About Page.
However, having monetizing a blog would have been a bonus and I was sort of experimenting a bit here and there too, though never seriously.

Anyway, as an evaluation of this blog, let me just share with you statistics of marvinlee.net that has not been seen ever before.

I used sitemeter to track page views and visits.

sitemeter1
Visits (in yellow) are the number of unique visitors (by IP address). It was growing steadily and peaked at 9k visits a month, averaging 300 visits daily. This is not a very heavy traffic blog and the traffic went down slightly the last couple of months as there has been less update. However, do note that it was still higher compared to the first half of the year.

google_analytics

Google Analytics however, have different algorithm and on daily basis, the visits are not more than 200, so I guess the sitemeter stats includes return visitors. Meaning same person but uses different IP address, because Google has place a cookie on your browser and do not include you on subsequent visit on the same day.

alexa_marvinlee

Alexa is also used as a site ranking tool, although the accuracy can be debated, because it could only estimates users based on the data by users installing the Alexa toolbar. This blog is still ranked quite low in Malaysia but I’m pretty happy to be within the Top 1Million in US, again this is considered not significant enough for graph display in Alexa. A site has to be in the Top 100k to be considered for additional data.

prchecker_marvinlee

Google PageRank used to be (or still being used) to rank a site. I’m having 3 out of 10. Facebook has 9 and TheStar.com.my has 8.

google_feedburner

I’m using Google Feedburner for blog subscribers and at the moment it’s hovering in the number between 40 and 50. Still considered very very low…

akismet

Spam comments! Albeit being a low traffic blog, this blog still attracts a lot of spam comments. More than 8k! Akismet is good for wordpress blogs.

And finally, the most sought after answer. How much does blogging make?

I’m using Google Adsense as the main advertising revenue, and it’s only generating peanuts. I’m not surprised though, as have been highlighted by other bloggers/probloggers/money making blogs.

google_adsense

I am near to the USD 100 payment threshold, after a one year long blogging!

If you think blogging can make money (and a lot), I’m pretty sure it can, but are you up to it and doing it the right way?

There’s a lot of room for improvement to make but other than these statistics, this year has been an experience for me and I’ll share more of that in the second part of Blogging One Year After- The Unseen Social Activities.

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    1. November 30th, 2009 at 19:45 | #1

      fuh so many visitors. i’m still far behind you 😛 oh grats for the 1 year bday~

    2. November 30th, 2009 at 20:20 | #2

      @nesca
      LOL.. no la… u are not far behind, in fact i have much to learn from you too 🙂

    3. Khai shen
      November 30th, 2009 at 22:44 | #3

      This is great man. Keep it on.

    4. December 1st, 2009 at 05:54 | #4

      Interesting to note that everyone I know seems to celebrate their blogaversay (Blogging anniversary this month end), I already said happy birthday to 2 other bloggers, excluding myself!

      Nice blogs, and super stats. Learnt a thing or two from you. Wait till I have the time to try it out. One consultation, does the IP address, or locality setting (if there is one in wordpress) determines what sort of readers you get for your blog? I’m a Malaysian living in the UK, was hoping to get into the circle of my own countrymen. thanks!

    5. December 1st, 2009 at 07:53 | #5

      @Khai shen
      Thanks, and thanks for reading my blog 😛

      @Jovenus
      Wow, I think you’re the first serious Malaysian bookworm blogger I’ve met. Totally fascinated by your book reviews and the number of books you read.
      Happy Anniversary to you too, and to your question, the answer is no, you can have US or UK IP address, but if your content is Malaysia-centric, most of your visitors will be from Malaysia as your blog will turn out as a result of their search.
      So if you’d like more readers from Malaysia, try to make some review on Malaysian authored books or a few posts about Malaysia, link with Malaysian bloggers as well.

      If you noticed the Alexa image I posted, some of my traffic now comes from India, as I have a couple of software development guides. So the conclusion is your content attracts the kind of traffic you get.

      Thanks for dropping by!

    6. December 1st, 2009 at 16:41 | #6

      Just noticed I forgotten to wish you a Happy Blogaversary!

      I’ll see if I can hook up to Amazon. But wonder if they will pay me? Thanks for the tips about drawing Malaysian crowd. I’m faithful to my Blog format, it’s a pure book blog. Maybe I’ll start a new blog to kutuk the Brits and exalt Malaysians… hmm.. I think that would work!

      Thanks for dropping by my blog too!

    7. December 1st, 2009 at 20:59 | #7

      hey, dropping by from PPS.
      Yeah, it’s indeed a tough job maintaining a blog and all,
      not to mention the perks one gets normally does not tally with the effort put in.
      but some write for the money, some write due to pure interest.
      so keep it up ya?

    8. December 1st, 2009 at 23:55 | #8

      @J2Kfm
      Agree, and most of all pure interest will be more important to sustain a blog.
      Money will be a bonus, and I’ll keep it up until I get my bonus.. haha…
      Thanks for dropping by.

    9. siewwah
      December 2nd, 2009 at 02:30 | #9

      keep up the good work 🙂 very good sharing of knowledge all the while..

    10. December 2nd, 2009 at 08:09 | #10

      @siewwah
      hehe, thanks!

    11. December 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 | #11

      That’s really a great results! 🙂 I’m thinking to do a review of this yr’s results for my few blogs but yet to have time to do that. Can see that you have put in effort to build this blog. I’m sure you will have better result in Yr 2010. Let’s keep in touch and work for a better year ahead! 🙂

    12. January 6th, 2010 at 07:52 | #12

      You’re my inspiration~~ Good to see that you are doing good here. My thoughts on getting more page views is to take on the bandwagon – the latest topic.

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