July Update - Hobby Site

By Terry

I spent a whopping 1 hour on the site last month, so nothing really is shaking here. But I am seeing a bit of a shift in my traffic.

3285 - Unique (+209 from June)
5681 - Visits (+958 from June)

1426 - Yahoo (-283 from June)
607 - MSN (+223 from June)
122 - Google (+56 from June - ohhh it’s getting frisky with me now!)
200-ish from other engines (about the same as June)

1197 Bookmarks (36.4% :shock:)

May I earned: $90.36
June I earned: $158.99
July I earned: $153.35

The money and traffic pretty much stayed the same as in June.

What I’m interested in seeing is the keyword traffic I’m hauling in. I made some small changes to my pages to see if I could draw less search engine traffic for the non-money terms, and draw more traffic from the money terms.

Since I could plant rocks on the pages and it wouldn’t really affect Google at all, the onpage optimization changes I made only seemed to affect Yahoo and MSN traffic - and that was reflected in the last half of the month.

The plan seems to be working as the traffic does seem to be shifting in the direction I want it to. This month I’ll have a better idea as I’ll have the full month’s stats to work with.

Other than that there’s not much to report with this site. I really was lazy with it and I should have wrestled up some new aff creatives (to keep the site fresh). I simply *must* do that this month.

Wouldn’t it be fun if I doubled my earnings on the site for this month? Getting greedy girl now aren’t I. :lol:! I have a bunch going on this month so not sure I can give too much time to the site. We’ll see.

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