Zero 2 Hero Aug Update – Design Overhaul, Traffic Update, New Pages
Traffic:
Overall Traffic Results:
654 Unique Visitors
1,571 Pageviews
August Traffic Results:
392 Unique Visitors
768 Pageviews
Top 7 August Traffic Sources:
(direct) – 108
problogger.net – 93
images.google.com – 61
fouhourworkweek.com – 32
stumbleupon.com – 20
forums.digitalpoint – 18
digg.com – 10
Last month I set the goal of 1000 uniques so I fell just shy of that, but after only 2 months I am happy with the results. You can see that This month more than doubled my traffic. With all of the design changes and school starting up again, I am optimistic that I will double that growth again in next month.
The traffic source results were also great, for the first time more people came directly to my page than came from referrals. Which means more people visited me than just the ones came from my comments and forum posts. This indicates that people are both returning and also discovering my page through other means.
Search traffic is still very low, but the easy solution to this is create more content. However search traffic is up 500% this month from 1 to 5…
Money:
AdSense Past 2 weeks: $0.25
Affiliate Sales: $0
So 2 months in and I’ve created $4.18 and spent 8 dollars on domain name, and 9 dollars on hosting so far, which comes out to about -$15. Kind of a bummer, but I realize that money comes with more traffic. Although it may be possible that you guys simply don’t like to click on ads… However it’s forced me to stay creative. If I had earning say 25-50 dollars by now I may have been less motivated to keep updating the theme and optimizing the ads. Next month I am going to try a new program where I promote my own services instead of just promoting ads. After all “Self-Promotion” is one of the themes for this website.
Design Changes:
New Page “Make Money”
This is the main thing on most people’s mind, so I feel it deserves more than just a blog post. This page I will keep updated over time as I find new and better money making opportunities.
http://zero2heroblogger.com/make-money/
Beta Testing Amazon “Bookstore”
This a feature of Amazon associates called aStore. It allows you to create and sell any products that you wish from amazon.com on your own page. I will be toying around with this to see how people like it.
Creating A Name
I’ve continued to comment on blogs daily through the internet and I’m starting to see some familiar faces online. Also I’ve setup my YouTube channel. I plan on building up a name on YouTube as well to increase my overall web presence. Also I find that some topics are better discussed through video.
Overall August has been a good month, but I’m still broke.
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YouTube Channel
It’s a good start. Keep plugging away at it. It’s taken me a lot longer than that to earn a few hundred a month. Some make it easy, some do it the hard way.
Right now things are slow everywhere, Adsense clicks are down as is the amount per click, so don’t fret. It will pick up, and so will your traffic over time. Just keep blogging away, add new posts regularly, the old ones will still get hit on, especially if they are not time sensitive, like news stories etc.
1Those are nice results. One thing you could do to increase traffic and popularity is guest posting to other blogs.
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