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Time for another traffic update….why you might ask?  Traffic is the absolute king when it comes to selling advertsing slots on your blog.  My intended monetization is going to be affiliate marketing and private ad sales.  The affiliate marketing side is going ok but advertisers won’t start seeking you out until you have earned your stripes.

 They can advertise on a billion different blogs, what will make yours stick out from the pack are your “stats.”  Hits, Alexa, Technorati and Pagerank are the standards used to measure most blogs.  It might not be fair, it might not be accurate…but the facts are the facts.  I say all this simply to enforce the message that traffic means dollars.  If you’re an income blog then you can choose to make income via pay per post or related methods or you can build your stats, build your brand and then monetize it.

Pay Per Post is easy…..brand building is tough.  I chose the latter…..I simply don’t care for pay per post all that much, not on your flagship blog.  Opinions vary…but this is mine.

 I have written a couple of “Alexa Update” posts as of late and I don’t mean to come across as boastful, I simply want to share my traffic stats with anyone who is looking to do it themselves.  I am working on the article series that will cover what I am doing to bring traffic to my site but, having been on the road all week it will be a few days before it is ready.   For now…take a look at my latest Alexa update.


Alexa Update

 
In my last Alexa update my 3 mos average was 517k which is better than some but not even close to where I want to be. 

  • Tonight my Alexa stands at 273k which is not quite half of what it was on January 15th. 
  • My 1 week average still stands at sub 100k.
  • My 1 day check puts me in at 81k.

If you recall Alexa is measured on a 3 month average, so I interpret that fact as my Alexa should improve DRAMATICALLY as my blog ages.   I would expect that it will settle in somewhere around my 1 week average in the upper 5 figures for now.  The challenge will then become how to march from sub 100k to sub 10k, which is where the big boys and girls roam.

Not bad for a 2 month old blog.  I couldn’t be happer with the results so far, well ok, I guess I could be but I am satisfied at this point.

So as of this posting, here are my most up to the date “stats”

PageRank              2

Alexa                     273k but moving down rapidly.

Technorati            Authority 44 Rank 179,530    - Need some work here.

Traffic                    Trending to be approximately 20k hits this month.

So, Is My Alexa Whipping Your Alexas Butt?

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