September has been a busy month for this blog. The blog makeover is working well and has generated a good amount of feedback. The header and sidebar elements of this site are now getting far more clicks than with the old design. I will be publishing more on this in a later article.
Thanks to all September commentators. There was a tie for the position of top commentator:
- Steven Snell from Vandelay Design
- Mervandi from Geomatika for All
Thanks to all who commented. Your input is appreciated.
A special thanks goes to Swiss Mouse whose keen eye spotted some initial teething problems with the blog makeover under Internet Explorer 7. The Cheddar Blog is now 2 months old so why not check out the mouse’s home page.
Top 5 articles last month were as follows:
- Garmin Nuvi 250 Widescreen Sat Nav Review
- Ubuntu 7.04 Review
- HP iPAQ 5720 PDA Review
- Introducing Ubuntu 7.10 The Gutsy Gibbon
- Apple iPod AV Connection Kit Review
Reviews certainly seem to be the most popular articles on this site. Would you like to see more articles like this?
Here are a few more stats:
- Unique Page Views: 20, 111
- Page Views: 25, 507
- Feedburner stats are pretty much stuck around the 130-140 mark. Let’s see if I can break past 150 this month
Revenue from Google AdSense is continuing to rise. I’ve seen significant increases month on month for the last quarter now:
- September: +38%
- August: +111%
- July: +44%
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Amazon Associates is also doing pretty well on this site. I had very little success with this program earlier in the year, but a couple of months ago I followed the advice of Darren Rowse about getting readers in the door at Amazon. It’s well worth a read if Amazon has not performed well on your site before.
His advice has worked well. I removed the Amazon banner ads from this site which were not performing well, and replaced them with text links at the bottom of selected product reviews. These link to a specific product on the Amazon web site. This strategy has worked well. I’ve managed to earn commission on items completely unrelated to products I’ve reviewed. It’s all about getting readers in the door. Once you’ve done that there is potential to earn good commission.
That wraps up September. As always, I welcome any feedback or comments about any aspect of this site.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Swiss_Mouse // Oct 3, 2007 at 2:50 am
Is there an icon for showing a blushing mouse?
Thanks for the mention!!!
Cheddar for all!
2 Madhur Kapoor // Oct 3, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Nice stats buddy . All the best for the future .
3 Dean // Oct 4, 2007 at 7:33 am
Thanks Madhur. I see you had some great stats to report yourself. Well done!
4 mervandi // Oct 9, 2007 at 6:30 am
thanks for the posting. thank you also for visiting my blog, really appreciate it.
i found many interesting things at your blog, and will visit often.
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