I know there are a few days left in August, but I wanted to go ahead and give you an update on the in-house income report for this month.
The in-house advertising didn’t start until August 19, so there is really only ten days of income to report. We’ll see how we do in September with a full month to tally up. So, here’s the breakdown:
Sitewide header banner - $250
Site review - $50
125×125 sitewide sidebar ad - $40
In-content text ads - $180
200×200 in-content banner- $70
Total income: $590
Total ad impressions: 26,763
Total ad clicks: 234
Average CTR: 0.87%
The ad with the highest CTR was the sitewide header banner with a 1.80% CTR. My goal is to do all that I can to increase the average CTR on this blog to at least 2%, although much of that depends on your ad.
I’m sure when given an entire month to calculate, we will reach our goal of $1,000 per month without using ad networks or affiliate links. This sure beats the $6.78 received for the entire month of July using AdSense and Kontera!
Don’t forget that you still have two more days to take advantage of matched deposits for advertising on SiteFever.com.
Since I removed all ad networks from this site, I have seen a lot of talk going around from bloggers who are interested in doing the same. I strongly encourage you to give it a try! Just be sure to set a fair price for any ad space you offer.
As a side note, I am currently rounding up some contest sponsors to give out some valuable stuff on SiteFever in the near future. So far, the sponsors I’m talking to are willing to offer prizes such as software, t-shirts and some nerdy gadgets. If you’re interested in sponsoring a contest on this site, please contact me.
On September 1 I will post July’s traffic stats, so stay tuned.
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Very Impressive!
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Nice numbers!
You write a post things to offer in a blog contest, or what to ask people to do in these contests, but using the writing style you made here: http://sitefever.com/21/ … Just a Suggestion
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“Just be sure to set a fair price for any ad space you offer”
How does one go about doing this please. I have no idea how to find out what is “fair”
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wow congrats man! very good for a new blog
keep up the good work
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This is very encouraging! This is what I hope to do soon as well.
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Wowzers, you made that in like 2 weeks. That is so cool. Your RSS subscribers has climbed so much since you started this goal too. Good job!
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So, does this mean your daily page views of 8K were off by about 7K per day?
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@HMTKSteve: I am still comparing AwStats with Google Analytics. As I mentioned before, the daily visitors are within a small percentage of each other, but as you predicted the pageviews are way off.
From what Google has collected so far, it looks like they report a little over 1,000 pageviews per day. At the first of the month I’ll graph it all out, write a post about it and update my “advertise here” page as necessary.
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@Nuker:
There is a lot involved in setting a price for your advertising. You should take into account how many visitors and pageviews you get. Also, you have to use your Technorati rank, Alexa rank, etc. to help set your price.
Pretty much whatever you would look for in another site before you advertise on it, you should look at on your own.
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John,
these are great stats! For a young blog such as yours, how did you get your feed subscriber base up so high in such a short time?
I have offered some similar space as a paid link on my blog. But maybe I priced it too high, not sure. Certainly would love to get so much traffic, so I keep working at it.
Monika
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You’ve set yourself some nice goals, congrats! It was hard for me to try and find where the actual ads where, being so used to see adsense and other networks all over the place… Good luck in further increasing your goals and reach!
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