62,311 Page Views
Page Views on Genius Types increased from 43,442 in July to 62,311 in August, a 43.4% increase.
Here’s the raw data for 2007:
Raw Data
It’s interesting how traffic jumped up and down like a stock over the last 6 months. The spikes usually have to do with StumbleUpon traffic, which tends to come in bursts; although the quality is lower.
Page Views
Fortunately, the overall trend is up. The compound monthly growth rate (3 month rolling average) is sitting at 21%.
Money Post
It’s also interesting how one post can drive an entire site. I wrote Five Ways to Create Passive Income With Little or No Money almost a year ago and it’s still my #1 traffic producer with over 36,000 page views in it’s lifetime.
At $10 CPM, that post has been worth about $360 to me.
Top Five Posts for August:
- 5 Ways to Create Passive Inc. w/Little or No Money :: 9,925 pv
- Signs of Insecurity :: 4,071 pv
- What I’d Tell Myself if I Were 18 Again :: 3,378 pv
- Bulk Candy Vending for Passive Income :: 1,753 pv
- Free Day Planner and Time Management System :: 1,375 pv
Thanks, Lazy Man!
Top Five Referring Sites for August:
- Google :: 7,845 visits
- StumbleUpon :: 6,617 visits
- Lazy Man and Money :: 768 visits
- Steve Pavlina :: 457 visits
- Wikipedia :: 395 visits
A huge thank you goes out to Corey of Lazy Man and Money.
He wrote a blind endorsement of Genius Types out of nowhere which seriously boosted my traffic and reader base for August.
Thanks again, and welcome to those referred by him.
Projected Traffic
It’s fun to play around with the numbers and look into the future.
If Genius Types continues to grow exponentially at about 21% per month, I’ll be looking at over 3 million page views over the next 12 months!
Hmm, let’s see… at $10 CPM, that would mean $32,000.
That’ll do!
I guess we’ll all have to check back on this post in a year to see what happens.
Thanks for being a Genius Types reader!
{ 2 trackbacks }
{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }
Someone must have cited one of my articles. It really took me by surprise.
Where’s the wikipedia traffic coming from?
Looking good Brian. Hope your future projections go as planned.
Just a heads up for you, i’m hosting an ipod giveaway, so take a look if you get a chance. if you have literally 1 minute, drop by
Free ipod shuffle contest
That’s awesome Brian,
That’s exactly how traffic is supposed to look actually – to a T.
Keep it up!
Jeremy
http://www.fitness-made-fun.com
Thanks, guys!
That sounds a lot like my first few months. It definitely builds exponentially.
That’s a good point about “money posts”. I have a post on my blog which gets more page views than any other…”Top 10 Frugal Living Tips You Can Use NOW!”. I find that “Top 10″ lists and linking back to previous blog links in newer blog posts attracts traffic and keeps visitors around a bit longer. This has been a learning process for me, but it is fun. I’m still only averaging about 10 cents a day with AdSense, and my page views are about 70 per day or so…with between 150 to 200 on a good day, but my blog has only been around for about 1 1/2 months. I think once I convert to WordPress from Blogger it will increase even more.