Archive for the ‘Weekly Stats’ Category

Alright well, no real post today, just some news and updates I think are useful.

For one thing, the Alexa is dropping, which is awesome, as of today we are down to 239,024, we’ll be in the 100,000s very shortly and under 100k as well! This is a great feat, and I’m looking forward to that day.

Also, the votes are coming nicely for the first MonkeyBlogger Challenge. So far, the “Create a blog and get it earning $100 a month” is winning, and the voting will end in a few days, so get your votes in quick! Once the voting ends, we will start working on the challenge. I will cover my process in choosing a niche, domain, theme, customizing, content, promotion and monitizing. I will post updates more than once a week on the blog’s progress and we will see where this takes us.

In other news, my shoulder is healing well, doctor says in 8-10 weeks I’ll be recovered fully so that’s good news. Also, I will be going out of town in a few days for a week or so, but I will make sure to take my notebook with me and keep the blog running and start on our challenge. I think that this will add a new level to the challenge, showing that it can be done anywhere.

I want to thank all of you for sticking with me and the blog during my hard times, and rest assured, once this challenge starts, you will learn more about blogging and running and promoting a blog than you ever had. Why? Because it will be real. It will be a case study. And best of all? You will be involved. You’ll have a say, you’ll know what’s going on, and why, and I think it will be great.

Ok, has anyone seen THIS? Yes, that’s real!

Why in the world is this on a supposed “Make Money Online” blog?

Because A-list are full of Cow Patties. That’s why. (Not ProBlogger though, he’s still top notch.)

It really sickens me how people like John Chow just suck in revenue from their blogs when they don’t contribute at all! I can understand if that’s on a dating blog, but MMO? And yeah, they tried to make the connection that you need to think about human needs not just making money online. But is a whole series on getting a girlfriend fitting? Short answer? NO. Long answer? Still no.

If you are one of the 26k+ Subscribed to www.JohnChow.com and you actually think it’s going to help you make money online, your pretty naive. If your subscribed so you can stay up to date with what John eats for Dinner, then I have no beef with you other than your wasting valuable time reading that when you can be reading a blog like The University Kid, which has helped me make $X,XXX over the months, and can help you too.

Now, I know that this is not the first time JC has posted something like this, nor will it be the last. But I mean come on! This one just put me over the edge. I hate how people flock to his blog, (26069 to be exact) hoping to learn how to make money online, and yet learn nothing, and spend $100s buying products they don’t need through JohnChow’s affiliate links, making him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from doing nothing of value.

So please, stop reading those huge A-list blogs, (except for ProBlogger, he’s great. ) and start reading the smaller blogs with under 3k or 4k readers, as they will be helping you learn for real, not just fill your minds with crap.

Well, rant over.

On another note, we are progressing greatly. After my injury, I’ve dropped in RSS readers and traffic, but with my return, we’re quickly picking up again!

Also, our Alexa is down to just over 286k! That’s a feat, and soon, we’ll reach the 100k mark!

Also, we have over 3,000 back links and growing. I’ll be talking about building strong, do-follow back links soon as well. Not a new method at all, but the more it’s posted, the more exposure it gets, and the better it works.

That’s pretty much easy, thanks again for sticking around, we’re growing greatly, and will be expanding with some exciting new things soon!

Hey guys, I’m just going to do some updates today. We’ll have some more content tomorrow.

First off, we are very new, so our stats are not too great yet. But let’s see what we got. I’ll be doing this every Saturday, so we can see the progress of this blog.

Stats - As of May 10th, 2008

• Technorati: 790,971 (Link)
• Alexa - 635,288 (Link)
• Posts - 24
• Comments - 164
• Average Comments Per Post - 6.83

As you can see, we’re growing very nicely. From next week on, we’ll show the previous weeks in parentheses so we can show the progress.

I think that this blog is shaping up to be something great, and I’m going to be trying my best to provide some great content for you. We’ve got a lot of great things coming up soon, so stick around.

Also, the Mini Contest is coming to a close on May 14th, or this upcoming Wednesday, so stay tuned into MonkeyBlogger.com for that.

One more thing, I am going to be making t-shirts! These will be high quality with mascots on them. I’ll be giving them out free to start, so I think you guys are gonna like that too.

Well, that’s it, tomorrow we’ll have some better content, so be ready for that.