Last month, Adam Paudyal over at Endeavor-Online wrote this awesome review:
Thanks Adam, you so rock! Now I have to get my rear over to writing yours. So what about you, are you ready to give this blog your two cents on Alexa?
Get featured in the next review!
1) It’s a great way to build your Alexa profile and ranking.
2) It’s a great way for others to further connect with you.
Overall, this month’s content posting is the lowest ever coming in at only 10 articles altogether! This validates the point that you don’t need a lot of content to receive comments. However, the downside here is if you don’t mind a suffering in Alexa ranking, post less. That says a lot about the relationship of your content and comments.
If you rather have lots of comments, write less.
If you rather have a good Alexa ranking, write more.
Plain and simple, you can see that content is the currency of the internet. Comments give your blog interaction and makes it homely, personal and engaging. Even though I’m receiving more comments than ever with less content out, that shows me that I can put more efforts elsewhere to market the blog further like this mailing list I’ve been working on.
Only 3 more posts until launch! Whooo!
Keep in mind, that even though I didn’t post much, I still engaged outside of the blog whether it’s on Twitter, Facebook, blogging communities like Blog Engage, Blokube, TGIF Links, and so on. The social aspect is what keeps your blog alive. And now you know.
Moreover, I was amazed at what happened during my hiatus in launching this upcoming mailing list. Fabulous folks who have mentioned or featured me this month deserves my utmost thanks and appreciation below:
- Patricia Millman with Lavenders: Small Niche, Big Ideas – This gal is rocking the blogosphere just jumping in already. With her latest Etsy shop, I always shake my head because she says she’s a technophobe, but here she is zipping right pass all of us beginning bloggers. Haha. Great news. Learn more about this niche.
- Ajay Chavda with 3 Types of Visitors Extended, Beginning of a Social Media Experiment – Part of a what is to be a 100 day social experiment, Ajay dissects one of my post and rewrites it completely with his analysis and relevant data. This is an awesome read for those who want to see another version of the 3 types of visitors.
- Lye Kuek Hin with Inspirational Bloggers Sharing Their Most Important Blogging Tips and again with How They Maintain Their Inspiration – I have already voiced myself within this two posts. Lye has generously compiled them together to give you a taste of many bloggers’ variations of their tips and strategy for blogging.
- Michele Welch with the Big THANK YOU Post! – Wow, I didn’t expect this but Michele is one rockin’ blogger whom I respect and really enjoy the posts of. While we haven’t known each other long, the connection was instantaneous. Glad to be apart of great company!
- Ingrid Abboud with her 1 Year Blogoversary – Happy, happy, joy, joy to my friend Ingrid with her blog Nitty Griddy and it’s Anniversary. Thus, she shares her thanks, lessons learned and more. Here’s what I call writing it up! See what she has to say.
- Kristi Hines with Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers – Oh my, this list is one powerhouse. Every one I’ve listed above, ladies that is, is included. So you’re looking at a lot of awesome influence and professionals here. Open up your bookmark accounts and start taking note of these awesome women!
Now, let’s get on with the program! Here are the stats this month:
What stood out?
- Ranking only fell 2-3 thousand this month. Boo hoo! Must post more.
- Reach increased because of the awesome folks who’ve mentioned me. Yay!
- Pageviews/Pageviews per user/Time on site/Search decreased but jumped in the last week. Again because of the mentions.
Lesson learned: content is everything but building relationships is where you get traffic.
Below is what Google Analytics saw which was far superior than last month, October’s stats. Thanks again to the awesome mentions, I was able to keep this blog in the radar of new visitors. If you see, the bounce absolutely dropped as there was more targeted traffic rather than stumbles.
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Referring sites which made this blog within reach:
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Here are the individual blogs I want to thank this month:
- Jonathan Volk
- Adam Paudyal at Endeavor-Online
- Leslie the Freebie Guy
- Lye at Find My Blog Way
- Murray from Murlu.com
Top Content and views this month:
Posts with the most interactions:
- 50 Things I Didn’t Know About Starting A Mailing List (44)
- Where This Blog Has Been Oct 31 to Nov 6, 2010 (39)
- Your Feedback and Help is Needed! (35)
- 7 Tips For Starting Your Own Mailing List (32)
- Have You Raided the Nearest Blog Lately? (19)
Let’s look at the world rank, audience and searches now. This area is always interesting as it fluctuates each month. Just glancing through this section alone, it let’s you see a lot about your international presence and influence.
As you can see, I’m getting some traffic in from the East.
What I haven’t noticed before but will take note of more on is the keyword searches done to find this blog. Take a look at the high-impact searches which are competitively ranking with other sites and those keywords which I might have the opportunity to rank high in the search engines for with less competition.
Let’s hop on over to websitegrader and see how things have fair.
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Alright! We’ve gone up a point in grade and the blog grade is really the one which I’m amazed at. It used to be in the 30′s a few months ago, now it’s at 61. Not bad! We’re rising.
As for link data, about 120% increase in indexed pages and 350+ more backlinks build on the www side and a slight drop on the non-www side.
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Finally, the value is where the motivation for monetization will prevail. Because Alexa didn’t drop that much, I only went up a few hundreds. Imagine it dropping like hot cakes, what then?
Plans for the month of December:
- mailing list launch
- guest posting
- article writing through Ezine
- product development
- business training 101
The last bit is part of Pawel over at Self-Employed Cafe’s Startup Business Support Group! It’s open to individuals FREE who are interested in starting their own business. The invitation is open until the end of the year. Until then, you have to pay a fee to get in. This is a win for you. Come join us!
Next, your best blog post submissions to Michele Welch’s NewBizBlogger’s new ebook is open until December 13. I’m going to see what I can dig up, so exciting times are coming up ahead. Won’t you think of one to contribute too?
Until then, this is Thu Nguyen coming at you from Blogging For!
What are your thoughts on this month’s traffic report?
Share your comments!
Twitter: lavenderuses
says:
Hi Thu
Thanks for the mention. Much appreciated gal
You sure are rockin the blogosphere with all those heads up from some very amazing bloggers. Well deserved and you just keep amazing us with even more planned for this month.
I’ve put my name down over at Pawal’s so hope I will be accepted to join this group. Feel I will learn heaps and it will keep me on track with my blogging efforts.
Patricia Perth Australia
Patricia@lavenderuses´s last [type] ..So Little Time- So Much To Do
Twitter: thublogger
says:
So glad that you will be apart of the group Patricia. I’m sure Pawel will make sure you get the invitation right away. Moreover, would love to network and work with you further on a business level as I’m sure I can learn heaps from you. Already liked you so that makes the effort-less
Looking forward to our business 101 sessions in the upcoming months. Keep it rockin’!
BTW – you’re also part of the female list. Heeyyyy! Isn’t that something? I love seeing folks I know. Hehe.
Talk soon!
Thu
Twitter: johnmcnally54
says:
Good to have you back Thu, I’ve been missing you.
I didn’t realise that there was a relationship between long/short posts and comments, but I’m not surprised. Long posts require a lot of time investment by the reader. I’ve always aimed for around 250 words, but if I started again I think I would go for 400/500 words, that way a post can be used as an article. At the moment I have to combine two old posts, to get one new article.
I have a similar traffic gathering project to you, though I haven’t started on social-networking sites yet. I have been tracking my Alexa and Google statistics but I didn’t know about websitegrader, so thanks for that Thu, I shall be looking there next. 8)
Looking forward to your launch, but don’t forget to post regularly, I shall be checking up on you.
John
John McNally´s last [type] ..5 Topics for Blog Posts
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Why thank you John!
Missing you too! After last month, it was really evident to see the relationship between the frequency of posts and ranking. I believe if I did more social bookmarking and commenting, it would of helped. However, I stuck mainly to bookmarking and had less stumbles this month, hence the minor drop in rank.
From a blogger’s perspective, long posts means love. You have seen me aim for it daily. Thus, that’s just me. While there is debate on long vs short, I aim for long.
There’s more tools which I use too. I have done a review of them for the month of July. Check it out at: http://www.bloggingfor.info/july-month-in-review-plus-tools-you-can-use-to-track-your-site/
And yes, after the mailing list, this blog will be back on the regular posting.
Talk soon John!
Thu
Twitter: Findmyblogway
says:
Hi Thu,
Thanks for the mention. You have been very supportive to me and i am just glad to contribute a little to your blog growth
Congratulations to you being featured in Kristi’s 125 fearless woman bloggers. Great to see you and some of others whom i know up there.
It seems December is going to be busy for you. Hope to see you fulfilling your goals soon.
Lye
Lye Kuek Hin´s last [type] ..Don’t Trust SEO “Professionals”
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Thanks Lye,
Always a pleasure to be around great company. I believe every little bit helps and each one that is acknowledged makes it all the more merrier!
I was also surprise to be featured as well. That will be something to remember for a long time! Great to see you here and appreciate you taking out some time to say hi!
Looking forward to talking again soon
Thu
That’s impressive you’ve been making huge improvements. I’ll certainly write a review for your blog on alexa after i remember what the password to my account is lol
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Hey there Peter,
Long time no see!
That would be awesomely great. It wouldn’t even hurt to create another too right. 
Thanks for the kind words as well.
Twitter: nittyGriddyBlog
says:
Thu,
Where do I begin? I love this post! Love it, love it, to the point where I wish you could write one for me just like it hahaha. I might be joking but there’s a lot of seriousness in that laugh
.
First and foremost, thank you for mentioning my little 1 year blogoversary post. It’s been an awesome year so far – although I got a late start in getting the hang of things – but I’m looking forward to the upcoming 6 months. Lots of goals that I’ve set that I need to bust my booty to achieve.
Second – Congrats on being of the 125 Fearless Female Bloggers! YaY to you and YaY to all the lovely ladies you mentioned! What an honor to be on that list of powergals.
Third – About posting less. Ever since I started realizing what ‘real’ blogging was all about and the niche that I wanted to be in, I’ve been posting a heck of a lot less. What used to be 20 to sometimes 50 posts a month, I’m now at around 10. Oddly enough, not only did my Alexa ranking improve but the amount of views and comments also increased by a lot. I suppose that’s where ‘quality over quantity’ comes into play
including a few other essential points such as the more you get mentioned somewhere and the more people appreciate your work, the more they’ll come or come back! Tons to add here but I’m making an effort to keep my comments less than a page long lol 
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Fourth – Adam’s review of you and your kick-ass blog couldn’t be more spot on – and then some! Because every time I visit your site, I learn a heck of a lot as well. It makes me look at my own blog to try to put things into perspective – and boy, do I have a ways to go. Well done and rock on Thu!
All that to say, Mabrouk (congratulations in Arabic) Thu! You truly are an example for many – including me! I need to sit down and dissect this blog post of yours to learn how it’s really done – “The Thu way”.
Cheers to your continued success. Your Alexa ranking is still very impressive! But nothing compared to the exemplary character and content that you showcase here with every new and insightful post
.
Ingrid Abboud´s last [type] ..SuperPost Sunday – Weekly Roundup 6
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Hello Ingrid!
Thanks so much for the awesome comment! It’s bloggers and even individuals like yourself that I find my worth online. I think when we all start, we question our value and even vision towards the future. I jumped into blogging looking for a means to an end but what I found was, there was this awesome network I’ve never tapped into before.
So not only has it made me a better person overall, I think, the social aspect of blogging is something remarkable. Just being yourself, sharing what you know and being creative as well as including effort to make money somewhere down the line is all that matters.
I’m really glad to see you part of the fearless women as well. Thus, I wasn’t kidding when I said, there’s no life to the party without an Ingrid! LOL.
Talk soon hun,
Thu
Twitter: stevescott1
says:
Good stuff Thu.
I always like looking at statistics. I am not sure why it fascinates me so much, but it does. Anyhow awesome work. It is good to see you are still making some traction though posting less (and giving you time to do more)
Just as a heads up, I have a pretty in depth post on email types that you might want to check out. Think it was last monday’s post. I think I have some pretty good infor on different types of emails to send for broadcast/autoresponder sequences. They might be helpful going into the future since you are going live with you mailing list soon. Linked it in commentluv in case you want to check it out.
Steve@Lifestyle Design´s last [type] ..6 Affiliate Marketing Emails that MAKE You Money
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Hi Steve!
How’s it going? Thanks for the post, will do check out. In fact, I’ve been so behind with catching up with my fellow network, as you can see, this mailing list has got me on a standstill.
Nonetheless, it is good effort. Can’t wait until launch. Will read the article and implement what I can!
Thanks so much Steve for all your support!
Thu
Thu! It’s absolutely insanity to the awesomeness.
The report is so over the top that it sets the bar for others – so much more than my dinky reports haha.
It’s good to see that you’ve got so much done in Nov. – now make December even better! Challenge! Do it!
Twitter: thublogger
says:
I always want my friends and readers to see what it is that I’m seeing, thus, by giving more, you can get a full round picture. As long as you get what you want, I think that’s great. Great to see you back from your trip Murray!
Twitter: gastrategist
says:
Hi Thu, I also find these posts interesting. Where did you find the info on how much your blog is worth? I am curious what mine is now that my Alexa rank is below 300k. I had 7 posts last month which was on the low side for me but the rank was fine.
Adam reminds me that I still need to write that review for you.
Jennifer Barry´s last [type] ..Stranger in His Own Land- Part 9
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Hey Jenny! I got the info from http://www.websiteindepth.com.
Each month, I aggregate my information from a couple of sources:
- Alexa
- Google Analytics
- Website Grader
- Website in Depth
It’s nice to see your site in various places so that you’re not one-sided. Hope this helps!
Talk soon,
Thu
Twitter: DanielSharkov
says:
Heya Thu,
You have a point there that the more you post the higher your Alexa rank, but the less engagement. Finding a good balance is the best thing to do in that case. Visitors just won’t be able to catch up with all of your articles when you’re posting too much. The 10 articles you made aren’t a bad number in my opinion though.
Now on the stats. You have got some amazing numbers there. The average time on site you are getting is more than great – 10-20 minutes is something I can only dream of, for now at least LOL. The bounce rate is pretty decent as well.
Very useful overview. Thanks for sharing all the comprehensive information!
Daniel Sharkov@Blogging Tips´s last [type] ..The Power of Backlinking as an Off-Page SEO Technique
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Hey Daniel,
Great seeing you again. Thanks for the kind words. I think the end and beginning of the month is always exciting because you see the whole picture and not really one thing. This lets me know that if I have accomplished my goals or what I can push myself to work on more. Overall, it’s a great concept to measure your progress.
Good seeing you again!
Twitter: richescorner
says:
Hi Thu,
looks like Blogging for is doing very well in the stats. I always find these posts informative as I can see exactly what is working and really learn from what others are doing. I’m looking forward to your mailing list launch. December’s going to be a busy month.
Richard´s last [type] ..How to Promote Your Blog Article
Twitter: thublogger
says:
You bet it is Richard. I’ve been hit with random blows to my time as the holiday was a bit distraction
Overall, I’m back and ready to roll. It’s gonna be killer marketing the mailing list. Looking forward to hearing from your POV as well.
Cheers!
Thu
Wow Thu, this is an indepth report, I had never seen report in such indepth in other blogs. Good to see you making getting positive results. Best of luck for December
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Thanks Alex!
Welcome to Blogging For! I try to cover from as many resources because most bloggers rely on Alexa and Analytics, there are also third party services such as WebsiteGrader.com or WebsiteinDepth.com that has a lot more awesome features which you might want to see as well. Thus, reports like these are exciting because you know what works and what doesn’t.
Appreciate you taking out the time to share your thoughts! Please come again.
Cheers!
Thu
Hi Thu,
This sure is a very detailed November 2010 review of your blog! Thanks for sharing it with us. Hope you get more improved stats on December.
Felicia @ No Deposit Poker´s last [type] ..Durrr wins 357k
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Hey there Felicia!
How’s it going? Thanks for the kind words. While I wish I pulled some rank more, I received instead lots of comments. Thus, I can’t really complain.
I’m hoping too to get better results. Appreciate you coming back and sharing your thoughts. 
Hi Thu,
Thank you for replying back also on my comments. I really love coming back to your site. I get to learn new things and the blog owner is very smart and nice too.
Felicia @ No Deposit Poker´s last [type] ..PokerStars SuperStar Showdown- Haxton to play against Isildur1
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Why thank you! Great to have you join in the conversation on the topics as well.
Twitter: esoftload
says:
you are going great in blogosphere and hope you rock this month with your plan.. keep it up….
esoftload´s last [type] ..Interview With SPradeep Kumar Founder Of HellBoundBloggers
Twitter: thublogger
says:
Thanks so much esoft!
You rock too! That looks interesting, an interview with another blogger.
Thanks for sharing your new article with us! Hehe, at the moment, I am definitely behind schedule, but all plans must fail to refine. I’ve actually got a lot done just focusing. 
That’s basically what it all narrows down to. Choose one and work the heck out of it.
Appreciate your kind words and thanks for coming through with your two cents!
Thu
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