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I wasn’t going to post this as it is quite delayed, but this blog wouldn’t be a very good case study if there were a month missing from my stats reporting. Especially if I’m only doing them for 12 months. Each month I reveal the websites and keywords that drove traffic to ViperChill, and share some personal insights into what is going on in my life.
I don’t care about the stats and don’t have any goals, but instead view this as a great way to help you all see how I’m growing my blog and the kind of traffic sources you can use to do the same. Let’s look at the numbers, shall we?
Overall Traffic
- Visits: 34,196
- Pageviews: 57,077
- Avg time on Site: 2 mins 14 seconds
Every time I publish a new article, there’s always a spike in the stats for the site. With that in mind, it’s obvious to see why this month had less traffic than most, although the figures are still rather high for writing so little. The article written in July, was:
Here at ViperChill there are a lot less articles published than most sites, but typically these articles are 2,000-3,000 words and cover topics in massive detail. You could say that we prefer signal over noise.
Top Referring Websites
Here are the top referring traffic sources for the month of July:
- Direct: 10,337
- StumbleUpon: 9,571
- Google (organic): 5,337
- Google.com: 911
- Twitter.com: 754
- Socialmouths.com: 686
- SmartPassiveIncome.com: 551
- Farbeyondthestars.com: 400
- Pluginid.com: 340
- Facebook.com: 335
Top Referring Keywords
There were a total of 5,629 visits via 1,434 keywords this month. The top 10, were:
- ViperChill: 928
- wordpress seo: 580
- viral marketing: 525
- social media strategy: 248
- viper chill: 230
- guest blogging: 138
- hostgatorestonia.com: 102 (Bug?)
- viperchill anchor text: 99
- glen allsopp: 98
- seo wordpress: 90
While search engine traffic is still a tiny portion of the traffic that arrives at ViperChill, it is growing steadily month on month with the number of referring keywords increasing by another 25%.
Subscriber Stats
Feedburner is so erratic that I just can’t take it that seriously anymore. Despite the current flaws in the system, I will continue to report on the numbers that it gives me. Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor.
- July 1st: 7,543
- July 31st: 8,174
- Change: +631
For writing so little, and having a lot less traffic than most months, July didn’t turn out too badly at all in terms of feed growth. If I managed to achieve this every month, that would be a growth of 7,200 subscribers in just one year, which I don’t think many people would complain about.
If you’re reading this in a feed reader or inbox, thanks for subscribing!
Personal Update
It feels like there are a lot less things to do and talk about in South Africa now that the World Cup is over. If you read my last post, you will see that I decided to make a big change in my life and move to Thailand. One of my best friends is staying there – though that is not the reason for my move – so that should make the whole experience even better.
I visited Thailand for two weeks in 2007 and loved the place so I’m looking forward to getting back into the Bangkok vibe. As for why I’m leaving South Africa, I really just feel like it’s time to move on. I’ve loved my time here, have tons of awesome friends and a great girlfriend, but if you don’t feel right in a place, no matter what you have around you, you’ll always feel like something is missing.
I’ll be there in less than a fortnight, and I’ll be sure to update you all with pictures on the next monthly report.
Thanks for all of your support and patience for July. The rest of this year is going to rock!
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Hi Glen,
Awesome stats as always.
I had a question:
What’s the difference between
Google (organic): 5,337
Google.com: 911
I mean I know the organic one, but what does the second one mean?
Congratulations on your plan to move to Thailand. Hoping to see some pictures of Thailand in your next update!
Kindest,
Nabeel
The second one is from sites like Google Reader, where a lot of people read the content of the blog
I always wondered this too but never bothered asking. Thanks.
You’re unstoppable:) I just posted my one year stats too and they look a bit puny compared to these… Lol. At least there’s a definite upward movement though!
Haha; they’ll definitely grow Annabel, don’t worry about that
Thanks for the comment!
PS: Glen, I *think* you missed my comment on the last post ‘VIP Access’. If you didn’t, then please ignore this comment.
There’s a ton of comments there. What did you ask?
P.S. I keep editing your comments to remove your ‘create your first website’ text. This will be the last time.
Nice to have such a growth, without doing that much (I think it is still enough). Your past may be equal to the future, or at least, that is what we (the subscribers) believe!
Good luck with moving Glen!
Thanks Stefan,
Appreciated as always
Ooh good luck with your move Glen. I love Asia, so I can’t blame you for wanting to move.
A friend of mine recently moved back to Canada after living in South Africa too. I love these kinds of personal updates. Oh, and congrats on the stats – nicely done!
Woah,
Long time Nathalie! How are you?
Thanks!
goood stats as always.
Need to put my game to a higher level to match those.
Have an AWESOME time in Thailand. The food is mind blowing, and the electricity in the air…whoosh, life’s burning bright in Bangkok.
Hopefully the protests will be few and far between
Cheers Mars
Awesome starts, as always. You’re really doing awesome work Glen
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And Good luck with moving.
Thanks for sharing.
~Dev
Glen, wish you the best of luck in Thailand. Hope to have you back fulltime soon
Cheers
Patrick
Thanks for the update Glen! Guess you’re disproving that whole “YOU MUST POST 3x PER WEEK OR YOUR AUDIENCE WILL NEVER COME BACK!” thing.
Hi Glen, I am a french blogger and I do publish my stats monthly as well as the money earned from my blog too, last month I had 34 000 pageviews and 350 euros earned, I am working while travelling too, right now in Ukraine (sounds nasty, doesn’t it
)
I’ve got a question for you, how do you do to get an apartment ? when you’re staying for a short term in a country it can be a hassle to find one, I tried in Poland but prices were really too high for a one-month rental, thus I am stuck in youth hostels
see what I mean ?
Thanks for sharing the stats, Glen. Looking forward to reading more articles in future months, hopefully.
Hopefully?
Glen
Your stats the way you laid them out were awesome, believe it or not I list my stats on my blog..but not the traffic side of it..just the income part.
Also I see Pat at SmartPassiveIncome.com does the same thing, I do think this is an special way to connect with your readers an give them an more insight into your world of marketing.
Thanks Glen
“TrafficColeman “Signing Off”
Pat stole it from me
I’ve been doing it for almost a year now and really just do it because I would like to see those stats from other bloggers, so think that people must like to see them from me.
Thanks for the comment
You know what? I think he feasted up to it in the interview you did with him. I haven’t listen to it just yet, but I will here in a min.
Your doing good things Glen..
“TrafficColeman “Signing Off”
Glen,
Thanks for the updates…and most of all, good luck on your move to Thailand. I hope your journey goes smooth and your transition is safe.
Take care,
Brandon
Thanks Brandon,
I hope things are well your site.
Those are great stats. Thank you for continuing to share them with us. This also goes to show that you do not have to create content every single day in order for new people to discover you as well as for people to come back and look at the old stuff.
-Joshua Black
The Underdog Millionaire
Very true Joshua, I’ve surprised myself with a few things I’ve discovered since starting this blog.
Thanks for the comment
Hello Glen!
I know this blog has no goals, but why you do not like his other projects and invest some dollars in links to your main keyword: “Viral Marketing”?
Thanks!
I have invested quite a lot of time into that phrase (guest posts). I don’t think the $$$ are necessary. I want it to be a natural graph for links with that phrase.
Glen understand! I’m sure your good work will do it naturally!
It looks like you were rolling that tiny snowball for a while and now that it’s huge, there’s no stopping it–you’ve got momentum, Glen!
You’ll probably end up loving Thailand. Your gf’s probably not happy about your move
Hi this is Glen’s girlfriend and yes i’m sad that he’s moving
but at the same time I’m happy that he’s able to do what he wants in life.
I’d say a +631 subscriber month would make anyone happy. Let alone someone who didn’t even try to get them. Good luck in Thailand! Can’t wait to see some pics.
Thanks Trent,
Appreciate the support!
So wait. To Glen’s girlfriend: Are you going with him? It sounds like you aren’t =o I don’t want to stir up drama on this comment stream, but I’m just wondering. To Glen “The King” Allsopp: Great stats again man. I know you never will, but I think it would be interesting to place a single affiliate link at the top of the blog (or adsense ad, but because you have a lot of regulars and SU readers it probably wouldn’t do that well) for a month and see how it goes.
- Alex
Haha. She’s at work now so can’t reply personally, but no she isn’t going with me.
I’m very close to releasing my first real product on the site, so I’ll see how that goes. I really don’t want to go down the affiliate route for this site.
Thanks for the comment, Alex!
Your stats are phenomenal! What do you suggest, however, for blogs that use more images than text? I get a measly 500 visitors a day and less than 150 subscribers. My blog will turn 1 this August 31.
Mike
Find some way to be original with your artwork. Maybe team up with bloggers in your industry and offer pictures in return for credit / links.
Look at Hugh McLeod as an example of someone who shined through images.
Best of luck with the move. I have been moving around a little but yet to go to Thailand.
Stats look great, I should take a look at a yearly round up for my blog and see where I am with things.
Hey Forest,
Yeah, I think a yearly round-up will be great. I’m going to do one in a couple of months for ViperChill which should hopefully reveal quite a bit.
Congrats on the move Glen. Good luck in Thailand.
Thank you Ron
Hey man, I’m not a big stats guy, but just wanted to say that I enjoy your writing and I actually began writing longer posts because of your blog. The lengthy, in-depth articles feel much more natural to me, but I wasn’t writing them because all I saw were a bunch of 700-1000 word blog articles out there.
Keep it up and I’m looking forward to pics of the new hometown
~Mike
Thanks Mike,
Good to know you like the longer articles!
Glen,
How did you build such readers and subscribers? Purely through SEO?
Hey Caleb,
I think this article should help answer your question.
awwwwsomeness.
makes me feel a lil less wonky about not posting for 6 months
interesting to see your stats and comments above ‘cos i’ve lost less than 10% feed subscribers having not posted in six months, when i thought that i’d log in and it’d have dropped more than viagra subscriptions in a world without women 
totally feel and understand what you’re saying about ‘no matter what you have around you if it doesn’t feel right’… full respect.
touching that wilding is ‘one of your best friends’ but you don’t even call to jam hennymore. meh
holla before you leave ehy. i’mma be bleak if you leave without saying peaceout.
keep well bro
a
Good luck on your move to Thailand. With a different country and culture, probably we can see different perspective in your blog next time. Hope you will settled down well over in Bangkok
Must be hard to leave behind good friends and a girlfriend too, but I can understand your strong desire to be in your favorite environment. I’ve heard Bangkok is a cool place. I plan to visit one day.
Yeah, travelling does come with its downsides.
Thanks for stopping by, Jon!
Glen, to be honest I kind of jealous about your blog stats and from opinion, this ViperChill.com grows thousand of readers is all because ‘frequently update quality content’.
Really great post as usual Glen.
Thanks Aqif, though it’s actually not that frequent
Good to see you here.
Thanks for all your valuable posts Glen! You are a true inspiration. Basically, you’re the only one left that doesn’t give me an oddish gut feeling. Be it Steve Pavlina (with his divorce/DS/new Gf), Anthony Robbins (with his new Make Money Now program) or Eben Pagan with his NLP – cold appearance (not to mention that I find his programs non-valuable). I’d very much like to see a post on which people you model, what ressources you use, which books you read. Whose blogs are you subscribed to, which programs do/did you buy when learning about copywriting/marketing/product creation? A post on that would be awesome!
Thanks so much for being such a true and honest tribe-leader!
Keep up the good work!
-m
Wow Marie. Very high praise. Thank you!
I think that’s a great idea for a post. Thanks for the suggestion
Glen,
Thanks for linking me the article.
Glenn – I appreciate your openness… It’s great to understand how the experts are receiving their traffic flow and is perfect for developing traffic strategy.
Glen,
I just stumbled upon your blog today (although not through Stumble Upon, but another blog reposting one of your articles). I have read through a couple of your posts and have already benefited from them, so thank you =) I subscribed to your feed (which I read in Google Reader, so that gives you page views through Google.com?) Looking for to more useful and interesting posts from Thailand!
My heartiest congratulation for such achievement and wish for me such I will also get massive traffic
hostgatorestonia.com is actually the url of one of your commentors (another martin, i might add)…
all the best in bkk – just moved back to europe after two years there
Yeah the owner sent me an email after this post went live
Thanks!
We want a $1MM website update!
Sorry it’s late… good luck with the move though! I think you should come over to Australia for a holiday some time soon dude. I’ll show you the sights of the Gold Coast. It’s amazing here! It’s meant to be winter but its forecast 28 degrees Celsius tomorrow!
Sorry it’s late… good luck with the move though! I think you should come over to Australia for a holiday some time soon dude. I’ll show you the sights of the Gold Coast. It’s amazing here! It’s meant to be winter but its forecast 28 degrees Celsius tomorrow! Later dude..
Hi, I discovered you through the interview on the podcast you did with Pat Flynn.
Awesome podcast and nice job!
Do you have any tips on how to maximize StumbleUpon? I feel like I am really missing something?
Here you go: http://www.viperchill.com/stumbleupon-traffic/
Hi Glen
A fine month you had.
It’s amazing what good quality content can do for you – even if you only post just once!
All the best,
Chris
Nice stats, any chance of revenue stats?
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Are those stats that are from stumbleupon free traffic or paid traffic? i also would like to take advantage of stumbleupon traffic.
Good stuff as always, thanks, Mark.
Free StumbleUpon traffic
Many thanks for placing up this post, I believe everybody will thank you for that.