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They say time flies by when you’re writing awesome blog posts (;)) and I certainly believe ‘them’ as November disappeared before I was even ready for it. And while it is the start of a new month, it’s also time for another ViperChill monthly report.
These monthly reports serve a number of purposes. Firstly, I get to be transparent with you lovely people and allow you to use my blog as a ‘case study’ which can help you on your own journey. Secondly, I like to incorporate personal updates into my sites and the end of these posts allows me to do just that. Finally, I just find the stats of other people ‘cool’ so assume some people must like reading them here.
Overall Traffic
- Visits: 11,744
- Pageviews: 20,903
- Avg time on Site: 2 mins 01 seconds
In case you wonder what I think about these stats then…I don’t. I really don’t care about them one way or the other. It’s nice to look at them each month but this website is not here for me to make money. Instead, it’s here to give something back. I’m not going to stress about the numbers and hopefully I’ll just watch them increase by writing remarkable content.
Top Referring Websites
Here are the top referring traffic sources for the month of November:
- Direct: 3,721
- StumbleUpon: 1,691
- Holykaw.Alltop: 1,312 (thanks Guy)
- Twitter: 1,109
- Problogger: 664 (thanks Darren)
- Google.com: 600
- Google (organic): 404
- PluginID: 215
- Ow.ly: 165
- HQHow: 115
Top Referring Keywords
There were a total of 436 visits via 159 keywords this month. The top 10, were:
- ViperChill: 177
- Viper Chill: 33
- glen allsopp: 15
- titleist logo: 13
- social media blog: 12
- social media chill: 9
- viperchill.com: 7
- glen allsopp viper: 3
- www.viperchill.com: 3
- 24 things to do when launching a new blog: 2
It’s nice to see that the brand of the site is easily being remembered and getting on people’s radar, but I expect traffic from larger, more popular terms shortly.
Subscriber Stats
With this blog, I’m not focusing on subscriber stats as much as I have with others. I still think it is an interesting metric though so I’m happy to monitor it here.
- November 1st: 2,549
- November 31st: 3,024
- Change: +475
I’m both surprised and happy with the growth of subscribers. If the current rate of growth continues, hat works out to be almost 6,000 subscribers in one year. However, I have had a number of blog posts go live on popular sites this month that have contributed to the growth.
I also ran a small experiment that meant I paid people with over 500 Facebook friends $10 to post a link to my RSS feed. I installed click tracking on this and my CPC (Cost per click) worked out at $1 which is awfully high. However, this is a personal recommendation from friends so I assume around 30% will have subscribed.
That’s not something I’ll do again, but it’s nice to test these things. That’s my job.
Personal Activity
Some of you will know that I both work and travel at the same time. Last week I left Newcastle, England and now live in an awesome apartment right in the center of Amsterdam (Netherlands). I’m staying here with my best friend and we’ve rented an apartment for two months. I’m really loving the lifestyle and the culture here right now and can definitely see myself coming back.
I’m very happy about the $1m case study I have started and really appreciate the awesome response from you guys. I admit that I’m struggling to get back into a good work / travel ratio now that I’m in a new country again. Right now, 90% of my time is spent travelling around, meeting locals and having new adventures. If I’m going to make 2010 a more successful year than 2009, I need to find a better mix between work and play.
Thanks again for reading ViperChill! That means you’re awesome.
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Glen, I think your not caring will have an “adverse” effect and if you are going to keep posting equally great content, the number of subscribers will easily exceed 10.000. Which means the growth will be rather exponential than linear.
Hi Viper Chill,
Thanks for being so much transparent and encouraging factor to all. Congrats for your blog traffic improvement. All the best for your $1000000 on-going keyphrase project. Waiting to see your success.
Awesome stuff Glen. Even though these numbers do not mean that much, they are always fun to look at and a way to keep track of what direction you’re heading. Keep em coming!
Hey Glen,
I started reading your content with the launch of Cloud Living, and it’s always really damn interesting. Keep up with your testing and post your results. Your case studies have been really educational and inspiring.
My top two blogs to check out every week are: Viper Chill and Smart Passive Income. Maybe because they both have that “personal” feel to it.
Anyway, enjoy Amsterdam. I hope to be doing what you’re doing, soon.
Those stats are very nice. Keep up the great work. I also can’t wait for more of your case studies. Greg Ellison
You are the awesome guy Glen, not the readers! You publish stuff that has so much value… for free! How awesome is that? I apply your advices everyday on my website… Enjoy Amsterdam!
Those are definitely cool stats … congrats.
Out of curiousity would you share how many sites you do have and do you work/maintain/etc all of them yourself or do you outsource some of the tasks, i.e., content?
best………….valentina
That’s a good idea for a future post Valentina!
Thank you
I say keep living it up in Amsterdam! Live should be more about play than work and what you teach allows that to become a reality.
My work feels like play once I get into it. Need to start being more responsible
I’ve subscribed to your blog, and I have to say it’s an awesome read. I’ve got 487 Facebook friends and I don’t mind posting a FREE link for you if you’d like. I get a lot out of your site and enjoy following your million $ blog project. I don’t quite know how to make money from my blogs, but your journey is very interesting to me.
Freakin love what you’re doing Glen. Your perspective rocks. Thanks for what you do.
You’re welcome Marcus, glad you’re enjoying it.
If only I could have that kind of traffic… I had something like 200 this month… 1.12$ from Adsense, compared to less then 100 2 months ago and 0.19 from Adsense loooool.
I am beggining to see progress in search engines not just for phrases I target. I had few longtail hits that showed me on top 5-6 positions this month.
Seems like “content is the king” saying is true after all. But backlinks still prevail, I get more traffic from links than from search engines…
…and it usually takes remarkable content to get the links.
Unless you want to spend money, of course.
- Glen
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Interesting idea with the Facebook promotion. What was your success rate when it comes to convincing people to post a link to your RSS feed?
I just posted it on Twitter and got replies from people who were interested, ignored by those who weren’t.
Nice and easy
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Hey they’re great numbers. I’ll follow along and see what else you’re up to … How long have you had the blog? Thanks for sharing. *SmiLes* Suzanne
Hi Suzanne,
I started the blog almost 3 years ago but relaunched it 6 weeks ago
- Glen
Oh wow! That’s awesome. On the Facebook/Twitter thing where you’re asking peeps to link to your feed … are you using a link to the RSS or the email subscription? I’m just not sure if I’d subscribe if I clicked a link and it went directly to a feed subscribe page … but I guess some would. What about linking them to a landing page that is a quick into and an explanation about what the blog is about … with an invite to subscribe? I use a Twitter landing page and I have increased my RSS by using it. Thanks again. *SmiLes* Suzanne
Best wishes on you stay in Amsterdam. I’m working my way up to a life leisure and travel. I still have a lot of work to do though. It’s interesting how your brand name has generated such decent traffic. I was recently going back and forth with myself over my brand name and all the stuff the SEO “gurus” tell you about having your keyword in the domain name. I feel better now. Congrats on your success!
How did you get a lot of readers from stumbleupon? You must be very active over there.
Just write good things. I have not logged in to the site in around 6 months.
Hi Glen,
I’m curious. How did you get on HolyKaw Alltop? who submits your content? I don’t know how it works but seeing the amount of referred traffic I should consider to think about it.
Another question is how you get traffic from problogger: commenting on the site, guest posts or with link love from Darren?
Thanks Glen for sharing your stats, very helpful.
See you.
On Alltop I wrote awesome content and then sent a link to the owner (Guy Kawasaki).
For Problogger, I wrote a guest post
linked to your site through Pat over at http://www.smartpassiveincome.com. Love your blog…
I know how to get the statistics for google analytics but how can I get the referring website and keyword statistics?
Thanks for a great blog.
On the left hand side of Google Analytics click on ‘Referring sites’ or ‘keywords’
Hi Glen
Nice to see you progressing at a very good rate. The facebook promotion idea is cool. If you tweak and track the results, you might find Gold.
I’m surprised at the number of visitors SU has sent you – 1691. SU traffic is pretty much dead for my blog unless many of them stumble an article, who are mostly new.
Hope you are having a great time in Amsterdam. Got used to the place and the people over there?
Ramkarthik
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