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I’ve said from the start that I will only do these monthly reports up until the site turns one so we’re getting closer and closer to that mark now. If you’re new here, each month I share the exact websites and keywords that sent traffic to ViperChill over the course of the previous month.
May, in all honestly, did not include much “ViperChill time” as I had my 21st birthday and a lot of coaching clients to work with. However, June is a new month and I’m ready to get back into work-mode and see where I can take this blogging case study.
Overall Traffic
- Visits: 44,944
- Pageviews: 76,605
- Avg time on Site: 2 mins 24 seconds
May had an extra 12,000 visits and 16,000 pageviews compared to April so I can’t complain with that. Most of the growth did not just come from StumbleUpon but there was a huge increase in search engine traffic as well. The articles written in May, were:
- How I Generated One Years Worth of Content Ideas in One Hour, and You Can Too
- How to Build a Superblog: Insights from the Technorati Top 10
- The Secret to Growing Your Blog Twice as Fast with Half the Effort
- 21 Lessons I’ve Learned After 21 Years Alive
- 6 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging 4 Years Ago
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 May:
- Direct: 13,350
- StumbleUpon: 12,038
- Google (organic): 4,978
- Twitter.com: 2,407
- Google.com: 1,694
- SmartPassiveIncome.com: 1,310
- Facebook.com: 567
- Rentier-blog.pl: 478
- Thirdtribemarketing.com: 390
- Farbeyondthestars.com: 306
Top Referring Keywords
There were a total of 5,093 visits via 1,370 keywords this month. The top 10, were:
- ViperChill: 924
- Viral marketing: 584
- viper chill: 288
- wordpress seo: 258
- cloud living: 215
- guest blogging: 126
- glen allsopp: 122
- site:viperchill.com outsource: 97
- hqhow: 75
- social media strategy: 60
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
Monitoring your subscriber stats is probably the best way to track how well your audience is growing. Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor.
- May 1st: 6,239
- May 31st: 6,866
- Change: +627
Not quite the 900+ subscriber growth we’ve experienced in each of the last two months but I did literally nothing to promote the site in May so I’m very happy with the growth. Although the site received more traffic than last month, a lot of it was from sources like StumbleUpon which doesn’t convert very well, so the ratio of traffic to subscribers doesn’t really match up.
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Personal Update
May saw me open up coaching for people who wanted me to personally look at their websites and I was amazed at the response. I ended up with so many people paying for my services that I’ve actually taken down the page altogether. I simply don’t have time to keep accepting new work with the amount of people who have now booked sessions with me.
Right now I don’t think I will re-open coaching once I have worked with everyone who has already paid but I’ll see how I feel once I get to that stage. Most people think coaching is easy work because you get a lot of money for the hour you consult, but they miss the initial 30-60 minutes where you write down what you’re going to say on the call and the emails that you follow up with afterwards.
On a personal level I have allowed my social life to take up far too much of my time this month. That’s to be expected with my birthday and other things going on, but I need to get back into working mode, as that’s the sole reason I’m in South Africa. It is going to affect some of my relationships but I have more important things to focus on right now.
(I do know about work-life balance, I just get better results when I go hardcore).
Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes; this is my favourite photo from my main party if you’re interested in that kind of thing.
Otherwise, here’s to a successful month ahead!
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Wow.. awesome stats man. These is really great achievement.
!
Btw. you are looking awesome in that photo
Thanks for sharing this awesome report. Great buddy.
Haha, thanks Devesh.
Looking forward to seeing your own stats report
hehe
. I would love to share it..
Btw. the girls on your pic is really cuttyy ;P
Which one do you like the best?
hmm last one ~~ in your right side. really cutyy huhh :p !!
PS. Please delete my duplicate comment.
Good choice. That’s my gf
Deleted.
ha ha alright Glen! Asians are definitely exotic and sexy. Congrats on your birthday, site and girlfriend!
Cheers!
Haha; I really didn’t expect so many comments about the picture. Wow.
Hope your new site is going well buddy!
Excellent stats. South Africa? Going to watch any of the World Cup?
Andrew
Yep. I have tickets for the England vs Algeria game and then probably just watch the rest on TV
Cool! And pleased Newcastle are back in the premiership…they need to be there.
Andrew
Indeed. I have a bad feeling we’ll just go straight back down though. We’ll see
So which of the three in the photo did you shag at the end of the night?
Do you normally leave comments like this on blogs?
Just interested, man. You obviously like that photo for a reason.
Maybe the others are bad
My girlfriend reads these comments, so I’ll let her answer if she wants to.
Super impressive stats and a serious inspiration for a number of reasons. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I attack my main articles and I was impressed with how I got writing a manifesto across. Even if it doesn’t attract a massive number of comments, or anything at this point, I’m still really happy with the article.
I think that Writing the longer posts that are in more detail can become really satisfying.
Can’t wait to see where the blog study goes too. Oh and I think you did atleast a little of blog promotion in May. A little being a Third Tribe call with Brian Clark. That exposure could influence all statistics really. People in the Third Tribe are great users of stumbleupon, and twitter at least. Subtract any influence from Third Tribe and I think you still would be killing it though. So this awesome month isn’t from that one thing.
Hey Scott,
Congrats on your manifesto and I’m glad you found some inspiration here. I really did the third tribe call to connect with some of my favourite bloggers online and didn’t actually expect to get much traffic from it. That being said, it did send a decent amount my way.
That definitely doesn’t contribute to all of the growth here though. The month before last actually had very similar stats.
It’s absolutely amazing that this site has had such incredible success in readership in less than 1 year. I am also a big fan of your long, detailed posts packed with well thought out information. Some topics can get a quick post of a few hundred words and some topics need more.
Thanks Tyler,
I’m enjoying watching the site grow myself
Hi Glen,
As I just “Tweeted” this month has been interesting for our new startup business.
nice report – you are flowing with momentum, and that’s why you still get
kick-ass results, even when you not working hardcore on your site.
Cute Asians on your pic – can you handle them ?
Haha thanks Mars,
I won’t answer as 2 of the three girls may be reading this
(cont) sorry hit the enter button too early on last comment. As I was saying, a lot of our websites have seen increases in traffic and ranking this month. We religiously follow your advice when it comes to setting up wordpress on-site seo.
We have some bigger projects coming up now, for some national companies, and we’re nervous to say the least.
It is always genuinely fascinating and inspiring to read your blog posts, and congratulations on the improvement in rankings for viral marketing.
Hey Alex,
Yeah; I was a bit confused by your first comment.
That’s awesome! Thanks for the support
Good times brother
Indeed time to cut down on the partying, at least until the end of the year and we go conquer another country. Viperchill is going awesome and you’ll be on 10k before the end of the year!
Keep it up Sir.
Sounds like the plan dude. You need to help keep me on track!
Glen stop bragging about how many girls you attract, you just still can’t get laid as often as I do
haha, remember?
Anyway, keep up the good work
Heh, they are just my friends
No I don’t remember…Remind me?
Baie Dankie Mr. Bader.
Of course you don’t remember. There was a status updated you posted once while you were traveling and you said you were making out with many girls but weren’t getting laid that much. I was in Perugia, and sick of getting laid :p
Way too much information Adam. I have never written that on my Facebook?
Powerful stats. It really goes to show that you need a large marketing mix from traffic across many different areas, which will eventually flood you with customers. That’s a great feeling to be able to take down a site, because you have too many clients, isn’t it?
-Joshua Black
The Underdog Millionaire
Hey Joshua,
Definitely better than putting that time into the page and having nobody sign-up. I was very surprised with the response to be honest and it’s a shame I’ve had to take it down because I’m having to say no to people emailing me about it now.
Thanks for the comment!
Impressive traffic for an 8 month old blog Glen, nice job!
Thanks PA
Hey Glen, congrats on your success. I’m now looking at the picture… and I’m 100% convinced I’m living in the wrong part of the world. lol.
Good times!
Hahaha. One of the girls is like my sister so I won’t comment on attractiveness
Thanks for stopping by, Ron!
Glen,
I’m still trying to get the hang of SEO. Do you have a guide or reference that you would recommend? My site is largely image based, but I’m building a creative process program that will necessitate more writing.
http://www.slantlab.com/create/and-then-i-flat-lined/
Please take a peek and let me know what you think.
Hey Josh,
I have 3 articles live on SEO so far, you can find them here: http://www.viperchill.com/base/
Scroll down a little
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Great design. Based on the angle of the site, I don’t think SEO would be the best focus of your time.
Glen, I’m inspired. I wish you all the best this new month. I’ll work harder this new month too. I hope when this month ends, I can look by and smile.
See you later!
Thanks Seun,
I’m going to be checking up on you!
Hey Glen I am glad to see your stats growing. I bet that we can help the word spread also with all the readers, since this is like one of the most real blogs to read I think we should start forming a nice community of transparency online. I think you could really create this because of your realness.
So are you going to follow the several months of constant hardcore work with several months of constant hardcore fun?
I’m thinking about moving away from it all too as my social life tends to run my life at times.
Hey Tony,
Yeah. I think hardcore pretty much until the end of 2010 and then take around 6 months off.
I thought it would be easier to turn off your social life and return but people seem to get frustrated quickly and think you don’t care about them. I guess that’s what we have to go through
I think you just need to raise the price for the coaching. Then it can be a viable business I think. As long as you have _too much_ customers to service the price is too low
Hey Tobi,
Once I’ve cleared this backlog (that sounds like I don’t enjoy it, but I do) I’ll consider it; but I don’t see myself returning to it at this point. Who knows.
Awesome dude. Its amazing seeing your growth hopefully my site can get those big numbers someday
LOL – this comment stream has become all about Glens sex life! Ease up gents, theres a time and place for that…
Great work on the stats mate. Cant wait to see what you do with this blog. Its going to be an excellent launch pad for something epicly-awesome!
Haha
Thanks for the backup
I’m looking forward to seeing where I can take things with the site.
aha. very understanding, as always. no wonder you’re successful.
Glen,
I didn’t mean for that to come across as a shameless plug. I really just wanted your opinion and perhaps a tip on a good guide to SEO. I’m digging through your archives right now and I’m really learning a lot.
Great month Glen – well done indeed! And congrats on your 21st! Completely legal at last…but sheesh you really opened yourself up for abuse with the cute pic
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You’ve done the world wonders with all the effort put in so far, so getting such fantastic growth without much effort should be seen as payback for all the months you’ve put in loads but not seen the same results – may your unprecedented success continue indefinitely!
Thanks Randolph,
Yep I sure did. Now I’m just glad I didn’t share more
Hey Glen, That was an awesome stats. I’ve been following your blog for quite some time now, and I just noticed that the number of comments here are really adding fast compare to other blog sites, that means you are really getting lots of traffic here. Awesome man! Keep up the good work!
Regards,
Gary
Hey Glen, Im noob so whats the difference between google organic and google.com?
Hi Glen,
I love reading these reports. It’s nice to see you have a good understanding of where your traffic comes from and a good balance of traffic sources. Congratulations on all you’ve achieved with your blog.
Allan
Hi Glen,
This is really great! I am very happy to see you progressing. You have really been a great source of inspiration for me, i will be adopting your posting style on my blog soon, i am tired of writing rubbish and i don’t think i should write to fill in the gap – in a nutshell, i might only write 3 posts a month if that is what it takes.
Thanks a lot,
-Onibalusi
Is this a blog about how to blog? If so, sweet! That seems to be one of the keys to success. And to also make people believe they can do it too.
Cheers, Sam
I don’t think it’s one of the keys to success.
I just sold a blog that was solely about personal development and had 6,600 feed subscribers.
Glen, now you’re making me jealous.
Your visitor stats are pretty amazing for a blog only 8 months old, I think. I wish I had the same amount of subscribers you do
How come you intend to stop with the reports once VC turns one?
Thanks.
It’s just a plan I’ve had from day one. I think people will read into the fluctuations too much for an ongoing report.
Congratulations on the traffic, the Google Search Traffic will come in time, just need to keep generating content and make sure the META Description has an optimized set of keywords in the paragraph to help improve this area. 78% of my 20k traffic comes from Google Search with this method.
Great stats. I love when blogs and sites are so transparent and release detailed stats, especially when the site has so many subscribers and visitors as yours does. One quick question, what hosting do you use on all your wordpress blogs and sites?