Wrapping Up July

Many things have happened to my blog this July. And it somehow made me happy despite all of my problems in life. Here are some of what happened to my blog the past month.

For the first time in two years, I have been able to reach two targets for my blog: One, to be able to reach 10,000 visitors and well the other one is to reach 15,000.

And so for the first time, I have been able to reach both targets within a month. And as of yesterday, I have already passed the 16,000 mark.

Yet, I am still hoping to get stable traffic to my website. Because there are still some days wherein there would be less visitors to my sites and some days where there is a sudden surge of visitors. On the average, I'm not getting more than a hundred visitors everyday which is my next target for this month. Last June, I have stopped using automated traffic sites because it is only a total waste of time and it only brings you little traffic. Except for LinkReferral which is a good site not just to bring in traffic but to link with other bloggers as well. And I'm hoping to get my target of 15,000 visitors a month before the year ends. Quite low compared to other blogs out there which receives those 15,000 visitors a week or even a day, but I guess its a good start.

So to help me reach that target, I've lately tried to focus on these three options:

Quality Content + Current Events: Lately, I've been trying much to write short but very educational and useful articles like my last post about the Philippine-American War. Well, this is also part of what I have learned about SEO. Using certain keywords can really drive traffic in. I signed up for Google Analytics two weeks ago and I'm really quite surprised to see my articles getting quite a number of direct traffic from search engines. And here are the top 5 articles that recieved unique targeted visits in the past 16 days (July 15-30):

• Pinay Sex Scandal Downloads For Your Cellphone Available Here!: 51 visits
• Bob Ong Had Just Re-Inspired Me: 31 visits
• Si Ka Pepe at Ang Kanyang El-Filibusterismo: 11 visits
• Gloria Arroyo Is No Longer the President of the Philippines: 7 visits
  
• The Philippine-American War: 5 visits

It is not already surprising to find my 'pinay sex scandal' topic to be the most popular article in my blog. Quite a lot of bloggers have already joined the bandwagon of cleaning up the image of Pinays in cyberspace and a lot of them recieved a lot of visits thru different search engines because of those keywords. Well, perverts may be sad to find none of these 'scandals' in these sites, but bloggers are really really happy. (like me, hehehe..)

LinkReferral:Just like what I've said before LinkReferral really helps me to build up my Technorati Authority by exchanging links with other bloggers. It also drives you some traffic and unlike other traffic boosting sites, it's all manual. You are the one who gets to see the site, drop some reviews on it or add it as your favorite. LinkReferral has also categorized the sites so that you can choose on what type of sites you would want to see. If you see that a site is miscategorized, you can report it to them so that it can be removed or relocated to its category.

Entrecard: This is really a great service for all bloggers. Helps you build your social network and I get to see a lot of my fellow Filipino bloggers here.

And here are my site stats as of July 31:

• 16.,362 visits since July 2006 (carry over from my First Blog)
• 13, 050 visits since 15 November 2006 according to ClustrMaps (starting from my Second Blog)
• 313 direct traffic (since 15 July 2008)
• 121 visits via search engines (since 15 July 2008)
  
• 11 readers
• Ranked 325,621 site on Alexa
• Technorati Authority of 58
• Earned more than $20 via AdBrite (I'm hoping to recieve my first payout of $15.17 next month)
• Total of 50 posts in this blog and 61 comments (315 posts in all of my blogs - see it on my blog network)

And thanks to all of my Top Entrecard Droppers:

Thanks for dropping by. :D And this month, I hope I can launch my small contest. :D

Happy Weekend!!!

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