For those of you who like to be a little nosy like me, here are my blog stats for the month of August. 😉
My numbers haven’t changed much from July’s numbers. The number of sessions and users has increased slightly, about 2%. The number of Pageviews increased by 57%.
The greatest change was in the bounce rate. The bounce rate decreased by 97%! I had read on another blog that simply adding page breaks in your posts encourages readers to check out more of your content. Which appears to the case here. Although I really don’t understand how it works.
The top referrer for August is Facebook, accounting for a combined 37% of all sessions. This would be for links shared on my page mainly. I’ve also been a lot more active recently in my Google+ groups so that’s starting to show up in the list.
And interestingly, three of the top ten referrers are stops on the Perfect Pattern Parcel inspiration tour I took part in. (You can see what I made for the tour here).
The most popular post for last month was for the Uptown/Downtown dress I made and coming in close second (and considering it’s only been up for a week I’m impressed) is the post for the Perfect Pattern Parcel tour!
And now for the fun part (it’s my favourite part of the other blogger’s posts!) The earnings!
August 2014 Earnings:
Adsense: $ 0.27
Affiliates: $10.67
ShareASale: $ 5.00
Total: $15.94!
Yay! My Adsense earnings have doubled, exciting. I have now earned enough to buy a pattern (or two on sale) or a metre of fabric! (Or I’ll save it and next month maybe I can buy a pattern AND a metre of fabric?) 😉
Update: I ended up getting paid! I’m still on the fence about doing promotional posts though. Earlier in the month I had received an email from one my Shareasale affiliates about doing a little promotional post on a sale they were having and then by the end I’d get a $5 bonus. I figured I would try it out and see what would happen. Well, I decided to wait it out when I got a second email from them to do another similar post (that would pay out at the end of September) because I wanted to see if I’d be paid first for the first post and well, I haven’t been paid the $5 so I think I’ll hold off on doing promotional posts for them indefinitely.
Bloggy Goals for September:
- Showcase past pattern tests
- Write 1-2 tutorials for kid friendly crafts, or activities
- Do 1 recipe post
- Submit posts to more linky parties
- Add/update About Me pics
And exciting news! I’m going to be a contributor with FleeceFun! My first post comes up later in the month, wish me luck!
Till next time!
Side note: does anyone know what to do so that when I upload pictures they don’t darken? These graphics were white before. Argh!
Link up parties you might find me at:
Friday Favs Party, Inspire Us Thursdays, Tuesday Sews, We Did it Wednesday, You Made it and ♥ it!, Create Link Inspire @ Nap-time Creations, Worthwhile Wednesdays, Inspiration Monday Party, Craft Lover’s Link Party, SNAP, Threading My Way, Sew Many Ways
