Well, December has passed and I actually just got back from holiday and my inbox was full of mails. It has taken me some time to go through and get things done. It’s time to reflect on what happened in the month of December and hope to give you guys a better perspective on Serradinho Blog.
Posts from the Month:
Well, if you are not new here, then you know I do weekly roundups of posts on a Monday. They have posts published on this blog as well as great reads from other bloggers.
- Serious Monday Roundup #20
- Serious Monday Roundup #21
- Serious Monday Roundup #22
- Serious Monday Roundup #23
Or you can view our monthly round up of posts Serious Monthly Roundup – December 2009.
Usage:
I know my site usage is not as high as other bloggers, but I have seen a decrease in stats from last month and I know it has to do with posting less.
- Visits: 4,925 (Previous – 5,015)
- Pages: 11,214 (Previous – 14,222)
- Pages/Visit: 2.28 (Previous – 2.84)
- Bounce: 63.86% (Previous – 63.17%)
- Average time: 3:43 (Previous – 5:04)
- New visits: 64.35% (Previous – 64.25%)
Banner ads:
These are banners in my sidebar and below the comment form. The banner ads range from 125×125 and 115×30. I see that Thesis and StudioPress are taking the lead and I even made my first sale for StudioPress.
- Thesis: 214
- StudioPress theme: 170
- Free Pixel site: 56
- Elegant theme: 51
- WordPress Now: 47
Traffic:
- Google / Organic: 40.49%
- Direct: 18.54%
- Feedburner referal: 5.99%
- yahoo / Organic: 3.25%
- diythemes.com referral: 2.17%
Browsers:
As you can see from the stats below, Fx is taking the lead by far and there is no real competition. I see Chrome and Safari are getting kind of close, seems to be a good battle.
- Firefox: 63.76%
- IE: 15.43%
- Chrome: 9.44%
- Safari: 7.68%
- Opera: 2.19%
Free Downloads
As some of you already know, I have many free downloads available ranging from ebooks, plr articles, images and graphics, WordPress and Thesis tutorials (new category added). The total downloads for the month was over 5,100. Below are a few stats that might interest you.
Overall Totals:
- Total Hits: 85,101 (Previuos – 79,995)
Category Totals:
- eBook Hits: 29,607 (Previuos – 28,028)
- PLR Articles Hits: 22,426 (Previuos – 21,547)
- Images and Graphics Hits: 7,523 (Previuos – 7,384)
- WordPress Hits: 24,158 (Previous – 21,914)
- Thesis Tutorials: 1,387 (Previous – 1,014)
So make sure you stop by and never miss any new downloads, use them or share them. It’s cool by me 
Income:
- Services Rendered: $785 (Overseas clients)
- Services Rendered: $342 (South African clients)
- Thesis Sales: $28
- StudioPress Sales: $13
- Google Adsense: $15
That makes my total income for December 2009, a killer of $1183. This was high and I was very happy with the results and hope that the coming months would be the same or even better.
Anyways, my traffic from search engines is doing well for me, thanks to you all
Other Interesting Posts:
- Monthly Roundup – February 2010
- WordPress & Thesis theme Enhance Serradinho Blog
- January 2010 Flashback Report
- Serious Monday Roundup #26
- Serious Monday Roundup #25
WordPress & Thesis Customizations
This webiste is using Thesis theme & WordPress. I can create you a similar website or update yours.
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Article by George Serradinho
I am the proud owner of Serradinho and have made this my second home. I'm into blogging, downloads, WordPress and the internet in general. I also love meeting and helping others and learning new techniques.
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Way to go George. You seems to develop every month and I’m certain 2010 will become your year.
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@Stefan – thanks man, I know 2010 will be great for many bloggers out there, not just for me.
George, great numbers! I discovered some really cool stuff on your downloads page so thanks a million! That is an awesome list of plugins!
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@Keith – no problem at all, glad to be of help.
Thats great buddy. I m glad to knw that last month was the highest income month for u. All the best for ur future
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The way you explained your achievement make to get surprised. You are doing a great job friend.. Best wishes for you…This motivated me to take a look of this in my blog too..
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@Deepika – most blogs are doing a monthly post showing best posts, stats, income, etc. Maybe try it and show what you want to.
That is still my dream George and I think only bounce rate 63% is my concerns about your stats, that is not good for PPC advertisement but sometimes are good for CPA and PPA. My advice is that you should target to new social networking sites like Digg, Mixx and Reddit. I encourage you to put Digg close to Twitter then readers can share it easily rather putting it at the end of your post in smaller corner, not visible to most of readers
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@Tinh – thanks for the advice, will see what I can do. Always appreciate feedback from readers/visitors.
Nice Stats George, Congrats on your first sale with StudioPress.
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@Sahil – thanks buddy, I was also shocked when I was notified about it. Made me smile a bit.
Woohoo! a whooping 1k $…Thats a perfect money making Christmas and the cool start to your New year..Hope you make more and more in the future.
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@Tech-Freak Stuff – thanks man, appreciate the words. Hoping 2010 starts off the same and continues through the year.
Thank you for showing all detail statistics on your blog. Well your earning is very good. Wish you all the best.
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First visit and all I can say is it’s an awesome start.. wish you luck all the way through.. and who are those clients? online or offline
A lil too curious..
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@Bangaloreloka – mostly online clients with services I provide, but I have had 1 offline client.
Congratulation to you! You have done a very good job in make money blogging!:)
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Wow!!! 1k dollar is a hefty income. Good going. Work hard on getting more se traffic.
@Ricky – thanks and I will try harder for SE traffic. I need to work on bounce rate as well.
Nice Income George Keep it Up
Your income rose significantly this time.
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Wow man such a big sum of money from website.
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45% organic search traffic is cool, its always a good feeling to see search traffic. The income figures are very much impressive,
congrats,
@Uttoran Sen – thanks, my search engine traffic is rising as well as my income. It’s a good feeling my friend
Your traffic dropped not because of less posting I guess, I noticed that most of the bloggers experienced the drops during December due to Christmas and New Year. My traffic dropped a bit for December too.
2010 is a good year and we’re going to work harder! Remember the 10k comments challenge haha!
Cheers,
Lee
@Lee Ka Hoong – you have a valid point, I guess everyone was out and about. Lets see how January goes. Thanks for stopping by
HI George
Great earnings Man..Congrats
I was very surprised to see just $15 from Adsense. But you are doing great on Services part.
I was just interested in ur Bookmark/Share plugin/code.
If u cud mail me the code/plugin name for the same..
Thanks In Advance
Atul
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@Atul – I have coded it and you should be able to see my source code for the html and then check my css styling for it. Let me know if you still need help.
Seems like you had a really great month! After reading about your freebies and the traffic it receives, it makes me want to consider doing something similar.
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@Tom – my freebies are taking over at a rappid rate and I’m still shocked at the stats myself. Seems loads of users like things for free, who doesn’t?
Hi george.
Congratulations. Look like you’re doing great in every type of visitor. BTW do you know what is the yellow type mean in that Google visitor chart? Is it from feeds? I am just having that a few months in my analytics.
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@lunaticg – I’m not sure, will have to go have a look and see for myself.
Looks like that is quite a good achievement.. Congrats.. From your income rep, it seems like your taking client work right?
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@AffiliateHat – I’m probably going to see a small drop in my services as I’m going to concentrate on my own thesis skin.
First of all Congrats on your monthly income of $1183 and you know what? Your stats are not as bad as you think. In fact they are much better than many blogs that I know. Cheers
@TechChunks – I know my stats are not that bad, but I also know that I could increase it by at least 10 fold if I really put 1000% work in. Maybe in time, I will hit the 100,000 page views mark.
Traffic decrease is expected due to holiday season but the good thing is you earning pretty good amount of money.
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@Arafat – thanks man, I was also happy with the income last month. Had my best month every
Nice income. What kind of service does you provide?
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@Jayce – I offer a few services, open a post and you will see a greyish box which has a link to my services. Go have a look and let me know if you need something done.
I never imagine that we could make a livng just from rendering services.
How much do you charge for the service? You never mentioned it on the service page.
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@Diabetis – well, it depends on what is required from me. Depending if a customization service or installation, etc the price will be low or high. Some of my customizations I do is for free as it’s more of a small change, while others are huge and take more time. If it takes me less than 5 minutes, I would not charge anything (more of a favor).
It seems that the best way to earn online is to offer a service.
That is a great stats!
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@Palabuzz – it’s one of the best ways I have found.