Web Site Traffic Summary - April 2007
ADVERTISEMENTSMany readers have asked me to reveal my monthly earnings, but since I am not comfortable in revealing my earnings in public, I decided to reveal this site’s traffic for last month.
On March 29th, I created a robots.txt file for this site and a few days later I started noticing an increase in my web site traffic.
Web Site Traffic for March 29th
Web Site Traffic for March 29th was 4,724 pageviews from 2,651 unique visitors, according to Google Analytics.
Now since robots.txt will take time to take effect, maybe upto 14 days, let us check the web site traffic on April 13th.
Web Site Traffic for April 13th
Web Site Traffic for April 13th was 5,520 pageviews from 3,513 unique visitors. That is an increase of almost 1000 unique traffic.
Note: I made a few modifications to my robots.txt file after April 14th and my web site traffic kept increasing.
Web Site Traffic after 1 month of using Robots.txt file
Web Site Traffic on April 29th was 8,439 pageviews from 5,324 unique visitors. That is an increase of almost 3000 unique traffic!
Web Site Traffic for April 2007
Web Site Traffic summary for April 2007
Through the above graph you can see how my search traffic (mainly from Google) kept increasing.
My Thoughts
Though robots.txt helped me to increase traffic, I am sure that is not the only reason. I blogged more frequently too.
I wish to increase my web site traffic further by 6000-7000 unique traffic per day by next month. And yes…my earnings doubled 
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Posted on May 1st, 2007 | Category: Personal |
Online Technology
May 1, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Good work John, Hard work always pay.
latest technology
May 1, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Great improvement in traffic John ..your site rocks..
Bat
May 1, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Thanks for sharing this John, I’ll implement your advice soon..
And, congratulation for the traffic that you’ve got..You deserved it.
Web 2.0
May 1, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Thanks for sharing. I am sure it will help many bloggers.
Benedict Herold
May 1, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Good Stats. Nice that you shared… Like to see this on monthly basis..
Collect Airmiles Faster
May 1, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Wow great stats. I found your site through Google (and other blogs) and have been reading for a while now. Keep up the great work. 5000+ PV’s per day is impressive!
Vince Cordic
May 1, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Looks like your site is doing well, did you have any major turning points in traffic, or just slow steady growth?
Ronald
May 1, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Yes, i saw John is the man with thousand ideas
John - Could you please show me the exact file/script for robot.txt?
Thanks
Peter
May 1, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Great… i put robots.txt on every page i own, let see how it works for this month
JohnTP
May 1, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Thanks guys, I am really happy about my traffic increase
Vince Cordic- I had 2500-3000 unique traffic per day for some time. It was after I added the robots.txt file that I got the good increase in traffic.
JohnTP
May 1, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Ronald- I use this
Sitemap: http://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*.php$
Disallow: /*.js$
Disallow: /*.cgi$
Disallow: /*.xhtml$
Disallow: /*.php*
Disallow: */trackback*
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /z/
Disallow: /wp-*
Disallow: /*.inc$
Disallow: /*.css$
Disallow: /*.txt$
Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /*
Online Technology
May 1, 2007 at 9:22 pm
You should have a new line between User Agen Tag and Sitemap tag can be placed anywhere.
If anybody has more queries on Sitemap visit the Sitemap Protocol
They have given how to include the sitemap in robots.txt
Shivaranjan
May 1, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I hope I also get loads of traffic like you. As I have also put robots.txt for my blog.
Vince Cordic
May 1, 2007 at 9:38 pm
John,
I was aware of that, I was just inquiring about your sites traffic in general since the beginning - not just after the robots.txt update. No worries though.
Vikram
May 1, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Its really Good John.
Mr.Byte
May 1, 2007 at 10:23 pm
That’s a good statistics from Google Analytics and I the other yellow graphic really convinced me that once can actually get 3000 hits each day from natural traffic
subhash
May 1, 2007 at 11:19 pm
gr8 …i think you are one of those good guys who show their traffic such clearly
Online Technology
May 1, 2007 at 11:27 pm
: people show up their traffic only when its good. Best is way you can find how each site gets traffic and for what. We all need to study blogs
Ryan J. Parker
May 1, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Nice traffic, John…. which reminds me… I need to checkout my #s.
SEO blog
May 2, 2007 at 12:03 am
That’s a pretty dramatic increase. I’ve seen a lot of people benefit from implementing similar changes, but this is one of the largest I’ve seen.
Also, I think you reveal more than enough traffic information to “make up” for not revealing your income. That’s your own business IMO and readers should be happy with whatever amount of information you want to share.
David Culpepper
May 2, 2007 at 3:36 am
Great info… thanks for sharing. And thanks for the link.
Madhur Kapoor
May 2, 2007 at 2:22 pm
It is good to see that robots.txt file helped you ,I am going to try it out too .
Nirmal
May 2, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I’ll also try out the robots.txt. thanks for sharing the file.
Hardware advisor
May 2, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Hmmm… Your stats really amaze me. I’m a newcomer to the blogs world and I still have a bad stats.
I will try-out your advise. Thanks. Nice article.
Philip Seyfi
May 2, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Nice work! What happened around March 8th??
Ashwin
May 2, 2007 at 7:51 pm
All the best John! Good numbers up there man.
JohnTP
May 2, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Thanks guys
Online Technology- I corrected my robots.txt file. Thanks!
Philip Seyfi- March 8th?
Cars Lovers Space
May 3, 2007 at 10:11 am
congrats and thanks for sharing.
hope you reach your wish.
Abdul Aziz
May 5, 2007 at 12:28 am
Even I have included a simple robots.txt for my website as well as a meta generator plugin for every post. Lets see how it goes…
The Thinking Blog
May 5, 2007 at 1:35 am
Looking good.. just one question though:
How come I see the pageviews less than your uniques under “April 2007″ analytics.. is it just me?
Btw, Pureblogging is a really good blog!
Raj
May 5, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Good Work John and Gr8 info about to gain traffic and visitors.
Thanks Again
Raj
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July 9, 2007 at 2:54 am
Thats a great boost to traffic. How much do you think is a direct result of the robots.txt file?