September Monthly Wrap Up AND Extravaganza II Results
Posted on 02. Oct, 2008 by Benjamin Patton in Weekly Round up
This was an outstanding month for Big Ben Patton’s Place. We grew exponentially in just a short time. Before we start to dissect the month and my earnings and traffic I want to give a big shout out to the Market Leverage Team. Dina, Erick, and Rebecca. They have been along every step of the way and not just for this contest but making sure I have the tools I need to be a better affiliate. I once again urge anyone not signed up yet to do it now it is quick and easy. The tools you will have access to as well as the supportive staff is unparalleled anywhere else in the industry.
All this being said we have quite a bit to cover for this month so grab your favorite cold beverage, or if you prefer something hot and sit back and see what happened.
Monthly Stats
PR2 (recently slapped post incoming)
Alexa 92,004
Technorati Authority 102, Rank 57,684
3,108 unique visitors
5,775 page views
62% bounce rate ( I think this is pretty decent considering I run EC and Sitehoppin)
247 Unique visitors from search engine traffic (highest yet due to changing my seo methods)
5minutes 22seconds avg time on site
Rss Subscriptions 245
I would like to improve these over the next month by at least 10% as this is the goal I have set.
September Income Report
In the past I did not report the income from my blog and other closely related ventures mostly due to the fact that I was not in it to make money. I also really did not think anyone was to entirely interested. But because I have had an overwhelming influx of requests for these stats via email I have decided to publish them monthly. Let’s see how we did for September!
$455.00 That is quite a decent number but let’s break it down.
$300 was from a commission for aquiring a domain for a business partner. While this is not blog income I am counting it since I would have never networked with this guy without having had a blog and sharing a mutal interest. The fringe benefits of blogging are many!
$75 was from the Bloggears.com Contest I lucked out and scored 2nd place in the random drawing. I am filing this as I have the commission since without a blog, I would not have visited this site, or made a video or done any of the promotion involved with the contest. Again the fringe benefits are outstanding!
$80 was from misc links, ads and reviews. This was a light month for the most part, but all things considered I am happy with what was brought in.
Now Let’s talk expenses… Swamp pack from host gator was $14.95 and my Aweber subscription is roughly $19 at the moment for this blog. Expenses for this month were 33.95 putting me ahead with $421.05. This month is defiantly inflated by the bloggears contest and the commission, but I expect to break $100 profit this month after the said bills.
Page Rank Update
Yes their was one in fact. Not as popular this time with most everyone I know getting hit or no gains to report. A few people managed to get a little ahead this time though. As usual no one is certain why the 900lb gorilla has done what it has done, we all just know that is the way it is for now. If history serves as any indicator next time out we should see a little bit of love. I have learned to just roll with the punches.
I wanted to explain just a bit to warm you up to my PR update post that I am currently writing to let you know while my search traffic is quadrupled, my PR rank was slapped. Being as short on time as I have been I managed to get a new seo gig going on Big Ben Patton’s Place, but after a short edit of robots.txt and leaving quite a few more than acceptable errors in webmaster tools I believe I was smacked for this. I will explain in depth how I have been operating and what the only differences are between now and then.
Top Commentators
This month we had some abrupt content publishing I hope to rectify this once and for all, but let’s not drone on the same old thing.
Top Commentators For September
- JK Swopes @ Blogging and Inte… (15)
- Barbara Baker (14)
- Freddie (11)
- Hussein (10)
- Keith James Lock (10)
- Ryan McLean (10)
- Adam – Creadiv (9)
- narendra.s.v (9)
- olly@ graphics cards (9)
- Webkinz (9)
Grats to JK Swopes Once again taking the top spot, this month the reward is 500 Entre Credits down from the usual 1000. This month another 1000 are up for grabs so get to it!
OIO Publisher 2.0
That’s right it is live as we speak and I am going to be reviewing this new version of what every blogger worth a grain of salt is using to effectively monetize their blog. Many positive changes have been made and a NEW site to go along with it. Stay tuned for further details!
BIG BEN PATTON AND MARKET LEVERAGE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THE CONTEST EXTRAVAGANZA II
That’s right we are ready to announce the lucky winners name that participated in our wonderful contest. Before we do I just want to once again thank the team of super awesome affiliate managers and their co-workers and management team. Without them none of this would be possible. If you are looking for the best CPA network right now I still highly suggest you sign up and take a look at what they have to offer and talk with their staff. You will not recieve better help or service anywhere on the net!
Out of 245 or so entries~!
THE WINNER OF THE EEEPC AND CHAMPION OF THE CONTEST EXTRAVAGANZA IS!!!!!!
JK SWOPES! AKA THE MAN FROM IMWITHJOE.COM!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS JOE!!!
THANK YOU to everyone that has participated and I look forward to writing diverse and interesting and honest content for you in the future.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming!
Related posts:
- September 30th 2008
- The Contest Extravaganza!
- Extravaganza PRIZE WINNERS!
- Weekly Round Up
- Big Ben Patton’s Hostgator Hosting Giveaway Extravaganza!
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Congrats Joe…lucky dog!!!! I was crossing my fingers so tight I actually cut the circulation a few times; had to shake it out!!!
So, if you ever want to chunk the thing, chunk it my way
LOL
Congrats, it was a great contest!!!!
-Barb
Ben, you stats look good, but it would help us following to know what the previous month was, so if you would put that in a chart or something we could compare them and better understand the growth.
I like your growth of 10%. That is modest and attainable. Keep doing the things you are doing and it will happen for you I am sure.
Joe wins two prizes from you. Something is up! I smell a ninja! Did you send them over there to threaten you?
That’s it, Joe. Call off the ninjas Dude or I am going to have to get at your sammich making machine!!!!
LOL, now the cats out the bag. Joe doesn’t even make his own sammiches!
I had suspicions that the sammiches were to good to be home made, WHO MAKES THEM JOE! WHO?!?!?
LoL
Congratulations on a profitable month. Now improve it!
Congratulations Joe!
Just a question Ben….How is there only 245 entires? I had around 245 entries myself alone.
An answer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah boyeeeeeeeeeeeeee, I wanted this sum bee when I first found out about it! I’ll be using it for sure.
Did I win two prizes? What else I won! Oh, the comment thing…hmmmm….not sure what to do with them credits.
IMWITHJOE.COM
IMWITHJOE.COM is an advertiser of this blog, his taking part in the contest sounded like a conflict of interest to me.
how so? I entered a random drawing like anyone else, what does me advertising on this blog have to do with anything? Makes no sense.
I also see no correlation to how Joe could have won this only because he’s an advertiser of the blog.
Their is no conflict of interest at all simply put because I laid the rules out plainly randomly I picked a name out of the hat and viola.
Just because Joe and I have advertising on each others blog has 0 to do with randomly being selected to win this contest.
Please stop now with this trail of commenting.
Congratulations Joe! You seem to be everywhere now! Comment marketing is paying off isn’t it?
Lucky Joe, congratulations, and way to go! Enjoy!
Nice one Joe, I’m confused though what did you win =P
Also Ben do you have MSN I’d like to talk to you
bigbenpatton@hotmail.com
He won a laptop.
Thanks for the shout out! And keep up the good work.
My PR on loads of sites went down this time though my traffic is growing every day! It proves it doesn’t really matter
My PR went down from a 3 to a 2. So don’t worry about it. It doesn’t really matter anyway anymore.
Congrats Joe
Ooh, sorry about the slap
The revenue was quite good from seeing the traffic stats – u have an awesome Alexa rank for 5k page views a month
Ben,
Thanks for the link luv, and I am sorry to hear about the PR drop. I had no change which I am ok with.
As for Joe winning it doesn’t surprise me. He puts in a lot of work and am sure did all he good to gain entries into the contest. Congrats to you Joe.
Adam
PS, you should both be advertising on my blog.
OMG! I didn’t win.
Congrats to IMWITHJOE 
thanks for sharing your stats. much food for thought there. and congratulations to the winners.
yay congrats to Joe. better luck next time.
Congratz on the income. Keep it up, you will hit $1k mark some day.
A nice update there;
You mentioned 247 SE hits; was this in total in the month or per day?
How much if your traffic is via backlinks? or direct?
Reason i’m asking I have been playing with seo past month and im averaging 30-60 Hits via SE per day over the 40 posts I have there (the rest 24 or so are ‘update and misc.’ posts.)
Would be interested to know how to market a ‘article’ effectively as so to get linkback traffic to it.
sorry meant to say 42 non-info posts and 22 (inc. pending) info posts
Oh Joe! Congratulations man!
Oh! Congrats Joe!!!! That’s one sweet prize! Don’t let the sammiches spill and mustard on that mofo now, ok???
Stellar contest Ben!
Looking forward to the OIO review.
Cheers man!
Jay
PS. Welcome to the hood.
CONGRATS Joe! You lucky sum bee!
He deserves a sammich!
OK Im sure these contests are fixed man, Frikken JOe Wins EVERYTHING!!!. And what’s a Sum Bee ?!? And no he doesnt need another sammich Ive been trying to coerce him into eating healthier.
Ben you’re having a good month(s)
I dont typically talk money on my blog, well I did once and anyways…
It isnt hard to make that kind of change, theres so many good tools out there and other bloggers willing to give in-put.
Alot of my success comes from choosing a blog business model and sticking to it. And Im sure your will as well !!!
Good to hear Market Leverage is working well with you.
Congrats to Joe!
Great contest Ben… definitely looking forward to the stuff you run in the future.
3,108 unique visitors!!! It’s amazing!
congrats for the success….. keep up the good work…