I’m without internet connections today, so got no time to update, but instead I’m posting a short summary of the most popular posts in February. If there are some of them you haven’t read yet, I recommend you do so today.

1. 20,000 Entrecard Credits Contest
2. VikingBlogger t-shirt has Arrived
3. Get Out of Here Spottt!
4. PC or Mac - What Does Bloggers Use?
5. Not Again Feedburner?!?
6. Why Do We Hate Affiliate Links?
7. The Upcoming Digg Effect
8. How To Hide Your Affiliate Links
9. Project Wonderful - A Great Way To Advertise
10. Adtoll introduce Peel Away Ads

Hopefully I will get my connection back up tomorrow. Can’t live without.

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I haven’t tried to get traffic from social sites like twitter, pownce etc before. But yesterday I finally made a profile on some social sites, and are going to update them with news about my posting on VikingBlogger. I’m not sure what to expect, but it could be fun to see if I get any traffic from this.

So far I have made a profile on 4 sites. They are as follows:

Plaxo

twitter

Pownce

Tumblr

If you got a profile on any of these sites, I would be really happy if you added me as a friend/ followed me:)

Add posts to all of them with one click

I found a post at BlueVerse, where he recommended a service called hellotxt. Short described you can send updates to your profile on different social sites with one click. You just provide them with the username and password, then write the post, and

click send. hellotxt will then automatic update your profile with the new post. I have tried their service with the four above sites, and it works like a

charm. In additional they support the following sites:

Do you get any traffic from social sites like these?

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Sorry for a lot of stats post lately, but its new month and new Sunday almost at the same time.

(Last week in parentheses)
Alexa: 215,825 (215,825)
Technorati: 126,758 (170,597)
Authority: 59 (46)
RSS readers: 60 (63)
Posts: 59 (52)
Comments: 547 (441)

Alexa haven’t updated yet, but on next update I’m hoping to climb even closer to the 100k mark. It has taken longer then I expected though. The Technorati rank is moving good, and soon I’m one of the top 100.000 bloggers! (hehe!) I don’t know what happened with the RSS subscribers, but yesterday I had 67, and today it’s down to 60, so overall this week I have lost 3 subscribers. This week and the next week I will really push the Entrecard contest, since it’s ending soon, so I hope the numbers are higher on the next update. I only wrote seven posts last week, but still got over 100 new comments which are great! On an avreage there is almost 10 comments per post.

Up till now, I have written the Sunday Numbers each week. I think this is to much, and the numbers aren’t changing so fast, so from now I’m going to update them every two weeks.

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For each month I’m going to make a post where I’ll try to write up some of my goals for the month. Now we have started on March, and here are what I need to get done within the month:

• Get over 100 subscribers.

• Get over 3000 unique visitors

• Sell 2 125×125 banners

• Get the final VB t-shirt made

So, around 1 new subscriber each day, hopefully that will happen. I have set the number of uniques a bit lower then last month, but this is because I’m not going to use as much money on advertising this month. So I’m reaching after around 100 uniques each day. I have already sold 1 125×125 spot, and my goal is to sell one more. Then it’s the shirt. I have it almost done, and they are soon ready to be sold/given away.

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The first whole month in VikingBlogger.com history is finally over, and this post marks the start of my monthly income and stats reports. Since I haven’t focused so much on monetizing the site yet there is not much to show of yet, but I’ll run the report anyway.

Income

Affiliate - $42,38

Private ad sale - $10

Reviews - $45

Kontera - $0,16

Project Wonderful - $4,16

Total: $101,70

Not much income yet, but hopefully it will be a little better next month. I have just started using Kontera, and it will be interesting to see how that are turning out.

Expenses

Project Wonderful - $210

TLA - $100

Contests - $183

TNX - $10

Other - $40

Total: $543

Loss: $441,30

So, there you have it. Black on white. I did not expect profit this month, and diden’t get that either. I have chosen to use some founds to kickstart this blog, and in my opinion it has worked out pretty well.

I’m not going to write so detailed about each sum above, but I can mention that the service from TLA was money out of the window. As you might know you don’t get to know the URL of the site where you buy links on before after you have paid. Sure, it’s easy to cancel the buy after, but you don’t get your money back, you have to use it on other links. I spent hours trying to find descents site to advertise on, but every one of them where rubbish sites, with almost no traffic. (though the alexa said something else) I stopped trying to find a decent site, and the money where just staying in the account. Then suddenly one day someone at TLA thought it was a good idea to buy two spots on a site for my money and choosing a anchor of their own. Sure they linked to my site, but they did not get my approval at all. I did not send them an email on the issue, but I’m not going to spend another dime in that company again!

Since the start in medio January I have gotten 65 RSS subscribers, and the number is still growing. I don’t think I’m going to use as much money on advertising in March, but you never know.

Statestic

To track my stats I use Google Analytics, here are some numbers for you to look at.

• Visits - 5,923
  Page Views - 10,626
  Pages/Visit - 1.79
  Avg. Time on Site - 00:02:52
  Bounce Rate - 70.62%

The February Goal

In the start of February I wrote my goals for the month. Here is how that went:

• Get over 50 subscribers [ YES! ]
• Sell one 125×125 spot [ NO! ]
• Write 20 posts [ YES! ]
• Get over 5.000 unique visitors [ YES! ]

It’s actually a little disappointing that I didn’t sell a 125×125 spot. But I did not make an effort of either. You want to get your word out, make sure to book your ad today!

The Site eCPM

To see how well sites are monetized you can look at you eCPM. This means how much you are making of each 1000 views. To get this number you simply take the page views and dived it on 1000 then dived the income on that number. VikingBlogger got 10,626 page views, and earned $101,70 which equals an eCPM of $9,57 which aren’t all that bad. Though JohnChow manages to get that number aprox $100 higher. I’ll get there, mark my words!

So, the month is over, and we can start on March. It’s going to be fun, and I got some good ideas to post. The big 20.000 entrecard contest are ending in two weeks, so make sure you enter. If you haven’t subscribed to the feed yet, do that as well. Got any question, shot away!

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Ten days ago I wrote a post called PC or MAC - What Does Bloggers Use? The point where to find out what system was most common used among bloggers. I asked a couple “famous” bloggers, and threw up a poll so you could put down your vote. Anyway, the voting is over, and we got an result:

PC - 28 votes

MAC - 17 votes

So there you have it, PC wins! But, I was a bit surprised that MAC got that many votes. Do really almost 40% of you use MAC?

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AdToll are running a promo for a limited time. Sign up today and get $20 which you can use to advertise on other sites with. That way you could get more traffic to your site. I’m using AdToll myself to advertise my sites, and if you look good you could find some gems in there.

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Alright, I have tried Spottt for a week now, and I’m not impressed. The exchange are not going to work for sites with low traffic, period. The only sites I can see this service work for is big sites with loads of views. That way they get an big amount of credits just for the views, but most certain they aren’t giving a good CTR. The only way such a service will work is either A: It’s based on clicks, not views. You send 2 clicks get 1 back. B: A more powerful category system, where your sites gets placed in a category with similar sites with similar CTR.

Free Credits

One day when I logged in I suddenly had over 4k credits. I’m not sure what it was, but thats the only reason that I got a couple clicks back to my site. Anyway, I think it was a mistake, and before I got around and used all the credits they have taken it away from me. Hehe.

My statistic page

Anyway, the service is not getting my premium location, and I’m taking them of. Most probably not going to put them up again.

Have you used or are using Spottt on your blog/site? How are that working out for you?

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Ok, yesterday I said that I had some ideas that I was going to announce this week. Here comes the first one.

As you might already know I have bought myself a new phone, the LG KU990 Viewty. Thing is, when I get new stuff I tend to get really passionate about it, and as I’m a internet guy I tend to make new websites, dedicated to my new interest.

What I got in my mind now is a forum dedicated to the Viewty. Say welcome to Viewtyforum.com.

What I’m going to do is to document how I build up the forum, and how thw growth is. All this will happen on this blog. This way, the blog gets good content, you as a reader might learn some new things, I can see where I go wrong, and might get help from you guys.

The plan is; Build the forum up to a couple hundred members (to start with) and get a daily activity on the forum. Get a PR and a nice Alexa. Then after 3-6 months flip it for a nice amount to another webmaster which wants to take it to the next level.

Alright. Let the game begin!

What I have done so far

Not much have been done yet, but here you got a list:

• Registered the domain

• Downloaded PHPBB3 and uploaded it to the domain

• Found myself a nice template and installed it

• Made a simple logo in Photoshop and replaced the default one.

• Started to make some topics

There we are, nothing much has been done yet, and there is loads to do. Thing is, it’s not easy to start an forum, since an empty one doesn’t attract new members. The way I’m going to do this is to make several topics where it’s easy to join the discussion. I’m also going to make a couple topics with helpful tips aka where to download free games, themes etc.

So, my work today will be to make topics, I’m also going to look for an mod that shows the latest topics in a list on the front page.

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Another week has ended, and February are almost over. It’s time for the numbers again, so here we go:

(Last week in parentheses)
Alexa: 215,825 (274,910)
Technorati: 170,597 (211,248)
Authority: 46 (38)
RSS readers: 63 (54)
Posts: 52 (43)
Comments: 441 (355)

Alexa are moving slower now, but that is expected since we are starting to get an decent number. I have also stoped the advertising, so the site does not get as much page views as it did earlier in the month. However, I’m planing to start another $100 campaign on PW within the next week. Hopefully that will give me a nice push against the 100k mark. I wrote 9 new posts last week, and got almost 100 comments. You guys still rock on the comments, and hopefully you will keep up the good work! The RSS Subscriber base are growing, though a bit slower then I would like, 9 new readers last week, and we are up to an total of 63 subscribers. Not bad, but I want more! If you haven’t subscribed yet, make sure you do.

Alright, thats it for today. Next week will be a interesting week. I got some ideas that I have started working on, and hopefully you would enjoy them. Ohh, and, if you haven’t joined the contest yet, make sure you do!

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