March was my biggest month for web traffic ever! This probably has nothing to do with my sense of wit or writing style, but rather due to my Rapidminer 5.0 Video Tutorials and a faster template. The change in my blog template to a simplified version helped immensely with the load and response time. I noticed an immediate bump in keeping first time visitors on my site the very next day!
March was my worst month for web income because I cut out all advertisements on this blog (for now). With the exception of text link ads, which netted me about $36 for the last month, I had no other income.
On an interesting side note, I was able to max out my free Dropbox space from 2GB to almost 10 GB through the generosity of my readers. All they did was signup for their own Dropbox account using my referral link and I ended getting nearly 8GB's of additional space. Now I can move my large data around with ease.Thanks!
For the month of March 2010 I had the following blog statistics:
- 5,425 visitors
- 14,144 page views
- 2.61 pages/visit
- 4:29 minutes/visit
- 56.65% bounce rate (this dropped significantly when I changed the template)
- 52.90% new visitors
I have a feeling that these numbers will drop after I post my last Rapidminer video and go on break.
Tom, I appreciated a lot your reports about stocks owned, and the reasons why you were opening/closing your positions. Maybe it’s just me, because I’m a trader, but now that you captured the attention of the readers with RM tutorials, I think you should talk about that again.
On the other hand, go on talking of Rapidminer, your processes, what they’re predicting, if they’re having success, if you are actually using them to support your investment decisions. This will attract more and more people.
@Nick: I plan on posting those items again, especially my Forex and market timing calls in the future. Right now my focus was to provide the video tutorials. In case you want to know, my timing market issued 3 SELL signals in the past 4 weeks on the S&P500. Let’s see if that call was right in a few weeks.
Tom,
I have to confees that i visit this blog at less three times in a week to keep up to date with the rapid miner tutorials (and i sure that other guys are doing thee same) so your prediction model (feeling) wich said these numbers will get down is a good model =)
buuuuuuttt your blog have a lot of good (and useful) stuffs beyond the RM. And we do not learn at the first time we watched one of your videos!
So, we still here a loooong time!
Best regards
@Calastro: Thanks! Please feel free to dig through my archives and enjoy your stay.
From my many years of blogging I can say one thing for sure.. I totally suck at site optimization!
@Sherry: Then you have to make sure your content is interesting. =)
Tom
Happy to see you doing more with RM again. I followed you a couple years ago when you did your first videos, then you mentioned later you were reducing your RM/blog activity. Hadn’t checked in for a while, and very happy to see the new material and a forum too.
Hi Tom,
Thank you so much for your great Tutorials. I stumbled upon these tutorials today. It was so interesting that I finished the whole 10 videos in one sitting.
Looking forward for play more with RM5.
Thanks
Basant
Hi Tom,
Thank you so much for your great Tutorials. I stumbled upon these tutorials today. It was so interesting that I finished the whole 10 videos in one sitting.
Looking forward to play more with RM5.
Thanks
Basant
@Basantkumar: I’m glad you liked them!
All the Best for your upcoming presentations at rcomm2010. Will look forward to read more about it in your blogs.
Have a great trip to Germany.