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Thanks for sharing! Here's what my analytics looked like when someone submitted my http://www.patiencepractice.com http://www.patiencepractice.com site to Digg

Thanks for sharing! Here's what my analytics looked like when someone submitted my http://www.patiencepractice.com http://www.patiencepractice.com site to Digg: http://imgur.com/p3gpd http://imgur.com/p3gpd I don't have my server set up to alert me when it starts getting higher traffic. Does anyone have any good tips on how to do that? I'm running this on Linode.

chaosmachine 17y ago
Since we're sharing, here's my experience with the Reddit front page: http://blamcast.net/articles/speed-up-drupal http://blamcast.net/articles/speed-up-drupal Side note: check out the referrer list image. See HN in there? That's how I discovered this place :)
codexon 17y ago
Here's my analytics during my most popular submission reaching 30k views in 1 day. http://www.codexon.com/temp/traffic.png http://www.codexon.com/temp/traffic.png What may also interest you is that I earned around 50 cents in advertisements during this increase of traffic. I can't legally tell you the other statistics because of the AdSense TOS. I had hoped that I could at least sustain the cost of the hosting through ads, but I don't know how I am making pennies on mountains of traffic while everyone else claims they are making $5+ a day.
- ddemchuk 17y ago
  Your ads might not be well targeted enough/have low CPC rates. Plus, your site seems to be aimed at techies. Most of us don't ever click ads so it's tough to monetize that way. Nice blog though :-)
  - codexon 17y ago
    Do you mean that the only way to earn a reasonable amount (at least enough for hosting) is to target a dumber audience?
    - ddemchuk 17y ago
      I didn't say you're targeting more intelligent people, just more technologically inclined people who are most likely accustomed to Adsense ads and therefore less likely to click on them and provide you income. There are a lot of niches out there that are full of really intelligent people who are less technologically inclined than most of us who would be more likely to give consideration to an Adsense ad than we would..

chaosmachine 17y ago

Since we're sharing, here's my experience with the Reddit front page: http://blamcast.net/articles/speed-up-drupal http://blamcast.net/articles/speed-up-drupal Side note: check out the referrer list image. See HN in there? That's how I discovered this place :)

codexon 17y ago

Here's my analytics during my most popular submission reaching 30k views in 1 day. http://www.codexon.com/temp/traffic.png http://www.codexon.com/temp/traffic.png What may also interest you is that I earned around 50 cents in advertisements during this increase of traffic. I can't legally tell you the other statistics because of the AdSense TOS. I had hoped that I could at least sustain the cost of the hosting through ads, but I don't know how I am making pennies on mountains of traffic while everyone else claims they are making $5+ a day.

ddemchuk 17y ago
Your ads might not be well targeted enough/have low CPC rates. Plus, your site seems to be aimed at techies. Most of us don't ever click ads so it's tough to monetize that way. Nice blog though :-)
- codexon 17y ago
  Do you mean that the only way to earn a reasonable amount (at least enough for hosting) is to target a dumber audience?
  - ddemchuk 17y ago
    I didn't say you're targeting more intelligent people, just more technologically inclined people who are most likely accustomed to Adsense ads and therefore less likely to click on them and provide you income. There are a lot of niches out there that are full of really intelligent people who are less technologically inclined than most of us who would be more likely to give consideration to an Adsense ad than we would..