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SheepTech January11 Report Card

Vincent — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:44:40 +0000

Number of visitors went up by 3,446. Alexa ranking went a little higher at 95,621.

Money Made

AdSense: $857.23 (+$140.31)
Infolinks: $47.74 (+$3.82)
BlogAds: $40.40 (+$9.40)
ContextWeb: $10.62 (-$1.84)
SocialSpark: $25 (-$375)
Private ad: $58.33 (+$25)

Total: $1039.32 (-$198.31)

Other Statistics

Uptime: 99.94% (27 minutes downtime)
RSS subscribers: 675
Facebook Page fans: 200

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SheepTech is Now 3 Year Old

Vincent — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:12:00 +0000

January 12th, 2011 marked the third year since SheepTech came to existent in 2008. Fast-forward three years, SheepTech still look the same, with the same logo and WordPress theme. The only changing aspect on SheepTech is the numbers—in terms of traffic, revenue and articles.

Traffic

For the past one year, SheepTech had receive more than half a million visitors, peaking in December with 64,598.

Revenue

*no data for revenue before March 2010

Revenue peaked in December too with a record breaking $1,237.63, a five fold increment comparing to that of March 2010.

Other Statistics

To be honest, SheepTech wasn’t launched at the best time. I was having a major exam in high school in 2008, and the year after, I got myself into a flying school. Not much time were spent on the blog, resulting in a very low number of published articles (216 articles in 3 years is laughable).

Fun Facts

SheepTech.com was first registered in 2004, according to archive.org. The archived page is just showing the host’s welcome page, probably nothing was ever built using this domain.

SheepTech once had a PageRank of 7 in June 2008. That was of course only temporary. SheepTech now has a PageRank of 4.

The username sheeptech was registered on YouTube by someone else in May 2008. That account was created for his music project, and apparently he uploaded a video featuring techno music with a brief appearance of a sheep.

SheepTech.com now uses the username SheepTechTV on YouTube. Lesson to be learned, register your brand name as soon as possible across all social sites before it’s too late.

SheepTech December10 Report Card

Vincent — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:08:43 +0000

As expected, there’s a sharp drop of traffic in Christmas and New Year Eve, but overall traffic for the month remains more or less the same as November. Alexa ranking broke the 100,000 mark, ranking at 97,152 at the time of writing.

Money Made

SheepTech had finally reached $1,000 revenue mark, thanks to the holiday season.

AdSense: $716.92 (+$5.40)
Infolinks: $43.92 (+$5.02)
BlogAds: $31 (+$2.30)
ContextWeb: $12.46 (+$6.55)
Social Spark: $400 (+$400)
Private ad: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $1,237.63 (+$419.2)

Uptime, RSS subscribers

99.98% uptime with 9 minutes of downtime. RSS subscribers went up and down from 580-ish to >600.

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Merry Christmas! And The Winner Is…

Vincent — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:25:30 +0000

Ho ho ho.. the day has arrived. 18 days after the contest was launched, there are 120 fans on SheepTech’s Facebook page, myself included.

To pick the winner, I have used Random.org’s list randomizer. The list of people who liked SheepTech’s Facebook page is copied to Random.org, in the same order as shown on Facebook.

Upon clicking the “Randomize” button, the list will be shuffled, and the person who came on top of the new list will be the winner. I have made a video showing the drawing process:

Congratulations Affan Ruslan! Please check your Facebook message to redeem the prize.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone else. Thank you for participating.

SheepTech November10 Report Card

Vincent — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:36:00 +0000

Google Analytics tracking was disrupted for four days in November while I was experimenting with CloudFlare, resulting in inaccurate traffic reporting. Data from SiteMeter will be used instead.

Visitors number experience very little change from October, at around 63,000. Alexa ranking continues to rise, from October’s 139,423 to 101,956.

Money Made

Revenue went down in spite of the relatively constant traffic. Quite puzzling as it should be the opposite since the holiday season is coming.

AdSense: $711.52 (-$72.09)
Infolinks: $38.9 (-$5.67)
BlogAds: $28.70 (+$0)
Contextweb: $5.91 (+$1.65)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $818.36 (-$76.11)

Uptime, RSS subscribers

Uptime reporting was also disrupted. SheepTech’s uptime was not tracked directly, but was assumed to be the same as the other blog’s uptime which I track using Pingdom, hosted on the same server.

The blog faced some downtime due to heavy load, resulting in HostGator suspending it for several hours, and I have no other backup solution to track SheepTech’s exact uptime.

The mentioned blog’s uptime is at 99.31% for November, but SheepTech definitely have much higher uptime than that.

The number of RSS subscribers is slightly higher, 588 at the time of writing but have exceeded 600 for several times in the past week.

Like SheepTech on Facebook & Win $10

Vincent — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:47:00 +0000

While exploring the new Facebook profile yesterday, I decided to create a Facebook Page for SheepTech. It is however not possible to create a vanity URL for that page without first obtaining 25 fans.

To reach that target, I will be holding a contest giving away $10 to a lucky fan on Christmas.

How to win?
All you have to do is Like SheepTech’s Facebook page and you are in. As easy as that.

On 25th December, the winner will be selected randomly using Random.org, and will be announced here on SheepTech, Facebook, as well as Twitter.

Payment will be made via PayPal. Bank transfer is only possible if the winner holds a Malaysian bank account, the prize will be converted to RM30 regardless of the currency exchange rate.

SheepTech October10 Report Card

Vincent — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:16:15 +0000

Unique visitors increased by 6,000, Alexa ranking up from 158,072 to 139,423.

Money Made

AdSense: $783.61 (+$112.62)
InfoLinks: $44.57 (-$16.81)
BlogAds: $28.70 (+$0)
Contextweb: $4.26 (-$3.46)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $894.47 (+$92.35)

Uptime, RSS subscribers

99.98% uptime for the month of October thanks to HostGator’s outstanding performance. RSS subscriber’s count is at 573 at the time of writing.

SheepTech September10 Report Card

Vincent — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:50:12 +0000

There is a slight growth of traffic, an increase of 1,488 uniques and 349 pageviews. Alexa ranking improved from 183,775 to 158,072.

Money Made

AdSense: $670.99 (+$145.62)
Infolinks: $61.38 (+$3.02)
BlogAds: $28.70 (-$23.10)
Contextweb (formerly ADSDAQ): $7.72 (+$4.23)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $802.12 (+$129.77)

Uptime, RSS subscribers

99.98% uptime for the month of September thanks to HostGator’s outstanding performance. RSS subscriber’s count is at 545 at the time of writing.

SheepTech August10 Report Card

Vincent — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:01:55 +0000

Visits increased by 7,000, pageviews increased by 8900. Alexa rank SheepTech at 183,775 (3 month), or 151,434 (1 month).

Money Made

Welcome BlogAds and ADSDAQ to SheepTech’s revenue source family.

AdSense: $525.37 (+$114.69)
Infolinks: $58.36 (+$0.48)
BlogAds: $51.80 (+$51.80)
ADSDAQ: $3.49 (+$3.49)
Private ads: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $672.35 (+$170.46)

Uptime

99.96% uptime for August, well within HostGator’s 99.9% uptime guarantee.

SheepTech July10 Report Card

Vincent — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:18:09 +0000

Finally, I have a chance to publish this overdue post.

Money Made

AdSense: $410.68 (+$30.26)
Infolinks: $57.88 (-$20.66)
Private ad: $33.33 (+$0)

Total: $501.89 (+$9.49)

Uptime

Uptime is as good as in June at 99.99%. Not bad at all for a $10/month shared hosting by Hostgator. RSS subscribers got a bump from ~300 to ~400, around 100 subscribers increase.