ShoutMeLoud January, 2015 – Traffic Report

Hey, Shouter.

This is the time of the month when I put myself into introspection mode to have a close look at what is working well and what is not working where ShoutMeLoud’s operations are concerned.

Every month I share my detailed traffic and income report as a part of ShoutMeLoud’s transparency policy, so that you and other bloggers can discover new ways to drive traffic and new ways to earn income from a blog.

Feel free to use any of the ideas mentioned below for your blog in an effort to grow your traffic and income.

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January was an eventful month for me, as I resumed working after a month-long break. I also organized first professional blogging workshop in India on January 25th, 2015!  You can see the highlights ( Video + Images) here.

The first workshop proved to be very meaningful for the attendees, and so I have decided to do workshops on a regular basis. I currently have two workshops planned in the coming months. The professional blogging workshop is priced at INR 19000 ($308). You will find the date, location, and link to apply for the workshop below:

• 22nd February: Delhi
• 15th March: Bangalore

When I announced the Bangalore workshop date I was pleasantly surprised to find that within a few hours, 70% of the seats were booked. I’m considering the possibility of extending my Bangalore trip by one day so that I can manage two workshops in two days. I don’t like to extend my workshop groups by 10 attendees in an effort to keep the groups smaller and more conducive to good, ongoing discussions, as this provides a more productive workshop atmosphere for attendees.

Before I share January’s traffic and income report, here are some of our top articles from last month. If you have missed any of them, I encourage you to open them in a new tab and read them at your leisure:

• Why and how you should be using images with your blog post
• How to buy webhosting with domain names for your WordPress Blog
• 5 reasons you should start using CloudFlare for your blog right away

Now, let’s have a look at the traffic performance for ShoutMeLoud in the month of January 2015:

ShoutMeLoud January 2015 Traffic report

The last week of January was a little slow for ShoutMeLoud in terms of publishing new posts, but overall our traffic increased in comparison to earlier months. One area where I’m seeing ShoutMeLoud as needing some fine-tuning is where the bounce rate is concerned. I’m surprised to see the bounce rate at 80%, which doesn’t seem to be good at all. I’m confident that this will improve in the month of March, as by then the new ShoutMeLoud theme will be live.

Here is the traffic chart for the past month:

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The majority of ShoutMeLoud traffic was from search engines (82%), and Facebook sent us the majority of our social media traffic. Flipboard and Feedly are sending decent traffic as well, whereas traffic from Pocket declined considerably.

After many years we have crossed the milestone of 600,000 page views in a month, and I’m confident that we will see even more traffic in the coming months.

Android app traffic report:

If you are new to ShoutMeLoud, you should know that we also have an Android app which you can download here. I launched it in the last quarter of 2014, and in retrospect, this was a great decision.

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Users are increasing with time, and as you can see from the screenshot above, stats are looking very promising. An iPhone app is next on my “to-do” list, and if you don’t yet have an Android or iOS app (or both!) for your blog, you should work toward getting one soon.

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