I can’t believe that HowToMobile.com has already been up for over five weeks. It doesn’t seem that long at all. It has now been 37 days since I started the site, and I think it’s done pretty well so far. If you have missed the first five updates, here they are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Here is the graph of the site’s traffic since it was born:

Site Stats Recapped

Between July 6 and July 12, the site received 5,536 page loads from 2,916 unique visitors. To give you some perspective, the site had 2,888 page loads from 1,295 unique visitors last week.

There was a huge increase in traffic during the last 10 days - there has also been an enormous increase in the amount of content I’ve added to the site recently.

Google Adsense Revenue

So far the site is monetized 100% by Google Adsense. This will change in the future, but when a site is brand new, there aren’t as many options. So far the site has made a total of $66.46, including $27.41 during the last week. I still think it’s pretty weak, but it is almost $4 a day already.

The site’s click-through rate was a lot better during this last week, but the clicks didn’t pay out as well. Since the clicks didn’t perform as well as I would have wanted, I was pretty happy to have an increase in revenue - even though it was pretty small.

New Revenue Streams

I have some new revenue streams planned for integration during the next few weeks with HowToMobile. I applied this week to have the site added to my Kontera account, and that should bring some immediate revenue.

The last time I asked Kontera to add a new site, it took them about a week to take care of it, so I’m not sure if the new revenue stream will be available for next week’s report or not. Either way, it will be nice to have more monetization for my traffic.

Traffic Strategy

My basic traffic strategy with HowToMobile.com is to play the numbers game. I figure that the more content I add, the more traffic I should be able to get. I’ve already added over 75 posts to the site, and a few of them are pretty long. I find it pretty interesting that the longer posts have been getting a lot more search engine hits than the shorter ones.

I’ve also been adding quite a few links during the last few weeks. I’ve used a few different methods to get links. Most of them came through article submissions, directory submissions, posting in forums with a signature link, and by using the D-List.

The numbers game here is pretty simple. I’m going to keep adding content and links like crazy.

Overall Thoughts At This Point

I’m dang excited because I know that this is going to be my $10,000 a month site. It will probably take me about a year to get there, but after that it’s going to be fun to have the easy income.

I can’t believe how much the traffic has grown so far. The Alexa ranking is sitting at about 600,000, but that Alexa uses a three month average. If they used a one week average the site would likely already be in the top 100,000. If I can multiply the traffic by 10x or so over the next six months I’ll be in really good shape.