The site is now 2 months and 9 days old, it’s quite amazing how quickly time has gone past. I know most people come here for the interesting content and not to see how much traffic is received but this business is both my journey and yours so I like to keep updating this. However, on that note I want to make it clear that this will be the last traffic stats update for quite a while.

I’m very happy with the growth of the site overall as you will see below and thank all of our wonderful readers for stopping by!

Traffic Stats for September

Here are the traffic stats for September (August in brackets):

• 23,396 visits – (19,340 visits)
• 40,138 pageviews – (33,527 pageviews)
• 01:30 average time on site – (01:27 average time on site)

Top 10 Keywords that Sent Traffic:

1. motivational techniques – 159
2. how to control your emotions – 51
3. how to quit drinking alcohol – 42
4. pluginid – 40
5. site:pluginid.com welcome – 39
6. how to quit drinking – 31
7. personal development blogs – 24
8. path of identity – 19
9. taking control of your life – 17
10. how to control your emotions – 15

In August there were 385 keywords that sent traffic to the site. Now a month later there are 790 keywords used in search engine queries that have sent visitors to the site.

Top 10 Traffic Sources:

1. StumbleUpon.com – 15,792
2. direct – 2,623
3. google – 1,347
4. zenhabits.tumblr.com – 483
5. google.com – 460
6. happiness-project.com – 269
7. viperchill.com – 189
8. twitter.com – 185
9. onsimplicity.net – 122 (thanks Sara)
10. lateralaction.com – 115

It has been another great month for the site, increasing visitors by around 4 thousand and 7,000 extra pageviews. Once again the main referring site is StumbleUpon, it doesn’t bother me that a lot of traffic is coming from one source as there are over 790 keywords driving traffic and 287 referring sites.

As of today there are 288 feed subscribers, this is compared to 162 last month. I’ve been considering when to put the feedburner chicklet up on the site and I’m going to do that once I hit 1,000 subscribers. Judging by the current rate of growth that should be somewhere near the start of next year.

Just a quick note that my brother is arriving in Cape Town on Sunday (yesterday when you read this) so posting is going to be very light over the next 2 weeks but I’ll still put my passion and effort into posts that do go out. Special thanks this month go to Spiritual Blog, Hunter Nuttall, Stanley Bronstein and a new site from one of my best friends…Upgrade Reality.

Posts for September

Just incase you missed any content, here are the posts made in September, newest first:

• Dream Lifestyle? Think Again!
• How I Went from Nobody to Industry Expert
• 7 Benefits of Living Consciously
• You Don’t Know What You Truly Love
• 10 Things You Are Not
• Create Your Own Reality in 6 Steps
• Why I Chose Office Life over Working From Home
• The Art of Authenticity
• Taking Control of Your Life
• The Path of Identity

I’ve found my workload to have rapidly increased this month so at times writing posts has seemed more of a chore than something I enjoy. Not that I’ve lost my passion, it’s just that when you work 9-5, come home and do some freelance work and then starting on your blog, I’m often burned out. Hopefully my two weeks off (no work) are going to help refresh my and get me back to my preferred state.

I’m very happy with the growth so far, it may surprise you if I say that October is already on track to be the best month by far, but this is going to be the last traffic update for a while. The main reasons are that I don’t want to give all my sources and keywords away, but I also want to keep the focus of this blog on the actual content side of things rather than results.