2007 Blog Statistics

Everyone seems to love numbers so I will give you my full stats from 2007 (well at least up until the 25th). Financials: Server cost: The server I host this on sits in our company rack. The server cost me about 3,000. Its a dell 2950 2x dual core ( model 5120 Intel Woodcrest CPUS). It has 8gb of ram and 5x 160gb sata drives in a raid 5 configuration. I paid like 3k or so for the server. Hosting Cost: The blog is hosted in our 200mb rack at Iphouse in MN. The blog consumes less then .2mb on average so its not even worth breaking out the cost. Income: I have been working pretty hard the last couple days trying to figure out how much this blog brought in in 2007. We started doing advertising in January of 2007 but the blog was only bringing in about 5k per month by last May. I made a easy to use advertising page and that drastically increased the income per month by 4x by June 1st and since we have never had a open spot for advertising. Often times they are sold out 3-4 months in advance. In November the blog made right around $30,000.00 for the month for the 2nd consecutive month. The premier sponsors for 2007 were Azoogleads, ClickBooth, Facebook Ads, and Rocketprofit. We have signed longterm deals with Clickbooth and Facebook so you will see them around shoemoney.com for some time to come ;). From a quick look shoemoney.com will profit over $200,000.00 in 2007 from a combination of direct sponsorship, affiliate links, and other various things. Total Dashboard: Nothing here should be too suprising. Keep in mind this is from Google Analytics which only counts 1) pages that have google analytics on them 2) browsers that parse the javascript. Webalizer logs show about 5x the traffic but that is due to a lot of spiders and hotlinked images. Most visited pages (with Google analytics code): Traffic sources: Search engine traffic stats: