August 2006 stats

Here are the stats for August: (Just updated this 9/1, since I forgot that August has 31 days...)

Visitor tracking:

MadLuck Books Personalized Books: 389 page loads, 284 unique visitors, 10 returning visitors

MadLuck Books blog: 71 page loads, 63 unique visitors, 1 returning visitor

Home Business Blues blog: 44 page loads, 40 unique visitors, 0 returning visitors

Admittedly the MadLuck Books Blog, and Home Biz Blues Blog stats are tainted by the one day in August when I updated to Blogger in Beta (see Blogger Update), and through some glitch, blogger began sending everyone who clicked on the next random blog button to my sites, and I got about 15 hits each in less than a minute (they didn't stay long...)

Sales:
Personalized Books: 2 (Yay! More than one!)
Amazon Marketplace Used Books: 5

Gross Income: $120.50

The Good News: (I can't help it, it's just my cheery outlook on life to find the silver lining...) Page loads, and unique visitors are up for all three sites. Returning visitors are way up for MadLuck Books Personalized Books. We doubled the number of personalized books sold last month (1 time 2 equals 2). and more than doubled the number of used books sold (pretty good since the used books were shut down for almost half of August...) And income is up by 50%! What's not to be happy about. I can almost tell my wife she can quit her public school teaching job.