DaytonOS — January Report |

In January, DaytonOS had 11,811 visits to the site and from those visits had 29,698 hits on specific articles. On average, there were 381 visits to the site each day and 958 hits on specific articles each day. The web-site Technorati give DaytonOS a rank of 262,866

It’s been interesting to watch daily ad revenue from the Google ads that I started last October. On some days ad revenue is zero or just a few cents, and then, for reasons I can’t fathom, some days it is much more. We hit the ad jackpot on Monday, January 26 — on that one day had ad revenue of $3.99. Our total ad revenue for January was exactly $21.00, an average of about 68 cents each day.

I’m thrilled that DaytonOS is earning $21 a month, but, wouldn’t it be great if DaytonOS could earn $2100 each month? With sufficient revenue, we could pay authors to research and write articles that would attract even more interest, and, of course, such articles would increase traffic and increase ad revenue. Obviously, content drives viewership. If DaytonOS could increase traffic to the 40,000 or so visitors each day we’d have revenue sufficient to maintain that level of traffic. If we had the content, we would have the traffic. And if we had the traffic we could generate self sustaining revenue. How to get the ball rolling is the question.

During the month, 39 visitors checked out our About page. The stated purpose of DaytonOS is twofold:

to organize, facilitate, encourage, and promote nonpartisan educational efforts with the purpose of educating the public and positively engaging the public in meaningful discussions concerning important issues of our day
to build authentic democracy throughout the Miami Valley

If DaytonOS could create vigorous actions that would advance such goals, and capture such action on this web-site, we would, over time, create a large enough community that could become self perpetuating. I am working on a strategy.

My thought is that DaytonOS should become a community of thoughtful individuals in the Miami Valley. Right now, it appears that most of the 381 visitors each day come from outside the Miami Valley and are attracted to DaytonOS via web searches of specific topics. We have a few DaytonOS regulars, thankfully, who often make comments and add a lot to the site. I’d love to be able to see in a typical day just exactly who visits DaytonOS and what exactly brings each person here.

DaytonOS syndicates three web-sites: Esrati, Daytonology , and Kurt’s NIghtmare. So almost all of the articles posted on DaytonOS, right now, are from the writers of the three syndicated blogs and me. I’m wondering if there are other Dayton area web-sites, particularly, similar to these, that would like to be syndicated on DaytonOS? Let me know: mbock@att.net.

Our ABOUT page welcomes individuals to contribute articles and, I am happy that this month Victor Harris contributed an article. I would like to find a way to encourage more individual participation. This thought brings me back to the ad revenue paradox I mentioned above.

In January, visitors to DaytonOS hit on over 400 articles. Here are the top tier articles, in descending order, and showing the date the article originally was posted.