This is the fourth edition of our transparency report. This series is meant to share all the interesting details going on behind the scenes at CodeinWP (business-wise). Here’s the series’ dedicated category if you want to see any of the previous reports. We’re publishing this just to be transparent about our dealings, and also as a form of giving back to the community and sharing how we do business. In this edition, I talk about everything that happened at CodeinWP in May 2015:
Edited by Karol K.
How we grew our blog
As I look into the archives, the first post on the blog dates back to April 2013, which means that the blog is little over two years old right now.
Since then, it’s been a long journey. Like you would expect, for the entire first year of the blog’s existence hardly anything was going on. I mean, sure, we were (mainly I was) publishing content and reaching out to people via social media, but we didn’t see any noticeable traffic numbers until we were more than 12 months into this thing.
Fast forward one more year and now we’re getting around 60,000 visits per month. What’s more interesting is that in May, we got 50 percent more traffic than in April. Glancing over the stats for June, it seems that the results are going to be even better.
Absolutely amazing on how in 2 years you have grown. Content is the key and people will begin will realise this.
Hey Carl,
First of all thanks for pointing this out, I just broken some redirection at some point, now it should be ok .
Regarding the server costs, obviously for codeinwp costs are quite low and can easily be hosted on a shared server, for themeisle, since we create accounts for free users as well and now we have 40k+ along with a lot of other ecommerce data, required quite good servers.
In total nowadays we pay around $600/month, however we can do fine probably with less than $100, I just don’t have time to optimize our things 🙂
codeinwp hosted on shared? You must have a forgiving host running WordPress, an Alexa score of near 25K, with traffic 60 K a month! Who are you with?
Hey,
We are now hosted on a dedicated server, however we have a plenty of other stuff, I am sure that a good shared hosting like SiteGround should work well.
I use Digitalocean and it’s pretty good because you can scale up and down if you get a spike in traffic. I sometimes get over 120k visits a month because of spikes. I have heard Siteground is good but I don’t like their marketing. Makes me mistrust them.
Investment is indeed required to make a blog successful, but I would like to know how a blogger with little money can survive in such competitive age?
Suppose If I have only 40-50 USD to spend per post on my blog. How should I spend to get max benefits?
Nice article … can I ask what utility are you using for your revenue breakdown stats?
Hey Joe,
I am using Mixpanel for analytics and basic CRM.
A perfect example of how to create a successful blog.
Thanks for the transparent report.
Keep it up the great work, guys!