I love blogging but in order to blog I need a domain and a hosting service. I do not like free blogging platforms such as Blogger because I just don’t like it and it does not like me too and I am not kidding. I also need an internet connection to blog at home and all of that needs money.

So, traffic means money. More traffic means more money. People often said you need contents to get traffic and then you make money. Well, I said, that is true. But I also want to say that you need money to have a blog so that you can put in your contents. In the end, it would be a chicken and egg situation.

Before chicken and egg becomes omelet with chicken meat, and this post become irrelevant, let me go back to this post about getting traffic to your blog.

There is a new program in the blogging world and it is called Adgitize. If you are familiar with Entrecard, then this is something almost similar in the sense that it is about getting traffic to your blog. Some people said that it would be competing against Entrecard but I said it would just complement it.

There are some differences between Adgitize and Entrecard but the differences that I want to highlight are:

1. You need to pay to advertise in Adgitize but you use credits to advertise in Entrecard.
2. You advertise on specific blog on Entrecard but your ads will go to all blogs in the Adgitize network.
3. You only get traffic while using Entrecard but you can get traffic and money while using Adgitize.

Those are the main difference that I know or want to know and if you need further details, just go to Adgitize.

Well, since this is about traffic, let me update you on my Mission Alexa. My rank has taken a little dip and this could be related to some busy time at work as well as unexplainable laziness during the weekends that caused me to be less active online. The Alexa ranking has dropped from 124,364 to 125,308 as of today.

However, the good news is in the chart below:

The ranking in Malaysia has gone up from 3,805 to 3,479! Anyway that’s the only good news as the other rankings have gone down especially the United States.

Hey, has this got something to do with the financiial crisis over there?

For the past few weeks I have been reading about Alexa on many blogs that I have visited. So, I have been asking around about what it is all about.  After a few replies that I have got from some friendly bloggers out there, now I know that Alexa is generally about traffic to our blogs.

I love traffic. I am just like one of those people who built super highways and then collect tolls from the users. The only different is that while it is mandatory to pay the tolls on the highway, it is not required here since your toll would be paid by the sponsors. And, my “toll” is not a fixed amount too…

Never mind, sometimes, I am not completely sure about what I talked or wrote here so just let it be. especially this post came after reading some stuffs at Alexa…

Anyway, back to Alexa. Kisahberuang.com has a traffic rank of 124,364. Not that bad for a less than a year old blog when compared to some blogs that are still in its million.

Then I went on further reading the stats and love to see all the green arrows on the 3 mos. Change column there.

Then, at the end of the stats, I saw that note: *Daily values are not available for sites ranked outside of the Top 100K.

That’s what Mission Alexa is going to be about. I am going to aim for Daily Values to be available on my Alexa stats. That could take years or forever but that will be the mission!

Kisahberuang.com must reach top 100K on Akexa!

Now back to some stats again.

Now I know why my Nuffnang ads revenue are not that hot. My Malaysian traffic is only 11.2%.  So I need to get more Malaysian to come over here. I hope that they are not staying away because I do not write in Malay…

Well, nevertheless, Kisahberuang.com is ranked quite high as far as Malaysia is concerned and that is good. So. let’s see what will happen next week.

See ya!