Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy birthday silly cows, happy birthday to us! Yay!
It’s been a month since we’ve started our little blog and even though we didn’t have any expectations of what results we’d have after 30 days, we’re quite proud in a humble way We love to brag and so we’ll reveal July’s stats in this post! Before we do that, we’d like to thank every single one of you that has commented, subscribed or guest posted with us. We’re happy to have you here!

Now, on with the show..we’ll start with what we feel is the most awesomest achieved achievement, which are the traffic stats.

• Unique Visitors - 67,457 of which nearly 50k with a little help from an article on Digg. Who banned our user account. Again.
  That’s still around 18,000 visitors that found us in our first month without Digg!
• Pageviews - 377,332 which is about 4,75 per visit. Before Digg it was 10,97 per visit.
• Bandwidth Used - 16,92GB. Thats about 25 Divx movies we could have downloaded instead.
• Google Searches - The top 5 key phrases that brought us visitors via Google: John Cow , John Chow, johncow , win a ps3, john chow dot com.
  Do a search on Google for John Chow, guess who’s on the first page. (make sure you sign out of Google, otherwise you will get personalized results).
• Technorati Stats - 9,665. We have landed in the top 10k! It’s very possible, you can too!
• Alexa Stats - 62,262. Our Digg spike hasn’t been updated yet.
• Community Members - 387. We just missed the 400 mark here..oh well, we should have tried harder!
• Blog Stats - There are currently 74 posts and 2,019 comments, contained within 13 categories.
• RSS Subscribers - We had a peak of 249 yesterday which means we probably have more subscribers than that. FeedBurner doesn’t show the actual subscribers, it shows the amount of subscribers that have actually opened our feed within a 24 hour period.

There you have it boys and girls, all the fresh facts for the statistic freaks served on a hot blog. Guess it’s now time to fess up how much money we’ve made huh? We bet there’s a few eager commenting beavers out there just dying to see how large their 50% ad revenue cut exactly is. Did anyone take notice of who had the most comments yesterday before the plugin automagically reset itself? We believe it was either cooliojones or Mr KingKong. Anyways, here’s the breakdown of our July earnings on JohnCow dot Com!

• Google Adsense - $39,47. Guess what, dairy and soya ads don’t really pay that well! Fortunately the last few days we’ve seen better ads since people are buying adspace with us via AdWords
• AuctionAds/TTZ Media - $35,63. We ran with AuctionAds the first week and a half. John Chow then kindly offered us a membership with his elite TTZMedia Network. They’re the ads you see at the end of each post. We can’t tell how much we’ve made with them because we kinda messed up our registration which John is currently sorting out for us.
• Amazon - $2,43. Yeah well, they’re out of the picture. Waste of space and bandwidth if you ask us.
• Reviews - This has proven to be our biggest earner. Cutting out the middle man, reviewme.com we are asking $200 instead of John’s $400 for a review. We managed to sell 3 reviews and on top of that, leverage this blogs popularity to sell 2 cheaper reviews on one of our other blogs. Total earnings with reviews: $800! We’d love to review your site too!
• Milk Received - $15. We nearly forgot this one! 5 people were kind enough to buy us some milk!
• Other Income - Our fantastic hosting provider, Micfo.com has not only given us $500 to give away in our moo-tastic cowpetition. They are currently also our main sponsor with the banner you see on top. We are running on a brand spanking new dedicated server worth $175 per month!

We should have really signed up for Kontera to be cool like John, but we just couldn’t be bothered. With the amount of visitors we’ve had, that surely would have added up another $100 at least.

Total earnings for July: $1067,53.

Cutting the $77,53 ad revenue in half for the top commentator… $38,75. Now we honestly didn’t see if cooliojones or Mahdi had the most comments, so can those two please tell us which one of you won? Otherwise we’ll either split it between you guys or donate the money to charity.

There you have it, our first month online and the statistics that come with it. We bet John Chow didn’t make this much in his first month! With Google updating the pagerank this week, we’re wondering how much the end of August will bring us. By the looks of it, we’ve had over 7000 uniques already this month!