Hello all, it’s been quite a season, with ups and downs in my income streams. On a positive note, I did clear my second $100 threshold in September.
Since upgrading my WordPress account to the Premium plan in 2024 (article), I have earned a little over $200.
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See my previous quarterly reports:
WordAds Revenue
WordAds Revenue Q2, 2026
Previous Article (WordAds Revenue for Q1 2026) Last Updated July 7th, 2026. Updated Second Quarter Guidance I was getting ready to post a Q3 report…
WordAds Revenue for Q1, 2026
Reporting a bit early here, but I felt inspired, and also my new phone has a screen recording function.
WordAds Third Quarter (2025) Results
Things have suddenly improved since my last report in July. My WordAds revenues are improving and I got paid!
Site Changes
Another bit of good news was that older sites were grandfathered into the Plugin support changes Automattic made last year for new paid accounts. I have been able to start using plugins that were previously unavailable for WordPress.com hosted sites that were not on the Creator/Entrepreneur plan.
I now have Rank Math SEO.
This has helped me to remember to write my site content with SEO in mind. The plugin checks to see if I have included focus keywords, descriptive titles, page metadata, content length, page readability, and if there are alt-text descriptions provided on images in the post.
Traffic results for July
Posts Created
Most Viewed Content
The Swagbucks offer for Fable Town took the top spot this month. I think this is because so many players got stuck in the area with the fountain before you get to the Ice Queen.
Site traffic to Dragon Traveler wiki has begun to drop off now that DTwiki is ranking #1 in Google search.
Lastly, despite a dearth of page content, the PnC wiki continues to drive traffic.
Referrers
Google search remains the majority driver for site traffic. Of the 4,420 views, 4,139 came from Google Search.
- Bing: 114 views
- DuckDuckGo: 79 views
- Yandex: 37 views
- Yahoo Search: 25 views
This Aio.Online is a web directory submission site. It looks like SPAM.
Reddit backlinks still seem to have some pull.
Locations
Traffic results for August
Posts Created in August
Most Viewed Content for August
Here we can see that traffic to the Dragon Traveler wiki exploded. I used information gleaned from user conversations on Reddit to better cover the current game meta, I think this made an impact on viewership.
The Sword x Staff offer from July rose quickly as Swagbucks users tried to get the offer. It had been limited to a couple hundred users before the reward dropped about $20 in value.
Referrers in August
- Google Search: 3,050 views
- Bing: 81 views
- DuckDuckGo: 41 views
- Yandex: 29 views
- Ecosia: 22 views
- Yahoo Search: 22 views
- Baidu: 7 views
We had some new sources this month:
- Coccoc is a Chrome variant with built-in ad blocking 😭
- MagPortal is a magazine search engine.
- Srpko is a Serbian Search Engine.
- Twingine is a dual display search engine.
Locations from August Traffic
Traffic results for September
Posts Created in September
- Crystal Saga Nova Guide
- Game Guide: Parties and Puzzles
- Game Guide: Coin Master Board
- Monster Hunter Outlanders
- Game Guide: Monopoly GO
Most Viewed Content from September
Competition with DTwiki drew down the page views during September. I was also a bit late on updating some character guides.
Last month, MAKe Drama had been trending due to its impending October release. You can’t see it here, but it was just below Coin Master in the post traffic.
September’s Referrals
September saw a drop in overall traffic. I actually made more posts that month, so I’m confused why it fell so much.
- Google Search: 1,982 views
- Bing: 66 views
- DuckDuckGo: 36 views
- Yandex: 23 views
- Ecosia: 12 views
- Yahoo Search: 11 views
New to the list is Excite, an early internet web portal and search engine founded in 1993 by Stanford University students. Wierd right?
Global Traffic in September
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