Apr

Revenue Report for March 2007

Written by Neil Galloway

Here is my March recap for Thoughts From My Life. Overall, I think this has been a successful month. It is in my opinion, my first breakout month. Before now, I averaged around 10 unique visitors a day and just a few dollars a month income. This month, over 60 uniques a day is normal and the revenue has also increased.

I will outline was has changed, the traffic for the month, and set some goals for the upcoming month. Please post a comment or two if you have any suggestions.

What Changed?

I have been continually writing content, the same as before. But I have been doing a few more things that I think helped get things rolling. It doesn't help to have another couple months of Google indexing under the belt.

Reading other blogs more frequently and posting comments.
Participating in other blog contests and getting link backs through them.
I dugg a couple of mine own articles. I know...bad. Wanted to see what would happen.
Joined a blog network called BlogMad.

Traffic

This was the highest month ever with 1738 unique visitors and 4641 page loads. This averages out to 56 uniques and 146 page loads a day. Not bad, considering my spike didn't happen until a few days into them month.

Here is my traffic chart below. I have switched to Google Analytics and will be providing some of their statistics for April's recap. Notice the low traffic at the very beginning of March. That was the typical volume for the first few months this site was up. Hopefully the trend at the end is what will continue.

Revenue

The total for the month came to $83.70. This is best month ever. Before I was happy with $7 or $8 which came only from Google. I have added Kontera's ads and have written a few paid link blogs as well to help pay for the site. Fortunately, Google picked up the pace this month just as I added the other sources. Here is a breakdown...

Adsense: $17.49 (21%)
Kontera: $16.21 (16%)
Chitika: $0.00 (0%)
PayU2Blog: $25.00 (30%)
PayPerPost: $25.00 (30%)

I have only seen $25 of it so far as Adsense and Kontera require $100 total account balance before they will pay out and PayPerPost has a 30 day waiting period for each posting.

Paid postings account for 60% of my revenue so far, so this will need to change. I want Adsense and Kontera to pick up if possible. I am hoping to be approved by Text-Link Ads sometime soon as well. I would like to add them to the mix. If Chitika doesn't start performing, I will be removing them as well.

Goals For This Month

I am establishing a few goals for this month.

Read more blogs and comment more.
Try to think up a contest or gimmick to get some more traffic.
Find some blogs willing to do link exchanges.
More SEO analysis. Try to tweak the layout of my pages.
I am finishing up some touches on the stock trading part of my site. It lets me paper trade and see quick summaries of what trades are performing and what aren't. Each trade has a corresponding blog posting and can have unlimited comments. I will add a "suggest a trade" feature as well.
For fun, my goal this month is to have the google search for Neil Galloway show my site as #1. I have added my name as author to all my articles so far.

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1 Comments

nichael Says:
2007-04-03 06:37:37
hi i would like to link exchange with you if you are interested in link exchange with me than email me on
bagde.hotlines@gmail.com
my blog url is :-
hollywood-premier.blogspot.com/