Year in Review - 2006
2006 has come and gone. I'm sitting at home today and just reflecting on what has happened for myself and this website so far. Here is a recap.
thoughtsfrommylife.com Launched
The website was officially launched. Basically I wanted a website for two reasons. To use it as a diary of ideas, reviews, and random thoughts as well as see if I could generate some sort of revenue too.
50+ Articles
I have written over 50 articles thus far and have more sitting in draft that I haven't finished yet. My initial goal was to write over 100 articles, so I am half way there so far.
Improving the Web Site
This is the biggest thing I have been learning. My goals were to improve the articles and increase traffic. I haven't did much in the way of improving articles other than my own critiquing of them. I used to write long paragraphs and have few pictures (if any). I have since gone the other way with short paragraphs and more pictures. It makes skimming the article much easier and much more interesting.
Increasing traffic will be my biggest focus coming up. In 2006, I listed myself with search engines and put a link on my personal blog to this site. In the last week of 2006 I did a link exchange/review with johnchow.com. The first day generated 30 new visitors. I later posted one of my articles on ezinearticles.com. This generated 6 new visitors.
I added a web tracker to my site (for free). This is a necessity if you want to see where your traffic is coming from. Below you can see my graph for December. Notice I only started it halfway through the month.
Revenue
Well, I paid out 10 bucks to register the domain and pay for the first month. My total revenue was $12.51, so I officially paid for the site. However, you need to have $100 before Google will cut you a cheque and my expectations are a little higher than this anyways. Here is a the screenshot from my Adsense account.
Goals for 2007
I want to focus on quality and traffic again for this year. Here are my goals.
- I am going to write another 50 articles to get my count to 100.
- Polish more of my articles to improve readability.
- Publish articles to sites like ezine.
- Exchange links with other sites and get them do a post on an article on my site.
- Add other ad compaigns to diversify the income from the site (not just Google Adsense).
- Generate $200/month consistently.
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