Statistics for January, 2007 February 2, 2007
Posted by The Probabilist in : [News], Statistics, Blogging , 13 comments
Since the day I published my first post, my aim has been to generate enough income from this blog to maintain the lifestyle I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing these past couple of months (full-time personal development and blogging). Therefore, I’m happy to publish each month’s revenue and page views from here on for those interested in getting detailed data and ratios of how an upcoming blog specifically in the niche of personal growth performs or can perform.
To me, money has always been a medium of personal value as it goes to show how much a person is worth to others as well as how much that person values herself/himself. Blogging isn’t easy money, but countless sources prove that success follows the habits of both persistence and the will to continuously improve your own efforts through added know-how.
In January, this site saw 34,678 page views according to Google Analytics and generated a modest $60.49 from three weeks of running Google AdSense ads and various affiliate marketing banners. This equates to an eCPM of 1.74 (dollars per 1,000 page views).
It’s a pretty mediocre result in the grand scheme of the advertising blogosphere. However, I found it to be a great improvement considering that I was more or less ‘blogging in the dark’ between Oct 23rd and Jan 12th without any serious networking attempts.
I would also like to point out that Google Analytics may not be the best tool to use as your website statistics monitor. According to the WP-PostViews plugin, my 10 Most Misspelled Words in Blogs article that created quite a buzz, reached about 72,000 views alone before the month changed. By this standard, the combined eCPM is below 1.00. And it also goes to show that Digg users aren’t the most prominent source of income generation since a high percentage disables ads in their browser settings. Additionally they aren’t very likely to stick around for long either, so I am likely to have poorer results for February, which also is the shortest month of the year.
I may not be able to produce similarly accelerating results for 2007 as Steve Pavlina did for 2005, but I’ve got a long and promising year ahead of me and I’ll be pushing toward the goal of reaching a retaining $500 or 200,000 page views per month before the year ends.
The next immediate goal is to get out of the Google sandbox and attract more search engine traffic that has proven to generate high quality ad revenue. At the end of January this website had a page rank of 2 and the alexa traffic rank for yesterday temporarily bounced up to 3,403. I also had to upgrade my hosting plan because of the sudden surge of traffic.
In related news, I have more ideas waiting to get implemented during February. Among these are a blog review link exchange system, a big and very descriptive 8-step pillar article about blogging and also an article about blogging failure rates that is based on actual statistics. Please subscribe to my feed over on the left sidebar.
This would be a good place to thank for the recent digg add to the front page (Micle Mihai Cristian) and also welcome the readers who have still stuck around for a longer while.
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