It’s that time of the month again, and here’s an overview of how my 2 blogs are doing…
For some obscure reason, my blogspot blog, that has become something of a step-child (and I’m using that term metaphorically, people, since I’ve got two step-children…) when it comes to content, rank, updating and traffic, was restored to a PR 2 some time in March. Frankly, I find that quite ridiculous, but it has resulted in more opps from PPP. Not interesting enough to accept, but at least they’re there… I’m not very optimistic (and not too bothered) about how long I’ll be allowed to keep the rank this time.
Mother’s Home! has an Alexa rank of close to 700K, its’ Technorati standing isn’t exactly improving, and it’s not very well visited. To be honest, I mostly do paid posts on it these days. Go figure.
This blog, however, is slowly approaching 100K on Alexa, it’s got a Top 10K badge on Technorati, and has been gaining 1500 visitors per month since December. This month, I almost reached 5000, which is an all time high…
I’m not going to say that any great content of mine is the reason for this. Not at all. It’s purely because of my Entrecard membership. Although many Entrecarders drop their cards and run, some will stay and read a post or two. 20% of my visitors view more than one page, and 20% of 5000 is more than 50% of 500!
‘Nuff on traffic. I have one resolve there though – I’ll be better at responding to comments. Come back and kick my b***!
Earnings… $4,50 on Adsense – right on schedule for a first payment in December 2009! As for other sources of passive income – Project Wonderful isn’t all that wonderful, but the ads on my sidebar brought in $2,90 last month.
Pay per Play – I know I promised an update in March, but there’s been nothing to report. I’ve made 17 cents in total from them, about 1 cent per 4 ads served on my site. I know, some of you find them obnoctious, but the odds of actually hearing one on this blog have been minimal!!! I’ll give them a little more time, but I might remove them if the overall concensus on audio ads gets any more negative…
Any other passive income streams? Oh, yes, I’ve got a couple of permanent links for Linkworth. I could use some more of those – they make me $13 per month as of right now.
The overall income this month was $227,38, and most of it came from writing reviews. I even did one for Loudlaunch, a company I’ve been associated with for about a year, but never done business with before. Perhaps they’ve got their act together. PayU2Blog have been consistent in their assignments, and I’ve done a few for most of the others too.
All in all, not too bad. I’m not setting myself any fixed goals – things (real life, Google) have a tendency to get in the way of those.
I’m hoping the positive visitors’ trend continues, and I can see that there’s a huge potential somewhere in passive blog income. I just have to find it.
I blog ‘cos I like it.
( Links to most of the sites mentioned here can be found under “resources” in my far right sidebar…)
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