Welcome to the 13th blog income and stats recap of MMYW! That’s right, MMYW turned one in July! Don’t forget to enter our BIG $500 or iPad mini 64Gb giveaway!
Check previous income and stats recaps:
November income $2,697 + 10% of Savvy Scot’s purchase price
December income $4,625 + 45% of Savvy Scot’s purchase price
January Income $3,290 + 45% of Savvy Scot’s purchase price
Expenses
MMYW
Virtual assistant and staff writing: $0. The VA now goes to Savvy Scot, and I had stocked up on posts on Q4 2013.
RFI
Giveaway $500. I haven’t paid it out yet, as there are still a few more days to enter the $500 giveaway, but I made the decision in July so here it goes.
SAVVY SCOT
VA and staff writing $300. I gave the VA a raise as she has been with me for a year now, and she has been doing great work. I also bought a couple of posts.
EXPENSES TOTAL $800. That is the most expensive month in a long time, should go back to $300-ish for next month.
Income
RFI
$2,373 This is a mix of Adsense, affiliate sales, and direct advertising, plus a little income I got from my ad referral network’s commissions. Contact me if you are interested in joining the ad network! Getting better after a few low months. Affiliate sales have been great, mostly from Airbnb, but the rest has been slow.
MMYW
$1,460. Traffic is still up on MMYW, we are far from the numbers RFI was getting that time last year but still over the $1,000 monthly goal. I haven’t put that much effort into it so can’t really compare with RFI which took way more time last year.
SAVVY SCOT
$815. Ouch. That’s what you get after “complaining” that Savvy Scot made as much as the other two sites last month, a $3,000 drop in revenue! UK advertisers are on summer holidays, and a $1,000 deal fell off at the last minute, so there’s that. Still this is way better than what my money would make on the stock market or rental properties (at 1% return for a rental, it would mean SS is worth $80,000, which is faaaar from what I paid for it). August looks slow as well so I am just sitting tight and waiting for September.
TOTAL $4,648. As usual, 10% will be donated to my charity projects, that is $464
My goal is to make $60,000 blogging this year, I should be at $35,000 so far and am at $39,086. It is good to have some breathing room with what seems like a low month ahead as well.
After Costs Total
$3,848 That is $3,500 less than last month, but not a bad month. I had my 17 year old brother with me so I kept busy offline and put very little efforts into the blogs, so I am happy to get that result.
10% of blogging income will go to sponsor young girls’ education in my village. This month my brother was around and helped give extra computer classes at the local school, with his laptop and another donation we received, there were 7 laptops in total, which is awesome. If you have an old laptop you would like to donate to my village, let me know!
Left in the fund: $1,305 + $464 from July = $1,769. This is the full recap of how the money was spent.
Blog stats for RFI
I have had a drop in Domain Authority for the past few months, which I think was due to going a little heavy on interlinking between my three sites. I am not sure, as Moz is pretty secretive about their algorithm, just like pagerank so that’s just a guess. Now I am back to 47 and hoping to move up. We are almost at 70K pageviews, thanks to the giveaway and social media efforts.
| June 30th | July 31st | |
| PageRank | 4 | 4 |
| MozRank | 5.33 | 5.28 |
| Domain Authority | 45 | 47 |
| Alexa Rank | 54,952 | 51,485 |
| Pageviews | 65,668 | 69,116 |
| Unique | 36,343 | 42,681 |
| SEO traffic % | 57.4% | 55.7% |
Blog stats for MMYW
The giveaway helped MMYW as well this month, part of the entries were joining the RSS feed so I hope I gained a few readers that will stick around after the giveaway. MMYW also gained a point of Domain Authority, although it is not back to its best, 40.
| June 30th | July 31st | |
| PageRank | 3 | 3 |
| MozRank | 5.14 | 5.12 |
| Domain Authority | 37 | 38 |
| Alexa Rank | 72,541 | 65,203 |
| Pageviews | 30,984 | 35,579 |
| Unique | 18,849 | 23,395 |
| SEO traffic % | 60.3% | 57.2% |
Blog stats for Savvy Scot
Savvy Scot has had the least growth from the giveaway, although it has gained over 250 subscribers so again, I hope they’ll like what they read and stick around.
| June 30th | July 31st | |
| PageRank | 3 | 3 |
| MozRank | 5.24 | 5.21 |
| Domain Authority | 42 | 42 |
| Alexa Rank | 76,357 | 74,279 |
| Pageviews | 26,341 | 28,688 |
| Unique | 18,608 | 21,117 |
| SEO traffic % | 43.4% | 45.2% |
Sounds like another good month even with Savvy Scott being below normal. I’m hoping for a better September as well!
Michelle recently posted…Living In A 200 Square Foot Tiny House – Could You Do It?
It sounds like a solid month, still! These always inspire me, thank you for posting them.
I have seen my DA jump around a fair bit lately, too.
Anne @ Money Propeller recently posted…WTF Is Paleo
Growing slowly but surely like any new little blog can! I judge it mostly off of Alexa ranking.
Even Steven recently posted…Starting an Ebay Business on a Credit Card
These couple summer months might be a bit slower, but the holiday craze is in the air and I am sure that your earnings will double when the time comes. Ad despite the small decline, it was still a great month. Congrats for it and keep it up!
Calin recently posted…How to Make Your First $100 in Google AdSense
My sites are slowly growing as well. I’ve been doing a lot of work in the background recently and it is starting to pay off. I understand how these sites that conduct the metrics are secretive, but it stinks to make some changes, then have to wait a few weeks to see/not see results. You almost have to slowly tweak things so that you know what did/did not impact stats.
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Impressive as usual. I’ve increased my earnings a lot, but all from extra freelance work, rather than from leveraging what I’m already creating on the blog. I really need to get better at affiliate stuff.
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Great numbers! I hope you get that $3,000 back, for sure!
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My August went well but I am always hoping for improvement the next upcoming month!
Alexis recently posted…Switching From Side Job To Full-Time Career
Despite Savvy Scot, it’s still a pretty great month!
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Congrats! It looks like your doing well for yourself with the blog!
I love your monthly income reports! Congrats on being on track to make your income goal! My only stat I’ve been watching religiously has been my Alexa global rank which went from 338k to 179k in July. Today it’s at 110,000. I should break the 100k mark yet this month! My 100k goal was end of September but things started moving really fast! Woooot!
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Another impressive month! I’d love to get my other sites making as much traction as yours.
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