Welcome to the 10th blog income and stats recap of MMYW! Once again I am ashamed to admit that I spent very little time growing those blogs, I have had a very hectic month of April, traveling around Guatemala with friends, and juggling a ton of non blog related stuff. So close to zero time was spent on the blogs, thankfully I had some posts queued ahead.
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
Total $15. I bought a few fiverr gigs.
SAVVY SCOT
VA and staff writing $287. I moved the VA costs over there as it is my newest website.
EXPENSES TOTAL $302. The plan is to keep it around the $300 mark for the foreseeable future.
Income
RFI
$1,935 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! RFI took a beating this month as I stepped away for almost 3 weeks. An unexpected writing gig saved the end of the month, but for the first time since February 2013, I am below $2,000.
MMYW
$855. Under the $1,000 target for MMYW, for the second month in a row, as I have been procrastinating on a few affiliate programs there as well.
Savvy Scot
$1,805. My ego is a little sad that a site I bought is performing better than a site I started from scratch but I’ll take it anyway, at least it was a good buy.
TOTAL $4,595. As usual, 10% will be donated to my charity projects, that is $459
After Costs Total
$4,293. Another drop from last month but still pretty good considering I spent so little time taking care of my blogs. I really need to get back on the horse though, to avoid the downward spiral. The rainy season is starting so it shouldn’t be a problem to stay in more and work! 10% of blogging income will go to sponsor young girls’ education in my village, my education fund had $5,555 – $2,196 that I spent on back to school uniforms, books, and boarding school for the best two middle school students who will go to high school for the next three years. The full spending recap is there, and we started the computer program last month, which the kids are loving. Left in the fund: $5,555 – $2,196 = $3,359 + $195 from March and $459 from April, minus April’s computer project costs and boarding school costs for two $644 = $3,369
Blog stats for RFI
I had the pleasant surprise while I was traveling with even less internet access than usual to see that Hostgator had decided to block my website because I had a surge in traffic and used too much bandwith on the servers. I thought it was not very clean from them since I am on an “unlimited bandwith” plan but apparently you can’t use more than 25% of the server’s resource for more than 90 seconds, and I have no idea how many visits that represents, so if it happens again I’ll think about upgrading. So I was down for 3 days, plus April has only 30 days, which partly explains the stats going down.
| March 31st | April 30th | |
| PageRank | 4 | 4 |
| MozRank | 5.47 | 5.48 |
| Domain Authority | 46 | 45 |
| Alexa Rank | 33,553 | 37,267 |
| Pageviews | 62,950 | 58,430 |
| Unique | 36,219 | 32,185 |
| SEO traffic % | 51.3% | 52.9% |
Blog stats for MMYW
MMYW keeps growing slowly but surely. I am happy pageviews are up since we are down to two posts a week lately, I am trying to queue posts until mid June as I am busy with friends visiting until then, so if you would like to guest post please let me know 🙂
| March 31st | April 30th | |
| PageRank | 3 | 3 |
| MozRank | 5.21 | 5.24 |
| Domain Authority | 38 | 38 |
| Alexa Rank | 54,854 | 63,562 |
| Pageviews | 18,801 | 19,725 |
| Unique | 9,318 | 11,549 |
| SEO traffic % | 42.71% | 43.4% |
Blog stats for Savvy Scot
Savvy Scot is almost 2 years old, but had been abandoned for a few months. Now the audience is back and the site has grown quite a bit over the last month, which is awesome.
| March 31st | April 30th | |
| PageRank | 3 | 3 |
| MozRank | 5.28 | 5.32 |
| Domain Authority | 43 | 42 |
| Alexa Rank | 77,670 | 73,611 |
| Pageviews | 21,908 | 22,402 |
| Unique | 10,732 | 13,532 |
| SEO traffic % | 37.31% | 38.4% |
Congrats! I am little bit inspired. You really reached your financial freedom from your monthly income.
I love to see a pizza made of dollar bills and coins.
My Wealth Desire recently posted…How to Double or Triple Your Salary That You Can Build Wealth Fast
haha yes that’s a nice idea!
That is still a pretty good effort Pauline, especially considering that you put only a tiny bit of effort in this month.
I also understand what you mean when you say that it is disappointing that a site that you bought is making more money than the site you grew yourself – I am in the same situation where Monster Piggy Bank is only bringing in chickens feed next to a few of my niche sites.
Still, I enjoy writing about money and finance, and i’ll take whatever money I can make wherever it comes from.
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That’s the spirit!
My blog income was pretty much flat last month and I’m happy with it. Unfortunately my site got hit by Google so I expect my income to drop quite a bit the next few months.
DC @ Young Adult Money recently posted…4 Lessons I’m Teaching My Kids About Money
Sorry to hear that, hope you get your PR back soon!
Great job, Pauline! That’s crazy that Hostgator blocked you. Did they at least email you or did you find out some other way?
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They may have emailed but I probably skipped it as they often mail for other irrelevant stuff.
Nice work Pauline, especially with being away from it for most of the month. April was a really good month for me, but we’ll see how things go now that I have another site in the mix as well. Sorry to hear about HG, did they notify you at least?
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Thanks John, and good for you! I may have missed the email but I don’t think they did..
As always, I am blown away by your traffic and income! Well done Pauline. That’s also fantastic, given that you were away for three weeks. I can’t believe Host Gator did that (well, I can, but it’s still terrible). I switched to BigScoots awhile back and have been thrilled with them so far.
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I’ll start to shop around soon I guess, it always has to happen when you don’t have time to fix it and it’s getting annoying!
I think you did great, especially for such a busy month that you had. That’s awesome to hear that the site you bought is doing awesome as well.
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Great work Pauline! Another solid month. I’m contacting you now about the ad network…
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Great job Pauline,
I’m impressed at how well your sites are doing. Keep up the great work.
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April was a good month for my main site, MoneySmartGuides. I just bought PennyThots and am working to build the audience for this site. I got a good deal on it and hope to have made back my money by the end of the summer. I didn’t post anything on it in April since I was “refreshing” the site. So far in May, with me posting new content, things are going great.
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Sounds like you’ve been busy. As always, I’m impressed with your stats on all the sites. My blog growth has slowed because I’ve been taking little breaks here and there. At first I was feeling a little bit bad about not posting, but now I’m just focusing on blogging when I can and putting out posts that are meaningful to me.
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I love that you track your SEO traffic from month to month. That’s something I’ve never done but I have been thinking about starting with my sites. I’ve been letting up on the amount of time I spent with all of my websites this past few months because of my upcoming wedding, but hopefully I can refocus.
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