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July blog income and stats recap

blog income and stats recap

Good morning! Today we continue with our series about making money online. You can check the previous posts about. Choosing a name, domain and hosting. Starting your own website. My failed attempts at making money online I failed at making money online, then succeeded, with freelancing and starting my own website.

 

Welcome to the first blog income and stats recap of MMYW! While I hadn’t disclosed income from Reach Financial Independence so far, I will also add it here since the whole blogging thing is considered one endeavor. For example, my new VA has been working on both sites for the past months. As MMYW is celebrating one month, I also added the start up fees.

 

Expenses

 

MMYW

Domain registration: $10.4 on GoDaddy . I paid $156 for 9 years of RFI domain plus 6x 1 year registrations for other domains.

Hosting: I bought a 3 year hosting package at a 75% off Hostgator sale last December, the cost is $45  for the remaining 2 1/2 years.

Theme: $0 I had bought Genesis and the Prose child theme for $89.95 last year, you can have several sites on the same theme so we are piggybacking :).

New logo: $5

Virtual assistant and staff writing: $317. This is the first month I have a VA, she works 20 hours per week. I wouldn’t have hired her just to take care of RFI but that is a welcome help with the extra work on MMYW, which is why all her salary goes to MMYW.

Total $377.4

 

 

 

RFI

Domain registration: $93.6. 9 years at $10.4. After a successful first year, I bought 9 years straight!

Server migration: $5. That was in June too, but needed for RFI’s second year. I did it with a Fiverr gig instead of trying to figure out FTP.

Hosting: Same as MMYW, RFI had a 2 1/2 years package waiting since December, for a cost of $45

Total $133.6

 

EXPENSES TOTAL $511 including 2 1/2 year hosting for each site and 5 year domain registration on average, it is the most expensive month so far.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income

 

RFI

$4,042. 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! I have never had to chase payments but some people have a 28 day payment policy, I add the deals that were executed in July (you can close a deal and the person disappears but I never had someone disappear after they are due to pay), independently of having been paid or not.

All in all it was a great month, and the last Penguin update in early June brought more search engine traffic to the site, which helped too.

 

MMYW

$0. One month old, people! I didn’t expect anything and have been procrastinating on the Adsense install so there were only a few pennies from there and not much else. I still have to check Adsense to see if the income will be split from the two sites as well.

 

After Costs Total

 

$3,531. I was happy to still come over $3,500 considering I bought hosting for 2 1/2 years, domains for 10 years between the two,  and those expenses will not be needed for another 30 months. From next month on, it should be only the VA, staff writer, and the odd Fiverr gig if needed.

 

10% of blogging income will go to sponsor young girls’ education in my village, I realize I didn’t mention in my pledge yesterday if that would be the gross or the net income, and I choose gross, so my education fund now has $404! I am waiting to hear back from my neighbor about a date to go tell the students and am really excited about that project.

 

Blog stats for RFI

It was a great month for RFI, thanks to an increase in search engine traffic. All the procrastinators who hadn’t switched to another RSS reader than Google Reader also helped increase the number of RSS subscribers. And the traffic was more important than June in spite of the posting schedule being reduced to 3 posts plus carnival (from 5 posts plus carnival). I also broke 50K in Alexa 🙂

 

July 1st July 31st
PageRank 3 3
MozRank 5.38 5.4
Domain Authority 48 48
Alexa Rank 56,321 47,984
Twitter Followers 3,271 3,319
RSS subscribers 1,198 675 (RIP G reader)
FB fans 1,484 1,481
Pageviews 52,807 54,485
Unique 24,229 26,977
SEO traffic % 31% 48.5%

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Blog stats for MMYW

Because MMYW started one year after RFI, I will compare the stats I can find. Back in July 2012, I was blogging in a cave, waiting for the world to come and find me. I had a Twitter account I rarely used, read a ton of PF sites but seldom said hi or left a comment, and didn’t network a bit. It lasted until mid September 2012. So for the first two months, I am pretty sure MMYW will crush RFI’s stats.

 

July 1st July 31st RFI July 31st 2012
PageRank 0 0 0
MozRank N/A ?
Domain Authority 1 (!) ?
Alexa Rank 4,221,928 228,440 A few millions
Twitter Followers 777 1,285 25
RSS subscribers 5 65 10
FB fans 0 7 15
Pageviews N/A 6,295 under 500
Unique N/A 2,074 under 100
SEO traffic % N/A 4% ?

 

Sorry about the lack of information on RFI, I installed Analytics in September when the blog was 2 months old. Even in September, a 100 unique day was considered a good day. I installed MMYW’s Analytics on July 1st and it hasn’t had a day under 100 visitors! Pretty good considering there are only 3 new posts a week. I was posting 6-7 times on RFI!

On July 1st, MMYW had over 750 Twitter followers thanks to a lot of RFI followers showing their support to my new site. The FB page launched later in July and hasn’t benefited from a SHAMELESS PLUG, LIKE MMYW ON FB!! hehe.

I am very happy about being under 250K on Alexa too, you guys rock, thank you!

 

How did your blog grow in the past month? Happy with the results? 

 

This post was featured on the Gaming your Finances, Planting Our Pennies, thank you!

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Lovely comments

  1. Liquid says

    Can’t believe how fast that month went by. This is really cool that you’re sharing those impressive numbers 🙂 Gives other bloggers an idea of what can be accomplished with hard work and the right attitude. I have a feeling next month’s stats will be even better for MMYW 😀 My blog didn’t grow much over the last month but I’m content with the progress so far.
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  2. Miss Entrepreneurette says

    I just recently found your blogs and I’m loving this recap. It’s fun to look back each month + see how things are growing. I just started this new blog of mine (I’ve had a personal one for 5 years!) a few days ago, so no I don’t have anything to refer to as far as progress. Next month I will, though! 🙂

    I’ll definitely be following along!

  3. Dear Debt says

    Dang girl, you are rockin’ it! I envy you and can only aspire to your greatness 🙂 Congrats on managing two successful blogs. I look forward to hearing more! Now that I have my own site (!) I am hoping things will grow more and more.
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  5. Thomas | Your Daily Finance says

    Nice work Pauline. Having a well established site does make it easier to start a second one. Great job on the income! How did you find you VA and are you having to do a lot of training or did you already have the skills you needed. The $400 will be great for the kids in the community! I like that you are paying for things in advance. Gets rid of having to worry about monthly payments.
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    • Pauline says

      Thanks Thomas. Is your site down today? I tried to get in with no luck.
      The VA came from staff.com, she has basic WP skills and is learning the rest, doing a great job so far.

      • Thomas | Your Daily Finance says

        I am not sure whats going on today. I tried visiting RFI, FrugalRules and several other sites but they weren’t loading. My site is now working ok. Congrats on the VA. With all the things I have coming up I will probably need to hire one soon as well.

        • Pauline says

          Maybe you can put a post and ask around. mine is already working full time but you can hire 20 hours a week like I did, and if already split with a PF blogger, the VA will be ready sooner.

  10. Jane Savers @ Solving The Money Puzzle says

    June was very rough because my host was under attack and I had days when there was no access to my blog. Bounced back over the 5,000 views mark in July but didn’t post very often so I need to post more during August.

    I have not been able to view RFI and Save, Spend, Splurge the last 2 days. Google keeps telling me “This page can’t be displayed”. Am I the only person having this problem?
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  11. Budget and the Beach says

    That’s awesome Pauline but man all the number just absolutely baffle me. No clue how it all works. I mean I have a PR of 4 and yours is 3, but your pageviews are a million times better and I don’t even know how to check to see how many subscribes I have exactly. If it’s what is on the WP dashboard then I hardly have any. It’s all so confusing! 🙂
    Budget and the Beach recently posted…Are We Seeing a Societal Shift in Needs Vs. Wants?My Profile

    • Pauline says

      I check subscribers here http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/myfeeds you log in like when you created your feed for people to subscribe. You will notice a big drop in July, that is because the google reader shutdown canceled a good number of subscribers.
      PR is how google judges your links and pageviews is how real people visit your site. I know a 65 year old lady who blogs and she has only non blogging fans so she has a big following, tons of views but a PR2 and an Alexa in the millions. All those metrics combined give you an idea of how you do.

  12. Shannon @ The Heavy Purse says

    RFI is doing amazing and MMYW is off to a great start. I wish my numbers were as good. We keep growing, but not as quickly as like. I am very impatient. 🙂 I had a very slow start because I really didn’t know what I was doing and wasn’t putting in the time to market myself and network. I lost several months but at least I learned my lesson! Have a great weekend, Pauline.
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    • Pauline says

      me too! lost the first 3 months but hey, you learned. And then built on strong foundations so it should all accelerate now.

  13. Chris @ Stumble Forward says

    Wow that’s awesome Pauline. $4000 in earning is awesome. I’m definitely interested in how you make that much money each month. In my case I’m making a few hundred from adsense, a little from affiliate sales, and as of lately most of my earning though direct ad sales.

    • Pauline says

      It is about the same here, most is direct, trying to balance that with more affiliate but I don’t want to push products in every other post either.

  14. E.M. says

    Love this post – thanks for breaking everything down. It will be interesting to see the comparisons at the end of this month. It’s so great you are donating some of your blog income to the community! I really like that idea.

    My blog is growing bit by bit. I have to admit I am not marketing it as much as I could (no guest posting and I should use Twitter more!) but it is a work in progress. I’m still trying to get into the groove of writing posts.
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    • Pauline says

      I am terrible at Twitter too but have worked out a system to limit the time on it and still be a bit effective. Post coming soon!

    • Pauline says

      I hope so for you too! July was a pretty good month for me, I was expecting it to be very slow but it was surprisingly good.

    • Pauline says

      there was Panda before Penguin, it is how G decides how sites will rank on search engine results, it can make or break your site.

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