Welcome to the 12th blog income and stats recap of MMYW (a bit late!). That’s right, MMYW is turning 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
Total $0. RFI was down for 3 days which greatly annoyed me so I am thinking about moving over to a Virtual Private Server which would be $50-ish a month. Expensive but worth my sanity and the lost revenue if the site goes down again.
SAVVY SCOT
VA and staff writing $287. I moved the VA costs over there as it is my newest website. For the first time I tried to sponsor a post on FB. The idea was to spend $25 which is the referral fee I get on Airbnb, to sponsor a post about Airbnb and see if I could get at least one referral out of it to break even. I messed it up and ended up paying for a post about investing, that got thousands of pageviews and 60 likes, I thought great, let’s do the Airbnb one now, and it only got 10% of the clicks the investing one did. Now I am waiting to see if it converts but I am not super convinced.
EXPENSES TOTAL $287. The plan is to keep it around the $300 mark for the foreseeable future. It was as low as could be this month, just the VA, I didn’t buy any posts or Fiverr gigs.
Income
RFI
$2,525 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
$1,285. 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
$3,755. Once more, SS outperforms the other two, making just $55 less on its own than the other two combined! I use more affiliate links over there as I got approved for UK ones and not for RFI because it is based in Guatemala.
TOTAL $7,565. As usual, 10% will be donated to my charity projects, that is $756
My goal is to make $60,000 blogging this year, I should be at $30,000 so far and am at $34,438. That seems great as July looks like a very slow month so I am happy to have some room for my goal.
After Costs Total
$7,278. Over $7,000 feels great, July looks very slow so I am glad we bad June.
10% of blogging income will go to sponsor young girls’ education in my village, recently I bought a ton of books so the kids can read comics and fairy tales, which they love. A reader also sent an old laptop which will allow a dozen more kids to have computer classes every week. If you have an old laptop you would like to donate to my village, let me know!
Left in the fund: $1,305. This is the full recap of how the money was spent.
Blog stats for RFI
Still growing slowly but surely, no big spike in traffic but I guess that is what you get for having more content month after month, more visitors spread over those new pages.
| May 31st | June 30th | |
| PageRank | 4 | 4 |
| MozRank | 5.39 | 5.33 |
| Domain Authority | 44 | 45 |
| Alexa Rank | 41,803 | 54,952 |
| Pageviews | 62,392 | 65,668 |
| Unique | 35,957 | 36,343 |
| SEO traffic % | 64.9% | 57.4% |
Blog stats for MMYW
Back in January, for some reason MMYW’s search traffic went down by 50% or more. It was surprisingly low until Panda 4.0 where it went on to surpass the old levels. Hence the surge in pageviews this month. Let’s hope it stays this way.
| May 31st | June 30th | |
| PageRank | 3 | 3 |
| MozRank | 5.22 | 5.14 |
| Domain Authority | 37 | 37 |
| Alexa Rank | 65,557 | 72,541 |
| Pageviews | 28,213 | 30,984 |
| Unique | 15,487 | 18,849 |
| SEO traffic % | 59.8% | 60.3% |
Blog stats for Savvy Scot
Savvy Scot is growing nicely, and I couldn’t be happier with my purchase. It ranks #7 in the UK top personal finance blogs over at Sterling Effort, and allows me to talk about different things and use the £ sign. It had 8,800 pageviews 6 months ago in December when I bought it. Now we are at over 25K.
| May 31st | June 30th | |
| PageRank | 3 | 3 |
| MozRank | 5.31 | 5.24 |
| Domain Authority | 42 | 42 |
| Alexa Rank | 69,776 | 76,357 |
| Pageviews | 25,443 | 26,341 |
| Unique | 16,203 | 18,608 |
| SEO traffic % | 41.9% | 43.4% |
Well done, Pauline. This are some impressive results. The Money Principle is doing fine. I want more but then you know me: I always would want more :).
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Great job on your income! Mine has been pretty steady so far this summer. Hope things speed up a little bit this fall and winter =_
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Nice work Pauline! These are awesome numbers. My blog has grown well this past month, but it was slower for revenue. I attribute that to summer time. Other than that, it has been an OK month.
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Great job. Gives me hope as I just launched my first site last week!
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Wow, you are constantly amazing me with your results! $7K in one month is extremely impressive, that’s more than I’ve made so far this year!
So far, Money Propeller is off to a decent start, but we’ll see how it manages to continue once the giveaway has ended. I’ll be sharing all of the stats and income for that site, starting in August!
Anne @ Money Propeller recently posted…Grocery Prices Across North America + CASH #Giveaway
Looks like another great month. Good job Pauline. Also, Looks like Savvy Scott is really paying off 🙂
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Thanks for sharing your finances with us and congratulations! I love seeing the strategies of other bloggers and what has/hasn’t worked for them. Since my current blog is only about 3 months old, I’ve got a long way to go to reach my goal. It progresses every day and renews my hope/confidence/excitement about the future. I’m glad to see the one FB promotion worked for you because I’ve been relatively undecided as to whether it’s worth the expense. I think as soon as I see some positive income, I’ll go ahead and attempt to promote a post. Best of luck for next month!
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Wow, these numbers are impressive. Congrats! I am still amazed at people who can consistently earn high amounts each month, especially through affiliate sales. I haven’t had any luck with them right now but hoping I will in the future. Best of luck in the future!
Dan @ Our Big Fat Wallet recently posted…Financial Goals for the Rest of 2014
Great numbers and income! I haven’t been blogging much recently so my stats aren’t where they used to be, but I’m OK with that since I blog mostly for fun. I’m hoping to get a few more posts up and get interacting more in the pf community again soon.
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Had no idea that Airbnb had an affiliate program! It’s encouraging to read about your success, especially with affiliate links. I’m going to try to go a bit harder on affiliate links and my friend and I are currently in the process of developing a site that is entirely focused on affiliate revenue.
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Wow, what a progress! Keep up the good work, Pauline! 🙂
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