Welcome to the third 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 VA has been working on both sites for the past couple of months. You can check my July income $4,042 here and my August income $2,530 there.
Expenses
MMYW
Virtual assistant and staff writing: $337. The VA 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, and the staff writing is only on MMYW as well. As I am traveling around Europe and Morocco for 10 weeks I have had more staff posts than usual.
Total $337
RFI
$0.
EXPENSES TOTAL $337 (last month $277)
Income
RFI
$3,212. 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! September was a good month overall, I made $100 from sponsored tweets and FB as well. Not my best month ever but pretty solid considering I was traveling for the whole month.
MMYW
$95. Yay, we landed some advertising! Still haven’t checked on Adsense how much revenue is generated here so I just put everything on RFI (yes, it’s been three months and I still haven’t done it. Life has been hectic). That PageRank update seems to be taking forever which is a bit depressing, but I have a couple more deals in the pipeline and hope ad reps will start looking for other metrics instead.
After Costs Total
$2,970. September was better than August by about $700 so no complains here. Hoping for an even better October :).
10% of blogging income will go to sponsor young girls’ education in my village, my education fund now has $404 from July and $253 from August, $297 from September. Total: $954.
The school year ends on November 30th so that is when the best two students will be announced, then I’ll check with them what they want to study. If I have money left over I will help middle school students buy uniforms and school supplies for next year.
Blog stats for RFI
As I have been traveling for the past 6 weeks RFI has been quite neglected, however traffic is still decent.
| August 31st | Sept 30th | |
| PageRank | 3 | 3 |
| MozRank | 5.4 | 5.41 |
| Domain Authority | 46 | 46 |
| Alexa Rank | 32670 | 26793 |
| Twitter Followers | 3715 | 3784 |
| RSS subscribers | 711 | 791 |
| FB fans | 1481 | 1470 |
| Pageviews | 57293 | 51903 |
| Unique | 29167 | 24832 |
| SEO traffic % | 52.2% | 51% |
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.
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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!
The FB page launched later in July and hasn’t benefited from a SHAMELESS PLUG, PLEASE LIKE MMYW ON FB!! hehe.
I am very happy about being under 100K on Alexa too, you guys rock, thank you!
How did your blog grow in the past month? Happy with the results?
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I’ve been getting new people to comment and I feel like things are growing. Now that I have a legit site, I’m also eager to figure out this PageRank business. Congrats on your income!
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It seems that google may have really slowed down their update of pagerank. I’m having the same problem with my site.
Good to see that the new site is earning some income now and interesting to read about your VA.
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Google is still not updating your page rank. However, the progress and the traffic is awesome. I know Clarrise is very hardworking VA. I love to hear more updates and progress of your money making journey in this site.
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As a newbie I’ve been blogging for a month now. I’m getting more comments and visitors daily.
Hoping things continue to rise and I”m making a full-time income, in a year or two from my site. How long did it take you to make a full-time income? Hope you have a wonderful day~
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I really only check my blog stats when I need to for advertisers, and I honestly haven’t reconciled all the financials yet so I couldn’t even tell you how much revenue/profit I made per month! All I know is the revenue has been coming in, and hopefully will continue to grow month-over-month.
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Looks like another good month Pauline! My month was fairly good as well – above average which I am always happy to see. 🙂 As you know I hired two VAs a few weeks ago and excited to finally hand some things off and looking for how I can best utilize that time to grow the site more. In terms of the PR update, that’s anyone’s guess unfortunately.
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Awesome job on your online income!
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing the update. It’s so interesting to see blogs that have “made it” and how their stats look. It gives me a good benchmark to shoot for.
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The quick growth here is really impressive. My traffic has definitely been growing, but you’re still outpacing me. But I’m actually purposefully ignoring my stats right now. I was getting a little too obsessed. Eventually I’d like to use them productively, but for now focusing on other things will be most beneficial.
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I check them once a month to write this post. Otherwise it gets too obsessing like you said.
You really are a master in increasing your Alexa Rank. As for the PR, I think Google is busy on something that would replace PR, don’t you think of that too?
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yes, I am afraid so but have no idea how that will work… the mozrank hike last month was weird too.
Outstanding month, and great example of how hustling can really lead to positive results. There are a ton of PF blogs out there, and your making this much this quickly is impressive. Great stuff.
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The speed with which you’ve managed to grow this blog is amazing! I guess you really are making money “your way” 🙂
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Good job with your income! Sounds like September was great for you.
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Pauline, great job killing it with that income! To be up in the +$3000 is quite an accomplishment. Your time will come shortly for MMYW to make just as much money after the next PageRank update. Unfortunately I don’t think too many advertisers will be willing to take on MMYW until then, which is a move I don’t agree with, but that seems to be the way it is whenever I talk to them.
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Right, I have only had a couple agree on mozrank, but if G doesn’t hurry I can see them changing over the next few months.
Actually, I just found out you might just get your wish. NO G Pagerank update for the rest of year ….
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/google-pr-update/
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You are killing it Pauline! I have made money two months in a row on my blog, which is a record for me. 🙂
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congrats!
Thanks for sharing your stats, it’s good to see how other blogs are doing. I’ve noticed that I’ve had more traffic and a good amount of comments which is great. It is no where near the explosive rate that your blog grew and I have earned nada but it’s still cool to see. Plus, I haven’t been posting as consistently as I should so it is my fault…I need to work on that.
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I have no real data to back that up but when my blog turned 6 and 12 months there were pretty big increases of search traffic, which could be a factor for google to make you rank better. Keep posting and it will grow some more.
Great job on the income for MMYW! You have the magic touch for sure.
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I broke even, if you don’t value the hours put in, well actually since the VA was hired mostly for the second side I am still in the whole but slowly digging out!
Great job on your side income! This is very impressive, Pauline! Can I just ask (since I’m fairly new to the blogging world), so please forgive my ignorance. 😛 You mentioned that your expenses were $337. Is this how much a VA gets paid for working 20 hours per week?? Or did I not understand correctly?
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Hi Eva, $337 is the total expenses of the staff writer salary and my salary by the way I’m Pauline’s VA. 🙂
Clarisse recently posted…September blog income and stats recap
Not bad considering you have been away. Right now I’m trying to grow ISWLG which has been a challenge. It’s hard to not put my baby Budget and the Beach first. 🙂
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Congrats on the income and the stats! I just liked your FB page. 🙂 I’ve not had much luck with my FB page for some reason although the blog seems to be generating more traffic slowly but surely! I might have to do a shameless plug too re FB!
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I really hope they update page rank soon. All my numbers are getting better and better, I have to believe the PR is going up too. In the meantime, I’m a bit timid about approaching advertisers.
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I like that you’re giving $954 from the past quarter to help improve girl’s lives in your village. That’s awesome.
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Love reading posts like this. You’ve done so amazing with MMYW in such a short period of time! Had the pleasure of e-mailing with your VA when one of her comments got stuck in my spam filter.
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Hi Kari thanks again for your immediate response! Good to know that I can comment on your website now.
Clarisse recently posted…September blog income and stats recap
thanks KK! She posts my comments too so I can just read from my reader offline and send her a bulk of comments, it saves a lot of time with the slow internet of Morocco/Guatemala.
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That’s great.. your blogs are doing well, I’m proud of you. I don’t have the vast amount of personal finance bloggers that come to my site and share posts more so fans but I never did join that challenge for personal finance bloggers so maybe that’s why and it’s not worth wasting time on my site. My Alexa has gone up for that reason even though I had it around 56k. I’m still proud of where I’ve gotten the site to though it’s been worth the time and effort to me. I’ve had tonnes and I mean tonnes of emails from advertisers and people wanting to guest post but haven’t entertained any yet. It’s a bit overwhelming but at least I have you and some other awesome PF bloggers to lean on for feedback. With the move my numbers have been going up but which is great and it’s been nice to see some new PF bloggers make their way over to say hi and introduce themselves. I’m always up for making new friends in the PF world…. Keep up the stellar job mate.
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Congratulations on having another great month!
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It makes me happy to see hard work rewarded, Pauline, especially when it happens to someone as nice as you. Congrats, big congrats, on all the income and getting some through MMYW. May Morocco fulfill all yours and BF’s greatest pleasures!!!
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Congrats on your September success. Keep it up.
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Pauline- Congrats on your success with both blogs this month! I think it’s great that you got some advertising for MMYW. I starting to look at advertisings for my blog and having started with Google AdSense either!
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Congrats on your upward trending income! My blog has a narrow target market, but it’s still doing pretty good. I’m happy with the growing readership. Not only that, I very much enjoy writing for my blog and knowing that I’m helping others. Keep up the great work here!
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Hi Pauline! I always like hearing how you’re doing and how you’re doing it. We are just enjoying the writing and commenting on our blog, so we aren’t earning any money besides book sales. You work your buttski off doing what you’re doing, and I’m so glad to see it is making money your way! I hope you’re zipping around Europe and Morocco like a madwoman!
Great job! September was a good month for me as well. Here’s to the trend keeping up!
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Hi Pauline,
Congratulations on a great September…I wish you an even better October!
I just launched my second blog this month but my Work from Home blog did better than August. The revenue is still not where I’d like it to be but as long as I see forward progress, I consider it a great month overall 🙂
Sharing your stats is motivating. :). Have a wonderful Wednesday! Nice to have met you Pauline, looking forward to connecting with you!
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You are really doing well Pauline, I am very impressed. I have a sneaking suspicion (based on videos from Matt Cutts and other sources, as well as a gut feeling) that Google has done away with PR and won’t be updating it. That’s okay though, it’s not the best metric anyway.
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I think so too, but it looks like the ad reps still rely on that.