Traffic & Blog Income Report – November 2014

During my 1st Year Blogiversary post, I asked you all if you would be interested in my doing both a Pinterest post (since 60% or more of my traffic comes from Pinterest) as well as an income report now that I am actually making some money!  Your response was overwhelmingly “Yes!” so I’m going to start doing these Traffic & Income Reports on a monthly basis!

I believe that more bloggers should reveal their income, as well as some stats about their traffic to inspire and encourage others, so I’m am giving monthly updates about my income and traffic statistics. This is my actual blogging income, folks.  Read on!

Let’s get started!

 Traffic –

I’m going to share percentage increases from the month before for my traffic stats, as well as actual numbers :-).  Also, data is from either WordPress stats or Alexa.

Retired by 40:

• Pageviews: 106,610 (avg 3,554/day)
• Unique Pageviews: 33455
• Bounce Rate: 36.2%
• Daily Pageviews/Visitor: 7.2
• Daily Time on Site: 6:19

Ten Minute Savings

• Pageviews: 1,185

If you want to start your own money-making blog, you can do so very cheaply.  I created a tutorial that will help you start a blog of your own in about 10 minutes, and very cheaply, with prices starting at only $3.95 a month.  This low price is only available through my Bluehost link, and when you purchase at least 12 months of blog hosting, Bluehost will even throw in a FREE domain name (a $15 value).  Again, this pricing + free domain name is only available through my link, and if you want to make money with your blog, then self-hosting through a company such as Bluehost is essential.

Income –

Keep in mind, this is purely my income.  This does not account for the 30% that I hold back for taxes.  Also, this does not take expenses into account – those will be covered in the next section.

Retired by 40!

• Ad Networks: 
  • Adsense: $93.52
  • Blogher: $26.67**not yet finalized (Plus $150 in campaigns I’m in the middle of :-)
  • Media.net: $50.03
  • InfoLInks: $9.15
  • Shareaholic: $2.70
• Affiliate Sales:
  • Commission Junction: $63.35
  • Tailwind: $2.25
  • EBA: $478.40
• Direct Sales:
  • FeedWeb: $60.00

• Total Income: $786.07

Ten Minute Savings

• Ad Networks: 
  • Adsense: $5.98
• Affiliate Sales:
  • Share A Sale: $25.05

• Total Income: $31.03

Expenses

• ViralWoot – $15.00.  ViralWoot does my Pinterest scheduling so I don’t have to be plugged in constantly.  If you would like more information about how I drive 60% of my traffic from Pinterest, you can read about it here. **Update: I now use Tailwind for my Pin scheduling.  You can learn more about how to schedule pins for only $10 a month here.
• Tailwind: $119.88 – They’re the best in Pin scheduling, and it’s only $10 a month.  I paid for an entire year :-)

• Total Expenses: $134.88

Some Highlights –

My Post “21 Things Frugal People DON’T Do” was featured on both Rockstar Finance & The Globe & Mail – Yipee!

I know I’ve also talked about how I’m unhappy with the revenue I’ve been earning from my premium ad spots with BlogHer, but this month I’ve started to be happier with it….not the revenue, but the $150 in twitter campaigns that I was accepted for.  It’s all money, I suppose :-) and diversification is good!

Goals for November –

• Develop a social media plan for Ten Minute Savings – Success – I’ve been leveraging my traffic from Retired by 40! just a bit, but haven’t completely implemented it.  The plan is there, though.
• Make $300 in income – Blew it out of the water!
• 2 EBA Units Complete – Success!  I also tripled my page views with EBA, and it’s on sale right now, hint….hint….:-)
• Average 1,200 page views per day for Retired by 40, and 50 for Ten Minute Savings – Success/Fail! I averaged more than 1,700 per day for Retired by 40! and 39 for Ten Minute Savings

Goals for December –

• Complete 2 units of Elite Blog Academy
• Read Ruth Soukup’s book – before her book launch!
• Average 3,800 daily page views
• Finish writing my 31 Days of Finances & Fitness Series – Have you Signed up yet?
  • We’re going to Challenge every single budget expense line, to help you reduce your expenses for the new year
  • I’m giving you shopping lists, eating plans, and even instructions for how to prep and entire week of healthy meals
  • Plus, free printable to help your track your finance & fitness starting points & goals!

Join Us! Course starts January 5th!

Have you signed up for 31 Days of Finances & Fitness yet?

If you want to start your own money-making blog, you can do so very cheaply.  I created a tutorial that will help you start a blog of your own in about 10 minutes, and very cheaply, with prices starting at only $3.95 a month.  This low price is only available through my Bluehost link, and when you purchase at least 12 months of blog hosting, Bluehost will even throw in a FREE domain name (a $15 value).  Again, this pricing + free domain name is only available through my link, and if you want to make money with your blog, then self-hosting through a company such as Bluehost is essential.

How was your month?  I would love to hear about it!

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