Stats & Analysis for April 2009 – $1,776 Earned

This month seems to have gone quickly for some reason and if you don’t look closely you could be forgiven for thinking you were reading the March stats as all the numbers are so similar!

Income

• Bluehost – $570
• The Bloggers Bible – $342.18
• Twitter Rockstar – $302.56
• Become a Blogger – $296.63
• Unique Article Wizard – $107.20
• Traffic Rush – $89.74
• Private Advertising – $50
• Niche AdSense WordPress Themes – $17.98

Total income earned during April 2009 – $1,776.29

For those of you who follow my stats each month you might have spotted a new income stream this month – Twitter Rockstar. Note that I am promoting this in only two places, one is with a banner ad in my sidebar and the other is in my Twitter Guide and it’s the latter that is bringing in the majority of the clicks and the sales. The popularity of Twitter has skyrocketed over the last year and my guide gets more and more traffic as a result because it ranks so well in Google. Now that I have finally monetized the guide, I expect this revenue stream to continue over the long term which is rather nice.

Subscribers

Subs at the end of March: 8,202

Subs at the end of April: 8,827

New subscribers in April 09: 625

The growth has been virtually identical to last month. At this rate I expect to hit 10k subscribers around June time. That will be nice :-)

Traffic

Very much the same as last month, nothing really of interest to report here.

Best Posts From a Year Ago

Internet Marketing Doesn’t Have to be About Money

There is a myth that the only way to make money online is by teaching others how to make money online! As you can see from my own stats above, only a small amount of my income (Bloggers Bible – $342) came from that. The rest was from other products. In this post I debunk that myth and I still hold that same opinion today.

Be Prepared to Change Strategy At Any Time

Many people have a long term plan for their business but I prefer to simply go with the flow and allow things to change. What is interesting is that in this post I talk about how I had finally stopped seeing myself as a software developer to concentrate on social media. One year on I have pretty much dropped social media and am now virtually a full time software developer again – all part of the changing strategy! :-)

6 Valuable Post Types and When To Use Them

This is one of my favourite posts of all time – I break down six specific types of blog post that offer genuine value to your readers and explain the benefits of the post and when in yur blogging career is most suitable to use them.

Conclusion

There’s really not much to say this month. I am heavily focusing my efforts on my software project rather than on this blog these days and that trend is likely to continue over the next few months I should imagine.

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