Stats & Analysis for December ‘08 – $1,498 Earned

Hi Caroline. I’ve been lurking around in your blog for a while now. It is so fantastic that you are doing this and exposing your results as you do – it is an enormous help to those of us wanting to do the same thing. Good luck in 2009 – you certainly deserve it. Liz

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I love how you share your random keywords! They are always entertaining. Great results and best of luck in 2009 :D

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Good luck for 2009. Hopefully this will be a year to enjoy rather than annoy.

Hey Caroline,
Happy New Year! Good luck in 2009. I’ll be keen to learn about the software you build…anything that makes IM easier I’m interested in!:)

By the way, I love the funny keyword phrase you got ‘how to make millions and make your girl happy’, I wonder if that ebook’s already been written? lol!

Your blog is very much useful than otheres in the same niche.I wonder why you havent crossed the 5000 mark.

Hey Caroline, did you find that hiring someone to build external links helped significantly? I was considering doing this but wasn’t sure if it would be a good investment.

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Caroline, looks like good progress to me. Congrats, and Happy New Years!

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Keep up the great work Caroline. I am sure that you are looking forward to 2009 very much because I know that you have a lot of ideas that you want to take action on. Your journey to success is becoming a part of your reality. Happy New Year!

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that’s very nice, well done.

hopefully you’ll make even more this year!

It would be fabulous if you could also do yearly income reports. I know the data is in the individual posts, but it would be fascinating seeing the blogger themselves compare the months and find patterns, rather than drawing your own conclusions:)

What is really fascinating is that the zen to done e-book is still bringing in steady income – however small. Would this be through search engine traffic, or people going through your archives?

I’ll be very interested in next months report to see how the massive increase in mailing list subscribers is affecting your affiliate income.

Congratulations on a great year Caroline and thank you for all the great help you have passed out to all. You have been a great inspiration to me and I wish you a happy and successful new year. And please keep us abreast of your successes.
Thanks

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All the very best for a great 2009 ahead. You have truly been an inspiration and I have looked forward to all the posts on your blog.

Caroline, what I find interesting is that one of my websites has 5% of the traffic you get, yet twice the AdSense income. Not a particularly high-paying niche neither.

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Great to have you sharing in such detail. Do you have goals – when you will deem your fll-time blogging a success? When revenue won’t have grown quickly enough?

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@Leslie, it’s too early to tell right now.

@Jade, I don’t think a yearly income report would be useful on such a new blog.

@Mike, the AdSense income comes from 2 niche sites that have around 20 visitors per day, the traffic mentioned here is for this blog which gets around 500 visitors a day.

@David, I need an income of around $5,000 a month to determine that I am making a ‘full-time’ income. I have goals but I don’t assign time-scales to them so there’s not much point writing about them.

OK, well that makes more sense (cents?). BTW, thanks for your blog – very inspiring. All the best for you for 2009.

Hi Caroline,

thanks for your inspiration and your honesty with your efforts. I’ve recently started my web income building and some of the ideas you’ve shared have really helped me to focus.

Keep going and thanks again.

Karl Craig-West
free stuff for you and your business

Thanks for sharing! Hope 2009 is even greener for you.

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Hi Caroline. Good to hear that you’re still making a decent income from your blog.
You mention that you’re using someone to build your backlinks for you … are you happy with the results and would you recommend their services? I’m looking for someone to help boost backlinks to my own sites but finding someone reputable isn’t proving easy.

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I love the odd keyword searches you get for your blog, lol. It’s amazing what people search for these days!

-Mike

@Chris, it’s a friend of mine, not somebody who publically does work of this kind, sorry :-)

But even if earnings will be dropping due to lack in sales of your ebooks etc., then I would expect that the new monetization methods that you’ll implement would make up for that? With your reader base and the number of subscribers you should be able to get a fair income without chasing to many readers away.

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Happy New Year Caroline! It’ll be interesting to watch what kind of effect your new monetization methods have on your bottom line. Good luck.

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ps – I’ve seen you on the Warrior Forum. Good to see you joining in there, its a great place to network and learn.

Hi Caroline,

You are a breath of fresh air. I teach total newbies blogging basics in classes and conferences and I am trying to make some money online myself and your numbers are real!
I am so sick of all these Internet Marketing people with their long same looking shouting “squeeze pages”. I never want to become one of those, even though they all claim to be rich.
I am going to recommend this site to my students and I am linking you to my blog right now!

Thanks for being real.

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It’s awesome Caroline.

I remember visiting when your blog when you first started.

Now, if I was you, I’ll do more for bluehost. Try to double that.

As for Aweber, I noticed that you didn’t get anything from it? What’s the problem?

If it doesn’t sell, change the way you are promoting it, or drop it.

Franck

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I have to agree with Franck. I’m sure that you could easily create a few tutorial posts that would have tons of readers get on the Bluehost wagon and if the tutorials where showing people how to create i.e. Minisites that would make them at least $10 a month, then nobody would even have had to pay anything.

Just an idea :)

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The random keywords you get can be hysterical. You’re making nice money for your number of visitors, great job!

This is amazing income report. My wish for 09 is to get something like that. Looks like your affiliate income supported you a lot in the whole. I will concentrate more on these. Thanks for sharing.

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Caroline, it’s great to see the Blogging Bible take the lead in your income generation. Doesn’t it feel good to see your own product perform well? I’m slowly going through the Traffic Rush lessons and hoping to share some ideas and promote it some at an upcoming event.

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Your honesty in numbers is always refreshing. Also let’s us, your readers, know you have been where we are and you know the trials and tribulations of beginning bloggers.

Throwing out a possible drop in links is your change from reading blogs to posting in forums. Being a top commenter at some sites could count for quite a few links. Stop commenting and fall out, that would be significant drop as most top commenter’s lists are on every page.

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Hi Caroline, I am new in this blogging, but I notice you have problems also in tracking inbound links, if you use dnscoop, is it accurate?can we get steady traffic by escalating inboundlinks and definitely improve traffic to sales conversions?

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Looking more diversified now, strange how one thing replaces another. As for the keywords you have to wonder the mindset of some people.

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I love how you put your funny keyword searches, that is too funny. Didn’t you have some other keywords about cats puking a month or two ago?

Hmmm…. maybe cat puking info is a lucrative niche

I noticed that you are no longer displaying your whole post. I thought about doing that on my blog. Maybe that can be a future post idea, I would be interested in how that affects your stats, conversions, etc.. if at all.

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Well.. I have to congratulate you for those stats. You say you had about 17.000 unique visitors, and made about 1.500 $ .. This means you earned almost 1 dollar at each 10 visitors you get. Damn you’re good, it’s a nice raport.
I think if you can manage to get more visits, your income will grow nocely.
Keep it up, good job !

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@Mikael, I’m hoping they’ll increase income a little, but things like AdSense etc usually don’t bring in the kind of income that affiliate marketing brings in so I doubt it will make up for it.

@Franck, I don’t promote Aweber, I might drop the odd link but that’s all. There is a lesson in Bloggers Bible that promotes it but that’s late in the course and none of my subscribers are anywhere near it yet.

@Mikael, check out my ebook & video series on creating niche sites with WordPress – that has created almost all of my BlueHost income for the last year.

@BusinessX, no I stopped actively commenting on blogs well over 6 months ago and I only started tracking links last month so that’s not it. I highly doubt over 2,000 links have actually disappeared – it has to be a reporting problem.

@Ari, I have never heard of dnscoop, what is that?

Caroline, depending on how you do it Adsense can bring in a lot of money. Online problem is that this niche is hard when you want people to click. Especially because your traffic is return visitors. There are tons on money to be made in the MMO niche through Adsense but you’re blog is not structured for that.

As for your tutorials I know that you have already made some and that they brought in your BlueHost income but what I was talking about was NEW tutorials (I’m sorry I didn’t state that in the comment).

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@Caroline dnscoop is a site to value your blog and contains informations of the blog i.e. alexa rank, inlinks, Page Rank and how much your site worth, can I use these parameters to check up on my progress?or do you have any idea how to check inlinks at your blog?
Thanks in advance

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Everything seems to increase by some couple of notches huh? LOL how in the world those keywords got you? :-)

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Hi Caroline,

A friend introduced me to your blog/bloggers bible/traffic rush etc. I was so impressed I decided to be a total copy cat and am dead scared that I will not have results to post. OK…. I do have some sites that are giving me a miniscule income with adsense but nothing else has moved yet.

I am bound and determined to build my online muscles and thank you for pushing the envelope for me …

wishing you all the best in 2009 and beyond.

best…………..valentina

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@Valentina at this point of business my advice is when getting new stuff is just implement don’t worry about the results, good luck to you

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“how to make millions and make your girl happy”. I would guess the first takes care of the latter…

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Yes couldn’t agree more than you do

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@Mikael, yes exactly. My main aim here is to get subscribers both to my RSS feed and to my email lists. Income from on-page monetization would only ever be secondary.

@Ari, ahh I see, thanks for the clarification. I am using Google Webmaster Tools to track backlinks. There is also Yahoo SIte Explorer but that is just as erratic.

@Melvin, heh well things like the ‘cat puking’ I have mentioned before in a post about pointless blog posts and there are other odd words that I have dropped in here and there and that’s how they get in there! Plus I repeat them in these posts which then increases their authority!

@Valentina, well thanks fo your friend |:-) Don’t be scared though, the worst that can happen is that you take ages to make an income like I did heh. Just persist and you’ll be fine.

1. Dearly Beloved Caroline:
2. Greetings and so lovely to communicate you once more this season.
3. Compliments of the season and wishing you a very happy new year 2009!
4. Has been a great and lovely journey and though you have not reached your goals of thousands of pounds per month yet, the journey has been exciting and enjoyable I believe.
5. So, at this junction, I believe you have done an excellent work discovering and being discovered and all I can add is “God Speed!” for the remaining part of the journey as you continue with it this year and beyond.
6. It is also my prayer for you that you will surely exceed your expectations this year and go on to become the amazing success I see ahead of you someday soon.
7. The reason I have put those words that way is because, I believe I have made a little effort to keep up with your progress here and learned a lot of things while listening to you via your writings and hope was a bit of help in one way or the other with my little contributions but as all things in life, there is always a moving on season…
8. In other words, as much as I will continue to read your blog from time to time and also continue to enjoy your electronic mailings, I feel it is important to mention that I may not be saying much in the coming months.
9. Know that I am by no means bounded to let you know this but I just feel to say it as I can confirm to you that out of a handful of places I leave my thoughts, your blog always qualify due to the volume of work you put in and the quality of resources you put out. Most especially your sincerity.
10. Just another phrase to share – “Keep up the good and great work!”. :-)
11. In all honesty, I will be more satisfied when I see your face on a platform where the top 10 high performers on the Internet is shown.
12. So, on this note, once again, I wish you the best of 2009 and beyond.
13. Now remember, if wishes were horses, beggars will ride so we both need to get back to “WORK”, taking massive action to see massive results as we have wished.
14. Remain blessed and a blessing with God speed and we shall communicate again soon if God is willing!
15. Regards,
16. Olakunle Solomon Fatoye.

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Great stats Caroline, congratulations and I wish you more success in the coming year!
JR

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@Caroline, is using Google Webmaster to track backlink accurate?

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It’s starting to take off now, excellent. You’ll find you’ll reach a “critical mass” very soon and then the big figures will start. I hope you’ve set a target for the next 12 months. I’d say $5,000/mo by December 2009 would be fairly conservative and an awesome millestone. Good luck!

@Ari, well no I don’t think so. As I’ve explained in the post, over 2,000 links disappeared in one month which can’t be accurate.

@Laurence, that sounds good to me!

That’s a very amazing statistics you have there, Caroline. What catch my attention the most is your alexa ranking. You even beat Yaro’s Entrepreneurs Journey blog. Four thumbs up for you =)

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@Reyn, don’t pay too much attention to the Alexa ranking – it’s very poor. It ranks the same as other blogs that get very different traffic numbers. If you want to see my stats check my monthly stat posts I do on the 1st of each month.

@Caroline, that’s puzzle me Alexa Rank by other Internet Marketer or top advertizer is the parameter to evaluate your site/blog whether your qualified or not to put banner etc, yet on the other hand it can’t be accurate to recap the traffic as well.

Ari Lestarionos last blog post..New Year’s Resolution: Best Natural Foods for Longevity

Ari – Alexa rankings can be manipulated. Plus, not everyone has the Alexa toolbar or widget attached to their browser. Technical people tend to, but others are less likely to. This means you can get some popular sites that have a fairly low (as in a high number) Alexa rating because their target market is one that isn’t generally using the Alexa toolbar. Proper stats are the only real indicators of popularity.

@Liz, Thanks for sharing your knowledge, that means I have to do different method to gain real traffic and steady enough for monetizing.Cheers

Ari Lestarionos last blog post..New Year’s Resolution: Best Natural Foods for Longevity

@Ari, the only accurate way to know traffic stats is from analytics packages but of course not many bloggers publish that information like I do.

Hi Caroline
Always best to look forward, you can never change the past but the future, well anything might happen.
Content is king, as true now as it ever was, lots of useful ideas on your blog, I found you by accident on google. Your figures only 2nd I have ever seen on anyones blog, I figure the longer you are here the more the visitors/money will increase.

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Bummer though about the Adsense. I wonder if it’ll pick up in 2009.

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Hi Caroline,

I came across your site via Yaro’s mailing list and congrats on having a successful financial month with your site. Like yourself I am in the process of earning a living online and keeping a blog journal as well. My situation was a forced one due to layoffs here in Silicon Valley California.

I wish you the best success in your endeavours and look forward to reading more about your successes.

Sincerely,

Tim H.
San Francisco Bay Area CA
http://www.timothyhansen.com

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Wow I’ve not checked your blog for 3 months and this is what’s happened!

Very well done with your blog’s earnings Caroline and all the best for 2009!

Stan

Hi Caroline,

It is very impressive to me for your web’s stat although the income is not heavy. The stat shows the progression and that you are right on the track. It is almost half a year since my last visit and I am glad to continue to get in touch with you.

Cheers,
Charles

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Congratulations, How do you start to realize all of that, can I start with free hosting such as blogspot. Will you give me advice, because I am a beginner. thanks

@Irvan I sincerely suggest you do the real thing, if you are beginner then get an Internet Marketing course so you will not waste your time browsing and heading nowhere, that’s what I did, and after taking course don’t get disappointed that getting your first dollar is full of sweat and struggle.Good luck bro

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@Irvan, take my course, The Bloggers Bible. You can either buy the fast track version of if you are low on cash, just work through the free email lessons.