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

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:59:25 +0000

@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.

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:32:32 +0000

@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 Ari Lestarionos last blog post..Top Secret to Stay Fit Naturally

By: irvan

irvan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:25:19 +0000

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

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By: charles

charles — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:31:37 +0000

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 charless last blog post..Dyson DC14 All-Floors Cyclone Upright Vacuum Cleaner

By: Stan B

Stan B — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:28:26 +0000

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

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:38:35 +0000

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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By: Fernando | Jackie Tohn

Fernando | Jackie Tohn — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:52:58 +0000

Bummer though about the Adsense. I wonder if it'll pick up in 2009. Fernando | Jackie Tohns last blog post..Jackie Tohn

By: Paul - Leeds daily photo

Paul - Leeds daily photo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:47:07 +0000

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. Paul - Leeds daily photos last blog post..Clock - Dyson Building, Brigate, Leeds

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:15:26 +0000

@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.

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:48:35 +0000

@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

By: Liz Jamieson

Liz Jamieson — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:19:24 +0000

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.

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:12:22 +0000

@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

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:55:36 +0000

@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.

By: Reyn Aria

Reyn Aria — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:32:04 +0000

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 =) Reyn Arias last blog post..3 Deadliest Sins In Network Marketing

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:36:18 +0000

@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!

By: Laurence Flynn

Laurence Flynn — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:03:01 +0000

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!

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:28:04 +0000

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

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By: Internet Marketing Strategies

Internet Marketing Strategies — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:44:52 +0000

Great stats Caroline, congratulations and I wish you more success in the coming year! JR Internet Marketing Strategiess last blog post..Blogging Goodies and Lessons

By: Olakunle Solomon Fatoye

Olakunle Solomon Fatoye — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:27:15 +0000

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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By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:47:52 +0000

@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.

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:24:02 +0000

Yes couldn’t agree more than you do

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By: MikeWords

MikeWords — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:20:05 +0000

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

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By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:56:55 +0000

@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

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

By: valentina

valentina — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:07:49 +0000

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

valentinas last blog post..Blogging – Select Your Topic

By: Melvin

Melvin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:40:48 +0000

Everything seems to increase by some couple of notches huh? LOL how in the world those keywords got you? :-) Melvins last blog post..Upcoming Contest And Some Announcements

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:14:33 +0000

@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

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

By: Mikael Rieck

Mikael Rieck — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:11:02 +0000

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). Mikael Riecks last blog post..Affordable Pet Health Insurance

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:47:11 +0000

@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?

By: MakeCashBook

MakeCashBook — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:40:11 +0000

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 ! MakeCashBooks last blog post..Mp3 Download Net

By: Gil

Gil — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:41:41 +0000

kitties puke on everything you love cross stitch 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. Gils last blog post..Lessons from a 122 Foot Tall Snowman

By: BlogTalks

BlogTalks — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:32:45 +0000

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

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:07:01 +0000

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?

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

By: BusinessX

BusinessX — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:58:57 +0000

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. BusinessXs last blog post..Diversity Find While Surfing

By: Ria

Ria — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:09:54 +0000

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. Rias last blog post..How to Appreciate the Process of Change

By: Atniz

Atniz — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:57:52 +0000

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. Atnizs last blog post..Happy New Year with Page Rank Update 12/31/2008

By: R&B Love Songs

R&B Love Songs — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:28:15 +0000

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

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By: Mikael Rieck

Mikael Rieck — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:03:44 +0000

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 :) Mikael Riecks last blog post..Banfield Pet Insurance Secrets Revealed

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:54:16 +0000

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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By: Linda Lee

Linda Lee — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:24:25 +0000

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. Linda Lees last blog post..Reach your dreams and goals in the New Year, helpful tool.

By: Mike Collins

Mike Collins — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:21:36 +0000

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

By: Mike Collins

Mike Collins — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:20:30 +0000

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. Mike Collinss last blog post..What Are Your Goals For 2009?

By: Mikael Rieck

Mikael Rieck — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:17:32 +0000

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. Mikael Riecks last blog post..Banfield Pet Insurance Secrets Revealed

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:27:13 +0000

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

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Play Games Win Prizes — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:41:23 +0000

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

-Mike

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By: Chris @ DrivingSpirit.com

Chris @ DrivingSpirit.com — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:42:24 +0000

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. Chris @ DrivingSpirit.coms last blog post..Top Gear To Return With Season 13 In March 2009

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Enduring Wanderlust — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:41:20 +0000

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