Stats & Analysis for May 2009 – $1,627 Earned

well my friend good for you it seems that you will have good business this year

Just out of interest, is the money you make through web hosts like Bluehost actually sticking? What I mean is that I made about $6k through Hostgator last month, but not everyone actually sticks it out and pays their monthly fee, which means my commissions drop.

Are these numbers before you actually get paid? (I’m not sure if Bluehost operate in a similar way to Hostgator)

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Thanks for sharing the numbers again Caroline. For the traffic, I always check my biggest search traffic pullers and compare the results to the previous months. If I see a drop there, I analyze a bit further with webmaster tools and doing searches of my own to find the cause, e.g. if the page has dropped lower in search results and why. Anyway, for me it looks like your still doing great job, so good luck for the upcoming months.

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Thank you for being so honest and open with your blog. It is a real inspiration to me and makes me believe that I can make money blogging as well.

Just stumbled and submitted your site to Viralogy. Hope you get some great traffic from it.

- Jun

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keep up the good work Caroline. Good to see that you are willing to post about your good months and bad.

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wow, amazing stats and earning, congratulation for you :)

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Hi Caroline, i am one of those subscribing to your articles. I found them excellent and have helped me a lot in building my site. thanks for the good work as i am sure you have helped a lot of other people.

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@Glenn, Bluehost charge for a year of hosting up front so yes that commission is non refundable :-)

Wow, nice earning figure :D I never know people can make so much money out of web hosting affiliates heh heh

Keep up the good work, I’m sure more traffic will come in in the future

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I really wonder if working on this blog for an additional 2-5 hours per months would add a lot of benefits. I guess you could craft out 2-3 articles in that timespan and actually deliver something new while not killing yourself. I wonder if that would help you make more money, or if the income would be the same, and if you would earn more, how much per “hour” you’d make.

Congrats as always, Caroline.

If I posted only one “real” post in a month I’m sure I’d be down to 1000 visits. LOL—Staying at almost 20,000 in a slow month is pretty darn nice!

Regards,

Kelly

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just had a look at your monthly income report (how indiscrete am I ,,,, )
but anyway what is most probably for you more important is how you feel about this all (maybe an idea for your “other blog” ??? )
and curious as I am ….. I am wondering about your new software project ….

A fan remains a fan ….

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Good news, I wish you all the best!

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awesome report…very inspirational, I look forward to it each month.

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I too have noticed a slight drop in my traffic. I am wondering if it is the summer months so more people are vacationing rather than searching the internet.

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Your bluehost income is the same for April and May. What are the odds of that. Keep up the good work.

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@smashill, yeah I probably could but I am someone who just goes with the flow and posts something when I feel inspired to do so rather than actively working at it as such.

@Jae, quite possibly! Here in the UK we’ve had a very rare bout of gorgeous weather!

Hi Caroline, I’ve enjoyed the monthly earnings report, I have a small suggestion… just like you have the traffic numbers, and the RSS Subscription numbers chart. How about doing a chart for the progress of the monthly income? Similar to the one like the RSS Subscribers count, that would be really neat I think, and I don’t think it should take more than 5 minutes to make. Just a suggestion is all… by no means do you have to do it.

As far as the traffic, I am not sure either… I think being consistent and fresh with the posts helps, but I have seen websites that are not active still hold strong positions without fluctuating their traffic levels.

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It is summer time and that is when all traffic drops because school is out and people are going out :)

-Mike

Another impressive set of stats! Traffic has dropped a bit this month! You must post more often Caroline.

It has been a long time i havent visited your blog. I See you still ROCK! Greate job. Keep growing.

Hey Caroline,

Great to see that you are doing SO much better than when I first came across your blog back in November 2007 and you’d worked for 235 hours and had zero earnings to show for that effort.

Hope that the time you’re spending has decreased as your earnings have gone up too!

Just a note about your ’sleepy summer’ comment — Although I think that may be true in general for the business opportunity market, I think that you’ll find now that you’ve developed a loyal list of readers that may in fact NOT be the case for you.

I’ve personally found that right along with the post-Christmas ‘need to pay those bills’ rush that we all get in January, my webmaster’s blog does VERY well during the summer months when folks might be on vacation and have more time to investigate opportunities.

I’ll cross my fingers for you and hope that proves the case with your blog. :-)

Cheers,
Ros

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What impresses me the most is that you continue to get that many new subscribers every single month. You are so close to hitting the 10k mark that it can’t be long before you’re there.

I know it might not be a goal in itself but I must still feel kinda cool.

/Mikael

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I like that you post your monthly earnings something that I will be doing shortly after I get my earnings in schedule but i enjoy reading your posts. They encourage bloggers to keep doing what they are doing to earn money with their blog because if they are doing it right, they earn good from it.

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Hi Caroline,

Holding strong and steady … that is good. Congratulations.

Caroline I’ve been hopping on to this blog since early this year, it was only today however, that I read your other “tabs” , particularly the “about” one. It is almost 6 months since I started my blog project and I was beginning to feel that I was just whistling Dixie (although I have made a few shekels from its efforts). I feel so much better as I see yet once again, that the money truck takes time to drive up to your driveway, and even the mini-tonka may not show up for the first 6 months!

You are an inspiration. Keep it up.

To your continued success ………….valentina

PS. I am going to spend more time reading through all your postings … over time

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That’s nice Caroline! It’s not easy to sell webhost these days and it actually made up 1/3 of your earnings. Good job!

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@Rosalind, hehe yes I remember that – was right at the beginning. Thanks for stopping by again.

@Mikael, yeah it will be cool to hit 10k subs :)

Thank you for being so honest and open with your blog. It is a real inspiration to me and makes me believe that I can make money blogging as well.

wow, I wish I can earn that sort of money someday. I will set this as my inspiration that Blogging can really make money. I just have to adjust myself and learn a lot of things. This blog is awesome, I was always a follower here and I learn a lot of things from Caroline.

Stay Cool!

It’s impressive really !
Earn money with english blog is so easy when you compare to the french !

Here with 110.000 pages views/month and more than 40.000 visits/month it’s almost impossible to earn more than 150 US$ !!

Culbur, even in the French market you should be able to make that kind of money. The problem is that traffic alone doesn’t do it. You’ll have to know how to convert that traffic into money but luckily there are lots of ebooks covering that topic so you don’t have to “settle”.

Point number 1: Are you building an email list? If not, start there.

/Mikael

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Wow, your income is really good. I have made around $100 this month, but would love to make over a thousand. Checking out what you have to increase my earnings.

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@George, check out the Bloggers Bible course that I have linked at the top of the blog – that is focused on building a profitable blog.

Caroline, you should run a contest in view of hitting 10k subs =)

Hi, Caroline –

I just discovered your site yesterday, and I’ve been skipping all over the place, spending way more time than I have to spare at the moment because I just can’t stop reading!

I love your personal delivery style – it has a sort of “warm and fuzzy” feel to it, humble yet confident, with a healthy dose of reality for good measure. :)

You have tons of great info, and I look forward to all the reading that is still ahead. Meanwhile, I’m about to have a meltdown as I try to set up my own first-time blog, and even after reading your great site and scouring the Internet up and down, I still have some very important questions that I cannot find answers to, and I’m too embarrassed to put them out here in a public arena and confirm for the world to see just how completely clueless I am about all this. And yet I can’t get to the next step until I find the answers. Sometimes life is just so hard LOL.

I would happily pay you for 15 to 30 minutes of quality telephone time, if you are interested, or even private email if you prefer that route. After weeks of exhausting research, I am exasperated, and I have to get past this boulder in the road, or I will never get my blog out of the launching pad and get on with my life.

Keep up the good work – I will be back with more comments after I’ve had time to digest all of your wonderful musings and tutorials. You’re a godsend!

Karen :)

@Karen, hopefully by now you will have spotted the free Bloggers Bible email course that I run. However, having also seen your other comment on an older post, it doesn’t cover the technical aspects as much as you would like. If you go with WordPress it really is quite easy and my videos (which I think you have already seen) should cover the basics and at least get you started.

I’m afraid I don’t do any kind of private consultation work though, sorry :)

hi caroline! wow, the numbers may speak of financial drought to your blogging income this month compared to previous earnings but this is quite a great accomplish still for you when compared to so many bloggers out there.
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Was that drop in your subscribers from switching to feeds2?
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@Rob, no that was switched months ago.

Hello

The income figure looks very tempting. Thats my target! but I am trying so hard to achieve that. You are doing amazing job.

Good luck!

Woohoo Caroline. Congrats on the 10K subscribers! ;)
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Congratulations on hitting 10k rss subscribers Caroline! Where have you been?

@Ben, hehe thank you and yes I have been a bit absent. Perhaps I should write an update post…

I think most of your traffic drop is attributable to the lack of new posts. I’ve been going through a similar situation where I’ve been busy with personal business and other projects and so my blog has really suffered because of it.
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ps – I think its funny that you’re disappointed in ONLY 344 new subscribers in a month. Most bloggers would love to have 344 TOTAL subscribers!
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That was fast. Now you’ve lost about 6000 subscribers in a day. Yet another wonderful feedburner hiccup.

And yes please give us an update on what you’re doing. ;)
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Thank you for being so honest and open with your blog. It is a real inspiration to me and makes me believe that I can make money blogging as well. I will try to do my blog like this in the future.

Just bookmark and submitted your site to BIQBOQ. Hope you get some great traffic from it.
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Hi Caroline,
I found your Traffic Rush course through British Mummy Bloggers I think and now I’ve just started your Bloggers Bible course – both of which are great. I started blogging a couple of months ago and it is very helpful to hear from someone who has been there and can cut to the chase. It’s very open of you to share your earnings. Do you say anywhere how much time you invested in setting up the site and how many hours per week you now spend on it to make this money?
Cheers, Chloe
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I think there is also a general downturn in traffic with both the annual summer slump and the recession.

@Mikael, yes I know and it’s not recovered grr. I’m hoping it goes back up to 10k before Wednesday when the next stats post is due lol :-)

@Chloe, time is a bit of a sore point really :-) I have absolutely no schedule whatsoever, especially at the moment I’m actually not working all that much so unfortunately no I don’t have any stats of that kind. However, I’ve never really worked full time, probably an average of 20 hours a week for the most part.

@ Caroline, I’ll cross my fingers for you. Publishing stats with a decline of 60% wouldn’t be fun.

@Chloe, I think the “time issue” also depends on how you work. If you’re being efficient and productive 20 hours can have achieve a lot, but if you’re like most that surf a little, chat a little, twit a little, check stats a little…. 20 hours can go by fast without having done any money making work.
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@Caroline How do you get so much done in 20 hours a week. I work about that many hours too so that gives me some comfort that this working from home life is achievable part time! With so few hours though I find that if I read anything to improve my knowledge, I then try and implement what I learned and the week has gone – no time for content creation or anything else important. I’ve had to ration myself to 15 mins for e-mails, 15 mins for my RSS reader etc so I actually get a few hours a day to write posts and product reviews etc. I end up doing my reading in the evenings and trying to implement new things in the odd hour I can fit in at weekends!

@Mikael I was caught up in the “little bit of this and that” scenario but had to pull myself out of it a month or so ago. I’m a bit of an information addict though so it’s hard not to read everything there is out there to be read. I’ve come round to learning by doing more now though.
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@Chloe, I’ve been there myself (and still am at times) so I know how it feels. Keeping the email and RSS reader off is definitely a good idea.

Besides that I have found that planning the day (often the day before) and using a timer clock has proven to increase my productivity. I guess I work best under pressure (the time pressure I setup).
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was the $570 bluehost commission generated last month alone or it’s residual income?

Great job with your income. This post is inspiring. As for your rankings in Google moving down it probably is the lack of posts. You should start posting more. Like daily.
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I just finished reading your “How to develop money-making niche sites with Wordpress” and now I am going to stab at setting up a site.
The ebook was easy to follow and extremely helpful.
David

@Mikael Thanks for your response. It’s good to know I’m not the only one struggling to fit everything in. I have also started planning my day, well week actually. I’ve allocated various tasks to each day of the week – check stats, write post, build links etc which seems to be working for now. I don’t have an actual alarm clock going off but am trying to be very strict to sticking to the timings. It’s very hard to stop though at the preallotted time, say when you haven’t finished all the info in your RSS reader don’t you find?
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@ WooHoo Caroline… Your subscribers are back (just in time)!!

@ Chloe, for me it is a matter of getting used to working like this. When the alarm goes off I am done. That will keep me very effective when working.

It happens that I am not done with what I had planned but then I’ll just make adjustments to the plan. Nothing is all black and white.

As for the RSS feeds I have a very simple solution. When the time is up it just mark “all read”. That way I won’t get stressed the next day because I am behind.

Yes I’ll miss out on something but 99,999/100,000 times it is not anything that will revolutionize my business anyway ;)
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Not a bad recovery money. This is something like a financial striptease? If so, that good luck and more sales in the coming months!
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Wow. that’s pretty good for a blog. I wish I could even make 10% of the amount you made.

@Mikael I think of doing the “mark all as read” thing on my RSS reader but can’t quite bring myself to do it incase I miss that pearl of wisdom. But I guess you’re right I’m not really going to miss anything earth shattering so will be more disciplined and give it a go!
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Sounds good Chloe! I know that once you have tried it you will never turn back. It is just like not watching the news or reading a newspaper for a week. When you finally turn on the TV or read a newspaper nothing has really happened and life can go on just fine :)
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@Mikael I so know what you mean. Last night I organised my RSS subscriptions into folders for the first time so hopefully that should help. I can now start on the most important and will only be disgarding those that are probably less important!
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@Chloe, that sound like a great way to do it (I’ve done that too).
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I just found your website today – in fact, it was about an hour ago and I have not left. I love the fact that you are so honest and I do not believe I have seen anyone else post their earnings. Of course, we all see the earnings the gurus post, but I am not convinced all of that is true.

You have encouraged me to get going with my blog/blogs and my ideas. I have been putting it off too long but am in the same kind of “pickle” one of your posts commented before – I am too embarrassed to ask some questions because I think everyone knows these things except me. Thanks for that post, Karen. It makes me feel better knowing others have the same problems I do.

I will be returning often and thanks again for having such an open blog.
Sharon

How can You make a “tons of dollar” (sorry I’m a new visitor on youre blog). Its amazing. I must learn a lot from you.
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I see that your earnings in earlier months were higher than now. Why is that? Are you posting less frequently, or is it just some Google issue with going down on search results and pagerank? There is visible difference between 1600$ and 960$ (almost a half) that is slight drop. Maybe you take more money from other blogs or you are planning something to reverse the trend?
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