The entire year of blogging passed. So what are the results of the last month of the year? Did I make a killing during the best of the year’s shopping season? Did the Income School course I have purchased in December of 2018 paid for itself? Did I learn something which converted into hard currency? Was it worth it? Did I meet Income School traffic and income deadlines? For these questions, I am providing below answers backed up with proof below.
First, I was planning to make one new website a month since after viewing the Income School YouTube channel they showed that is possible. But the truth is that I work full time, and that is not possible. Maybe I am slow or not smart enough to produce post a day – but in my case it is reality.
If you want to write a post and present it publicly to the word and not be ashamed of this post, in the long run, it takes more then one hour to do it. I was watching their video were 2 guys in the middle of nowhere are writing a post in under 1 hour. I did the math and I figured that I can do it too. Well, turns out it is not that fast. How long it takes on average to write and publish a post, you can check it in my post Writing And Publishing A Blog Post – Naked Truth.
I was buying domains for my websites practically one each month, hoping that I will catch up, but turned out that it was too much work to do each month a new blog. In my case, it didn’t turn out to be physically possible. So, after a few months, I review my strategy and I stopped buying new domains. I decided to finish blogs for the domains which I already owned.
The second thing I did, I hired help to help me with producing content for my blogs. First was my wife – I made her responsible for YouTube part of the business and getting traffic to travel website – PanamaTropic.com. The second person was a nice girl in India, Shweta to write blog posts for all my blogs. I figured that if she can do it for a reasonable price, then she will save me some time and I can focus on managing and publishing posts. Turns out that was the smartest thing I did. From this point, my blogs started growing in content.
As far as traffic I didn’t meet the Income School 12,000 page views expectations in any blog I own. Maybe it was part of my fault because I did not meet content requirements, maybe I wasn’t lucky enough.
So how was traffic in December – here are the results:
– no work on this site –
No work on this site. After 2 years of existence only 106 users….
Published almost all planed content. Only 6 articles left to publish. Total of over 100 articles published working hard for 6 months.
Traffic coming from Pinterest account.
Otherwise – forget about traffic coming from Google. According to Income School I supposed to have this amount of traffic from Google…
No new content published. After a year traffic not as expected.
The purpose of this site is to report on the traffic to all the sites I own. I am not stressing about a popularity of this site, so the traffic to this site is not my concern.
After a year of existence very little traffic, some content in Cooking category baked up with YouTube channel. Very little traffic so far. Maybe will get some momentum soon since I plan to work on this site in January of 2020.
Traffic: 1,365 Views and 29 new Subscribers (average 1 subscriber per 47 views) on YouTube:
No work on this site.
No work on this site.
Traffic From All My Sites - Summary
All sites gained some traffic. The Winner of this month is Floppy The Dachshund +30% visitors this month. But the visitors are not coming from Google but from Pinterest.
Income From Sites
I was a little surprised this month since a income from Google and Amazon is more than double than the previous month. However I am little disappointed that Income from my products on Etsy.com the is ZERO.
Google Adsense
Media.net
Amazon Associates
Etsy.com
Summary
Google Adsense:……………………$6.43
Media.net:…………………………….$0.89
Amazon Associates:……………..$8.05
Etsy.com:……………………………..$0.00
TOTAL: …………………………..$15.37
Last Month Income was: …..$6.26 That is +145%
It is more than a double than last month. And this income was practically maintenance free income.
This is very positive.
Conclusion
Maybe I am not lucky enough to have a nice income right away. Maybe it is because I am not smart enough. Maybe because I did not work hard enough. Or maybe something else. The earnings from the sites are not what is expected after a year of blogging.
I still have faith in this business model so I am not giving up.
This year income from all my sites was: $4,648.25. Not bad, right?
