Month of January was even more exiting than December of the last year. And supposedly December is the beast month of the year for bloggers. During January I learned a lot, and I made some crucial decision as far as my Blogging Business. I hope these decisions will affect my business in a very positive way. Also I found a new business opportunity – I am going to promote a cool product on my site – BestHousesIdeas.com. The product is in the last phase of development and I am waiting for the technical specifications to be delivered. Now, lets get to the statistics:
No work on this site, except for the nice business opportunity I found, which will be under development soon… Site is now 6 months old so it is passed the Sand Box google term hopefully and the content will be indexed pretty quick.
No work on this site.
This site is a shiny star of the traffic growth!!! As far as earnings – its not so shiny – results are at the end of the post… There is unexpected winner for this month!
This is traffic coming from search engines after a year with 41 articles of content. Very sad graph…. Google, get to work! Or else….
Some spikes, nothing exciting.
Traffic is coming from YouTube channel, not so much from the search engines.
No work on this site…
No work on this site.
Traffic From All My Sites - Summary
The overall site traffic is UP. Except the abandoned sites. Two sites the traffic is 100%, and one is 400%!!! That is unexpected thing! Caught me totally off guard! Hope the next month will be as much positive!
Income From Sites
Google Adsense
Page RPM showed on this graph is average. Most of the time is $0 or close to $0. Some days is spiking up to the moon. Like last day of January for a moment got to $145!
Interesting thin I noticed: even the most page views had FloppyTheDachshund.com site, the earnings were larger big time on the PanamaTropic.com site:
Turns out the quantity of the visitors does not matter that much, but more important is topic and content of the site – otherwise how can I explain that the site with only 279 page views made $4.82 and site with 3,072 page views made only $6.25?
Lesson learned: Quantity does not matter that much, as price somebody is paying for the exactly same service. I can have less clicks but in different, better paying niche and make same or similar amount of money. Pet niche – for 26 clicks I have received $5.00 and in Travel niche – for just 8 clicks I have received $3.84. Only $1.16 less… Old truth “Don’t work harder, work smarter” still in effect.
Media.net
Media has only 2 ads per page on my sites. Google has 3X more units per page on my sites. That is why is so much less compared to Adsense. Overall the amount they paying is comparable.
Amazon Associates
Entire 2 sales this month. Better than nothing, isn’t it?
Lesson learned: I should be focusing more on getting sales commissions because it just simply pays better than just pure ads. Since I have earned with ads $13.97 for entire month and with Amazon commissions $12.27 – there answer where I should focus my attention is without a question. But the combination of two – ads with commissions is the best. And pure commissions are the best since I don’t have to run purchasing, delivery, returns, customer service etc. I just get clean commission. Its less money the I would sell a product myself but on the other hand – I can take the money and relax!
Etsy.com
Etsy is a very sad place for me. No luck at all with this platform….
Summary
Google Adsense:……………………$11.55 (Last Month: $6.43 – That’s +almost 100%)
Media.net:…………………………….$2.42 (Last Month: $0.89 – That’s +270%)
Amazon Associates:……………..$12.27 (Last Month: $8.05 – That’s +50%)
Etsy.com:……………………………..$0.00
TOTAL: …………………………..$26.24
Last Month Income was: …..$15.37
This month income is +70%. I would say earnings as good as in stock market! But less risk!
Finally things started to look interesting after one year of no movement at all.
Lets see what happens in February! Cannot wait!
