Time for my monthly review.  Unfortunately, nothing exciting happening on the blog over the past month.  Each major stat is either flat, slightly up, or slightly down.  Hopefully I can inject some enthusiasm into the blog during the month of August.

That being said, I’m participating in the 2009 edition of the Thirty Day Challenge.  The goal of which is to earn you first $10 through online marketing.  I’m going to do my best to follow each day step-by-step, but my real goal for the 30DC is to apply all the techniques to my army of web properties.  So, hopefully I can build one solid blog through the 30DC that produces $10 and can increase current web property traffic at the same time.

Income June 2009

AdSense – $127.34

Amazon Associates – $15.23

Total – $142.57

I’m pretty sure I’m not monetizing my traffic to the full potential.  Why?  It has to do with laziness.  I need to experiment with the other forms of monetization rather than relying on Google AdSense.  Also, I only added a few Amazon links in probably no more than 20 out of hundreds of pages on my sites.  I imagine I can increase my Associateds income by 5-10 if I added links and ads throughout all my pages.  Maybe it’s time to investigate a plugin that would do this for me.  Finally, one of my new web properties has finally started to show some promise attracting 30-40 new visitors a day.  This property has not been monetized either.  I’ll probably wait till I reach upwards of 100 visitors a day.  I’m going to keep the goal at $150 till I actually reach that number.

I did add a few clickbank links and have received over 100 clicks, but still waiting for my first sale.  We’ll see how that goes over the next month or two.

Subscribers

June 30 – 1245

June 30

  • Blog 1- 1350
  • Blog 2 – 8
  • Blog 3 – 3

The grand total for RSS subscribers this month is 1361 an increase of 116.  Not a very good turn out falling way short of the 200 goal.  Lets scoot this one back down to 150 and hope to clear 1500 subscribers this month.

Traffic

Site Usage

Visits = 22,184+2,357
Page Views =  35,630 +804

It least we trended slightly up this month.  However, the bad news is that this includes stats from my all three web properties rather than just the one.  While my new sites contribution is slight it finally has reached some significance exceeding 1000 visitors and 1500 page views this past month.  I’m thinking htis is the month to reach the goals below…at least I think we can hit the number of visitors number.

Lets stick with last months goal 25,000 visitors and 45,000 page views.

Here is my month-by-month comparison chart:

Goal Apr 2009 May 2009 Jun 2009 Jul 2009 December 2009 – Projected
Unique Visitors 27,433 21,133 19,827 22,184 200,000
Page Views 50,134 36,200 34,826 35,630 500,000
Revenue $173.74 $119.10 $135.75 $142.57 $5,000
RSS/Email List 985 1,094 1,245 1,361 11,000

This month finally saw a change with an upward swing slightly up from the month before.  My thoughts at the beginning of this month is two fold.  First, experiment with my monetization strategies and second implement Thirty Day Challenge concepts to increase traffic and revenue.  I’m excited this month as I usually do much better with structure and that structure being the 30DC.

See ya next month!