I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.  As I thought we had a bit off a drop off this month, but it was expected.  Our income number dropped only slightly which was very surprising.  Maybe we’re finally out of the so-called Google smart pricing for adSense.  Anyhow here are the numbers

Income November 2009

AdSense – $241.57

Amazon Associates – $13.90

Total – $255.47

We cleared the goal of $200 again this month.  In fact we were over $250 for the second straight month.  I’m going to gamble this month and say we see an increase in Amazon affiliate sales and push the stretch number up to $300.

I took the adSense off of site 2 because it wasn’t producing at all.  I may try it again down the line perhaps with a new theme optimized for adSense.

Subscribers

  • Blog 1- 1802
  • Blog 2 – 9
  • Blog 3 – 3
  • Blog 4 – not using feedburner

A modest jump up 101 subscribers.  I think I can really boost these numbers by offering a free downloadable product during sign up.  Perhaps a few guest posts would bump these numbers up as well.

Traffic

Site Usage

Visits = 25,983+ 1,116 + 6 + 404 = 27,509 - 4,556
Page Views =  45,209 + 1,619 + 6 + 625 = 47,459 – 8,377

We definitely saw a drop in the numbers this month.  As I mentioned this is largely due to the Halloween article that got significant traffic in October.  I’m going to hope for some modest totals in December and hope to see a rise up to about 30K visitors and 50K Pageviews.

Here is my month-by-month comparison chart:

Goal Apr 2009 May 2009 Jun 2009 Jul 2009 Aug 2009 Sep 2009 Oct 2009 Nov 2009 December 2009 – Projected
Unique Visitors 27,433 21,133 19,827 22,184 24,924 29,263 32,065 27,509 200,000
Page Views 50,134 36,200 34,826 35,630 40,484 45,004 55,836 47,459 500,000
Revenue $173.74 $119.10 $135.75 $142.57 $135.10 $195.06 $295.04 $255.47 $5,000
RSS/Email List 985 1,094 1,245 1,361 1,510 1,637 1,713 1,814 11,000
I’m going to point out 3 goals for the month:
  1. Continue to produce articles
  2. Try a guest post this month
  3. Put work into blog #4