Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: May 2008
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Table of contents for Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money
- Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: December 2007
- Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: January 2008
- Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: March 2008
- Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: April 2008
- Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: February 2008
- Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: May 2008
- Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: June 2008
How did I do in May of 2008?
Traffic
Goal: 2650 total unique visits for the month and 100/day avg
Actual: 2920 total unique visits for the month and 91/day avg
I feel good about the daily uniques for the month. The daily average is a little short of my goal. I think my link love resolve will help those numbers so I am planning big for June.
Publishing
Goal: 5 total publishings may include guest blog posts.
Actual: 3
- The Man Page
- Good Taste
- It Might be Love (future publishing)
I slacked on my guestblogging this month. I put more time into my other blogs and investing in backlinks. I plan to try this goal of “5″ again for June. If interested, send me a message or a comment.
Money
Goal: 300 dollars through these sources - 1) PayPerPost 2) PayU2Blog and 3) Private advertising.
Actual: 270 dollars. I have 2 open spots for ads at $10 a month if you are interested.
I’m interested in getting my traffic higher. I feel this will make the ad spots all the more alluring. As it is, those who advertise on my blog get an interview and links throughout each month they stay here. Hopefully more will show interest. PayPerPost and PayU2Blog probably are the culprits that caused me to lose my PR again … I don’t really care. Google can bite me. As long as I am meeting my personal goals, I am succeeding in my book.
Goals for June 2008 are:
Traffic: 3000 uniques
Publishing: 3 online, may included guestblogging
Money: 200 bucks
Final thought:
Getting a blog “seated” in the search engines through backlinks is a full time job. In changing domain names I lost about 80% of my backlink Google Juice. I’m learning ways to build it back up and I appreciate my readers who come to this niche and find inspiration and psychology to make their lives better. Watch and see how I do in June. -Damien
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Tags: Advertising, Blogging, Google, guestblog, PayPerPost, payu2blog, publishing, the man page
I'm Damien Riley, author and teacher. Here you'll find "think outside the box" posts on psychology and inspiration. 
Seriously, every time I read your goal summary, I get inspired! Good work Damien! I’m thinking about buying one of your ad spaces, but it’ll have to wait a little bit.
Also, I’m wondering what you mean by you “link love resolve” and what your big plans are to help this along. I know I know, I’ll see it since I visit here often, but do you think you could expand a bit on that for me?
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Thanks Katelyn. I try to master every thing I do. This is one of the harder ones but I will get there.
Damien, you are making impressive progress and I love seeing how much you have improved from not that long ago. Be proud of all that you have accomplished thus far and I am looking forward to more great things from you!
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Wow! Congrats on meeting (or darn close to!) those goals! You’re right. Google and Technorati can bite all of us as far as I’m concerned. People will find you if you’re doing quality work and you are!!
How’s the house and the move coming along?
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@Derek: Thanks Derek, it is always great to get a good word from a mentor!
@JTRC: By the way, I apolgize I haven’t been over to your blog much lately, as you know blogger is blocked at my work and I have no internet at home, until today woo hoo! Fios here we come. Thanks for your empathy with Google. Technorati are finding their way I think, but they may choose the wrong path on authority as Google has with PR. We’ll see.
Once a famous person said, if you have a goal /objective, nothing is impossible. Well seems that you have planned evrything so well, wish you luck in acieving your goals. As the others said its something really inspiring.
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Thanks IFS!
Congrats on making or at least coming close to your goals. I just started in the blog money making thing so my numbers are still much smaller, but the advice you give is excellent. I look forward to more posts and more info from you as you work to meet your goals.
I appreciate that comment. I will continue to post the things that work for me. I learned a lot from Derek Semmler and that’s what he does for his readers. If you ever have any questions about what I do, please ask.
Thats good to set a target, this is what actually drives you towards success. Hmm but you said “caused me to lose my PR again … I don’t really care. Google can bite me.” ! i guess that Pr is important for SERP.
I just wrote a whole series on what is important to me, that’s what I rate myself on. To repeat: Google can bite me ;)
Thats the problem when you change domain. I would suggest you to find one domain and have it paid for the next 10 years at once. You wont have the problem of loosing pr juice! What did you learnt fromderek?? is he as good as you in making money??
I think he made around $700 last month. Mostly, I learned about the companies that pay out for ads and sponsored posts.
Thanks buddy, you have posted very useful concept.
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