Traffic & Income Report - September 2014 - My Actual Blogging Income - Living on Fifty (2024)

During my 1st Year Blogiversary post, I asked you all if you would be interested in my doing both a Pinterest post (since 60% or more of my traffic comes from Pinterest) as well as an income report now that I am actually making some money! Your response was overwhelmingly “Yes!” so I’m going to start doing these Traffic & Income Reports on a monthly basis!

I believe that more bloggers should reveal their income, as well as some stats about their traffic to inspire and encourage others, so I’m am giving monthly updates about my income and traffic statistics. This is my actual blogging income, folks. Read on!

Let’s get started!

Traffic –

I’m going to share percentage increases from the month before for my traffic stats, as well asactual numbers :-). Also, data is from either WordPress stats or Alexa.

• Pageviews:40,527 (47% increase over August)
• Unique Pageviews:24,236 (63% up over August)
• Bounce Rate:30%
• Daily Pageviews/Visitor: 9.9
• Daily Time on Site: 13:35

Income –

I’m going to my actual blogging income – the actual numbers! –as well as percentages increases in the income section. Right now my income is small, but when I look at the percentage that it is increasing every month, I am really encouraged!

Keep in mind, this is purely my income. This does not account for the 30% that I hold back for taxes. Also, this does not take expenses into account – those will be covered in the next section.

• Ad Networks:$244.69
• Affiliate Sales: $13.80

• Total Income: $258.49

If you want to start your own money-making blog, you can do so very cheaply. I created a tutorial that will help you start a blog of your own in about 10 minutes, and very cheaply, with prices starting at only $3.95 a month. This low price is only available through my Bluehost link, and when you purchase at least 12 months of blog hosting, Bluehost will even throw in a FREE domain name (a $15 value). Again, this pricing + free domain name is only available through my link, and if you want to make money with your blog, then self-hosting through a company such as Bluehost is essential.

Expenses

• ViralWoot – $15.00. ViralWoot does my Pinterest scheduling so I don’t have to be plugged in constantly. If you would like more information about how I drive 60% of my traffic from Pinterest, you can read about it here.
• Elite Blog Academy – $249.00 Perhaps some of you have heard of Living Well Spending Less? The site’s author, Ruth Sokup, created a class called the Elite Blog Academy. She was offering it for $299, and I was on the fence, not really sure if it would be worth the money. But then, I found a coupon code that took $50.00 off, making it $249, plus I realized that she offers a 200% money-back guarantee on the course, so I jumped at the chance. Right now I am 1/4 of the way through it and I can already tell you that it is money well spent! Expect to here more about the course in future posts!
• P.S. If you sign up for Elite Blog Academy before 12/5/14, you can get special Black Friday Pricing! This course will run you $299, but it has already taken my blog so far beyond what I had ever imagined I know it will help you! Plus, if you wait until after 12/5/14, the price will go up to $399 ! Click this link or the banner below to get started!

• Total Expenses: $264.00

Goals for September–

• I want to make $300 from ad networks, which works out to $10 a day – FAIL – my average was $8.16. Still not bad since last month I averaged just over $5.00
• I also want to do another eMeals post…..I love their service and they recently added some awesome new features to it! Maybe that will provide a little boost to my affiliate sales income! – FAIL – I just got busy. We’ll try again in October, eh?
• Lastly, I want to get the Pinterest Guide out…. – PASS – You can check out the Pinterest Guide Here!

Goals for October –

• Introduce ya’ll to my new blog! So exciting!
• Average 1,.500 page views per day – so far this is not looking good….anyone every dealt with a massive drop in page views?
• Finish the Elite Blog Academy with my full attention
• Make $350 from Ad Networks – I started using BlogHer for my 2 main ad spots, with Adsense filling in the less advantageous areas, and so far this month, I haven’t been impressed. If we keep going at this rate, I’ll definitely not hit my goals!
• Redo my blog navigation

If you want to start your own money-making blog, you can do so very cheaply. I created a tutorial that will help you start a blog of your own in about 10 minutes, and very cheaply, with prices starting at only $3.95 a month. This low price is only available through my Bluehost link, and when you purchase at least 12 months of blog hosting, Bluehost will even throw in a FREE domain name (a $15 value). Again, this pricing + free domain name is only available through my link, and if you want to make money with your blog, then self-hosting through a company such as Bluehost is essential.

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