Blog Money Whore

It’s that time of the month again!

This past February, Blog Money Whore brought in a total of $26.05 ($25.81 from AdSense and $0.24 from AdBrite). That’s quite an increase from the previous month’s total of $6.71! At the same time, pageviews fell from 1,740 to 1,312. That goes to show that it doesn’t necessarily depend on the number of pageviews but instead on the quality of pageviews. January saw a large spike of traffic from StumbleUpon, which accounted for a large number of pageviews, but those sorts of visitors tend not to be the type who click on advertising.

I’ve also added a new column to the earnings table: the number of posts. This is somewhat correlated with the amount of work I put into this site. In January, I wrote 15 posts, but in February, I wrote only 4. Yet, earnings went up nearly 4X! I’ve had similar experiences with Days That End in Y when I went through posting droughts. My theory is visitors don’t see new content, so they start looking elsewhere and tend to notice the ads. Of course, these sorts of results can’t be sustained, but I think it’s important to note that the amount of work you do isn’t necessarily positively correlated with the amount of money you make.

Anyway, March should see a great deal more posting. February was a very busy month, and I simply didn’t want to deal with writing posts after spending lots of time doing other things. I’ll also try marketing a bit more now that it’s hitting month four. We’ll see what happens!