March 2008 Earnings
March was something of an accidental experiment for me. So much for “a great deal more posting”! Although traffic to this blog is generally low, there was still enough to see whether or not frequent blogging actually matters, especially for a young blog. The results?
Google AdSense brought in $23.22 (a decrease from $25.81 in February), and AdBrite brought in a whopping $0.14 (a decrease from $0.24 in February). Keep in mind that AdBrite only runs in the bottom banner ad, so this isn’t necessarily a slight against this ad network. I also had a handful of referrals for Blingo, Prosper, and Revolution Money Exchange. I don’t think these have actually resulted in any payouts, though, and I leave them out of the final tally anyway, as I’m not 100% certain they came from this blog.
All this happened with only two posts and a total of 1,102 pageviews (a decrease from 1,312 in February) according to Google Analytics. That just goes to show that subscribers and frequent posting may not be as important as some may think. Instead, I suspect that content and search engine rankings are more important, and what I’m trying to do is capture the long tail of personal finance topics.
I’d say these are pretty impressive statistics considering the amount of actual work that went into this blog. I spent maybe two hours at most working on this, though it did constantly occupy my thoughts.
As always, this data is summarized in the earnings, pageviews & posts table.
Anyway, here’s to April and making money one post at a time! Let’s see what happens!
