It’s amazing how quickly the traffic dies down when you’re on vacation! In any event, here’s a recap of the blog’s income for February:
- TLA Links: $34.10
- PayPerPost: $22.00
- ReviewMe: $5.00
- TNX Links: $68.80
- Private Sales: $188.75
- Advertising Expenses: ($9.30)
- Total for February 2008: $309.35
- Total for January 2008: $178.36
- % Increase/Decrease: 73.4%
Private advertising really does appear to be the way to go nowadays. It’s very easy to understand how some of the more mainstream bloggers such as Chow and Problogger do so well. I’m currently expecting Adsense to finally hit the $100 after about a year’s worth of having them onboard but once that check arrives, I’ll be looking to replace Adsense with other advertising blocks. But for now, I’m very pleased with the way things have progressed, monetarily, on this blog. As for content, well, that’s a different story. With the wedding finally over, it’s time to reload and get things in the correct gear.
Wow! That’s almot a two-fold increase over January… congratulations! I would love to see my blog get that kind of monetization, keep up the solid work
Comment by Jim — Tuesday, March 4, 2008 @ 7:23 am
Very nice man, almost double. I wish I knew how you did it. Pretty soon your going to be competing with shoemoney and john chow
Comment by bobby — Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
Hah! The day I compete with Chow and Shoemoney is the day my dog actually speaks English instead of woof! To be honest, the past couple of months helped pay for my car insurance this term. Every little bit helps!
Comment by Jorge — Friday, March 7, 2008 @ 6:25 am
Yes keeping your traffic from crashing requires constant updates. It’s quite a lot of work, but it becomes more and more rewarding as times goes. You have done really well in February so keep working hard, your site is definitely worth it and really interesting to read.
Comment by Jon — Sunday, March 9, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
Jon,
Thanks! I have fallen behind somewhat and sadly the blog’s not the only thing that’s suffered from it. We’re waiting for the summer to roll around and see if the lighter work/class loads can help relieve some of the stress. Funny enough, when my nutritionist (yes, a nutritionist) asks what I’m doing to relieve stress, I tell her I trade in the markets. I think the correct answer they were looking for was something along the lines of knitting or pottery making!
Comment by Jorge — Monday, March 10, 2008 @ 6:10 am
Curious. Where do you make the private ad sales? On the website? Via a middle man?
Comment by Options Strategery — Tuesday, March 11, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Options:
I use a plugin called OIO Publisher. If you head to my advertising page, you’ll notice a series of items for sale. Following those links takes you to a form and then a Paypal payment site. I do need to push my advertising a bit more but I’m waiting until I cross the magical 100 RSS subscriber milestone. Although I received offers from Seeking Alpha and BullPoo for permission to publish my posts on their site so that’s always a start. I just need to create more quality posts which as Jon stated is quite a bit of work. But I have a feeling things should be getting easier around here now that the wedding’s over.
Comment by Jorge — Thursday, March 13, 2008 @ 6:01 am