Phew, time sure flies by when you’re having fun blogging. In fact, it seems like just 30 days ago it was a month ago. Think about that statement for a while as I go and share the deepest, darkest secrets of Blog Badly’s growth (It’s alive!) and the expansion of my online empire (Proportionately to the rest of the world: about the size of my desk). Current stats in bold, last months stats (if I bothered to dig them up) in normal.
BLOG BADLY
Pageviews: 12,878 (1,142)
Uniques: 8,973 (762)
Subscribers: 43 (like 3?)
Alexa 3-Month Average: 305,659 (about 800,000)
Alexa Weekly Average:132,000 (???)
Google Pagerank: 3 (3)
I CAN HAS MONEYZ?
Blog Badly Income
The Rubicon Project: $97 ($0)
Winning Collin LaHay’s Contest: $100 (0$)
Other Funky Stuff: $20 (0$)
Miscellaneous Income
Triond: $65 ($15)
Total Income: 282/month, 9.4$/day. 940% increase.
AWARDS N’ STUFF
Most Creative Keyword (Sponsored by Google Analytics): “f6b3173f78c60b2383188f03e5310f85”
Most Popular Post: Top Ten Reasons This List Won’t Be Popular
Best Comment: “LOL thats funny.
so the majority of people who read this blog are Old, make no money and are neither white, black, Asian or Hispanic….
Those are some SOLID stats.”
Random Website I’m More Popular Than According To Alexa: Net Entrepreneur
Random Website I Should Be More Popular Than: Carl Ocab
ANALYSIS TIME
I’m still freaking poor. 9 bucks a day? That’s like working minimum wage for an hour and a half. Still, I suppose it’s adequate… for now. My goals will be to monetize Blog Badly better so that it earns at least 150 dollars in April, get 100 bucks from Triond, and get 100 bucks from other miscellaneous stuff.
Of course, talking about money first makes me seem like that’s all I’m concerned about. In fact, my ego inflates greatly when people read and comment on my work I believe that growing Blog Badly’s reach is, at the moment, more important than money. I’m hoping to break the Alexa top 100k within two weeks so that I can view their fancy graphs every day. Some more subscribers wouldn’t be too shabby either, hint hint.
By Collin LaHay on Apr 3, 2008 | Reply
Well, I am proud to be your top income source this month, as well as inspiration for your most popular post, lol.
By Max Miroff on Apr 3, 2008 | Reply
You’re like a father to me, Collin [not really]
By Crystal on Apr 3, 2008 | Reply
Impressive stats. Haha it’s such a beginning-of-month trend, everyone does it, pretty interesting to read.
By Link Building Bible on Apr 4, 2008 | Reply
Congrats man! That’s awesome! I am happy that you made a lot of money! I guess I should be entering Collin’s contests!
By Shelia on Apr 6, 2008 | Reply
Congrats on the growth!
Working hard on your blog to bring consistent quality content that will enable your blog to be a source for its readers is no small feat.
To then monetize your blog and begin to see income of any level is also an accomplishment.
I see that you set goals for your blog, and I think that’s a good thing. I don’t do it though, because I’ll get all wrapped up and anal about it and have too many highs and lows, thereby missing the fun I currently have with my blog.
By jimsvarkey on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
You seem to run a crusade against Carol Ocab
By Max Miroff on Apr 9, 2008 | Reply
@jim: Well, I am way better than him…
By Blue Host Sucks on Apr 27, 2008 | Reply
9 bux a day is dang good actually. i’d want nothing more than to make 10-15 bucks a day from my site. the thing is though, i’m not sure you can count contest winnings…unless you plan to win contests every month.