October Blog Earnings Update
Well I’m not sure what to say! I thought September was a fabulous month, but October was even better! Again, everything just seemed to fall into place at the right time, click rates were high on my offers, and they converted well to earnings and commissions. Here are the details:
October Blog Earnings
- Google Adsense – $272.82
- Sverve – $12.00
- Infolinks – $50.45
- Blogher – $320.53
- ShareASale – $2,364.67
- Commission Junction – $1,593.73
- Escalate Network ads – $15.69
- E-book sales – $89.71
- Rivit Media – $20.96
- Sponsored Tweets – $4.56
- Social Spark – $47.47
- Amazon – $56.44
- Direct advertising – $154.82
- Blogvault – $54.00
- Mad Ads – $4.33
- Sales of website add-on services – $17.48
- Sewing pattern sales – $310.83
- Other small affiliate sales – $105.07
Total – $5,495.56
less: Purchase of domain names and hosting accounts – $602.50
Net Earnings – $4,893.06
Expenses during the month were:
- Blogvault Back up (3 sites) – $19.00
- MadMimi Mailing List – $27.00
You can find previous month’s figures under the My Income tab above.
Traffic (both sites):
- March = 69,850
- April= 129,872
- May = 138, 752
- June = 147,100
- July = 149,000
- August =141,990
- September =140,933
- October = 158,710
October in detail
I did enjoy the highest traffic on my sites so far during October, but not enough of an increase to fully explain the increase in revenue. Google also decided towards the end of October to take away a lot of my search engine traffic – again, suddenly at 2pm one day, it stopped almost dead – and it was down by around 65%, but is recovering slightly and at the time of writing is down about 40% over the previous steady level. Why they do this both a mystery and a nuisance to me and a lot of other legitimate websites. It means I have to work harder and harder to maintain my page views.
What was their latest update – hummingbird? More like skunk ! I believe smaller sites and bloggers are going to find it increasingly hard to get good traffic from Google as they seem to be favoring the larger sites in search results and blogs are very much out of favor. Also I am finding in my own search results that Google is favoring its own products in their results – YouTube videos, Google plus status updates etc. I can assure you if I search for a subject, I don’t want some random persons G+ status update on the first page of results!
Again my affiliate income dominated my earnings, and a big thank you to any readers that clicked, purchased products or services through my sites as a result of my recommendations. You rock! I hope that my recommendations are useful and valuable.
My sewing pattern sales went well during the month, although I don’t have plans to release any new ones this side of Christmas so I expect a drop off in this area. I did set up a group of enthusiastic sewists to help me test my patterns prior to launch and should be getting some new software to work with so I’ll be expanding into paid-for clothing patterns in the New Year. My free pattern this month for the little black dress was well received and offering these free patterns continues to bring the majority of site traffic.
I did launch a new e-book to Amazon and sales on this one and my previous e-book are both steady and add a little extra income. I do like the work once, sell it many times approach to both e-books and sewing pattern downloads. I think although it won’t contribute massively to the numbers, it will be a steady income which I could still rely on some months down the line even if I were to take a break from blogging…
Targets for November
My seasonal sewing series running all through November will actually probably result in much lower earnings in November and December as I promote the work and sites of other bloggers and the sponsors who donated prizes. I won’t be releasing any free or paid patterns, nor reviewing or recommending products, including links etc. But there will be a giveaway every day and a grand prize giveaway at the end with fabulous prizes. Drop over to take a look and maybe you could win!
The targets for November:
- Continue to work on my Seasonal Sewing Series – with daily guest bloggers and daily projects, sponsors and prizes, this has become almost a full time job behind the scenes. I hope it brings some new readers and followers.
- Continue to increase the mailing lists. The sewing list has especially seen excellent growth in the last month.
- Start work on a blogging schedule for 2014.
- Learn my new sewing pattern software coming mid- November.
- Work on setting up more free websites and carrying out the free Blogger to WordPress transfers.
- It’s my blogging birthday on 28th November – 1 year since I first started at So Sew Easy.
- Just carry on doing the same thing – it seems to be working for me!
Your input
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Authored by: Deby at Moms Make Money
November 11, 2013 @ 9:13 am
As always I love your info! I don’t get Google analytics I have it on my site but can’t make heads or tails out of most of it. Their figures are so far off from what I see on other analytics that it doesn’t ever look like I will get the numbers! Very discouraging…
November 11, 2013 @ 11:32 am
I use three different places to see traffic, jetpack stats in WordPress, Statcounter and analytics and yes, they all count visitors and views slightly differently and do give different numbers – but the variation isn’t too far off from each other. Strange that Analytics is giving you wildly different numbers from your other tracking. It could be that one is tracking your own site views, and the other is not perhaps.
September 20, 2014 @ 12:34 pm
i just join sverve and i dont know what the heck is going on
September 24, 2014 @ 7:55 am
It can be a bit confusing when you start out, but keep with it, keep your eye on the dashboard for new campaigns to take part in, and use the bookmark tool to add your content to share with other bloggers.
November 13, 2013 @ 7:08 am
Hi Deby
I just thought I would share a link to an article that I just read about Google’s new algorithm (http://searchengineland.com/google-hummingbird-172816). I’m sure you are up on these things already but I thought of your post as I was reading it!
November 13, 2013 @ 7:41 am
Yes I had seen this one before. It’s interesting to see in some of the comments that smaller sites and pages seem to be dropping out of the rankings in favor of the larger sites. One commenter writes that individual Etsy shops are no longer showing in results and all searches are directed to the Etsy page itself. I’m still sitting with a 30% drop in search engine traffic on the Sewing site and 60% drop at Moms Make Money. I guess Google wants us all to become super-sites and be advertisers with them. I think that is a big part of the key – they want to reward large sites with advertising budgets.
November 13, 2013 @ 11:00 am
Super!!! Deby you are my monetizing idol. your one month gross income is equal to my annual income from all sources. Ofcourse rupee is far behind compared to the dollar but reading your monthly reports make me want to step up and take charge…thanks for sharing
November 13, 2013 @ 11:03 am
regarding hummingbird I also read about it and saw my pageviews drop steeply but thankfully they are up again and like you pointed as with facebook even google has started to favour paying advertisers
November 13, 2013 @ 1:44 pm
Once again, I am amazed at your awesome results. I really appreciate the sharing of information as it gives me some basis for comparison against what I am trying to do.
A few months back I implemented some of the ads that you are running. I actually made a few dollars already! I just broke 1000 views a month this week, so I know I have a long way to go, but it is encouraging.
I have definitely had a few more opportunities with sponsors and such, and I am enjoying that as well.
As for Google- I am a non entity in their eyes. I will be working on that as well..
Still trying to build that audience!
November 13, 2013 @ 2:42 pm
Yay – well done on your first few dollars and in the increase in page views. Yes, your site is still quite modest and traffic is a major factor in what you earn online but keep plugging away with the awesome content, build your relationships with other bloggers and your followers and try to think of new places you can promote each week and it will come. When Google sees you are popular, then they only want to be friends with the popular kids so they will be your friend too and send you traffic. But it takes time…good luck with it all.
November 13, 2013 @ 4:28 pm
All I can say is “Wow”! I have been following you for several months and you’re such an inspiration. I love that you are so open about where your money comes from and share your insights on what went wrong and right during the month. My meager blogger income barely pays for my kids’ extracurricular activities, but I hope that if I continue to put in the time and effort and learn from bloggers like you who are generous with sharing their knowledge, I’ll be able to help foot the college bills when they come rolling in.
November 14, 2013 @ 4:46 pm
I think I was just lucky and stumbled into a good niche just because I loved it and had enthusiasm. There are plenty of sewing blogs, but perhaps none that concentrate on the same areas that I do. Keep at it, one day Google will notice how wonderful your content is and suddenly you’ll be on the first page and you’ll be made!
November 14, 2013 @ 9:38 am
I’m in awe. So much to learn and I appreciate the help that you offer all of us. CONGRATS!
November 17, 2013 @ 12:58 pm
I have been checking out your blog and I am in awe. I was making a bit of cash and suddenly it just came to a halt. I will keep reading with you though.
November 17, 2013 @ 3:26 pm
I tried to visit your site to take a look Kim but Blogger tells me your blog is closed down. I wonder if the site has a problem – could explain why things have suddenly dropped off!
November 19, 2013 @ 11:22 pm
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience, the info here is great. Hoping I can do the same one day.
December 6, 2013 @ 12:46 pm
Not gonna lie…it makes me want to cry and/or vomit when I see your income from blogging. lol! It would be such an enormous blessing if I could make even a quarter of what you’re able to make in a month. I need to start doing some homework on all this stuff!
December 20, 2013 @ 5:44 am
Hello. I’m very happy to view your earning on this blog. I just want to earn 100$ per month but I’ve never got it.
April 14, 2014 @ 10:56 am
I love it! Finally someone who actually put the big numbers up! Most bloggers talk of what is possible, but I want to see the money! Thank you for posting this, it is very inspirational
December 6, 2014 @ 9:16 pm
Wow. Hard work equate to better earnings. Keep working hard. Nothing comes on golden plate.
December 19, 2014 @ 9:03 pm
Good to see someone making a good amount of money online. I wish I could do that too. I also own a blog but it receives a very small traffic. This just holds me back. I feel like going to give up.
December 20, 2014 @ 8:00 am
Your site is very new, just a couple of months I think, and you don’t seem yet to have settled on a topic. Your site is about everything. But you cannot write about everything and appeal to everyone. You may do better if you pick one or two topics and write very well and intensively about those. I can see you live in Cambodia. Thats a place with a very interesting history and culture, and attracts lots of visitors. Have you considered writing a very useful website about your country for people who are researching it before visiting? That could do well for you.
December 20, 2014 @ 2:54 pm
Thank for your advice. You were right, I’m trying to apppeal to everyone raather that finding a specific topic. I’m glad you know Cambodia. I’ve created another blog about tourist http://www.cambodiatrips.org . I hope you can look at it and give me some feedback. The blog is very new and has only one post. Thanks in advance.
December 21, 2014 @ 7:53 am
I really like it! I think this site is well laid out, looks professional and has the chance to be a great resource. If you can fill it with information and advice that will be useful to tourists then you could get lots of visitors, and have the chance to earn some good money. Write about what you know, what you love and what info you have that others are interested in and you will be a success.
December 21, 2014 @ 8:21 am
Many thanks Deby! I am very inspired by what your wrote. You have lifted me up. I’ll keep on updating the blog.
November 17, 2018 @ 8:08 am
Thank you so much for all the great information. I will be able to incorporate a lot of it on the Bully Buddy Zone. Thanks again.
Cathy