Well month 2 is gone & over, so let’s have a little February blog update. Since I made my first pennies (literally) this month I’ll add a bonus income report at the end!
This month I had hoped to get a few more posts published but in the end I published exactly the same. I know that I would have better overall numbers if I had more posts go live. This month had me feeling like I was behind a lot and I struggled to keep up with some of my facebook blogging groups.
My top three blogs of the month were:
- The one thing you can do today to upgrade your bathroom
- How to get amazing results with peel and stick tile
- When you don’t get it right art is the answer (green and white bathroom redo)
I had hoped to have my email freebie announced and published but alas, no. I did get the first draft out to 3 people I trust for revisions and feed back. After hearing from everyone I feel like I either need to simplify it for it be be a better intro piece or dig in and add a lot more bulk to it. If I do the later I feel like it might make for a better ebook for me to sell than to use as a freebie. Needless to say I didn’t get it published on the site, though I did make good progress.
February Blog Metrics:
- Blog Posts: 7 (vs January 7)
- Hopefully in March I can push that number to at least 8. I am still searching for a good time/balance on when to write, take pictures, and publish/promote the posts.
- Pageviews: 272 (vs January 167)
- Overall page views are up, so that’s great! Hopefully they continue to trend up!
- Pinterest: 391 (vs January 369)
- I am still confused by Pinterest and Board Booster. I did go ahead and subscribe to a paid trial. That puts me at $5/month of investment on top of my previous expenses. It’s not a lot but I want to keep it in mind. I am not seeing much traffic (no viral posts here yet) from Pinterest so I clearly haven’t gotten in tune with it yet. Part of why my blog posts were fewer this month was because I was trying to work on my Pinterest account.
- Instagram: 206 (vs January 154)
- I was PUMPED to see my following hit 200 this past month! It didn’t grow as much as I had the month before but I’ll take any growth I can. I am noticing that I am connecting with lots of other bloggers/influencers but I’m not sure if I’m connecting with my target audience on here as much as I felt like I was in month 1. I have some ideas that I’m going to try and implement to see if they work better in the next few weeks.
- Facebook: 72 (vs January 41)
- I’m happy with any growth or movement on the Facebook page because I’m not really doing anything on there at the moment. I’m honestly shocked it’s up to 72.
- Email Subscribers: (vs January 11 )
- Since I haven’t gotten my freebie set up yet I haven’t been pushing anyone towards the email list yet. I gained 2 new subscribers this month, one is my neighbor (Hi, Anna!) and the other is my first unknown to me subscriber.
Money Talk
Last month I worried because I hadn’t gotten my amazon affiliate approval or Google Ad Sense set up for my blog. I am happy to report that both, along with Shop Style Collective, are currently at work on the blog. Here are the earnings for the month from each source:
- Amazon Affiliate: $0
- I haven’t done much with Amazon yet. I’ve added a few misc links but so far have preferred the ease of the widgets I can create on Shop Style Collective.
- Shop Style Collective: $0.25 (represents 5 sales)
- I love the ease of use of their site and the widgets make great additions to my post. Will continue to utilize this heavily in the future.
- Google Ad Sense: $0.94
- I didn’t know what to expect but once I got it set up (using the Building A Framework Ebook as a guide) it’s basically been on auto pilot. I was shocked when I made $0.08 my first day! It’s not much but it tells me it’s possible to make money in this gig.
My goals for March are:
- Try and connect with followers in my niche on Instagram.
- Get my Pinterest stats up to start seeing traffic click through to the blog
- Post 8 blogs
- Get my email freebie published
What are your goals for the month (blog or otherwise)?
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