April 2017 Blogging Income Report

So I survived my first whole, official calendar month blogging. Now for the question on everyone’s mind. What did my income look like?

Well, while it was not much, there was some there, so here goes my first official blog income report for the month of April 2017. (Technically I started my blog at the end of March, however I did not have any income during that month. This being said, I did not bore you all with a report of, “Hey, I made $0.”)

While I had several affiliates in place to monetize with, I only managed to generate income from one. I feel that as far as documenting my monetization journey goes however, all of the affiliates are worth mentioning. Here is the list of the affiliates I was working with in April:

Affiliates

• Google Adsense- $6.94
• Share-a-Sale- $0.00
• Bluehost-$0.00
• Amazon-$0.00

As some of you know from reading How I made Money Blogging in my First Month, the affiliates I work with pay in different ways. Some pay per view of the ad placed on my site, some pay per customer click through to the ad. Other affiliates only pay when you click the ad and purchase the product mentioned. None of these affiliates charge you anything extra, but they pay me for the ad space on my blog that gets their product in front of your eyes.

So, now that you know what my affiliate income looked like, lets look at the traffic that came through to my site in the month of April. Shall we?

Traffic

According to my stat’s on WordPress, my traffic actually was pretty decent for the month of April, considering it was only my first calendar month. Below are the stats I found:

Visitors:1015 (WHOA BUDDY! Over 1000 visitors made it to my site in April! Thank you for your support guys!)

Views: 1796 (This means I had 1796 unique page views on my blog for the month. Some of your guys were checking out more than one post a visit. Amazing!)

Comments: 29 ( This is awesome! I love engaging with my audience and hearing your feedback! Please feel free to drop me a comment on any of my posts that inspire you, or make you giggle!)

Fun tidbit; I had visitors from IP addresses(your computer’s address) register from all over the world this month! While the bulk of my views were from right here in the US, I also received visitors from Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Finland, South Africa, India, Ireland, and the United Arab Emirates! Way to make me feel famous guys!

Posts

Ok, so I am not overly proud of this one. During the month of April, I managed to publish only 7 posts. While I guess this is not terrible considering I have an 8 year old, 3 year old and newborn in the house. I plan to get this number closer to 10+ posts per month in the future.

Goals

Time to set some goals for this month so that I have something to reflect back upon for May’s income report. The following are some goals that I have for this month, and I hope to have good news to report back next month!

Increase Income- We all knew that was coming. I would like to double my income, at the very least, for the month of May. I plan to do so by looking more into my other affiliate programs, and utilizing different post styles to better suit those programs. I know this is achievable for me, it is just going to take some work.

Increase Traffic- While I feel my traffic for April was rockin’ for a start up blog, I want to see it continue to trend up. I am learning more about search engine optimization, and I am really digging into Pinterest this month! Add me on Pinterest at TheCrazySAHM if you want to follow along with what I am doing there!

Increase Subscribers- I have not yet found the page to generate stats as to EXACTLY how many subscribers I currently have. I would guess the number is probably close to 20. I plan to increase this number, and hopefully double it, in the coming month. I also plan to start sending out a newsletter to my subscribers soon, so be on the lookout if you have subscribed! (If not, please feel free to do so, I would love to include you!)

If you have read this far, thank you for being interested enough in my journey to hear me ramble.

Seriously though, I appreciate your support more than you know! I am determined to succeed at blogging, and I could not succeed without readers like you!

Surprised by anything you read in the stats about my first full month blogging? Interested in starting a blog yourself? Are you a blogger who had a great April or has some awesome tips? Please leave a comment below! Also, if you enjoyed this post, feel free to share it or check out some of my other posts! Thanks for reading!

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