Time for the goal update again. A little later this month because I was waiting for a couple of figures to finalise. In any case, it was a sad and sorry month for SwollenPickles.com, but a record month in terms of my total overall earnings. Go figure!

1. Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that can generate $350 per month.

Do you remember Leonardo DiCaprio at the end of the Titanic? Well that was SwollenPickles.com in October. The site didn't even manage to crack the $100 mark for the month, staggering to a total of $95.02US, compared to the $225 in September. The one positive is that since that is in US dollars and the Aussie dollar has dropped so much, that $95US is equal to around $140 Australian.

Nothing really stood out in terms of revenue in October.

2. Develop Swollen Pickles to the point where it receives 30,000 unique visits per month.

Well revenue decreased in October, traffic increased. What a bizarre month! In total there were 23,996 visitors to this site in October compared to 17,767 unique visits in September. A more comprehensive breakdown of the statistics can be found here.

3. Develop Digital Burn into a website that can generate $150 per month.

Fortunately October wasn't all doom and gloom. DigitalBurn far surpassed it's target bringing in $282.37US for the month, up from $158.10 in September. The eBay Partner Network did quite well as did Commission Junction. The credit really has to go to phpBay Pro. I've said it before, but I'm going to say it again, if you're running WordPress and you haven't purchased this plugin yet, then you are losing money!

4. Develop Digital Burn to the point where it receives 15,000 unique visits per month.

Unfortunately the tracking code was down for the first week or so of October, so the statistics are a little sketchy. I do know that there were 10,896 unique visits for the 25 days or so the code was live. Based on that, it's probably safe to say that it would have hit the 11,000 visit mark for the month which would be inline with the previous month.

5. Develop Motor Dude into a website that can generate $50 per month.

After a whoop ass September, where this site brought in a grand total of $151.92, MotorDude.com managed to better that figure in October, bringing in $192.99.

6. Develop Motor Dude to the point where it receives 7,500 unique visits per month.

There were 945 unique visitors to MotorDude.com in October, down a nudge from 1,168 in September. That's a little disappointing, and indicates that the current level of revenue is probably not sustainable into the long term unless traffic figures pick up.

7. Achieve my goal weight of 85kgs.

Zero change.

In other news...

The forum on my Guitar Effects site has been live for over a month now, and only has three members, including me. It's a little sad right now, but if you're into guitar or anything remotely guitar related, go check out the Guitar Effects Forum.