November 2008 goal update
November is traditionally a very busy month for me, and 2008 was no exception. I say this, because basically I spent very little time on any of my websites, so I guess I should be grateful that they made anything at all! Enough of the rambling, the goal project keeps on keeping on...
1. Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that can generate $350 per month.
What's that smell? Oh, that's just the chances of SwollenPickles.com reaching it's goal turning to crap. For the second month in a row, SwollenPickles.com failed to even scrape past the $100 mark. Total revenue for November was $98.55. Maybe it's the financial crisis?
Small figures across the board, with Commission Monster and MoreNiche both contributing this month.
2. Develop Swollen Pickles to the point where it receives 30,000 unique visits per month.
Edging closer to the target, with 25,101 unique visitors in November up from 23,996 in October.
3. Develop Digital Burn into a website that can generate $150 per month.
There was a massive nose dive here as well, with November seeing $70.51, well down on the $200+ from October. The big difference here was the eBay Partner Network (EPN). There were some well documented issues with the EPN reporting in November. DigitalBurn made $0 from EPN in November, which has not happened since I started using them, and well below the $100+ from last month. I've emailed EPN support so I'll see what they say and whether there's a problem.
4. Develop Digital Burn to the point where it receives 15,000 unique visits per month.
The first full month of statistics tracking on DigitalBurn for a couple of months. There were 11,284 unique visitors in November.
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.
MotorDude stunk up the place in terms of traffic, with a more than mediocre 740 unique visits in November. There's a lot of competition in the automotive website world, and there are a lot of people that do it better than I do, so I shouldn't be surprised. My post on the Shelby GT500 Super Snake is by far the most popular post over there.
7. Achieve my goal weight of 85kgs.
* crickets chirping *
In summary, maybe you do get out what you put in?
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