February 2009 goal update
When February rolls around it always occurs to me that there is a flaw in my goal tracking. Obviously February is the shortest month of the year, in 2009 February had three fewer days than January. Therefore, it doesn't quite seem fair to compare February's results with those of January. None the less, that's what I'm going to do...
Goal Number One: Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that can generate $350US per month.
To be blunt, Swollen Pickles is still under performing. In January, the site brought in $112.77, with February seeing this figure increasing to $138.24. The big performers continue to be the eBay partner network, thanks to phpBayPro and InfoLinks.
Incidentally, March may be a good time fore you to check out Chitika, as I've just learned that throughout March they are running with their "Stimulus Package Match" program. My basic understanding is that throughout March, whatever you earn with Chitika, Chitika will match it, up to $50. There new premium ad units are worth a look as they only display to US/Canadian traffic that arrives at your site via a search engine.
Goal Number Two: Develop Swollen Pickles into a website that receives 35,000 unique visits per month.
In February there were 32,627 unique visitors to Swollen Pickles, down slightly from 34,032 in January. To put this in perspective though, January averaged 1,097 visits per day, while February averaged 1,165 visits per day.
Goal Number Three: Exercise a minimum of three times per week (30 plus minutes per session).
This is one target that I'm happy to say I've been able to maintain thus far.
Goal Number Four: Achieve a Body Mass Index (BMI) within the "Normal" range (from 18.5 to 25).
At the end of January it was 28.7, at the end of February I was down slightly but still at a hefty 28.6. I started the year at 29.
Goal Number Five: Reduce my waist measurement to below 94cm.
Still no measuring tape that'll go the distance, so I'm going to go ghetto. My plan is to take a length of string, measure my waist with that, and then measure the length of string. Just call me the MacGyver of weight loss. So, while I haven't got any numbers to report, I can say with some degree of confidence that I'm beginning to change shape a little bit.
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Those earning numbers look good — especially considering you’re catering to an ad-savvy crowd which might give you a lower CTR than say, a website for geriatrics
Curious, have you ever tried Kontera? I don’t see it on here and a lot of folks claim it is a solid #2 earner after AdSense.
Hi Susie,
I have tried Kontera, and still use it on a couple of sites, but I’ve found Infolinks to consistently bring in more money than Kontera, which is why I use it here. Kontera and Infolinks are basically the same in how they work, only difference from my point of view is that I make more money with Infolinks.
I have found that when you’re small you focus on highly localized and highly specific targets to generate higher returns -in your case – higher cpm or ppc. A recent case in point is the localized news outlets that are becoming all the rage…http://www.maplewoodian.com/ ; http://www.theprintedblog.com/