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Blogging highlights and earnings for 2007

January 3rd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

This has been a great year for change your thoughts and it has gone from strength to strength and it’s all down to you.

I thought I would share the highlights and show what can be achieved in a year.

Statistics:

Traffic: unique Visitors

unique visitor traffic

RSS Subscribers

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Traffic

I am very pleased with the amount of traffic I am getting just now and I have to say that if it wasn’t for stumbleupon I would have had half the traffic. I have started to optimize the blog for SEO to get more search traffic as I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket. Organic search is accounting for about 20% of all traffic which is quite good.

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Earnings from blog related activities	Amount
Earnings from writing for another blog:	£3,600 ($6,840)
Earnings from Google Adsense:	£423 ($803)
Earnings from affiliate marketing:	£1,200 ($2,280)
Total	£5,223 ($9,923)
Expenditure (advertising etc)	£1,730 ($3,287)

Net profit from blog related activities	£3,493 ($6636)

Thank you

I would like to thank all the readers of this blog and everyone who has commented and made contributions to the discussions. I would also like to thank everyone who has stumbled and dugg my articles and I hope this continues throughout 2008 as I know I will be using stumbleupon a lot more in 2008.

I would particularly like to thank:

Jim Bouchard - Jim has contributed 5 articles to this site and they have all been excellent and he has provided a fantastic free download for the readers of Change your thoughts,

Grigor Ćorić - Grigor wrote another fantastic article ‘Three pillars of creativity‘ which brought my second front page on Digg and it received over 10,000 visits in a 24 hour period.

Alex Blackwell - Alex contributed a great article for change your thoughts and I hope to see more from him in the future.

Alexander Kjerulf (the chief happiness officer) - Alexander submitted another one of his great articles to Change your thoughts and it was received very well. Alexander is one of my favorite bloggers.

Aaron Potts - Another one of my favorite bloggers helped me out by guest authoring whilst I was on holiday last year.

Jospeph Bernard - Joseph was the first guest author for Change your thoughts which ultimately led me to seek out more quality authors for the site.

Laura Young - Laura kindly stood in for me whilst i was away on holiday and wrote a great article on Becoming more disciplined

Lodewijk van den Broek - Lodewijk was another one of the early guest authors and wrote another cracker of an article ‘Your vision of the future’

Ponn Sabra - Is an inspirational woman and an inspirational blogger who wrote a great article in September.

Michael Pollok - Michael is the guy who designed the current version of change your thoughts theme and it was a god send when i was in a panic about my site supposedly being hacked.

The PBN Network - The Positive Blog network has been fantastic this year and i have made some great contacts through it. It will hopefully get stronger this year.

Gleb Reys - I would like to thank Gleb for helping me out this year in a lot of ways notleast of all taking a look at my hosting when there were problems, thanks mate.

Finally I would like to thank all of the regular readers of this blog and i hope 2008 is your best year yet.

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Comment by Goal Setting College on 4 January 2008:

Congrats, Steven. It’s so amazing to see how much your blog have grown and it’s definitely an inspiration to every single one of us.

Btw, it’s interesting to see that in Dec 2007, even though your traffic has slightly dipped, your RSS subscibers increased by 200+. What magic did you do in the last month?

Keep up the great work and have a fantastic 2008!

Cheers,
Ellesse

Comment by Alexander Kjerulf on 4 January 2008:

Congratulations on your traffic growth Steve - but mostly on having such an interesting site!

And thanks for the kind words :o)

Comment by Megan on 5 January 2008:

Great job. Its great to see that blogging is becoming a more highly reconized method of marketing. Your sales and traffic statistics for 2007 were fantastic. Anxious to see what 2008 brings to you. Congratulations

Megan Vaillancourt
http://www.PassportMentors.com

Comment by Alex on 9 January 2008:

Interesting results but I’m a sucker for stats even though I choose not to share my personal blog earning …

I love the new design! Happy New Year!

Alex

Comment by Bert Balliss on 11 January 2008:

Thanks for sharing your stats, £3,500 profit for a blog is worth having. There are 2 calculations you didn’t make though. First, value per visitor:

For this I added your monthly uniques together to make 352,506 so £5223 \ 352506 = £0.015 per visitor month.

The second I can’t do, which is what is your hourly rate? For that I need to know how many hours effort you put in during 2007. If it was less than 700, you did better than a McDonald’s job anyway, lol.

Comment by Steven Aitchison on 12 January 2008:

Hi Bert, thanks for your comments. I put in about 1000 hours over the year, so I guess i should get a job at McDonalds, lol. However every burger flipper starts out at the bottom and works himself up to managing a McDonalds. So I guess I am still at burger flipper stage, but some people are not even thinking about flipping burgers as they still want to manage the McDonalds before starting at the bottom.