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
RSS Subscribers
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.
Top 10 articles for 2007
Top 10 articles are as follows:
22 of the Best Motivational Videos for free
10 beliefs that could hold you back in life
10 Questions that will change your life
The three pillars of creativity
6 Ways to dramatically increase eye contact skills
10 ways to boost your concentration
5 Ways to make money without selling your body
Change your life part 2 – gaining back your energy
Earnings
I am also pleased with the earnings. I only started affiliate marketing at the end of October this year and have started to see results from it. I have taken Google adsense off the blog so the figures have dipped since October, where previously I was earning around $100 per month. I may put adsense back on the blog, I am not sure yet as adsense seems the least obtrusive and readers are used to it on blogs.
| 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.
