3rd Month Blog Report – Stats & Strategies (12,808 pageviews)

3rd Month Blog Report  – Stats and Strategies (12,808 pageviews)

Hello Everyone!  Today, we bring you our 3rd month blog report. Since last month, we made our reports a little more balanced by giving you the stats and also lots of strategies.

For some reason these blog reports take double the usual time it takes to produce a regular post, but the interest seems to be high in and outside the personal finance blogging community, so we will continue to publish them.

You can see all our previous blog reports here:

So how did we do this month? Let’s dig into it.

3rd Month Blog Report – The stats

These are the stats:

1. Pageviews: 12,808
2. Sessions: 4,963
3. Users: 3,762
4. Pages/Session: 2.58
5. Sessions per user: 1.32
6. Avg. Session Duration: 02:34

 

Like previously mentioned, when we set out to start blogging, our hope was to have at least 500 pageviews/month and we are excited to see that we had 12,808 in December for a month that’s generally slow because of the holidays!

Our target was 12,000 and we are happy to see we have exceeded it. Our new target will be 15,000.

3rd Month Blog Report  – Alexa Global Rank

Our target was to go from 816k to 699k, and we are excited to see we have exceeded the target! The month ended at 661k,

In just 3 months, we have gone from 20M, to 4M, to 661k. We thought it would take us 1-2 years to get here, but we are ecstatic to see it only took us 3 months!

Our new target is 599k. Let’s see if we can do it.

 

For the newbies who might not know, Alexa ranking is one of the metrics that advertisers and sponsors look at when deciding who to advertise with and for how much.

Depending on who you ask, hitting 200K, or 100K or 50K is when you know you have really made it😊.

3rd Month Blog Report  – Featured in

 

December went well.  It started and ended with a bang.  We got featured in:

• MyMoneyWizard – Monthly-link-o-rama-viii – One of the best roundup posts we have ever read!
• ProsperlyWay – Are Students Doomed To Fail? – A very entertaining and educational piece.
• KingCashBags –  World Champions League of Money Blogs – Exciting to be listed among the heavyhitters such as MrMoneyMustache!
• PhysicianOnFire – Sunday Best 12/31/2017 – As usual, it’s a very great honor to be featured by none other than Mr POF!
• Steveark – Finding My Voice – After guest posting for us, he took our advice and started his own blog. Check it out, and show him some support.
• RockStarFinance – Interesting Nuggets from Around the Web – 12/15/2017 –  Money Can’t Buy You Happiness, BUT…
• RockStarFinance – Best Tittle of the Day – 12/20/2017 – What BS Are You On?

As you can see, we have finally been featured by RockStarFinance but we will continue trying to get those RSF big features.  The  Best Tittle of the Day and Interesting Nuggets from Around the Web only come through email to those who are subscribed to RSF.

By the way, if you have not subscribed to RSF, make sure you do.  A blogger friend got featured for the Best Tittle of the Day and didn’t know about it until I sent him a congratulatory note.

Thank you, guys for featuring us! We really appreciate it. As rookies, we need all the help we can get with the traffic and backlinks 😊. And as a token of appreciation, for every backlink we get, we give back at least 2: One in our monthly blog post, and another in our ‘Featured In’ page.

If you want to feature us, feel free to do so. If you need a quote or you want to interview us, please feel free to reach out. We are a friendly bunch 😊.

So far, we have been featured 21 times.  You can see the full list here.

3rd Month Blog Report – Readers all around the world

It’s good to see that we have readers all around the world, from America (North, Central & South) to Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

The top 5 countries are US, Canada, Brazil, UK, and India. We got traffic from a total of 103 countries.

Thank you all for visiting our blog!

3rd Month Blog Report – Most popular posts:

 

1. How We Increased Our Annual Income From $0 to $160K to $400K+
2. About us
3. How I make Six Figures Working Only 16 hours/week
4. 2nd Month Blog Report- Stats & Strategies (10,351 pageviews)
5. The Resumes That Bring In $400K+/Year (Samples Provided)
6. How Does Your Sankey Look Like?
7. What BS Are You On?
8. Money Can’t Buy You Happiness, BUT…
9. What do you do for a living?
10. How To Pay Off A Mortgage In 5 Years
11. How we live on 15% of our income
12. What Do Millionaires Know About Money That Most People Don’t?
13. How I Paid Off My $40K Student Loans Before Graduating Plus Other Kickass Stories
14. Joining the Million Dollar Club/Challenge and So Can You
15. Giving Thanks And The 6 Gifts That Keep On Giving
16. Our 6 Financial Mistakes and 15 Lessons Learned
17. Five Steps All Investors Need to Take
18. Our Biggest Money Fight and 9 Lessons Learned
19. How to Negotiate Your Salary Like a Pro
20. Blog Report for First Full Month (9,262 pageviews) and Our Strategies
21. Blog Report for First Half Month Plus 4 Rookie Mistakes
22. 15 Frugal Ways To Prepare For An Emergency
23. 9 Amazing Tips for Using Social Media to Save Money

 

It seems people still love the post About us which narrates our poor, humble beginnings as broke, poor new immigrants, who put ourselves through school, worked 2-3 jobs at the same time, barely had food to eat, lived in not so safe neighborhood surrounded by alcoholics, gang members, gamblers, prostitutes, drug dealers/users,…

But were able to overcome the challenges, graduate college, get good jobs and start successful side gigs.

Our readers also still love the post about How We Increased Our Annual Income From $0 to $160K to $400K+ and have even started implementing the career advice, we gave in that post.  They have also asked us to continue dishing out some more career advice which we will gladly do. Stay tuned.

We also continue to receive emails from our readers asking us for advice.  And we always make sure to reply to all of them. So please feel free to reach out if you have any question(s).

 

3rd Month Blog Report – Engagement/Comments

 

Overall, the engagement was good.  Our posts got 164 comments during the month for a total of 545 which is not bad considering we only post about once to twice a week.  Keep those comments coming guys, we will make sure we reply to every single one of them.

 

3rd Month Blog Report – Guest posts

We published 2 guest posts:

• What do you do for a living? By RJ, a fellow blogger at Saving For A Living. He and his wife have only 4 months left before they reach FI (Financial Independence); and only a couple years left before they RE (Retire Early)!

People really liked the article, and it’s among the top 10 most popular posts.

• How I make Six Figures Working Only 16 hours/week from a reader who prefers to go by Steveark.  Steveark has FIREd (Financially Independent, Retired Early), but is still able to bring in six figures through his side gigs.

Note that we pitched the article to PhysicianOnFire and he accepted to include it in his Sunday Best ! POF only features the best of the best, so that says a lot about Steveark’s talent.

After having a positive experience guest posting with us, Steveark took our advice and started his own blog. Check it out, and show him some support.

 

Do you want to guest post for us? As you can see, we will promote your post as much as we promote ours, and our rules are pretty simple and straight-forward: 

• No plagiarism. The article must be original content and it must not have been posted anywhere else
• The article must be about money/finance/career/saving/investing/relationship/business/…
• Ideally it should include a personal story, so that our readers can relate to you.
• Ideally it should at least be 1,000-1,500 words
• Links are allowed but at least half of the links should be linking our articles/resources
• No drafts. Must be final version.
• You agree to reply to comments
• If you are a blogger, you agree to share the guest post on your social media platforms, and link to it on your blog.

3rd Month Blog Report – Social Media

• Twitter has been great. Our goal for the month was to get 2,500 followers and we are happy to report that we reached the goal.  The month ended with 2,503 followers.

• Instagram: Our goal for the month was also to have 1,000 followers and we are happy to report that we reached the goal.  The month ended with 1,017 followers.

• Pinterest has been fantastic for the month. Our followers have increased from 170 to 281 followers.  It outperformed all other social networks again this month and brought in the most traffic. How were we able to do this? Check out the strategy section below to see how we did it!.

 

If fellow bloggers could also invite us to corroborate on boards, it would be appreciated.  Right now we belong to only 36 boards, our hope is to add at least 10 boards a month.

We have also created 2 boards for the community:

• ALL PERSONAL FINANCE BLOGGERS
• ALL PINNERS

Everyone is welcomed to join. There’s no rule. Pin as much as you want, as often as you want. Just remember to repin other people pins too when you get a chance. Let’s all help each other grow our audience. Follow us and then message us to be added to the board. Once we add you, you can add other people too.

• LinkedIn page and LinkedIn profile

Our LinkedIn profile has 1058 followers but our LinkedIn page is not doing too well with only 7 followers.  Please make sure you follow us.

• Facebook is still very challenging. Our goal for the month was to have 100 followers but we still have only 7 followers . If you don’t mind, please follow our page.

 

• Bloglovin profile and Bloglovin page are doing better than expected.  The app on the phone kind of slowed down, and we kind of forgot about Bloglovin until a few days ago when we decided to check, praying that we still have the 150 followers we previously had.  But it turns out,  the profile now has 8050 followers, and the page has  1586 followers!!!

 

• Google Plus page also has only 6 followers.  But we have been able to get decent traffic from it  (top 10)! Check out the strategy section below to see how we did it!

 

3rd Month Blog Report – Subscribers

We have increased the number of subscribers from 92 to now 125.  The freebies we are offering are helping get subscribers.  Check out the strategy section below to see how we come up with freebies to offer.

We are so thrilled that you guys are finding our content worthwhile.

Please share with your friends, family members, colleagues… After all, this blog is about Progress, Prosperity and Financial Independence for ALL.

PS: It has come to our attention that our emails sometimes go straight to Spam, Promotional or Important folders.  If you have subscribed and you don’t see our emails in your inbox, please check those folders and set the emails to go to your inbox.

If you don’t find our emails at all, let us know and we can manually subscribe you again.

3rd Month Blog Report – Monetization

Even though right now we are not too focused on monetizing the blog, it’s something we might actively pursue in the future.

Our blog is about progress, prosperity and financial independence and our readers are definitively interested in how they can make more money so they can achieve financial independence faster.

Thus, it only makes sense for us to try to monetize the blog and write about our successes, failures, and lessons learned…

However, ALL the money the blog will make, at least in the first few years, will be reinvested in the blog and in the community, in order to bring you more content, reach more people and help the community grow.  It’s a win-win-win situation.

Thus, if you like what we have to say, and want to show us some support, please use our affiliate links.

Affiliate Links: We have signed up for a few affiliate programs that we think our readers will benefit from. For example, if you need an easier way to manage/track your finances/investments, check out the Personal Capital app.

If you want to start blogging, Bluehost can get you started.  Make sure to also check out other resources that we recommend such as books that have helped us get where we are.

Check out some of the blogs that are making decent money:

• MakingSenseofCents makes $100,000+/month blogging
• MillennialMoneyMan makes $16,000+/month blogging
• PhysicianOnFire makes mid-five figures/year and has only been blogging for 2 years.
• RetireBy40 is on path to making $60,000 this year blogging.
• And many more…

Do you want to start blogging? It’s easy. Bluehost can get you started

So how did we do this month? How much did the blog make? We were actually able to double the blog income. Check out the strategy section below to see how we did it!

 

3rd Month Blog Report – Goals/Targets

3rd Month Blog Report – Our Strategies

Please subscribe to get access to:

1. 1,500 words of detailed strategies:
2. 0ur top 10 traffic sources (Last month, we only showed top 5)
3. Our strategies pertaining to those 10 traffic sources
4. How we are able to consistently increase the number of our subscribers
5. How we have been able to get decent traffic from G+ (top 10) with only 6 followers!
6. How we were able do double the blog income
7. Upcoming strategy

Please subscribe to get these strategies especially if you have a new or small  blog and are seriously interested in growing your audience.

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Special thanks to those who:

• Visited our blog
• Read our posts
• Commented on our posts
• Shared our posts
• Liked our posts
• Retweeted our posts
• Featured us in their posts
• Guest posted on our blog
• Replied to our rookie questions
• Used our affiliate links
• Subscribed
• Personal finance bloggers who have paved the way for us.

 

What about you guys? What are your targets or goals? Any tips or strategies you want to share?

Thanks for reading.  Please feel free to comment, share and subscribe! We love ya and wanna get to know ya!

Do you want an easier way to manage/track your finances/investments? The Personal Capital app can help.  Do you want to start blogging? Bluehost can get you started.  Make sure to also check out other resources that we recommend such as books that have helped us get where we are.

Do you want to learn more about us? If so, you can also read these other posts:

1. About us
2. How We Increased Our Annual Income From $0 to $160K to $400K+
3. How we live on 15% of our income
4. Joining the Million Dollar Club/Challenge and So Can You
5. How To Pay Off A Mortgage In 5 Years
6. Our Biggest Money Fight and 9 Lessons Learned
7. Our 6 Financial Mistakes and 15 Lessons Learned
8. How I Paid Off My $40,000 Student Loans Before Graduating
9. The resumes that bring in $400,000+/year (Samples Provided)