4th Month Blog Report – Stats and Strategies (15,064 pageviews)

Hello Everyone!  Today, we bring you our 4th month blog report. A couple of months ago, we decided to make our reports a little more balanced by giving you the stats and also lots of strategies.

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.

4th Month Blog Report – The stats

The stats are:

1. Pageviews: 15,064
2. Sessions: 6,655
3. Users: 4,560
4. Pages/Session: 2.26
5. Sessions per user: 1.46
6. Avg. Session Duration: 03:07

 

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 15,064 in January!

Our target was 15,000 and we are happy to see we reached it. For February, our target is to maintain the 15,000 since it’s a short month and we have a lot of going on such as  Valentine’s weekend gateway, and will also have visitors staying with us during the Family Day (Canada) long weekend.

4th Month Blog Report  – Alexa Global Rank

Our target was to go from 661k to 599k. We reached the target towards the 3^rd week of the month. However, when our traffic picked up due to big features/interviews, the rank went back into the 600K?!

Anywho, we are still happy with the trend. In just 4 months, we have gone from 20M, to 4M, to 615k. We thought it would take us 1-2 years to get here, but we are ecstatic to see it only took us 4 months!

Our target is still 599k. Let’s see if we can crack this thing.

In case you haven’t seen our new year resolutions, our goal for the year is to reach 300K global rank and 150K US rank.

 

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😊.

4th Month Blog Report – Featured in

 

January went really well.  It will be hard to beat.  We got featured in:

1. PhysicianOnFire – Financial and Non-Financial Lessons Learned From Our Family Doctor – Our guest post published on Physician On Fire. Check it out if you haven’t already.

1. Steveark – First Real Post – After guest posting for us, he took our advice and started his own blog. Check it out, and show him some support.
2. Defined Sight – Hump Day Heat Bloggers Sizzling Up The Week – One of the best roundup posts we have ever read! Make sure you check it out

4. Adventurerich – One Income Part-3 – Our AMA question was answered

 

5. ESI Money – Millionaire Interview # 36 – Interview by John, one of the bloggers we look up to. Check it out.

 

6. Rockstar finance Rumble – Nominated for Best Money Post! – Won First round, Game 1. Waiting for Round 2. Thanks to those who voted for us!!! Stay tuned for Round 1
7. Rockstar finance –Best Tittle of the Day – 1/23/2018 – Call me CCO – Chief Clown Officer
8. MakingSenseOfCents – Rags To Riches – Interview by Michelle, another blogger we look up to. Check it out.
9. Pfgeeks – 150 Ways to Save Money – A very impressive. Follow those 150 tips, and you are guaranteed FastFIRE!
10. Slowdad/SomeThingsDontChange – If I Won Lotto Blog Post Challenge – Most entertaining award – Our Biggest Money Fight and 9 Lessons Learned

 

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 32 times as far as we know.  You can see the full list here.

A few people have asked us how we get featured so much?

• Get involved in the community (RSF if you are a personal finance blogger)
• Respond to as many quotes requests, interview requests,… time permitting.
• Reach out to other bloggers
• Writte good content
• Self host. People might not take you seriously if you use one of those free hosting. Which one looks more professional?  99to1percent.blogspot.com or 99to1percent.com? The latter looks more professional. Show you take your blog seriously and are in it for the long haul by self-hosting. Bluehost can get you started.

4th 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, UK, Australia and India.  So far, we have gotten traffic from a total of 140 countries.

Thank you all for visiting our blog!

4th 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. 3rd Month Blog Report – Stats & Strategies (12,808 pageviews)
5. The Resumes That Bring In $400K+/Year (Samples Provided)
6. How we live on 15% of our income
7. How To Pay Off A Mortgage In 5 Years
8. 5 Financial & 5 Non-Financial Lessons Learned From Our Family Doctor
9. Our New Year Resolutions And Stretch Goals
10. Joining the Million Dollar Club/Challenge and So Can You
11. Our 6 Financial Mistakes and 15 Lessons Learned
12. Creating Location Independence – Work From Anywhere
13. Call me CCO – Chief Clown Officer
14. What do you do for a living?
15. How Does Your Sankey Look Like?
16. Our Biggest Money Fight and 9 Lessons Learned
17. Nominated for Best Money Post! Please Vote for Us!
18. Our Holiday Murphies and How Much They Cost Us
19. How to Negotiate Your Salary Like a Pro
20. How I Paid Off My $40K Student Loans Before Graduating Plus Other Kickass Stories
21. What Do Millionaires Know About Money That Most People Don’t?
22. Money Can’t Buy You Happiness, BUT…
23. 2nd Month Blog Report- Stats & Strategies (10,351 pageviews)
24. The 6 Gifts That Keep On Giving
25. Five Steps All Investors Need to Take
26. What BS Are You On?
27. Blog Report for First Full Month (9,262 pageviews) and Our Strategies
28. 15 Frugal Ways To Prepare For An Emergency
29. Blog Report for First Half Month Plus 4 Rookie Mistakes
30. 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).

 

4th Month Blog Report – Engagement/Comments

Overall, the engagement was good.  Our posts got 216 comments during the month for a total of 761 which is not bad considering we only post about 1-2x a week.  Keep those comments coming guys, we will make sure we reply to every single one of them.

 

4th Month Blog Report – Guest posts

We published 2 guest posts:

• Creating Location Independence – Work From Anywhere by Laurie who blogs over at TheThreeYearExperiment. Our readers really liked the article, and it’s among the top 12 most popular posts.

• Call me CCO – Chief Clown Officer by Matt and Jordan who blog over at The Dollar Hackers. We shared it during Blog Share Monday and it was picked by Rockstar Finance for Best Tittle of the Day – 1/23/2018 !

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.

4th Month Blog Report – Social Media

• Twitter: We automated twitter this month, which meant we were less active on there, and we did not reach our goal for followers. Our aggressive goal for the month was to get 3,000 followers and we missed it. The month ended with 2,960 followers. Our new, less aggressive goal is 3,335.

• Instagram: Our aggressive goal for the month was also to have 1,500 followers and we missed it.  The month ended with 1,220 followers. Our new, less aggressive goal is 1,400.

• Pinterest has been fantastic for the month. Our followers have increased from 281 to 461 followers.  It outperformed all other social networks again this month and brought in the most traffic.

• The secret? We signed up with Tailwind. Use this link and we will both get a free month. Tailwind is a timesaver.  You schedule the pins and it does the rest of the work for you.

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 1070 followers but our LinkedIn page is not doing too well with only 8 followers.  Please make sure you follow us.

• Facebook is still very challenging. Our goal since the first month we started 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 with little to no effort.  The profile now has 8923 followers, and the page has  1136 followers!!!

 

• Google Plus page also has only 9 followers.  But we have been able to get decent traffic from it!

 

4th Month Blog Report – Subscribers

We have more than doubled the number of subscribers from 125 to 269!  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. Check out the strategy section below for more tips.

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.

4th Month Blog Report – Monetization

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.

Even though right now we are not too focused on monetizing the blog, it’s something we might actively pursue in the future once we reach a certain number of pageviews.

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…

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 $1.5M+/year 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 $70,000/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!

 

4th Month Blog Report – Our Strategies

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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 much the blog made
6. 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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In other news: 40-DAY FRUGAL LENT CHALLENGE

Lent is almost here. It will begin on Wednesday, February 14^th and end on Thursday, March 29^th. it lasts about 40 days.

We are not overly religious but every year we participate in lent. We try to find good habits to adopt/strengthen or bad habits to drop.  They say it takes 21 days to form a new habit, so lent is a perfect time to try to do so.

So, we are inviting you to join us in the challenge. You don’t need to be a Christian or religious to join.  Everyone is welcomed.

If you want to participate, email us ( info@99to1percent.com ) a paragraph about what frugal, financial, money… habit you are going to adopt, strengthen or drop;  or things/luxuries you are going to give up. If you want, you can also include what you will do with the money you will save.

We will provide a backlink.

If you are a blogger, you can also create your own full post and we will also link to it.  We will publish our post a week from now, on the Monday before lent begins (Monday, Feb 12^th).

Thanks

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)