Well, one month ago, on July 31st I’ve started writing articles for this blog, my own little experiment with a blog about making money online. Now, I’m perfectly aware of how crowded the make money online niche is. If you’ve been at it for some time, I guess you just can’t help yourself and start a blog about it. I mean, this occupies all my time. Making money online is the one thing I am passionate about and that I’m talking about with anyone that wants to listen to me. But it’s not just the making money online part, it’s the whole seo/marketing/networking/writing part of it. I enjoy what I’m doing and I couldn’t help myself but join the hordes of bloggers already talking about it. I fully realize that the time I’m putting in this blog would make me more money from something in a normal niche, but I enjoy it, and I can’t say I enjoy writing about many other things.

I didn’t start promoting it till August 9th when I had a few articles up already, and by that date the Shylock Adsense Plugin was ready so I started promoting it. Sent emails to around 10 bloggers I had in my feed reader and soon I started getting reactions and reviews of the plugin from them. Out of those I emailed, Daily Blog Tips, Untwisted Vortex and Cash Quests did articles on the plugin, and I thank them for that.

The biggest success was the article on Gawker Media Revenues, which, though unprecise, taught me something extra about how the blog networks make their money, and got me 269 links to that page, 3-4 from PR7 blogs and some PR6. That, and ~2400 visitors.

That article and the Shylock Adsense Plugin were the main base for the first month. I’m confident that if I had more time to promote the blog and write articles (I really did a half ass job at promotion), I would’ve had much better results.

Here are the stats for the first month of Shylock Blogging (data from Google Analytics):

  • 4,504 visits
  • 5,813 page views
  • 6:53 minutes average time on site
  • 149 visitors from Google
  • $15.25 made with Google Adsense (from 75% of the total pageviews)
  • Technorati Rank: broke 100k, currently at 88,524, with an authority of 64
  • Alexa Rank: 221,247 (average over 3 months but I only got 1 month). Rank 139,582 over the last 7 days.
  • Subscribers: 43
  • 25 posts and 95 comments
  • 535 downloads for the Shylock Adsense Plugin (and I stopped promoting it not long after the release, until I launch the next version 2-3 days from now. It’s got a bug for some blogs that it’s fixed in the next version).

All in all, better then most new blogs, but less then I hoped when I started it. Here’s to the hope that next month will be better (though I’m launching my browser game in September so that might be tough).

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