February income and traffic report

byLisaJM

212 followers

5 years ago

After a quiet couple of months in December and January, things have really started to take off on my site, which is now just over six months old. It seems that Google is finally trusting my site which means that I had more than double the page views from Google search in February than in January, as well as doubling my social acquisition.

And, to be honest, I haven't done a great deal of work on it. I only wrote one completely new post (a recipe, in which I tagged the original writer on Facebook and Twitter) and I updated four other articles, again, tagging the company or the individual in each case. I've been using Buffer (the free version) to schedule posts to Facebook and Twitter and that's saved me a whole load of time.

I've also started to use reddit, from which I've already had as many page views as twitter. Pinterest traffic is pretty flat because, compared to the other social networks, it's a real pain to have to create a new image, or at least tweak an old one every time you want to post and it's not supported by Buffer.

I've still not made any affiliate sales (apart from a single £0.81 sale on Amazon back in November), but my affiliate clicks are now over a thousand a month so I'm hopeful it's just a matter of time

In advertising news, my Google AdSense earnings are pretty flat at £5.12 for the month, despite almost doubling the page views. However, my PubMedia advertising earnings have doubled so that's good.

So, to summarise my traffic for February 2020:

• Page views: 2748, a 75% increase on January's figure of 1569
• Social acquisiation: 109, a 101% increase. Just over half of that was from Facebook, with Pinterest, Twitter and Reddit sharing the rest pretty equally
• Organic (Google) search aquisition: 379, a whopping increase of 180%
• Google Search Console clicks: 402, up 129% on January
• Affiliate clicks (ShareASale and SkimLinks): 1017, up 20%

Now, income and outgoings:

Outgoings: £24.04 for a tea plant (£14) and book (£10.04) about growing tea. I can't write about tea and growing tea without my own tea plant! That was my only expense for the month and it's the time of year when I'm buying plants and seeds anyway (I will be spending a lot more on that on my garden this year: I currently have no less than 27 chilli seedlings of 10 different varieties that are going to need a lot of love and attention, along with all my other veg) so in some ways it doesn't count!

Income:

• WA comments £9.60
• Google AdSense: £5.12
• PubMedia: £4.53 (more than double January's figure)
• Shareaholic: £0.03 (tiny, but still a massive increase on January)

Total: £19.25

So, overall a small loss for the month but I won't have to buy another tea plant (I intend to take cuttings from it later in the year and start my own very small tea garden) and it's just another plant that was only the same price as any other small shrub.

All in all, a much better, much more positive month. A big big thank you to all my followers and friends here at WA. I'm sorry I don't say thank you often enough, nor do I spend enough time here interacting with you all but I do really truly appreciate you all being there, and all your support. Without you I would have given up after three months. Thank you, and God bless you all x