Wealth Itself Progress Update (April 2009)

May 5th, 2009 by andum | Posted in Blogging, Site Update

April 2009 Site Update

Last month I posted the first monthly Wealth Itself progress update. Today I am posting the second update. I intend to continue to report the key site stats as I think that there are a few people who will be interested and it forces me to review the goals and objectives of the site.

Expenses = $0

• No new expenses incurred.

Income = $47.75

• I have sold a six month ad for $50.00, yielding $47.75 after PayPal fees.

Blogging

• I participated in another blogging carnival at Ask Mr Credit Card.
• My post on saving money through selecting alternative energy suppliers was linked to by two blogs, including an MSM Money blog which sent 32 visitors in April.
• Google has ranked my posts on eyeglasses highly and has sent many visitors to the site.
• Visitors:
  • 244 first time visitors, up from 174 for March
    • 18 visitors on the peak day
  • 25 returning visitors, a significant increase from the 4 returning visitors recorded in March
  • 371 pageloads, up from 234 pageloads in March
• Comments – none
• RSS subscribers (Feedburner) = 5, an increase from 4 in March

Search Engine Rankings

• Google PageRank = 1, no change
• Alexa rank = 523,102 up from March’s ranking of 1,101,771

General impressions

• Last month I mentioned that I had not fully settled on the focus for the site. I am still sorting this out, but I do recognize that I will have to post more regularly.
• I still have not actively promoted the site by participating in forums or posting comments on other blogs. I am still not sure about how much I will do this.

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