January was a solid month, with a big boost in traffic on my largest site and a good bump in affiliate revenues. Site Two also saw a huge bump in traffic along with one big affiliate sale for $300 which helped drive a big income increase on the month. Not something I expect to increase, but it shows the power of affiliate marketing, especially on higher ticket items.
| Jan 2022 Results | ||||
| Pageviews | PV Increase/Mo | Income | Income Increase/Mo | |
| Website One | 68,381 | 29.84% | $3,229 | 26.98% |
| Website Two | 8,936 | 57.74% | $431 | 482.43% |
| Website Three | 2,200 | 22.63% | 0 | 0.00% |
| Website Four | 77 | 20.31% | 0 | 0.00% |
| Totals | 79,594 | 32.24% | $3,660 | 39.85% |
Site One crossed the 60K page view mark for the first time since March of 2021, and the $3000 Total Revenue mark, which was the first time since June 2021.
Affiliate revenues were the highest since February 2021. Additionally, I wrote an ebook last year and have it listed on Amazon. It has been generating a small amount but decided to add it as a line item here.
I really would like to see site one firmly above the $3000 total monthly revenue mark moving forward, although very lumpy affiliate revenues make this very hard to predict.
I will note that even despite the increased traffic for site one, display ad revenues were lower. January is a tough month for display ads, as advertisers pull back on budgets following the holidays and RPM (revenues per 1000 page views) are typically much lower.
| Month | Page Views | Affiliate Income | MediaVine | KDP Royalties | Total Income |
| January 2021 | 49757 | $1,850.00 | 0.00 | 1,850.00 | |
| February 2021 | 69429 | $2,135.00 | 0.00 | 2,135.00 | |
| March 2021 | 74648 | $1,955.00 | 0.00 | 1,955.00 | |
| April 2021 | 59610 | $2,001.00 | 0.00 | 2,001.00 | |
| May 2021 | 59561 | $1,133.00 | 618.00 | 1,751.00 | |
| June 2021 | 46239 | $2,855 | 600.24 | 3,455.24 | |
| July 2021 | 40226 | $2,128 | 612.42 | 2,740.42 | |
| Aug 2021 | 46332 | $1,407 | 1,177.83 | 2,584.83 | |
| Sept 2021 | 40818 | $1419 | 1,076.00 | 2,495.00 | |
| Oct 2021 | 38785 | $1177 | 972.00 | 2,149.00 | |
| Nov 2021 | 43347 | $472 | 1,205.18 | 1,677.18 | |
| Dec 2021 | 52666 | $1,267 | 1,276.00 | 25.00 | 2,568.00 |
| Jan 2021 | 68381 | $2,134 | 1,065.00 | 30.00 | 3,229.00 |
I spent the first few weeks of January building out a keyword game plan, so didn’t contribute much content in the first half of the month. However, I was inspired by a book I read, called The 12 Week Year.
The long story short is that you take your biggest goals and condense them into a period of twelve weeks where you engage in very in-depth tracking. Along the way, you provide yourself with constant feedback at the end of each week.
I set up a spreadsheet and planned out the entire month with articles I want to write with very specific titles and keywords. I find that this helps take away a lot of the distractions of ‘what to write’ that I always encounter. This way I’m more or less forced to write a specific article and it helps stick to a plan.
This led to me adding an additional 13 new posts across Site One and Site Two during the second half of January. I am also progressing quite well for February. The hardest part about committing to writing so much content on your own is not knowing what might come of it. But I certainly have proof that something is working, so for now, I’ll just stick to the plan.
