Posting frequency was down. Page views to my main blog were down. May was an uninspired month full of home projects trying to get ready for the baby girl that we are having in October and lots of questions about how I want to run my blogs.
The grand total earned in May was $154.22. Almost exactly the same as last month. Here is where the money came from.
A lot of the projects are done and I have answered several of my questions…but not all of them. I also did not get an overtime project that would have swallowed June so I’m looking forward to getting back on track.
I made a few decisions about HOW I try to make money during this last month. I tried Auction Ads on a few of my blogs. I love the concept but it just didn’t perform at all for me. I’ll be taking it down sometime soon.
I’m also going to get rid of the Amazon Contextual Links that I am using on a couple blogs because the little pop ups annoy me and for under $4/month I’m not willing to use something that annoys me. I’ll probably be giving up on Amazon entirely moving forward. I’ll leave any old links but not be adding new ones for a while.
I signed up with Commission Junction again. My wife started using SnapFish and we love it. It meets a huge demand that we have had since switching to a digital camera a couple years back. SnapFish goes through CJ, so I’ll do a little work promoting them and see if anything happens. I’m also going to look for a couple other companies that I would like to talk about that have affiliate programs.
I tried using CJ in the past and had nothing happen during my first year but I get much more traffic these days so maybe it will work out better this time.
As far as the actual content, I really want to work on writing a higher percentage of “articles” as opposed to “thoughts.” I’m not 100% sure how I differentiate between the two but I want to focus on thinking about that on everything that I write this month.
I also need to work on getting more consistent with posting frequency…especially on all of the blogs other than my main one. I need to try to hold myself to a schedule and get at least 2 or 3 posts per blog per week.
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