Related: Three Months of Frugaling: A Reflection
This marks the 84th article published in four months of Frugaling.org. Remarkably, this site has led to a reduction in my debt, a restructuring of old financial habits, and long-term goals toward zero dollars in debt. Now, with the largest audience yet, I’ve made shocking amounts of revenue this month.
The site was founded on May 4th, 2013, as the spring semester of graduate school was just wrapping up. I wanted to write about my efforts and find an audience. Since then, nearly 57,000 people have visited the site.
This month brings the most staggering revenue yet! Read below for details.
Major highlights this month:
- Affiliate Revenue Skyrocketed ($X,XXX)
- My first affiliate article regarding the Barclaycard Arrival World Mastercard grew naturally to become a top spot on Google
- This created a shocking jump in earnings to $X,XXX
- AdSense Revenue decreased from $40 to about $26
- The decrease in ad revenue was hard to explain, and I’m not sure why it declined like this
- Google Traffic Grows
- Across the board, my traffic from Google searches is growing at incredible rates
- This is an exciting development, and speaks to the use of key terms and longer articles (which have generally been more successful)
This next month, I’m hoping to continue to network with personal finance bloggers and publish one to two articles per week. Because of my graduate school schedule, anything more may wreak havoc to my health.
-S.
Congratulations on the success – 57k visitors in that span of time is crazy impressive.
Thanks Mr. Utopia!
It’s been a terrific start. 🙂
-S.
Congrats Sam, keep up the good work!
Thanks Nick!
Great work Sam, this is quite an achievement!
Wow – thats a real achievement in such a short space of time – has your grad school work suffered?
I’ve only just started my blog – and would consider 57K visitors in 4 months an amazing return
Thanks for the encouragement. As for suffering grad school grades, it’s an excellent question. Haha. I don’t exactly have an answer for you, as most of the work thus far has been in the summer. Now that I’m in school, my frequency of articles has declined precipitously. Generally speaking, school will always come before writing about personal finance. 🙂
you’re doing amazing, congratulations!
Pauline,
Thanks for the encouragement!
-S.
This is such a great achievement in such a short period of time! Congratulations on all of your success!
Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. 🙂 Hope to keep it up!
This is amazing! I’m surprised adsense is so far behind the affiliate earnings. I may need to reconsider my approach.
Thanks for sharing!
Keep up the good work. And remember the lessons you learned today in the forum
Wow good job! You are doing awesome!