September Blog Experiment Update

Hi Everyone,

If you're new to the blog, welcome.  I set this blog up as a kind of experiment and because I enjoy sharing tips.

I wanted to see if I could create a successful blog on a free site, with no paid domain name and literally just sharing daily QUICK TIPS.

On my business blog Morning Business Chat I usually write posts that are a minimum of 500 words and often well over 1000 words.  But I wanted the quick tips blog to share just one daily tip and keep it simple.  Most posts are just a few sentences.

My first post was published on the 15th June 2016.  And I've posted daily ever since.

So here's what's going on.

August pageviews - 1505

This is a little lower than I was expecting but lots of my blogging friends have reported a drop over the summer, so I'm fine with this.

The most viewed post is 

Housekeeping Quick Tip: Zone each room, tidy, clean and de-clutter

My audience is mostly from United States, followed by United Kingdom and then Germany. Please say hello in the comments below and let me know where you're from.

Facebook is the social media platform driving the most traffic.

Adsense My estimated earnings from the blog so far is a grand total of £0.74 - Okay I'm not going to live the high life on this am I?  But it's a start.

So that's what I've got for you so far.  Do let me know what sort of tips you want to see on the blog and please follow for daily updates.

Wendy

Quick Tips for life Blog Review

If you're new here then you might want to first read my page about why I set this blog up The Quick Tips Experiment

For a super quick run down.  This blog is an experiment that breaks most of the blogging rules.  I'm simply doing what I want and seeing what happens.

Every now and then I like to let you know how the blog is doing and about any updates I've made.

I published my first blog post on 15th June this year (2016) and I've posted at least one post daily ever since.

Page views

June: 691 page views

July 1652

It's hard to judge the progress as I only started publishing posts midway through June.  I'm very pleased with the page views for July, especially as I was away for over a week and didn't really promote the daily posts at all during that time.

I'm hoping for over 2500 for August.

Traffic

I haven't quite got to grips with the stats yet but as far as I can see, most of my traffic is coming from Facebook.  

I think adding images with no writing has helped gain this traffic. Although in contrast to my Morning Business Chat blog I don't seem to be getting any traffic from Pinterest.  On that blog, I add images specifically to do well on Pinterest.

Audience

USA is my biggest audience, followed by the UK, Germany and France.  Although I do have a wide audience building right across the world which is great.

Earning an income from the blog

As far as I can tell I've not yet made any money from Adsense ads on the blog (although I have just added the site on Adsense, so may show better results next month).

Again it's hard to tell sometimes if sales come directly from the blog or not.  I saw a slight increase in my course sales though I can't see where those sales have come from.

Overall

I'm very pleased with the success of the blog at this stage.  It's a very new blog in the scale of things and I wouldn't expect to be seeing a vast amount of earnings from the blog just yet.  I'm very pleased with the page views so far.

I think next month's review will really give me a clear indication as to how well the blog is growing. 

Thanks for supporting this blog and remember that you can subscribe below for daily quick tips.

Best wishes

Wendy