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For this traffic and income report I am going to make a change and combine the reports for my two blogs. My first blog will be the primary blog focused on in this report. It is Mom Wife and Everyday Life a blog focusing on pregnancy and parenthood.
28th Month Income and Traffic Report Mom Wife and Everyday Life
Background
Blog Name: momwifeandeverydaylife
Period: April 2023
Month: Month 28
Experience: This is my first blog
Launched: January 10th 2021
A Quick Breakdown
Working Hard to Maintain Posting on Social Medias
Traffic Down
The Numbers
| Published Posts | 2 |
| Users | 594 |
| Pageviews | 791 |
| Pinterest Impressions | 31.59 K |
| Email Subscribers | +1 |
| Income | $0 |
| Expenses | $0 |
Published Posts
I am continuing to publish 2 posts per month. I am always trying to stay way ahead on content. I just feel better working ahead and not constantly working on a deadline.
I do think at times I am churning out content too fast and should take more time writing an article. It is important to get out of the perfectionist mindset and get your content out there. I do not want to fall into the opposite mindset though and produce junk content.
I could definitely go back and work on some of my old articles, however, this is not a task I enjoy or want to devote time to doing.
Users & Pageviews
My traffic was down this month. A lot of this is due to Pinterest. I also slowed down on posting links in Facebooks groups. Often they will kick you out for self-promotion. I did not come close to my goal of maintaining 1000 pageviews each month. My pageviews were only 791.
Ok so here you can see a breakdown in my traffic. The next image will show the breakdown in the social category specifically.
I am not completely sure where all the direct traffic is coming from. Is that me on my phone? Is that just my sister checking on my website? The reason I ask this is because if you look at my Google Search Console, I am not getting traffic through Google Search.
As you can see, in the below image, my social traffic is mostly coming from Pinterest. Reddit and Facebook get me some traffic because I link to articles.
I posted about 17 pieces of content to Instagram and no traffic came to my blog from those pieces of content. I am not complaining per say. I am just making an observation that Instagram has brought my website zero traffic in April.
I don’t expect my socials to drive a tone of traffic. When people are on YouTube Shorts they are not likely to click over to read an article, they are in scroll mode.
I guess what I am saying is I hope these socials start to take off and help gain my website pageviews. It does take a lot of effort to create and schedule out content to so many platforms.
I provided my Google Search Console analytics for more information. If anyone better understands traffic, please leave me a comment or message me for more clarity on that direct traffic.
Pinterest Impressions
Pinterest was hugely down this month. March impressions were about 40 K whereas April was about 31 K. This is a huge difference and affected my traffic significantly.
I do not know how to see real growth with Pinterest. I am currently publishing a single pin per day. I hate to devote much more time to Pinterest at this point.
I struggle when other accounts are getting hundreds of thousands of impressions each month. I really don’t know what I am doing wrong or why my account can’t get real growth or traction.
I am doing my best to get away from relying on Pinterest for traffic. I am working my butt off to get content out there on other social medias. I know they will all take time and work.
April Social Media Content
Pinterest – 1 new pin daily (old and new URLs)
Twitter – 1 new tweet per day
YouTube – published a YouTube Short every other day
Instagram – 7 Photos : 10 Reels
Facebook – 8 Photos : 10 Reels
I am also doing my best to respond to almost all comments unless I feel they are not healthy to respond to. I have deleted a couple of comments because I didn’t feel that they were kind or necessary. I don’t want things that make me uncomfortable sitting on my content.
I already have a similar amount of content scheduled for May.
These are some stats for my Socials in April:
| YOUTUBE | |
| YouTube Subscribers (Gained for Month) | 14 |
| Watch Time | 43.2 Hours |
| Avg View Duration | 0:17 |
| Avg Percentage Viewed | 32.2% |
| Likes | 145 |
| Shares | 17 |
| Posts/Reels Published | 17 |
| Reels Views | 1580 |
| Followers | 5 |
| Following | 12 |
| Tweets | 31 |
| Follows | 1 |
| Following | 18 |
| Engagement | 3.75 |
| Impressions | 533 |
| Interactions | 2 |
| Posts | 10 |
| Engagement | 462 |
| Interactions | 12 |
| Avg Reach per Post | 3 |
| Impressions | 29 |
| Reels | 8 |
| Engagement | 10.88 |
| Interactions | 100 |
| Avg Reach per Post | 1149 |
| Video Views | 10 K |
| Comments | 26 |
| Likes | 74 |
I hope to monitor my socials and watch them grow. Ideally with growth maybe I can see some progress in traffic and monetization.
Email Subscribers
I gained one email subscriber in April. I think I may have also lost one or two subscribers overall. Not exactly sure if or when this happened. I need to become more familiar with Convertkit.
During April I took the time to schedule out an email broadcast for every month of the year. All of these broadcasts include a few links to articles.
My goal is to keep connected with my readers and continue to get pageviews from them exploring my content.
Income
$0
I earned no income for the month of April. Such a bummer.
Expenses
$0
Goals
My primary goal is to get more traffic, ideally 1000 pageviews and to get it from sources other than Pinterest. I just can’t rely on Pinterest.
I want to keep juggling everything I am doing. Writing content, sending emails to my list, pushing my content on all social medias, responding to comments, reaching out and linking in forums and Facebook groups, trying to get links through HARO, and tracking everything as I go.
Strategy/Changes
My next big task is to try to work on monetization more. I don’t necessarily know how I can do so though. I put links everywhere I can. I think I honestly need more traffic. I would like to get ads on my website, but again I need traffic to make it worth it. I would also like to start creating long form YouTube videos and work on getting monetized there.
I want to reach moms and help them, but I also do have the desire to make this a career if possible.
It sounds simply to say my next step is monetization, but I honestly have been working on that from day 1. I don’t really know what I need to do differently.
Feelings
I am feeling pretty let down with my traffic. I am not getting as much as I would like via all sources. Pinterest let me down. The other socials are not getting traffic to my blog. They are getting me a new audience and views which is great but I am not currently making anything from those views. Basically I am not making and progress monetarily from any of my methods, even though I am working really hard.
Maybe I am spreading myself too thin, but I am managing it ok. For example, I am writing this post on 5/2/2023. I currently have all my social media content and posts published for May. May is ready to go and done. I just need to respond to comments as they come in and start working on June content.
I need some of my efforts to convert to some income. The hours devoted to this work is a lot. I absolutely love what I am sharing, but would love to be getting some income from the hours worked.
For now I am just going to keep pushing onward. I love it and won’t quit.
Conclusion
This month was mediocre. This was down from March for sure. I am going to continue to work hard and be consistent and hope that it one day pays off.
22nd Month Income and Traffic Report Blogging with Amanda
We are just going to do a quickie report for my second blog. It is this blog here where I track and record my blogging journey. Right now, I am doing nothing except writing and publishing posts. I am doing zero promotion on Pinterest or anywhere else.
Maybe a will get back to it soon, but for now I am on a break. My main focus is the first blog that I have more passion for. I am happy to share my blogging experience and teach others what I do know. My bigger passion lies in helping moms with children though. It is difficult to pass along blogging information and be excited about it when clearly, I am not successful. It just doesn’t make sense.
Therefore, I mostly just track what I am doing rather than handing out advice.
| Published Posts | 2 |
| Users | 26 |
| Pageviews | 42 |
| Pinterest Impressions | 587 |
| Email Subscribers | +0 |
| Income | $0 |
| Expenses | $0 |
Thanks for stopping by and checking out what I am doing with my blogs. If you have any tips or advice to share I welcome them. I am clearly here for hard work and consistency. My first blog is at about 140 articles and counting. I am in this for the loghaul already.
I just need some magic sauce to really get it going.
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