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Overview
Blog Name: momwifeandeverydaylife
Period: May 2021
Month: Month 5
Experience: This is my first blog
Launched: January 10th 2021
A Quick Breakdown
Highest users in a single day-41
Highest number of users per month-287
Working on joining Target Affiliate program
The Numbers
| Published Posts | 6 |
| Users | 287 |
| Pageviews | 327 |
| Email Subscribers | 0 |
| Pinterest Followers (total) | 15 |
| Pinterest Impressions | 33.1 K |
| Income | $0 |
| Expenses | $0 |
Goals
My daughter started daycare in May. I still have my nanny job. I expected to get a lot more blog work done in May with the hours my daughter was in daycare, but honestly, I didn’t. There wasn’t a concrete goal here. I just feel that I came up short in general.
One major goal I have is to launch another blog….or two. I don’t know if this will be too much to handle though. I am still performing so many tasks manually that I don’t know if I can handle content creation, pin creation, publishing of both, and the general tasks that come with running multiple websites. This summer will be the time when I go for it if I do.
Another task I want to take on is taking a large number of photos for pin creation. I have often read that Pinterest likes fresh content and original photos, rather than stock photos could be helpful.
This would be me taking on another completely new task. This was a goal I had for May, but it didn’t happen. It is now a goal for June.
Hopefully during June, Month 6 I hit a lifetime of 1000 users.
I apply for Target Affiliates. By the end of the month, I hope to have some of their links in my blog posts. I do not want to solely rely on Amazon, which is what I currently do.
I don’t think I had any crazy viral pins. On May 5th my traffic jumped though.
Numbers in general are on the decline. I need to go through and update my quick pin templates with new descriptions.
When I say Quick Pin Templates I am referring to Word documents I have made. I have One Quick Pin Template per article published. On these Word documents, I have 5 or so titles, a pre-written description, the URL, and the boards that this pin can go to.
The idea here is that when I go to publish pins I can do so quickly.
I also need to test out pins with my own pictures. I have been exclusively using stock photos thus far in my blogging journey.
Taking pictures is a new step to take. I am not sure if I can handle it yet.
Google Analytics
My user count was up from May. It surpassed any other single month. That was exciting and definitely needed for motivation. I do not feel my numbers are moving up fast enough. I am trying not to let this be discouraging and just keep pushing forward. I keep telling myself months 8-10 is when I will see a jump.
May 5th I had 41 users which is an all-time high.
I have to focus on the positive here. The numbers can get in your head though. You never feel like your growth is fast enough. When you get discouraged, look back at your old numbers. See the real progress that has happened.
In the beginning, I was happy with 12 users in a month, now I got to the point of 41 users in a day! That is huge!
Feelings
I expected so much more out of myself in May. I feel like I keep jumping from task to task and am getting nowhere.
My number of scheduled posts is down to about 2 ahead. I just am not getting anything written. To be fair a couple of posts I am writing are a bit complicated with grabbing information from different areas. But even still I need to be producing content.
I am chugging along with writing, publishing, pin creation, and pin scheduling.
I documented a day in the life from this month that you can view here Take an Inside Look into a Typical Day in the Life of a New Blogger.
Resources
Changes
For the most part, I am still staying the course. I don’t know if I am doing everything right, but I have to stick with it for a while to even know.
Hopefully, I am not wasting my time. I truly want this to be successful.
If I could change anything it would be to regain my intense drive and motivation. Right now I am continuing to post and pin on schedule. I keep myself accountable on that.
I need to make time to push myself to do more. Whether it be taking on more tasks such as an email list or taking photographs for posts and pins, or it could be putting more research into my writing.
I am happy with the content I am producing. I think it is good information. However, I do feel that if I could slow down and put more into it the content could be presented better.
Some of my posts I would not be proud to turn in to my English teacher. I simply feel they could be better.
I also feel that I have become accustomed to my simple goals of publishing content and pins on time. I publish 9 pins daily and post articles on the 5th,10th,15th, 20th, 25th, and 30th. This is great. I am consistently achieving this.
My next step is to push myself to become comfortable with new goals. Such as each week I produce one new article. Maybe I’ll call it the article of the week. This article will be my focus for writing, editing, and publishing. I can also work on other articles, but this one will be the priority.
Conclusion
As far as the numbers, May was a good month. I wasn’t happy with the amount of work I got done though. With my daughter starting daycare I expected to have a lot more time to work. Evidently I need to get a better system for staying productive and moving forward.
I am looking forward to what June, my sixth month has to offer!
Check Out My Articles
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