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Background
Blog Name: momwifeandeverydaylife
Period: August 2022
Month: Month 20
Experience: This is my first blog
Launched: January 10th 2021
A Quick Breakdown
Pinterest drastic drop
Maternity leave ended-back to work
The Numbers
| Published Posts | 5 |
| Users | 429 |
| Pageviews | 572 |
| Pinterest Impressions | 25.53 K |
| Email Subscribers | 5 |
| Income | $0 |
| Expenses | $0 |
Published Posts
Out of the 5 articles I posted during august I would say 4 were more help based and 1 was more affiliate link heavy, but still very helpful. I enjoyed writing all of the content I wrote this month.
I am current ahead on content and have written ahead for the whole month of September. I love working ahead on articles.
Users & Pageviews
My traffic was doing great the first half of the month. I was on track for a really good month. If you look at Just August first through August 16th I was at 483 pageviews which means I could have potentially hit 1000 pageviews again. I was so excited watching my numbers, until all the sudden they dropped to basically nothing.
I checked my Pinterest account and found it to be the problem. My stats on Pinterest completely plummeted.
I figured after a day or two it would recover, but it did not. I have contacted Pinterest to try to remedy the problem…but I do not know what the problem is honestly.
This is where relying on a single traffic source is a huge mistake. I have said over and over that I need to work more on SEO. I did make an effort to review my first ten articles in the beginning of the month before the drop even happened. I don’t know if I did enough for the SEO to improve.
Pinterest Impressions
Pinterest decided to tank my account. I have no idea why!
I haven’t tried creating any idea pins. I only create static pins currently. Maybe I will give a few idea pins a try and see if that helps my account.
I am honestly devastated at the numbers. I have spent hundreds of hours creating and publishing pins.
I feel as if all that work was for nothing.
As I have said before Pinterest is a time suck!
I have reached out to support twice about my drop in numbers and got a generic response. I realize I am nobody to them, but it was still disappointing. I don’t know if I did something wrong. I try to create original content as much as possible. I do use a decent amount of stock photos but have been working to use my own photos too.
I am quite upset to see what my account looks like.
Email Subscribers
I still have 5 email subscribers.
This month I did send a generic email with links to 3 of my recent articles. 2 subscribers opened the email. It says the click rate is zero so assume that means they did not click on my articles. But hey no one decided I was annoying and decided to unsubscribe.
Income
$0
I did not make anything this month. It is pretty difficult to make money with affiliate links when your traffic completely drops, so this isn’t surprising.
Expenses
$0
I did not invest in anything this month.
Goals
Continue to work on SEO on old posts. I was proud of myself for getting through my first 10 posts. I did not purchase an SEO course though. I am just revamping my old posts with the knowledge that I have accumulated over time. I hope it is enough though.
It would be a bummer to go through my old posts and not make any actual improvements.
Strategy/Changes
Hope and pray my Pinterest traffic returns to normal. I am going to at least try to make 2 idea pins this month. I don’t know how but will give it a try. I am going to continue to publish my two static pins each day. I may pin some content belonging to other creators but won’t go too crazy on that.
Resources
Bluehost
Grammarly
Feelings
I don’t know if I have ever felt so defeated on my blog having a chance at success. My traffic dropped overnight to nothing at all.
How am I supposed to make any progress now? I realize being dependent on Pinterest wasn’t great, but I hadn’t yet worked on any major traffic sources.
I want to keep blogging. I enjoy blogging and would love for it to turn into a career.
I just don’t see how that is possible right now.
Not to mention the hours I have put into trying to make Pinterest happy. I have created hundred to thousands of pins. I have spent hours upon hours writing descriptions, creating pin images, and scheduling out these pins. Now I have nothing to show for it.
Traffic is necessary for everything with blogging. Huge traffic isn’t necessary, but at least some traffic is essential.
Conclusion
This month started pretty strong actually and ended up in a total flop. I don’t know what is going to happen with my Pinterest account. I am still enjoying the content I am writing and will continue doing so. I just need to start spending more time promoting it on various platforms.
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