Income Report for October 2021
The following income report is for the blog that I run at AboutSocialAnxiety.com. I’m sharing it here to show my progress in figuring out how to make a blog/website successful!
October STATS:
Note: The numbers in parentheses are from last month. I’m retrieving these numbers from Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Semrush, Convertkit, and my social media platforms.
Pageviews: 36,054 (31,735)
Sessions: 29,616 (26,367)
Users: 26,912 (23,257)
Organic Sessions (Google): 9486 (8782)
Social Sessions: 10,392 (8897)
Mailing List Subscribers: 5840 (5837)
Social Media
Pinterest Followers: 6.2k (6.1k)
Facebook Followers: 5.9k (5.8k)
Facebook group members: 660 (640)
Twitter Followers: 3.4k (3.4k)
Instagram Followers: 1k (950)
Tik Tok Followers: 275k (247k)
Total Social Media Followers: 291k (266k)
Posts published: 9 (5)
Google Search Console stats
Google Search Console total impressions: 368k (297k)
Google Search Console total clicks: 8.16k (7.5k)
Average Click through rate: 2.2% (2.5%)
Average Position: 22 (23.9)
SEMRUSH stats
Organic search: 5k (5k)
Backlinks: 8.0 (7.7k)
Organic keywords: 3600 (3552)
MOZ Domain Authority: 25 (25)
August BLOG INCOME REPORT:
Advertising
Mediavine: $908.35 ($782.56)
Pageview RPM: $30.58 ($29.61)
Affiliates
Note: I’m reporting everything in US Dollars.
Amazon US: $39.77 ($84.71)
Amazon CANADA: $3.82 ($1.90)
Amazon UK: $0.08 ($13.44)
Amazon OVERALL: $43.67 ($100.05)
Betterhelp: $0 and 4 conversions ($225 and 10 conversions)
ShareASale: 0 (0)
Awin: $25.38 ($26.43)
Clickbank: $0 ($0)
Rakuten: $0 ($0)
Social Pro Now: $37.85 ($37.85)
CJ Affiliate: 0
Skimlinks: 0
Affiliates Overall: $106.90 ($398.01)
Products
Teachable Products
Total Teachable Revenue: $143 ($49)
Social Anxiety Masterclass: 1 sold (0 sold)
Art Therapy-Inspired Coloring Bundle: 0 sold (0 sold)
CBT + Mindfulness Workbook Tripwire: 2 sold (4 sold)
CBT Workbook: 0 sold (0 sold)
Mindfulness Workbook: 0 sold (0 sold)
Social Skills Workbook: 0 sold (0 sold)
Social Skills Workbook (Tripwire at $7 each): 0 sold (1 sold)
Self Confidence Journal: 0 sold (0 sold)
Etsy Products
Total Etsy Revenue: $35 ($12)
Sunburst Gratitude Worksheet: 5 sold (2 sold)
Rainbow Set of 12 Gratitude Worksheets: 1 sold (0 sold)
Products overall: $178 ($61)
Total income: $1193.25 ($1241.57)
Income per subscriber: $.20 ($0.21)
Income per thousand pageviews: $33.14 ($40.03)
Monthly expenses:
Email (Convertkit): $99
: $13.60 (use and discount code KSDISC to save 20%)
Teachable: $119 ($39) (I signed up for the professional version so that I could add affiliates)
Canva: $13.54
WordPress Support from iMark Interactive: $27
Conversion AI: $109 ($28.68)
Mediavine Grow Social: $34
Total expenses: $415.14 ($238.81)
Net blog income: $778.11 ($1002.76)
Thoughts about this month’s income report:
This month had some high expenses and income was moderately flat. I could definitely be doing better.
Did I Meet my Goals for October
I had no goals other than to keep writing posts according to the Project 24 timelines. I achieved this goal in October.
Goals for November:
- Continue to write P24 posts.
Back Burner Goals:
These continue to be the same.
- Affiliate launch for Audible audiobook subscription
- Work on finishing Stupid Simple SEO
- Add to my Etsy Shop
- Run Facebook Ads
- Create more Products
- Focus on Instagram profile (improving)
- Add an affiliate program in Teachable
- Work through Income School Project 24
- Hundredaire Challenge (from Faith Mariah)
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Past Income Reports
- July 2021 Income Report ($1245.51)
- August 2021 Income Report ($1203.88)
- September 2021 Income Report ($1241.57)