2 Million Dollar Bills

My Second full month as a blogger has now been completed and I’m now in elite company! A high percentage of bloggers seemingly quit within the first two months of start up a blog, thinking it is going to be an easy route to giving up the day job and making their fortune.

For me my blog is a long-term plan and I don’t expect to be making any serious money out of blogging until 18-24 months time. My goal at the moment is to develop 2milliondollarbills.com into a blog that provides interesting, unique and well-written content, I know, I still have a long way to go to achieve this, but I’m getting there.

2milliondollarbill.com is slowly increasing its readership and subscribers, at a moderate rate, which has exceeded my expectations. My figures for the month of May are well above my expectations. This months figures also take into account the fact, that for 7 days due to moving to London and the hassles involved in that, I couldn’t do very much blog related work and as a result my blog expectedly never gained many new readers during this period.

I also started a second blog in May called travelersstories.com , which was probably a slightly crazy thing to do considering how busy my schedule was in May. I also built and launched a web site for a company in Barbados that I’m a director of.

If I want to achieve my goal of making 2 million dollars, I have to work hard and stay focussed; no one is going to do it for me.

2milliondollarbills.com Results for May 2008

Unique Visitors: 1473
Number of Visits: 4444
Pages viewed: 28990
Subscribers: 21 (average for the month)

Alexa Rank:
3-Month Average: 2,408,826
1-Week Average: 1,660,461

Technoati Rank:  492,178

Google Adsense: $43.35
Playing Poker: $, I never played poker the whole month, but this will change!
Donations: $20

Total: $63.35

The earnings that I make from blogging at the present time are immaterial, they do not even come into the equation, I know that at some point in the future my blog will be earning a considerable amount of money, I have made  enough in my first two months of blogging to cover my hosting charges for the next year. I realise that to make serious money from Google Adsense you have to have massive levels of traffic and your blog has to be suited to actually making money from ppc advertising.

My main goal for the future is to keep on building up my blogs traffic to the level where I can go and sell advertising space directly, the is the future of blogging!

The  results of my first month as a blogger can be viewed here My First Month As A Future Blogging Icon, 2 Million Dollar Bills