Blogging Pays U?

Earnings for March from five blogs including this one totaled just $94. Not enough to justify the effort and a reminder - if it were needed - that I do this primarily for fun. Traffic was up though!

Revenue Analysis
The revenues came primarily from paid blog articles. This would be a great source on revenue if there were more article writes available. I am a member of 6 different paid to blog sites but two of them have not yet provided an opportunity and one (Payperpost) seems over subscribed by bloggers.

Other revenues came from click through advertising and affiliate programs. Amazon was once again a big zero for the month.

Here is the breakdown;

Paid articles - $65.60
Click Through Ads - $7.40
Other - $20.00

This was actually down from February when I made $98.00.

Traffic
Total traffic across the sites was 27,995 visits up from 17,567 the previous month. A nice bump but not reflected in revenues.

Thoughts and Analysis
While traffic is undeniably growing, it is not enough to generate the kind of revenues you would ideally want to see. Part of the problem is that none of the blogs has a page rank of more than 3 yet and none are ranked high enough on Alexa or Technorati etc. to attract high paying article writes or indeed custom advertising.

All of the blogs are less than 4-months old with the exception of one which has been around for years but re-developed and started to promote recently.

So we will keep going and see what happens next month. So far, it looks like we might break the $100 barrier for the first time. Fingers crossed.