2011: A look back at another year of blogging

It's time to look back at some statistics for my blogs from 2011 and access what things worked and what didn’t, which strategies made money and which one did not. I maintained ten different blogs throughout the year (some receiving more attention than others) and had about 163,000 total unique visitors with 280,000 page views. I wrote a total of 514 posts which averages to about one and a half per day.

 

My most successful blog, with over 50% of the combined traffic, was Excel Spreadsheets Help. Percussion and Drum Stuff was next with 20%, which also had the highest number of page views per visitor, at 2.2. I posted the most items (71) to Zoo Tails but unfortunately had the worst number of visitors per post, at 48 (compared to Excel's 1630). This leads me to the conclusion that Excel has the highest quality of posts. 

 

I've pretty much decided to kill my Turning Tables music blog as well as my Engineering Job Search due to high competition and not enough original content from myself. My personal blog, the Cyclone Edition, has basically turned into a "Best Tweets" blog where I post some of the most hilarious tweets after a football game or major news event (such as the death of Osama Bin Laden). Started a new blog in October called Crafting Made Simple which I believe has great potential. I also published my first eBook (which I will give more data on once I get more to draw conclusions from).

 

As for the Make Money Mission blog, it came in right in the middle of the pack in all of the statistics. I still plan on keeping it around just for the sole purpose of posts like this one where I take stock of where I'm at. The good news is I've made financial gains and improvement over last year but I'm still not to the level where I want to be. I aim to write better, higher quality posts this year. Other improvements include a downloads page on my top three blogs linked to my ShareCash. 

 

Speaking of which, does anyone know of a good alternative to ShareCash? The payouts have been really nice but everytime I try to upload a file it won't let me, leaving tons of cash on the table. There are also times when I go days without making any money and I know users are clicking the download links leading me to believe there site goes down from time to time (or that they're stealing from me). I would definetely like to find a reliable alternate downloading site than ShareCash but are there any that payout as well?