The Almost Millionaire » Blogging http://www.thealmostmillionaire.com Thoughts, ideas, and tools for bridging the gap between your current situation and financial stability. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:54:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Bloggers Helping Bloggers http://www.thealmostmillionaire.com/bloggers-helping-bloggers/ http://www.thealmostmillionaire.com/bloggers-helping-bloggers/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:23:37 +0000 Almost Millionaire http://www.thealmostmillionaire.com/?p=124 One of the greatest thing about blogging (besides getting to organize your thoughts) is the relationships that you make with other bloggers.  There are some undefined, yet very tangible, common bonds that connect bloggers to one another.  This is especially true with bloggers who are at similar stages of their projects. 

I’m exceedingly thankful for the dozen or so other bloggers who regularly take the time to comment and add value to The Almost Millionaire.  The occasional stop ins are great too…but those bloggers who I consider “regulars”…(the ones that I try to support the most) are the ones that REALLY make it fun.  I will not visit the blogs of my regulars and friends without trying my best to leave something there of value…and you all seem to do the same.  Often I’ll post some Personal Finance ideas, and you all will leave BETTER advice in your comments and thoughts.  And I can’t thank guys like Mitch enough for all they have done to make blogging fun. 

You all are very appreciated…that is the bottom line.  So cheers to a fun and profitable future!  Let me know what I can do to help you be successful, because Blogging is an island if we don’t build a team!

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I’ve always had the expectation that this blog would slowly grow and gain a couple of new readers a week…AND THEN SOMEONE STUMBLED UPON MY SITE.  The graph below shows what that meant for me.

As you can see, two days ago I had a HUGE SPIKE in unique visitors and page views.  I quickly went to statcounter.com to see where these visits were coming from.  Nearly every one was from Stumble Upon.  I have yet to figure out exactly how stumble upon works, but I’m going to, because my traffic has been through the roof since Feb. 2 and so has my site earnings.  Absolutely Amazing! 

So if you were the blessed person who decided to Stumble my site, THANK YOU!  When I figure out Stumble Upon and who you are, I will surely return the favor!

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Adsense for Content…about $75.00 in revenue

Adsense for Search…about $50.00 in revenue

Private Ads…exactly $50.00 in revenue

Total December blogging income…$175.00

I’m pretty pleased with these results as I truly blog for fun.  That being said, I’m an entrepreneur at heart, so I love the business aspect of conquering the Internet.  I will continue down the path of slow and steady to win the race, and will grow my knowledge of all things “interweb”  as you must remember that I started with NO KNOWLEDGE of these things several months ago.  Hopefully I can report $300 in income for Jan.  I’m looking for 2009 to be a big year. 

Blessings!  And big thanks to all my friends and commentors.  You truly make blogging alot more fun.

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