I Need Discipline

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:24 PM PDT

LinkVehicle are a sponsored post website that I joined sometime last year but I never received any offers from them so I sort of forgot about them until they contacted me last month, out of the blue, and told me they had an offer for me.

Because they are a company that I had not used before I was a little reluctant to let them publish anything on this blog, I don't mind sacrificing a post on one of my smaller blogs if the company fails to pay me, but I didn't want to publish one on here and then remove it and look silly.

It was a sponsored post for my legal blog and it was for $30.00. LinkVehicle take 50% of whatever you make so I was looking at $15.00, but it was only for a quick 200 word post so I was happy to do it.

They approved it within hours and yesterday I received payment from them. I'm slightly confused why they paid me $12.00 when I was meant to be getting $15.00, I have emailed them, but I'm not going to kick off too much over $3, I'm more pleased that they have paid out.

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May 2012 Blog Income Report

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:17 PM PDT

Can you believe that we are already half way through the year? I can't help but wonder where the time has gone as it seems like only last month that I was making my goals at the start of 2012.

Lack of Motivation returned this month to kick me very hard somewhere where only a few people have dared to ever venture. Damn you Lack of Motivation for continuing to thwart my attempts to make a success of this blog.

Page Impressions & Visitor Count

The unique visitor count for May stands at 1,863 which is a massive decrease of 1,310 from the month of April.

The page impression count for May stands at 3,724, which is a huge decrease of 2,696 from the month of April.

This means that each unique visitor looked at 2.00 pages.

My bounce rate has dropped from 72.92% to 61.62%.

- Well the recent Google Penguin update really did kick my ass didn't it? My blog traffic fell by over half within the space of a month To be honest I'm at a loss as to what to do, I think for this month I'll just keep up the blog commenting & social media promoting.

Show Me The Money!

Adbrite = $0.44 (-$1.05)
Fidelity Media (AdJuggler) = $0.13 (-$0.11)
Passive Income = $15.89 (-$14.93)
Private Advertising = $1.00 (-$25.00)
Private Writing = $350.00 (-$180.65)
PulsePoint (AdsDaq) = $0.46 (+$0.40)
Reviews = $28.50 (-$72.75)
Smowtion = $0.33 (+$0.23)
TLA = $4.00 (+$1.50)
UnderDog = $2.10 (+$1.75)
Zapunited = $0.12 (-$0.01)

Total = $402.97 (-$292.12)

- The dreaded Lack of Motivation meant that I didn't complete as many reviews & private writing assignments as I should have done. Hopefully my impending holiday to Ireland will give me a kick up the arse to do more work.

Top Five Search Terms

I like this part of the monthly income report. It is amazing how people find this blog on search engines.

1. Smorty
2. how to start writing articles online
3. blog distributor
4. top referral sites
5. blog distributor review

5 Top Site Referrals

The top five sites that sent the most visitors to this blog.

1. myblogguest.com
2. bloggerspassion.com
3. site.trainhornsdelivered.com
4. facebook.com
5. wpkube.com

Top 10 Commenters

This is just my little way of saying thank you to the people who take the time to comment on this blog. Without you guys it would be just me rambling away.

1. david (13)
2. Lennart Heleander@Property Marbella (3)
3. James (2)
4. jhendor (2)
5. tires (2)
6. Ben Sawyer (1)
7. Cherry (1)
8. Chris @ NPI (1)
9. Colocation (1)
10. Darin Spears (1)

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