Blog Notes and Statistics for February, 2009

Blog Stats

Blog income - see my Passive Income for February post.

* Visits - 6296 ( + 14% from January )
* Page views - 18746 ( + 5% )
* Bounce rate - 4.99% ( - 36% )
* Average time on site - 1 min, 44 sec  ( - 35% )
*2.98 pages/visit ( - 7% )

(above data from Google Analytics)

I posted 20 articles in February  (36 in January.)

Review of Blog Goals for January

• Increase passive blog income to $50/month
• Increase subscribers and Twitter followers 10% 
• Increase comments by 5%
• Find one channel of revenue through the blog  
• Come up with a “shopping” page plan (In process)

What I’ve been doing to increase comments:

1. Added Most Frequent Commentors list to sidebar
2. Continue latest comments links in sidebar
3. Frequently responding to commentors
4. Comment Luv
5. Increasing the number of genuine comments I’m leaving on my favorite blogs, and new blogs.
6. Frequently leaving comments on the blogs of bloggers who comment on my blog.

It’s a slow climb, so if you like my site, please sign up for my feed and my Twitter. Oh, and a stumble would be nice, too.)

Blog Notes

Greener Pastures has been added to two of Alltop’s topic pages:  Midlife and Personal Finance!

Here’s the feeds below.  If you have a chance, please go check them out. There ’s some great blogs on these pages. While you’re there, if you take a second to click on a link back to my site, it will help me move higher up on their page.

Twitter - Increased to over 700 followers.  This h.as helped traffic
Facebook - too early to tell what’s going on.  See next month.

Goals for March

• Increase passive income to $75 per month.
• Fix scrolling of features section.  ( I believe a plug in has messed it up. )
• Shopping page?
• Continue increasing readers, subscribers, traffic and comments.
• Find one new channel of revenue for the blog.
• Explore possibility of forming a Midlife Network, complete with widget, from the Alltop Midlife page.
• Develop new article series.

How did your month go? Any suggestions for this blog?  Would you like me to look at yours and make suggestions or comments?  I would be glad to!

Photo credits: PicApp

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