March 2007 Earnings and Traffic Increase

I really need to do a better job of keeping this blog updated. Anyway, this post will mostly just be caffeine-infused rambling. I’ve been up since 5:30am in an attempt to change my sleeping patterns. Lately, I’ve been going to bed at 7am and getting up at 2pm or 3pm. So last night I filled up on Tylenol PM and forced myself to go to bed at midnight. I got only about 3 hours of sleep though. Blah. Right now, I’m dying to go back to bed, but I’m going to force myself to stay up. Maybe a workout on my stationary bike will help.

Anyway, onto my post. The final numbers are in and I made just over $9500 for the month of March. Yay! The increase in revenue was mostly caused from one particular ad network I use. I got well over 5 million ad impressions with them in March, which means… $5000 from them. On the downside, one of my higher paying ad companies has bottomed out.

My website was mentioned in a major women’s beauty magazine, bringing even more visitors which caused the server crash discussed in the last post. Funnily enough, it wasn’t the most flattering of mentions… but a mention all the same. Apparently everyone and their great grandmother reads this particular magazine because even people I knew in person started telling me “omg your site was mentioned in ____ magazine!” Plus, several people mentioned it in either the comments section of the site or via email to me.

It was the April edition of the magazine, so hopefully it will continue bringing more visitors this month.

More later… I need more coffee before I fall asleep on my keyboard.