DragonBlogger.com Turns 1 Year Old

23 August, 2009 - 07:00 AM - 12 Comments

Six Hundred posts in my first year DragonBlogger.com site itself has yielded just over 124,000 unique visits, over 256,000 pageviews and an average bounce rate of 28% according to Google Analytics. Dragon Blogger has six articles in the top 5 spots for various Google search terms, and continues to average between 200 and 400 unique visits per day when I do zero social submissions, I can burst this up to 500-600 if I stumble various posts and such but that is artificial inflation.

Not counting any other blogs, Dragonblogger.com itself has earned me a total of $838.94 in its first year between Aug 23rd 2008 and Aug 23rd 2009. Take out the web hosting fee’s and this is still around $700 profit, but if you divide my time on average lets say 15 minutes per post.

600 posts / 15 minutes per post, this averages me earning 71 cents per post or $4.66 cents per hour which is 7.5 cents per minute. Given these type of earnings, who in their right mind would want to try and blog for a living? The earnings are even less if I factor in time spent on SEO, wordpress upgrades, plugins, tweaking themes…etc.

The good news is that if you combine all of my blogs, I have earned over $1200 in my first year blogging overall, and I don’t think that is bad for my first year, I am sure that I will exceed that total by double in the next year. Perseverance is key, if you have a good idea and you continue to do quality work, you will see a payoff in the end. So I keep at it and providing what I can, meanwhile I use the little bits of income as ways to pay off some debt and the occasional fun splurge to see a movie, get a new Wii game and whatnot. Because if you can’t enjoy the spoils of your labor, then whats the point?

-Dragon Blogger

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Written by Justin Germino (1518 Articles Published)

Working in the IT Industry for over 10 years and specializing in web based technologies. Dragon Blogger has unique insights and opinions to how the internet and web technology works. An Avid movie fan, video game fan and fan of trying anything and everything new.

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Rockstarhobbo@PTC Sites that pay

Wonderful blog , how about checking out mine as well?
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dragonblogger

I did check out your site, not a huge fan of PTC programs, they often take so much time and pay out so little. You can make more blogging with less time.

techandlife

Congrats on the anniversary. Interestingly, my 1 year anniversary is up this week too. Just wondered on the average 15 minutes per post though. I find that with researching the subject, finding links, getting graphics, writing the post, and spelling check, I must be averaging 2 hours per post. Don't think I'd get much useful done in 15 minutes!
.-= techandlife´s last blog ..Useful links: Free wi-fi hotspots =-.

Often I write about subjects I know, and I can find images on google images pretty quick or screen capture them. I also type 90 words per minute which helps increase my posting time. Most of my posts take no longer than 15 minutes to write, but I am not counting the read time if I read a news article and then decide to write about it, I just mean from the moment I start writing the first word for the post to when I click publish. Some paid posts can take me upwards of 30-45 minutes to write, and only doing video recording posts takes me more than two hours.

nazham

Congrats! All the best for the future :)
.-= nazham´s last blog ..How to Enhance Your Linux Desktop with Conky =-.

Thank you, I haven't been on your site in a while, have you completely changed your theme? Also, something about your synad2.nuffnang.com prevents your site from loading for me, it gets tripped up on that ad network, I tried 6 times and your blog never loads tonight.

madz

Happy Blogversary! And WOW! You already earned a lot! As for me, it's kinda late before I started joining sites that could earn me money online. But I guess I am doing good now. But still, I cannot give up my work and be a 100% blogger.

I don't think I will ever make enough from blogging to be able to give up my day job, but if I made enough to pay down debt and build up my savings and vacation funds, that would be totally worth it. Thanks for the congrats.

Patricia A. Hawkenson

CONGRATS! Well done. Keep 'em coming. We'll keep coming.
.-= Patricia A. Hawkenson´s last blog ..8/22/09 Patricia A. Hawkensonâ€™s Reflections =-.

Thank you very much.

Blazing Minds

Happy Blogoversary, here's to many more years to come ;)
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