Last week’s post was about my thoughts and the revenue, or lack of revenue, we made in the first year.\u00a0 Today, we’re going to dig into the stats and charts for all my fellow number cruncher nerds out there. Let’s dig in to what Google Analytics shows for the time period of our first year: July 9, 2019 to July 10, 2020.<\/p>\n
Traffic:<\/strong><\/p>\n The one time spikes are mostly from the days we had a guest appearance published.\u00a0 The first pop early on in late July 2019 to start things off was from our first guest blog post<\/a> with Tread Lightly Retire Early which likely brought in new readers as our blog was brand new then and this guest post on Angela’s blog had a total of 38 comments.\u00a0 Then the pop in January was from our Forbes appearance.<\/a>\u00a0 The largest pop was in February from our Choose FI episode.<\/a>\u00a0 And then the most recent pop in July was from our spot light feature on Personal Finance Club’s Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Monthly Page Views:<\/strong><\/p>\n We are currently averaging 65-250 page views a day.\u00a0 We currently are seeing a little boost in traffic on the days we post new content.\u00a0 I think the true progress of a blogger is when you still get site traffic on days you leave the site alone.\u00a0 I don’t want to be totally dependent on the traffic that comes on publishing day, especially if it means having to promote it on social media.\u00a0 Here’s a look at the breakdown of the page views by month.<\/p>\n As you can see, it’s really hard to see consistency here.\u00a0 Some months trend upwards and then boom there a nice new lull.\u00a0 My goal over the next year is to double our average monthly page views to consistently get over 6,000 per month towards the end of year 2.\u00a0 As noted last week, don’t expect to see any ads here until we cross over the 10,000 page view threshold.\u00a0 Seeing that we are only averaging 3,000 page views during this first year I can’t imagine we will get to 10,000 any time soon.\u00a0 In addition to continual weekly posts, in order to bump up our stats in this category likely means dabbling into the world of SEO so I’ll report back on how this new endeavor goes.<\/p>\n Traffic Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n Our main source of traffic is direct (aka someone typing in our website or clicking on a bookmark for our website).\u00a0 I have no idea if this is a good thing or not.\u00a0 We are slowly building up our traffic from Google searches which is fun to see.\u00a0 It would be cool to see the organic search section take over 20% of our searches a year from now.<\/p>\n Blog Posts: 47<\/strong><\/p>\n I made up a goal to publish a blog post each week so I was pretty close reaching this goal.\u00a0 I can’t foresee myself keeping up with this content creation long term but I am hoping to keep a similar schedule for year 2.\u00a0 After that point, I likely will shift down to 1-2 times a month.<\/p>\n Subscribers: 193<\/strong><\/p>\n My goal is to get this over 500 within the next year.\u00a0 So if you’re reading this and not yet subscribed, get on it! \ud83d\ude09 Or if you know of someone who may benefit from our site, please pass it along! \ud83d\ude42 The more people who can learn about the powers of financial independence, the better.\u00a0 We know there are many bloggers out there in the personal finance\/FIRE space so we truly thank all 193 of you who find our content relatable and keep coming back for more.\u00a0 Personal finance is personal so we are hoping to resonate with a few like minded people out there who find our content useful.\u00a0 Really, we’re more interested in quality subscribers over quantity of subscribers, which leads to the next stat…<\/p>\n Comments: 329<\/strong><\/p>\n Some may find this stat pointless but it’s one of my favorite stats out there as it ensures we aren’t writing to an empty void.\u00a0 We love getting comments on our blog posts and hope to see this rise next year.\u00a0 The more engagement with our readers the better and it truly is the motivation that keeps us going.\u00a0 Note that this number includes my comments back to any comments we received.\u00a0 We also love all the messages people send over too, greatly appreciated!\u00a0 Given that we wrote 47 posts in this first year, that averages to 7 comments per post.<\/p>\n Countries: US, Canada, Australia, United kingdom, Netherlands<\/strong><\/p>\n This is my second favorite stat to track as I love seeing all the corners of the earth we are reaching.\u00a0 Again, likely useless but I like it.\u00a0 I can’t believe we’re reaching all continents – except Antarctica, now that would be cool!\u00a0 I’m curious to see if the US will continue to be the #1 country going forward or if Canadian readers will outpace the US at some point even though it’s 1\/10 of the population.<\/p>\n Average Word Count: 2,896 words<\/strong><\/p>\n When I finally get in the grove and start writing content, I go on.\u00a0 And on, and on, and on.\u00a0 I’d much rather get all my thoughts out and make it a 2,000+ word post rather than rush just to get something published.\u00a0 While many of my posts are wordy, I hope you find value from them and can relate to my writing style in some form.\u00a0 I’m trying to get my personality out in writing which requires a certain style.\u00a0 My shortest post was 903 words and the longest was 6,338 words.\u00a0 A total of 136,139 words have been written which apparently is the equivalent of a 453-544 page book (depending on the font).\u00a0 Whoa!<\/p>\n Now really, FIRE can be summed up in one sentence: earn more, save less, invest the difference.\u00a0 Sometimes I feel like anything I write can likely be found elsewhere on the internet.\u00a0 And it’s likely true.\u00a0 But the more people who can catch the FIRE bug, the better – so we hope to see more and more FIRE content creators out there showcasing their stories.<\/p>\n Guest Appearances: 20<\/strong><\/p>\n Relationships, relationships, relationships.\u00a0 As noted last week, we are so humbled by all the guest appearances<\/a> we’ve encountered over the year.\u00a0 My goal is to do guest posts\/podcasts on at least five different platforms each year.\u00a0 Interacting with other bloggers and podcasters in the personal finance space is very important to me and I’m so happy to have built up such wonderful relationships during this first year.<\/p>\n So far this year we’re teaming up with Walo, The Fioneers, and Market Watch to get some content out on their platforms.<\/p>\n There we go!\u00a0 All the juicy numbers revealed!\u00a0 Morale of the story is that blogging stats are irregular and that SEO matters. Originally I never thought to dig into the SEO side of things but if we want more people to find our content and learn about the mindset needed for FI, we should be focusing on SEO more.<\/p>\n It will be exciting to do a similar exercise next year to compare all the stats again.<\/p>\n Any bloggers out there who keep track of their stats?\u00a0 Any someday bloggers out there find these types of post useful?\u00a0 We try to be as transparent as possible over here so we hope you found the last two posts useful.\u00a0 We’d love to hear your thoughts below!<\/p>\n If you liked this article and want more content like this, please support this blog by sharing it.\u00a0 Not only does it help spread the FIRE, but it lets me know what content you find beneficial.\u00a0 Writing is NOT my strong suit and it honestly takes me hours to write each post so the more encouragement the better!\u00a0 Engaging in the comments below keeps me motivated.\u00a0 You can also support this blog by subscribing to receive emails anytime a new post is published.\u00a0 Thank you FImily!<\/p>\n We believe in stacking up life hacks to keep your enjoyment levels to the max without depleting your bank account.\u00a0 Here are some ways to further educate yourself and save thousands of dollars over your lifetime by making some simple adjustments:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok ok.\u00a0 Finally, we’re at the exciting part of the two part series on a look into our first year blogging.\u00a0 If you missed last …<\/p>\n\n
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