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Home > TRAFFIC & INCOME REPORTS

Traffic & Income Report - September 2016

BY :Bebs | Published: 10/23/ 2016 | Updated:10/14/ 2021 | 4 Comments

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Welcome to the first ever Foxy Folksy Monthly Income Report!!! But before we begin, a little background about me and  Foxy Folksy.

I started Foxy Folksy in January 2014 as a hobby after moving to Germany in mid 2012 to join my husband, Armin. With little prospect of finding a job due to my limited German skills, I thought to make myself busy by setting up a blog, thus, Foxy Folksy was born. I created Foxy Folksy from scratch all by myself, from research to set up and design and it has seen a lot of changes along the way, and no, I didn't (still don't) have special computer skills. I just learned and pick up what I needed (from Google) as I go.

Then on April 2015, I got a regular job in an electronics company. I was in charge of their Logistics, which is very interesting but also a challenging job so Foxy Folksy has to take a back seat. It has remained a hobby until now...but all that is about to change.

Just recently, Armin and I decided to take Foxy Folksy to the next level and maybe try to earn (serious) money from it. This means I have to give up my job to give my 101% attention to Foxy Folksy and so I have to say goodbye to my colleagues this coming end of October.

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A GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

I started adding ads in my blog early on thinking I could at least break-even with the cost of maintaining my blog which mainly was the web-hosting with Hostgator. The first one I applied for was Google Adsense since it was the easiest to apply for even for new blogs. This year I started applying for other Ad networks, below is a table showing how Foxy Folksy was doing on previous months.

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Below are the numbers for the month of September:

Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and all of the products listed below are products and services I have personally used or still using.

INCOME:

  • Adsense - $122.74
  • Gourmet Ads - $79.58
  • Sovrn - $30.89
  • Swoop - $2.01

Total Income: $233.21

EXPENSES:

  • Hostgator - $11.84
  • Boardbooster - $5.00
  • Monthly Giveaway - $25.00

Total Expenses: $41.84

NET INCOME: $191.37

TRAFFIC:

These are actual screenshots from Google Analytics:

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TRAFFIC SOURCES:

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FINAL THOUGHTS...

I was only able to make 3 blog post for the month of September but I am relieved that my total pageviews were still up by more than 10,000 from the previous month. Thanks to all the post I did in the past years that keep the traffic flowing. But I know that if we want to raise Foxy Folksy's income, we have to really work hard on increasing our pageviews. So the first order of business once I become 'full time' blogger is to increase the number of monthly post, posting at least 2-3 times a week.

As you can see, the main source of Foxy Folksy's pageviews came from google/organic search. It means that I got some pageviews when someone searched for a word in Google (usually a recipe) and one of my posts came up in their search and they clicked on my URL and these clicks were coming from my old posts. So the more post I have the more chances of getting more pageviews in the future as well.

Pinterest is also one of our top sources for driving traffic to Foxy Folksy and last June, I  started using BoardBooster for automated scheduling of pins to various boards to Foxy Folksy's Pinterest Page and I've seen a continuous growth in traffic and Pinterest followers. Once I have the time, I plan to maximize this tool further.

Armin and I also thought of working on building Foxy Folksy's Mailing List. We started an experiment last April to have monthly giveaways where anyone who has subscribed to Foxy Folksy's newsletter are eligible to win. It seems to be working  as evident by the jump on Foxy Folksy's email subscriber from 42 in April to 364 in September.

So that's it for now and thanks for taking the time to check out our first monthly income and traffic report!


Thinking of starting your own blog, you may want to visit my blog post on How To Start A Blog with a checklist of the things you should know before actually creating one and How to create a Blog for the step-by-step procedures on building your blog. You may also want to check out my Resource Page for the tools you need for your blog.

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  1. Elena Sipin says

    January 30, 2021 at 12:03 pm

    Dear Bebs and Armin. You are both awesome and amazingly excellent teacher in cooking and baking, as well as a blogger. Our Mom, 96 plus, passed away last August 13th, 2020. When we were moving all her stuff from the apt., we found some written recipes of hers. We also found "Foxy Folksy recipes", as she had great pleasure trying your recipes. As we recall, she always dream to have a recipe book to publish. Mom even suggested to use the book for fundraising. The the funds goes to shelters for the homeless and food banks. You are God sent to us. Now, we are following Mom's footsteps and we are daily checking up on your websites for more recipes to cook and bake. Isn't that fun? Thank you Bebs and Armin. Take care and God bless.

    Meg and Ellen

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  2. Rei says

    February 17, 2018 at 10:20 pm

    That is great news for aspiring bloggers. Please advise how you were able to get 4k pageviews with 12 posts.

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  3. Rei says

    February 17, 2018 at 5:13 am

    Thank you so much.This is very informative.
    Can you tell us how many posts you already have before you start monetizing?

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    • Bebs says

      February 17, 2018 at 2:42 pm

      Hi Rei...Foxy Folksy went public in January 2014, on the same month, I applied to Adsense when I only had 12 posts and 4K pageviews, we earned $0.20. On January 2016 I earned $21.86 (still only Adsense) with 24K Pageviews. Then in March 2016 we added Gourmet Ads and Swoop and earned $86 from 43K PV with about 150 posts in total. We added SOVRN to our roster of Ad Networks in June 2016. Up to that point, Foxy Folksy was just a hobby until we decided to see if we can make serious money from it in September 2016 and so on November 2016 is when we joined Monumetric. The rest you can read on our monthly income reports... 🙂

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