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Blogging

November Blog Update: Income, Traffic, Small Biz Projects

Wow, November flew by!  Since I started posting my blog stats monthly, fellow bloggers and readers seem to enjoy the updates, so here’s the latest in my usual format – blogging and then my other various side gigs. Darwin’s Money Traffic and Earnings: Traffic is still of a bit since the October Google Panda update, [...]

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October Update: Blog Income, Outsourcing Biz, Real Estate

Since I’ve been reporting my online earnings monthly for some time now (see my Blogging Section for more tidbits and history), I’ve expanded my reporting to include my small business and the real estate deal I recently closed with a partner.  I’m coming off the worst income month of the year in September and I [...]

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September Review: “Best Economics Blog”… and the Worst Earnings of the Year

Since I’ve been reporting my online earnings monthly for some time now (see my Blogging Section for more tidbits and history), the trend had historically been up, but the month of September saw my lowest earnings for both this site and total online income for 2011.  There are a few reasons for that, but I’m [...]

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August Update: Traffic Up 31%, Earnings Up 17%, Outsourcing Biz and More

August was another great month for Darwin’s Money and my other web properties, as well as the outsourcing biz and real estate deal covered in more detail below. Traffic Traffic hit an all-time high this month on some “seeds” I’d planted a while back that sprouted.  It was a 31% increase from last month to [...]

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July In Review – All-Time Highs, Small Biz Explosion, Real Estate Deal and More…

I’m really excited to announced another month of record results for the Darwin blog network AND my small biz venture a buddy and I started up earlier this year.  Following on a strong June Update where I started opening up with more details, here are this month’s results: Traffic Traffic hit an all-time high here [...]

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June Earnings, Traffic and Outsourcing Biz Update – It’s a Whopper!

June was another GREAT month for the blog, my new small business and me personally.  I’ll get right into it. Traffic Traffic at Darwin’s Money was down just a bit from the prior month, but no biggie.  What’s going on there is I derive a fair amount of traffic from organic search and while it’s [...]

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May Blog Performance, Income, New Business Update

May was a pretty good month for blogging from a traffic and income standpoint.  At Darwin’s Money specifically, I was able to break 20,000 page views for the month, which is a nice bump from where I was at a few months ago, but it hasn’t been growing since I first broke 20,000 earlier this [...]

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The Money vs. Time Continuum – It Changes As You Age. Did You Forget To Calibrate?

There’s a strange yet consistent life law that many of us forget about, myself included.  It’s worth contemplating once in a while and seeing if you need to recalibrate where you fall on the scale vs. where you SHOULD be. If you’re anything like me and the vast majority of all humans that have ever [...]

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March Income, Stats, New Biz Venture – Off the Charts!

March was THE biggest month I’ve ever had in terms of income from online ventures – Yay!  Here, at Darwin’s Money, traffic was pretty good at around 19,000 page views.  I’m a bit off my peak from January, but I’ll take it.  At my other sites, traffic was pretty good as well.  I don’t report [...]

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January Traffic, Earnings, Content – Crushed It!

January was the best month ever for Darwin’s Money (which is the goal every month!), with traffic more than doubling!  I have to credit much of the surge to google’s search algorithm updates, where some existing articles started to pick up traction.  I’ve also been routinely featured in various blog carnivals and roundups and freelancing [...]

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