I launched this blog with the idea that people are tired of reading blogs from people that don’t actually make a full time living off the internet (see my story). I also believe people are tired of reading blogs from people that are making a full time living off the internet but only because of the products they create and sell to teach people how to make money on the internet. With those two loose guiding principals in mind I relaunched the blog in early 2010 with a new URL and basically no advertising. In the four and a half months that have followed I have discussed a wide array of ways to make money online (even wrote a short book) and on a monthly basis I share how much money I make online along with the sources that money came from. What I haven’t discussed since relaunching this blog in early 2010 is how much traffic I’m getting. Today I will be showing off some numbers and sharing my goal for 2010 with this blog.

Blog Traffic in 2010:

The traffic in the past four and a half months’ has been a little over 13,000 unique visitors and almost 40,000 page views which is admittedly nothing stellar; however, this is all traffic from starting with basically nothing early this year.

What is most exciting is the fact that I’m starting to gain a lot more traction as you can see by these stats from the past 30 days:

Half of the traffic for 2010 has come in just the past 30 days which goes to show how fast my blog is growing. The average time spent on my site at 4 minutes and 21 seconds per visit is also very encouraging and shows that most people are sticking around and reading almost 3 articles before they leave. It looks like people want to learn how to earn money online without being blasted with advertisements and useless products in every single blog post (Success! My guiding principals outlined above are true – people just want good information from someone that knows what they’re talking about without being pitched a product all the time.)

Moving to another statistic you can see similar results. Here are my blog RSS subscriber stats for 2010 thus far:

I started with a little over 200 RSS readers from my old blog which I slowly stopped updating in 2009 and now in 2010 I’ve since grown to just over 800 (at the time of compiling these stats).

Like the traffic stats I showed above a similar effect is displayed in my RSS readership growth over the past 30 days:

Mirroring the traffic gains, I’ve more than doubled the number of RSS readers in the past 30 days.

Goals for 2010:

My goals for 2010 with this blog are not based on traffic numbers, instead I’m shooting for a goal in total RSS readers of 5,000. I’m around 800 right now and I bet I’ll hit 1,000 before May comes to a close. At that point I’d have 7 months left to get an additional 4,000 readers and I have so many more great money making tips like these planned for the remainder of the year I know I can accomplish my goal.

What do you think? Can I hit 5,000 RSS readers by the end of 2010?

Coming Up:

I’ll be sharing some of the tactics I’ve employed to drive more traffic to my blog in a future post but what I have coming up on Monday is a very exciting story on how I earned over $2,000 from one blog post back in 2009. Subscribe now -You won’t want to miss it 😀