Macro Photography Blog, the photoblog which I set up in October 2007, is the blog I’m most enthusiastic about.
It is gaining traffic as well as revenue albeit in its slow and steady way. Although the traffic and revenue are still low by any standard, they are growing and in any type of businesses, a positive growth is certainly a welcome development.
By growing, you will eventually outpace your expenditure and from then on, register profits.
From the two charts here, you will be able to compare the blog’s traffic. A year ago, the photoblog registered slightly below 600 visitors a month. Last month, the monthly traffic was slightly below 6,500.
In other words, I can now achieve the same number of traffic in four days what I took a whole month to achieve a year ago.
The overall traffic is of course still very low, but the growth percentage is good considering that I have not implemented any SEO or promotional strategy ever since I set up the photoblog.
If the growth is sustained and with a bit of promotion, I can realistically hope to achieve at least 15,000 visitors a month a year from now.
I doubt I can achieve a monthly visits of 50,000 but if Hongkiat, a blog run by a Malaysian blogger can achieve over 30,000 visitors per day, I don’t see any reason why I should not aim to achieve 3,000 visitors a day.
If the trend continues in the months and years to come, I may be able to depend on it to finance my online activities.
My online expenditure comprises RM792 in annual broadband internet bill, USD95.40 (RM340) in annual web hosting service, USD72 (RM257) in domain charges for my four other self-hosted blogs and RM288 in annual fixed line telephone charge.
That makes it RM1,677 a year or about RM140 a month. So, what is my blogging income? Not much, but overall, I’ve passed the break-even point.
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