January Profits From Sat Sites
January was a better month than December overall for the satellite sites, but the average income from all fell once again (this is due to me counting the 4 new sites that are still receiving very little traffic). The average for all 19 sat sites that were up for the entire month came to $33.86. That compares to a $39.09 average in December and a $54.09 average in November (as a comparison, if I take the original 10 sites for this month, the average they generated came to $59.07 which is a slight increase from 2 months ago). I’m pleased with the month, but not overjoyed. I still need to do a lot of work to generate traffic for them.
Satellite January profits
| Earning Rank | Jan. | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $155.84 | +$14.38 |
| 2 | $105.08 | +$14.44 |
| 3 | $82.99 | +$47.90 |
| 4 | $69.75 | $0.00 |
| 5 | $41.45 | +$9.05 |
| 6 | $40.53 | -$39.59 |
| 7 | $35.53 | +$0.18 |
| 8 | $24.06 | 0.00 |
| 9 | $17.96 | -$3.91 |
| 10 | $13.84 | +$1.41 |
| 11 | $12.34 | -$0.18 |
| 12 | $11.35 | -$4.16 |
| 13 | $10.81 | N/A |
| 14 | $10.37 | +$0.37 |
| 15 | $4.51 | -$0.13 |
| 16 | $3.65 | N/A |
| 17 | $2.96 | +$2.03 |
| 18 | $0.48 | N/A |
| 19 | $0.00 | N/A |
There was a big drop in one of the sat site’s numbers - I’m not exactly sure why that happened, but I’ll have to look and see if I can find an explanation. There are also a lot of sites not earning in double digits which is discouraging. I think they just need more publicity so I’ll try and do that if I can find time (although that may be difficult for the next few months).
I didn’t put up any new sat sites during January, but there is a good reason for that. We were working on getting the journals we had on our main site into a more bloglike format. While this will set me back on my goals a bit this month, in the long run I think it will make our main site much more entertaining and valuable. It also gives us a lot of interesting options in building the site.
February is going to be a tough month. It’s 3 days shorter than January and I’ll probably have even less time to spend on promoting the sat sites as I did in January. I’ll just keep plugging away and in 2 months Nate and I will sit down to decide whether to continue like we have been (me taking a full time salary and him getting whatever is left over) or go back to splitting the profits 50% - 50%.
That’s a lot of sites. What are sat sites? How do you manage them all?