Written on April 30th, 2005 at 01:04 am by Darren Rowse
April – Record Blogging Earnings
April has been a rather good month for my blogging business.
This graph plots my Adsense earnings (from all my blogs) since 1 January to today (without specific figures). As you’ll see, the last two days have been record breaking days. I’m not sure how long this growth can last – but April’s daily average is 40% higher than last month – for the first time I’ve broken into the five figures for a month zone from Adsense.
The amazing thing is that when you get to these sorts of figures a rise in earnings of something like 40% can be a pretty significant thing on overall earnings.
Sometimes I have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not in some virtual blogging dream. Its quite staggering to think that 2.5 years ago I started my first blog with absolutely no idea of what was ahead. The idea of sustaining even that blog would have been laughable for me back then – let alone the thought that blogging would be my full time job.
Today someone asked me ‘how does it feel to be a full time blogger?’ – to be honest its starting to all feel a little bit surreal and a touch frightening. What is this thing I’ve created and where is it all headed?
24 Responses to “April – Record Blogging Earnings” - Add Yours
Scrivs
April 30th, 2005 1:24 am
Simply goes to show that hard work and smart thinking can go a long way. Congratulations.
Jon Gales
April 30th, 2005 1:55 am
Congrats Darren. The last week or so has been great for me as well, CPC has risen about 25%.
Scrivs
April 30th, 2005 2:12 am
Darren, what’s the page impressions for that number if you don’t mind saying?
PFBlog
April 30th, 2005 2:13 am
Congratulations! CPC is on the rise for my blog too.
Duncan
April 30th, 2005 2:20 am
Wow!
Ugo Cei
April 30th, 2005 2:24 am
Does that graph plot daily earnings or cumulative earnings?
40% increase in profit for Problogger
April 30th, 2005 2:31 am
[...] rising star of professional blogging, Darren Rowse, perhaps best known for Problogger.net, has reported that his revenue for April has risen an amazing 40%. [...]
Connected
April 30th, 2005 4:59 am
how many blogs do you run?
Darren
April 30th, 2005 9:07 am
that graph plots daily earnings Ugo
Oweboat
April 30th, 2005 9:23 am
Good job on the earnings growth. Is that five figures in $US os $AUS? Either way, it’s impressive, just curious.
Denise O'Berry
April 30th, 2005 10:12 am
That’s exactly what I like to hear — one more entrepreneur finding success. May you have much more! Just another case for “giving gets” and you give a lot. Thanks so much and congrats!
Fitzgerald
April 30th, 2005 10:43 am
Congrats, and keep up the good work.
Darren
April 30th, 2005 11:24 am
about 20 connected
Darren
April 30th, 2005 11:28 am
Oweboat – its $US
LcF
April 30th, 2005 12:21 pm
yeah, my April earning is the highest too. :-D
Ugo Cei
April 30th, 2005 5:47 pm
Daily earnings? Looks like they’re rising linearly or more, which means cumulative earnings are rising quadratically! Good for you! :)
Pandemia
May 1st, 2005 1:09 am
Piccoli blogger professionisti crescono
Giorni fa parlavo di Darren Rowse, blogger australiano a capo di 20 blog da lui editi personalmente. Oggi Darren rivela che aprile si chiuso con un +40% di incassi da AdSense e ha superato i 10.000 dollari in un…
kel
May 1st, 2005 1:50 pm
that is most inspirational Darren
good on you for being one of the Aussie pioneers in serious blogland and for your willingness to help newbies get a grip on this whole blogging thing
Richard MacManus
May 2nd, 2005 9:30 am
That’s stunning Darren, congrats!!
Do you ever worry though that all your income eggs are in one basket (Google)? I guess at your level you’re past needing to worry, but I’m just thinking in terms of a sustainable business (looking 1-2 years down the track) – what would happen if Google Adsense dried up or they suddenly ditched support for bloggers or something.
I think we’re in the middle of a boom, so I guess I’m just pondering what’s going to happen when the bust hits (as it surely will at some point in the future).
Maybe I’m thinking too much…
amit agarwal
May 2nd, 2005 3:16 pm
You inspire me to continue using adsense on my blog at http://labnol.blogspot.com
Read/Write Web
May 2nd, 2005 8:51 pm
Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 25 Apr – 1 May 2005
This week: Google turns up the heat, Yahoo burns to be a media bigco,
Microsoft’s 64-bit light at the end of the tunnel, blogging media empires warm their
hands by the advertising fire, Craigslist – GoogleMaps make a combustible combo.
The Mediaburn Radio Weblog
May 3rd, 2005 11:19 am
Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up
Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 25 Apr – 1 May 2005 .
Khushal
May 5th, 2005 2:38 am
All i can say is AWESOME! Stuff and you really deserve all this, The reason for your success is also your good Attitude….Wish me Luck too!!! And Best of Luck in Future to you!!!
jason
May 9th, 2005 1:18 am
Can you give us an idea as to how many sites you have?
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