Site Net Worth - September 2021

Calculating our site net worth every month is fun. I enjoy reviewing progress and correcting course to ensure we are making progress toward our goals (hint: its making personal finance easier to understand, learning about new products, and making a little money in the process).

Overall, we made some progress and learned quite a lot in September. We are a bit light on content these days, but soon enough that will turn around. We saw large progress in overall sight traffic, now we just need to keep people within the ecosystem and collect a few more email addresses.

Check out all our progress from September and if you want to take a look at our year in review, check it out here.

Favorite Products:

MyConstant - P2P lending platform, yes they paid me, but I've since used their platform and continue to earn interest on that payment

Personal Capital - a great way to learn about personal finance topics (other than here at The Saving Dude!:)

Swagbucks - I still use their plug-in every day to earn Swaggo and get discounts all across the internet

Fiverr - I'm active on Fiverr and use the blog to help build my writing credibility and profile

The Details:

Net Worth - ($30.00)

We spent $30 on advertising and didn't see any income.

Total Hours Spent: 12 hours

We have about 15-20 articles in some form of complete. In September we were able to complete two of them and show some progress.

Articles Written: 2

We will get this turned around

Income Breakdown: Trending down

$0.00 - Google Adsense

$0.00 - Affiliate Income

$50.00 - Other

Alexa Site Ranking: 1,166,060 - Pretty solid progress here. Our partnership with MyConstant along with our own advertising efforts is driving way more traffic than SEO ever has. While it isn't free, it is performing quite well.

2021 Goals:

1. Get the site Alexa score down below 500k - had a setback in June and again in July

2. Have one month where I write over 15 articles - still not getting there

3. Make more than $50/month from affiliate partners - July was not our first month above this figure

Expenses:

$30 - advertising on Facebook

Summary:

September showed us the power of advertising.

Now go out, set up your own blog, and try to turn it into a side hustle just like me!