Celebrating 1 Million Pageviews

A few days ago my wife celebrated the landmark achievement of one million page views with her Telenovela Blog. it took her EIGHT MONTHS for that accomplishment!

For a newbie blogger, that was a great feat, particularly when seen from the blog income of $1,400.00 (one thousand, four hundred U.S. Dollars), made over the period.

Being a story site, it was not surprising that with a visitor population of 167,000+.

The lesson I learnt here is that, Philomena is trading her story-telling and writing passion for dollars. These Dollars would soon fetch her fame, if she remains on this consistent path.

CONTENT plus OPTIMIZATION plus TRAFFIC equals INCOME. That was the C.O.T.I. theory formulated and applied two years ago that has worked like a contagious fire for her.

She should look up to diversifying her income base and getting a blog to be independently hosted, instead of blogger-squatting.

She has proved that with a free hosted blog, one could generate a traffic of over 40,000 visitors and over 360,000 page views in a month.

For that same amount of traffic and page views, she could quadruple her current $500 monthly income,  if she has an independently hosted blog.

Making Money with a Website

Mrs Philomena Ojikutu amazes me with her growing earnings from her Telenovela Blog. I encouraged her to start a telenovela blog some seven months ago. Since then, I have been mostly off line because of my busy schedules.

A quick review of her 7-month report surprises me. Her monthly income has grown from zero to the region above $400 Dollars. Her monthly Unique visitors has grown from 200 to 33,000 while her monthly page-views has grown from 680 to over 260,000!

Though, I inspired her to take up the challenge of the gap in telenovela blogging, I never imagined that she could go this far in so short time period. Now it is my turn to be inspired with her modest accomplishment in her blogging ‘business’.

For your information, she is my wife and not just a stranger. I knew her dedication to the blog was unrivaled, what I did not know is that, she could pull such a huge crowd of fans with her talent.

Maybe the next advice I should give her is, to change the name of her blog from the gardener’s daughter (la hija del jardinero), to something more broader to encapsulate her whole niche, not just a soap opera out of the thousands in that niche.

My second advice would be to tell her to go for telenovela stories that has huge following on the internet, not just the low rated ones like Rebeca, which she is currently posting. I saw that she had started something on Betty the Ugly but stopped abruptly, may be, due to demand pressures of her readers.

Because she is a woman, she tends to be too emotionally influenced by her readers. Left to me, I would advise her to strike a good balance between what her current few readers, (I say that with all sense of responsibility, because her current 1,500 daily unique visitors can never be compared to the over monthly 120,000 new visitors that are searching for Betty the Ugly and Rebelde summaries on the net).

If she does that, she should expect her monthly earnings to quadruple to almost $2,000 Dollars!

I hope to snatch time soon again to critic or advice.