Well, it’s another milestone at The Baglady! This is the 200th post, and all of you kind readers have made over 1100 comments! In my 2008 goals post I briefly mentioned that I would like over 1000 visitors to this blog daily by the end of the year, and now I am up to 300 to 400 per day so it seems highly likely I could reach my goal. Since then,  I also joined a great community blog named Wise Bread and started a new blog about San Mateo Home Sellers in Trouble. Between the three blogs now my writing gets over 2000 views per day. That’s a huge improvement from just 100 to 200 visitors daily 5 months ago!
In terms of blog income, I have gone from $161 in January to nearly $600 this month. All of the money I collect from blogging is currently donated to various charities. It makes me happy when I see my articles earning money every day now, even when I am not writing.
With the growth of my blogs, I finally wrote a Press page to showcase all the mentions my writing have gotten on top blogs and other press. Check it out for some of the most amusing and useful articles I’ve written.
I want to say thank you all for reading my writing. It really makes my day when I hear that my random thoughts have helped you or made you laugh. I know that I piss people off, too, but getting any kind of reaction means that I made someone read and think a little bit and that is also rewarding.
The more I write the more I think that my writing could be the best legacy I could leave. I would love for my future descendants to read my stories and my parents’ stories to get a glimpse of how we lived. I know I love to hear my mom’s stories about my grandmother’s family. So hopefully I will can preserve this blog for those that come after me. I also think it is amazing that the internet allows this rapid sharing of ideas and lives.
With that, I leave you with some great Blog Carnivals in the recent weeks:
Carnival of Debt Reduction at Debt Free Revolution
Carnival of Personal Finance at Alpha Consumer - I didn’t really submit to this carnival but they included my article under Four Pillar’s name. Sorry Mike, I don’t know what happened there.
Related Posts
2008 Goals Mid-Year ReviewWhat Am I Earning by Blogging?
A Tale of Two Houses — Purchasing Homes Before and During the Housing Bubble in the Bay Area
The Baglady’s Last Minute TaxCut Giveaway!
The Baglady’s 100th Post! (A Self-Tooting Article)
10 comments ↓
Great article and summary of your journey to date. I also enjoyed your related post on how you make income. As a pf blogger myself I can definetly related to your experiences and agree with them. One that strikes is that you didn’t generate more revenue from private ad sales or links on your site. My blog is much newer than yours (I recently passed the 100 visitior a day mark) but I am already geting soliciations from ad companies to place a link to some credit card company, mortgage or debt agency. So far have not accepted any as could not endorse the site they were promoting.
Anyway, great to discover your blog and will be adding to to my RSS reader.
Regards,
Andy
Congratulations, Baglady! Keep up your good works. I am always one of your readers.
Great blog - keep it up!
Mike
Congratulations.
All the best. I count for a few of your comments.
Best regards
You pissed me off a couple of times, but you made me laugh more. It needs courage to be a writer. I am glad that you can use your writing to help people and amuse people. Proud of you.
Laoma
Congratulations-quite a milestone. Nice blog, too.
Lisa
I love your blog, very interesting to read. Congratulations on reaching a great milestone.
Congratulations! I just started out with my own site too. So far haven’t gotten much traction but I know it takes time. Reading other blogs and posts like this one give me some hope and extra energy. Keep it up!
Jason
200 is a lot of posts (and a lot of words). Good for you.
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