Admin is king!
I hate administration. I do it for a living, and despite this career choice I find it very hard to sit down and sort out all the little things that need to be kept track of once you start on a venture like this. If you don’t, you really lose track of how far you have come and you are unable to analyse the success of one project over another.
I finally managed to do this over the weekend. I drew up a table of my earning from surveys, AdSense, paid-to-blog posts, paid emails and other stuff. It was an eye opener. I hadn’t realised I had made that much money. I thought I had only made about£35.00 at the most. I had found that once I had added all the known income streams up I had actually made £62.65, double what I was expecting. This is on top of the fact that there are literally too many surveys in my inbox to deal with at the moment, so that sum potentially could have been very much higher.
The down side is that because I had not kept monthly records of my earnings there is no way of telling how my monthly earnings have increased since I began this adventure in February. I have also failed to take into account the cost involved in advertising and sign up fees. Although these only add up to a small amount, they must be taken into account.
The final admin that needs to be undertaken is the monitoring of traffic to my site. I have noticed that PageRank has been non existant and Alexa is playing games with my score. I am pretty sure that the score was lower that the current number, but because I have no records I have no way of telling. You may be wondering why this is important to me. Wel,, in the world of paid blogging these two elements are king, the higher the PageRank and the lower the Alexa score, the more potential earnings will come my way. Starting tomorrow, each days traffic, link popularity, keyword relevance and Alexa score will be recorded. What fun!