The Net Fool Dot Com Earnings Call (April 2008)
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Jim under Announcements
Another month, another fantastic growth in traffic and readers! The Net Fool Dot Com has been fully established as a reliable business blog at this point, and I have enjoyed a great deal of success over the past two months. Once again, we saw our RSS subscribers double in numbers… and expect this trend to only increase as we progress through the month of May.
After a fantastic March, we followed things up with a killer April that saw about 80 new subscribers coming from all around. It seems that the Net Fool’s Outrageous Blog Contest is proving to be successful, and there have been a decent amount of blog posts on the contest already to help spread the word. Before I get into my plans for the blog’s future, let’s get right at the relevant statistics for the month of April! 
March Results
- RSS Subscriber Count: 76 Readers
- Average Unique Visitors: 159
- Average Returning Visitors: 25
- Average Page Loads: 305
- Alexa.com Ranking: 300,597
- Google PageRank: 0
April Results
- RSS Subscriber Count: 153 Readers (101.32%+)
- Average Unique Visitors: 179 (12.58%+)
- Average Returning Visitors:32 (28.00%+)
- Average Page Loads:302 (-0.98%)
- Alexa.com Ranking: 250,089 (20.20%+)
- Google PageRank: 4?
Monthly Review and Growth Strategy
As you can see by the numbers, most of our growth this month came in the form of RSS Subscribers, which we more than doubled (101%+ growth), and finally passed that ever-elusive 100 subscribers mark. Right now, with around 150 subscribers, the Net Fool dot com has begun to be established as one of the more popular ‘make money online’ blogs, and I hope to pass more of the competition with new initiatives this month.
As far as traffic goes, we saw steady increases across the board. Sure, there was a slight decline in page loads… but I feel that the organic growth was great. Last month, the numbers seemed a bit inflated because I was visiting the site myself a lot more to do work on the design. So essentially, we grew a lot more than even the numbers suggest…. the Net Fool dot com is well on its way to success in 2008 and beyond.
We’ve come to see more and more growth from popular search engine placement, with organic search engine traffic comprising 28.8% of the traffic here. Basically, we have been hitting on some great terms in Google and Yahoo such as “best stock investments for 2008″ and “best gold stocks” to name a few. Traffic sources, geographically speaking, continue to trend toward the United States…. however there has been an increasing amount of visitors from Canada, Australia, India and England.
The biggest surprise this month has been PageRank. Apparently, Google has given the Net Fool dot com a PageRank of 4 in the latest update. I am going to blog about this if it holds, because all of the other popular ‘make money online’ blogs have been given a 3…. a 4 would be a rediculous advantage given our short time on the blogosphere. I’m going to reserve judgement on this for now, but if it holds, you will hear about it.
Revenue Breakdown
In April, I put out just one sponsored post, with a few more in the works. In addition, I have sold 3 ad spots for $15/month each. Other than this, SWATcash has continued to provide steady income with just over $30 coming from my referrals. I have a major web design project in the works that will bring in around $200 total, which I plan to invest fully back into the Net Fool. Expenses this month have been about $10 in Project Wonderful advertising, and that’s pretty much it. I don’t like to spend so much on advertising, but am going to move into a few sponsored reviews from some bigger blogs to increase growth… you will definitely hear more about those when the orders are placed. 
May 2008 Outlook
This month, I am going to move into some advertising as the Net Fool’s Outrageous Blog Contest shifts into full gear. I feel like this contest can be a great opportunity to tack on an extra 100 RSS subscribers for the month if things play out as planned. 150 subscribers is nothing to scoff at, but I hope to push over 250 by the end of the month. We hit on most of our major targets this April, but hopefully we can surpass expectations for next month.
Since I am curerntly in exams, there is going to be a small amount of lag time in posting… but I am still going to attempt to post daily with some sponsored posts filling the gaps in time. Stay tuned for updates and more opportunities to get rich.
Stay bullish on the net!
-The Net Fool
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Well, it’s nice to see the fool growing day after day man .
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Congratulations on the growth of The Net Fool! Wish you best of luck for the month of May!
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Hey Jim, according to your traffic stats your growing great! im one of your returning visitors, i make sure i check your blog atleast 4 times a week. Anyway i hope you will continue to attract more traffic in may.
Happy writing
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Great to see this blog moving up in the ranks
Keep up the good work!
You don’t seem to be a fool.. lol
You are just climbing up
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Good job Jim. One thing I would ask is what social media you’re using to promote your site. I think if you beef that up a bit you can grow faster and maybe even stress your sever out a bit
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m also a returning visitor after few weeks .. i used to visit here wen the fool was new on net
and yes ur organic growth was great really … and m sure u will achieve this month expectation too …Congrats for the growth frd