Total May revenue was $5,774.34, below is the May 2008 monthly summary in the quest for $10,000 a month in revenue, part time. Total revenue was down slightly from April.

We will be tracking the site growth both in traffic and revenue here on the about page. This site is unique, we show you exactly what our progress is towards $10,000 a month, in your spare time. We discuss what we tried, what worked or did not work. Of most interest is the marketing tests category, detailing tests and how they performed. The first month was September when the site launched on 9/4/07, which was a naked Word Press installation and much of September was spent tweaking the site.

As I stated last month, I have found that when trying to maximize revenue through affiliate marketing and advertising the overall ranking of the site is not an indicator of revenue, which is probably obvious to most. More SEO is needed, I just have not had the time and May suffered for it.

RSS subscriptions have increased significantly from 152 to 791 to 1,971 this month and the newsletter subscriptions have increased from 3,707 to 6,578 to 11,049 this month. As I thought last month, I believe more people like to subscribe to newsletters than an RSS feed.

I always like to point out that the above not only applies to this site longest.com but also the other niche sites I operate such as VentureCapitalUpdate.com. Overall I am unhappy this month, as May was less than April. The decrease was not much in overall revenue but the profit was lower. June needs to jump.

SITE STATISTICS	Launch	Sept 07	Oct 07	Nov 07	Dec 07	Jan 08	Feb 08	Mar 08	Apr 08	Apr 08
Alexa	2,712,399	408,377	237,610	194,131	212,169	256,630	293,028	335,124	241,806	266,788
Quantcast	NA	6,083,285	5,950,003	1,883,550	1,906,217	1,815,963	1,924,150	1,863,311	2,462,371	2,230,914
Technorati Ranking	NA	640,383	550,426	317,977	246,538	257,527	199,700	217,579	288,411	281,182
Technorati Authority	NA	10	15	26	26	37	40	37	34	24
RSS Subscribers	1	25	113	132	132	135	145	152	791	1,971
Newsletter Subscribers	-	-	-	-	-	-	852	3,707	6,578	11,049
REVENUE	Launch	Sept 07	Oct 07	Nov 07	Dec 07	Jan 08	Feb 08	Mar 08	Apr 08	May 08
Advertising & Affiliate	$ 0	$ 0.48	$ 5.18	$ 27.96	$ 190.18	$ 278.85	$ 1600.56	$ 2121.38	$ 5938.64	$ 5568.17
Direct Sales	$ 0	$ 0	$ 0	$ 18.80	$ 57.32	$ 141.43	$ 166.96	$ 190.48	$ 222.95	$ 206.17
TOTAL REVENUE	$ 0.00	$ 0.48	$ 5.18	$ 46.76	$ 247.50	$ 420.28	$ 1767.52	$ 2311.80	$ 6161.59	$ 5774.34
EXPENSES	Launch	Sept 07	Oct 07	Nov 07	Dec 07	Jan 08	Feb 08	Mar 08	Apr 08	May 08
Reviews	$0	$50	$20	$0	$77	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0
Advertising	$0	$0	$180.65	$0	$0	$216.81	$963	$1066.91	$2901.27	$3947.18
Hosting	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$109.95	$109.95	$109.95	$109.95
Development - SW - Misc	$0	$470	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$80	$230	$0
TOTAL SPENT	$0	$520	$200.65	$0	$77	$216.81	$1072.95	$1256.86	$3241.22	$4057.13
TOTAL PROFIT	$0	($517.64)	($194.05)	$34.71	$136.50	$169.52	$694.50	$1,054.94	$2,920.37	$1,717.21

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