This is the first monthly summary in the quest for $10,000 a month in revenue. We will be tracking the site growth both in traffic and revenue here on the site growth page. This site is unique, we show you exactly what our progress is towards $10,000 a month. We discuss what we tried, what worked or did not work.

The site launched this Month, 9/4/07. Most of the month was spent setting up the site.

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SITE STATISTICS	Launch	September	October
Alexa	2,712,399	129,574 (1 wk avg) 408,377 (3 mth avg)
Quantcast	NA	6,083,285
Technorati Ranking	NA	640,383
Technorati Authority	NA	10
Feedburner	1	25

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REVENUE	Launch	September	October
Google Adsense	$ 0	$ 0.48
Kontera	$ 0	$ 1.88

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STATS	Launch	September	October
Agloco	0	183 Referrals
Facebook Agloco Application	0 Installs	300 Installs

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EXPENSES	September	October
Create Facebook Application	$300
Promote Facebook Application	$170
ReviewMe	$50

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We also perform various marketing tests, see all of the marketing tests here.One of the tests was a in a previous post Site Traffic Test : ReviewMe, and the update was Site Traffic Test : ReviewMe Update, was to set up an advertising test with ReviewMe. Below is the results table with all reviews for a $50 spend:

Date of Review	Site Name	Alexa Rank	Site URL
9/7/07	SoulCast	58,339	Post Here
9/10/07	Nuttin but Pimp	238,769	Post Here
9/11/07	Life’s Simple Pleasures	25,429	Post Here
9/18/07	A $60,000 Credit Card Debt	300,080	Post Here
9/25/07	Monetize your blog	225,247	Post Here

Another test was run to determine how to create a Facebook application (using others services for speed to implementation) and to generate additional Agloco referrals. Original post is here and follow up is here. Here are the results as of 9/26/07:

• 256 Installations
• 20 Installations per day (average)
• 33 Agloco signups
• $170 spent
• Cost Per Installation: $.66
• Cost Per Referral: $5.15

See the monthly site growth summarized here.

Many more revenue programs, advertising and marketing programs will be tested this month. Be sure to subscribe via RSS feed or the email subscription box in the upper right.

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