Traffic Report: March 2025 — 5k page views

Traffic overview

• Posts published this month: 8
• Page views this month: 4,962
• Sessions this month: 4,246

Traffic sources

• Organic Search: 3,416 (81.64%)
• Direct: 633 (15.13%)
• Organic Social: 52
• Referral: 38
• Email: 9

Intentions

I had a list of 5 posts to update based on which posts have lost the most traffic in the past three months.

While I did gut the long intro for my DID alter roles post, I didn’t update anymore after that. I’m feeling tired of my old stuff and self-conscious about my new stuff.

Okay — a little scared, too, with the political landscape. I had other posts I wanted to publish, but didn’t.

Small income report

I’m sharing a small income report — I’m not sure how in-depth I’ll go with this. I don’t love the idea of using income as a credibility factor for teaching others how to make money the same way.

First month with ad income

Since Mediavine pays on a NET 65 schedule, the earliest I could receive March’s income is June 2025. This delay is something new bloggers should consider when relying on ad income.

Lemon & Lively qualified February 25th, but I didn’t see the email until after logging into Grow.Me the 3rd of March and seeing that it was eligible.

Definitely check your email regularly if you’re trying to get in. My email account for Grow.me is not a frequent one I use, and you can’t change your account email.

I did have a screenshot.

Journey by Mediavine updated their terms in April to disallow sharing screenshots or data with any third-party.

I think this is sleazy because it prevents any kind of transparency, but I have to comply to continue participating in the program.

My blog earned about $20 with about a $5 RPM with 3.8k sessions. These are approximates, not exact data. And I make my traffic info available.

Also, the bank deposit threshold is $100. I don’t know what it is for PayPal or if this is different for the “real” Mediavine.

As I barely made $20, this income will rollover into next month’s and payout in July 2025 if April’s income is at least $81.

Since income reports come with risks and can attract unwanted attention, I may package the full details as exclusive content at the end of the year.

If I do end up sharing full-on income reports, I will likely push these reports back two months instead.

One of the coolest features of Journey by Mediavine is the table of my top pages, their ad impressions and CPM, and the earnings.

My post on autism quizzes attracted the wrong people to my blog, but it made me almost $4. Someone sends me $4 on Ko-Fi every now and then, maybe every couple of months, because of one of my posts. Never because of this post, though.

I probably could have made more this month if I left ads on my index and about pages, but it felt tacky. Having ads on the homepage prevented my post images from loading, which affected my post grid.

Or if I’d kept up with Pinterest.

Managing all the aspects of my blog alone has been challenging, regardless of how much time I have to work on it. Transitioning to different tasks is difficult for me because I have to stop something I’m doing and start another thing — that start/stop requires executive functioning.

I’m hoping to be able to hire a virtual assistant who can help me make Pin graphics by this summer.

Next month

April is Autism Acceptance Month. My autism posts usually do better in April than in other months.

I’d like to publish more posts from my drafts so I can clear those out. The ideas are good, but the posts need to be finished — and I’m like, “Ugh,” about it because I’m tired of my old stuff. Like, “Why is this still in drafts? Why didn’t I already do this?” kind of “ugh”.

As I write this post, it’s April 7th and I’m seeing my RPM increase from last month. It’s about $6 right now. I removed the section from my autism quizzes post, so hopefully my blog will return to its growth pattern since its bounce rate will go down.

(Bounce rates aren’t a ranking factor, but Google’s search engine guidelines have stated that the need for users to “go back” and keep perusing search results do affect rankings. So they do, indirectly, contribute to a site’s position in Google Search.)

Once I clear out my neurodiversity posts in my drafts, I’m going to focus more on hobby- and self-care topics, plus lifestyle topics in relation to my life as it is.

Blogging about autism and neurodiversity in general was fun, but it hasn’t been that fun for a while. I kept at it because I know so many people appreciate my posts…I’m tired of it, though.

I feel like blogging about autism became a major part of my personality and blog identity that that’s all people want from me, when there’s so much more to me than only my autism. (This is a major contrast to a post I wrote in 2022 about how my autism defines me.)

Personal development

Growing my blog means growing as a person. Personal growth is inevitable when you commit to showing up, learning from your mistakes and pushing past your comfort zone.

Like posting more photos of myself to my blog.

Actually existing.

I celebrated my birthday this month, got my car stuff sorted and read 33 books this month. I also deep-cleaned about half of my room and administered insulin to a diabetic cat.

Never have I ever injected anyone with anything before, so.

Something I love about blogging is that I’m rewarded for the work I put into my blog eventually. I practiced my boundaries this month and am still reeling from last month’s drama…

but the fog is clearing. I’m coming out of it. I’m still going. I’m on a roll.