Welcome to PFI and the Happy Birthday Edition! Passive Family Income is 6-months old today. Ironically, it is also my 35th birthday today, so I thought I would celebrate by taking some time to look back and reflect on the past 6 months. I originally started PFI back in April of this year to write about my family’s quest to become financially independent. The goal to reach this financial independence revolves around creating multiple forms of alternative income with the intention to make each new income stream as passive as possible. In an effort to create these new income streams, our family is practicing sound personal money management to try and reduce our expenses and live as frugal as possible. Any money that is saved from reducing our expenses can be put to work by purchasing assets that will generate additional cash flow. I have tried to include the status of our efforts along the way using this blog as a medium and will continue to do so in the future.
I thought I would post some mid year statistics for PFI so that I have a baseline to work from in the future. Below is a list of some totals that I have compiled. This data was collected using the Wordpress.com Stats plugin for the past 6 months.
Top Referrers
The following list includes the Top 5 referrers to PFI over the past 6 months. I would like to thank everyone in the list as well as other sites that were not included in the Top 5 for sending traffic to my site. The referral totals were counted anytime someone clicked on a particular link from a site and were directed to PFI.
I also wanted to point out the following statistics and traffic that was generated to my site from a few social networks.
- StumbleUpon – 564 views
- Entrecard – 189 views
Most Viewed Articles
The following list includes the Top 10 viewed articles in the past 6 months. Several of the top articles were stumbled or included as editor’s picks in a blog carnival which gave them more exposure.
- Is it Frugal or is it Stealing?
- Preparing for a Financial Crisis
- Combining high dividend yields with covered call options
- Creating a new Income Stream – General Electric
- Creating a new Income Stream using Prosper
- Adding Bank of America (BAC) to the portfolio
- Creating Alternative Income Streams
- Preparing for House Guests and added Expenses
- Create passive income from writing
- Profit in tough financial times
Most Searched Terms
The following list includes the Top 5 searched Keyword Terms when visitors came to PFI. This is one area that I hope to work on the in the next 6 months to generate more organic traffic to PFI. I am trying to use more keywords in my post titles and use SEO concepts to build my traffic.
- passive family income
- passive income streams
- passive income ideas
- bank of america
- passive income
How do you build traffic to your site?
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Happy Birthday! Both to you and to your blog! I would not have guessed that we are the same age – I turned 35 at the end of September. Many happy returns – to you and your blog!
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Happy Birthday to you and your blog! I am happy I was the third largest contributor to your blog’s traffic!
Good luck!
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Dawn & Dividend Growth Investor – Thanks!
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Happy Blogiversary and glad I could send some traffic your way!
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