Here are some of my blogging milestones for Jul 2006:

• Sat July 15: I cracked 50+ posts in a single week for the first time. This includes the 29-30 posts I get paid to write weekly, as well as posts for my own sites and those I’ve been invited to write. Not all of these posts have writing, though. On the main Count Wordula site, I have a visual communication series called e-paintings which shows one digitally-created “painting” every day. Each week’s seven posts take me about 2 hours to create. But I’m not actually painting, so it’s not a large investment in time to give me the feeling that I’ve done something productive. In case you think that’s cheating, it’s no different when I sometimes spend 3 hours writing 5 days worth of recipe posts.
• Sat July 22: I once again passed 50+ posts in a single week, at least half of them for pay. Unfortunately, because of reduced posting to my own blogs, my traffic has gone done, and along with that, the number of ad clicks.
• Sat July 29: Another productive week - 60+ posts. Lower traffic again. My adsense revenue has gone down, but I’ve started getting more requests for my writing - for pay. Since my objective is to earn a living writing, I see nothing wrong with this.
• Sun July 30: I’ve had high traffic days before, but only because I had posts on a high traffic site. Not today. Someone bookmarked the site you’re reading at Stumbleupon.com and it helped me reach 460 page impressions (for sites that I have Google Adsense on).

General trends for July is that my earnings per ad click have been increasingly dramatically, and not just on my technical websites/ weblogs. That doesn’t mean I still don’t have days where a click brings in only a few cents. But July has seen some record-setting (for me) CPC (Cost Per Click) values. (CPC also means earnings per click, but this web metric is not called EPC, as far as I’m aware.)

One last point: My paid writing for other blogs has had a definite impact on my time to post to my blogs, and as a result my traffic and revenue has decreased instead of increasing. I also was not able to a post to a high traffic site where I contribute, and where I earned 30% of my Google Adsense revenues in June. However, during the month of July, I’ve learned an immense amount about becoming a better blogger. Once I can show some proof of this on my own blogs, I’ll write about what I’ve learned. Before that, there’s no point.