My writing at Suite101.com has, as I feared, taken up most of my creative writing time since I began writing for the site in late June. I’m up to 53 articles posted. My revenue is abysmal. So far I’ve earned $19.00 for about 43,000 words. Of course, since this is a revenue sharing site, if I never write another article, those I’ve already posted will continue to earn over time. Perhaps after a couple of years it will add up to a decent rate per word. At least I hope so.

But what’s gratifying is the page views I’m getting. I don’t know how I stack up against others at the site, but I’m pleased with mine. I track this on a spreadsheet, including a graph. Since daily page views fluctuate, I look more at 7-day page views, a rolling total of the number of total page views in the seven days ending on the latest day. For the seven days ending October 15, I had 1,962 page views, a record for me. And, that multiplied times 52 gives me 102,024 page views per year. This is the first time I’ve broken 100,000. The chart above shows this. Wish it were more readable, but it’s just a screen capture of the spreadsheet graph. The blue line is the 7-day page views, magenta line the daily page views, and the black line is a trend line of the daily page views.

Now that is encouraging. My articles are being accessed 102 thousand times a year. That’s with no growth, and no more articles published. I’m going to publish more articles, and the articles I have are all what they call “evergreen” articles; that is, they will be just as meaningful next month as they are this, next year as they are this. None are tied to seasonal things or current events such that they would drop in page views. Most of the page views are coming from search engine hits.

My latest article, The Intolerable Acts, in just two days had 69 page views and was my second best performing article. That leads me to believe maybe I’m getting the hang of this search engine optimization stuff, and my performance overall will improve at Suite.

Now, if only my revenue will take an upturn, I’ll be a happy camper.