Total affiliate type revenue for May was $2,892.67 ($93.31 a day).

With this revenue report I have a full years data :)

Another drop in revenue this month, that’s 6 consecutive monthly revenue drops despite quite stable traffic levels (lost traffic in some areas, gained in others). Based on ClickBank sales (see screenshot) and private ad sale revenue I’m quite confident the drops are caused by the recession (less people buying), so not worried (yet). Little disappointing this month dropped below $3,000, but means it will look so much more impressive when it goes back up again :)

Poor ClickBank Sales

My SEO business is loosing clients as well, one of my oldest clients (travel/vacation related business) just dropped their SEO service completely, so difficult for many right now and though SEO is very important, at these times it’s a bit of a luxury business expense! Happy to say no risk of my business/me going under, I could loose all my websites and 3/4s of my SEO business clients and still pay all the bills with money to spare.

As always this revenue does not include the money I make through my SEO business, themes sold at SEO/AdSense Themes or any investments, so ONLY affiliate and advertising (AdSense type programs) revenue.

Affiliate Revenue for May 2009

April 2009 revenue is listed in italics to the right

Google AdSense Revenue : $1,074.06 ($34.65 a day) $1,091.19 ($36.37 a day)
ClickBank : $402.30 ($12.98 a day) $494.14 ($16.47 a day)
Amazon : $43.59 ($1.41 a day) $37.64 ($1.25 a day)
Private Ads : $1,362.83 ($43.96 a day) $1,481.27 ($49.38 a day)

New revenue sources as of July 2008.

Shareasale : $9.89 ($4.92)

Still not doing much in affiliate terms.

May Affiliate Revenue = $2,892.67 ($93.31 a day) $3,109.16 ($103.64 a day)
Extrapolation = $34,058.86 a year $37,828.11 a year

If I save every penny from 1st May 2009 and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take just over 29 years to become a millionaire (really would be less time since compound interest on the saved amount).

That would make me 68 years old.

Money I would accumulate assuming I kept every penny (not including bank interest) from June 1st 2008-

Date Added Total #days
June 1st 2008 : $0 $0 0
Affiliate Report June 30th 2008 : $2,068.12 $2,068.12 30 ($68.94 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report July 31st 2008 : $3,296.30 $5,364.42 61 ($87.94 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Aug 31st 2008 : $3,575.47 $8,939.89 92 ($97.17 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Sept 30th 2008 : $4,790.33 $13,730.22 122 ($112.54 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Oct 30th 2008 : $4,885.30 $18,615.52 152 ($122.47 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Nov 30th 2008 : $5,802.50 $24,418.02 182 ($134.16 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Dec 31st 2008 : $3,985.55 $28,403.57 213 ($133.35 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Jan 31st 2009 : $3,911.28 $32,314.85 244 ($132.44 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report Feb 28th 2009 : $3,589.41 $35,904.26 272 ($132.00 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report March 31st 2009 : $3,453.37 $39,357.63 303 ($129.89 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report April 30th 2009 : $3,109.16 $42,466.79 333 ($127.53 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report May 31st 2009 : $2,892.67 $45,359.46 364 ($124.61 average earnings per day)

LOL I seem to have lost a day, my year works out at 364 days :) Yep, I’ve been listing October 2008 as a 30 day month, must be all the drink! Doesn’t throw the numbers off by much so oh well :-)

Since June 1st 2008 to May 31st 2009 I’ve made $45,359.46 from affiliate type revenue sources. That’s my total affiliate type revenue for the year, not too shabby.

Since revenue per month can fluctuate, better to average my earnings over the entire period (June 1st to May 31st) and then extrapolate with that average.

Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 365 days) : $124.27 a day, ~$3 down from last month, at this rate will take just over 22 years from June 1st 2008 to reach 1 million dollars : I’ll be a millionaire 2030 when I’m 60 years old. Still no where near my millionaire at 45 years old goal, but at least before I retire. I wonder if the 60-year-old-millionaire.co.uk domain name is still available to register :)

My recovery from a back operation is still going really slowly, I had the operation end of February so still early days (3 months) since the bone fusion can take anywhere from 3 months to seriously begin to 18 months to finish! Really frustrating right now as looks like I’m going to miss another summer with my family :( was hoping I’d be well enough to at least enjoy the odd long walk (so unfit). Still it’s only June, maybe another month will make a big difference.

I came out of hospital on 200mgs of morphine a day, been trying to reduce the dose and within a week of getting home was at 110mgs a day (60mg in the morning, 50mg at night), since then I’ve tried at least 4 times to drop to 100mgs a day (50mgs twice a day) and each time it’s felt like I was going through mild (but still quite painful/irritating) withdrawal symptoms! On the second day of dropping the extra 10mgs I’ve had quite bad muscle or joint pains (not sure if joint or muscle pain, maybe both) in my hips/knees and increased sweating (nose tends to run a little as well which is funny).

Very, very strange that I could drop 90mgs almost over night, but this 10mgs drop is really proving difficult. Last week decided no matter what I’d drop to 100mgs and have had a hell of a few days, three days of almost constant deep muscle/joint pain in my left leg/hip/knee, one night had to wrap my knee in a warm jumper to keep it warm enough to sleep (was a warm night as well). Looks like I might be adapting to the slightly lower level now. Assuming this back operation is a success, can’t wait for when I try to get off morphine completely!!!!

Made a good start on a new WordPress SEO Tutorial Series which I’ve been meaning to write for AGES, so if like me you use WordPress for many of your money making activities, well worth a read.

Been messing around with Twitter, I signed up for Twitter last year for social networking reasons, but never really got into it. Despite not really doing much I had over 300 followers a few days ago on Twitter and after making a couple of updates closing on 400 followers! Follow me on Twitter

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David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)