Total affiliate type revenue for April was $3,109.16 ($103.64 a day).
Another drop in revenue this month, I’m not working hard on affiliate type revenue so my traffic is pretty stable last 6 months, so looks like I’m getting hit by decreased sales etc…. due to the recession. Half way through May already and this month is looking worse, thankfully this isn’t my main income, so not a big deal if I loose it all.
As always this revenue does not include the money I make through my SEO business, themes sold at AdSense Themes or any investments, so ONLY affiliate and advertising (AdSense type programs) revenue.
Affiliate Revenue for April 2009
March 2009 revenue is listed in italics to the right
Google AdSense Revenue : $1,091.19 ($36.37 a day) $1,255.60 ($40.50 a day)
ClickBank : $494.14 ($16.47 a day) $616.02 ($19.87 a day)
Amazon : $37.64 ($1.25 a day) $41.36 ($1.33 a day)
Private Ads : $1,481.27 ($49.38 a day) $1,536.34 ($49.56 a day)
New revenue sources as of July 2008.
Shareasale : $4.92 ($4.05)
Still not doing much in affiliate terms.
April Affiliate Revenue = $3,109.16 ($103.64 a day) $3,453.37 ($111.34 a day)
Extrapolation = $37,828.11 a year $40,660.65 a year
If I save every penny from 1st April 2009 and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take just over 26 years to become a millionaire (really would be less time since compound interest on the saved amount).
That would make me 64 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)
Since June 1st 2008 to April 30th 2009 I’ve made $42,466.79 from affiliate type revenue sources.
Since revenue per month can fluctuate, better to average my earnings over the entire period (June 1st to April 30th) and then extrapolate with that average.
Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 333 days) : $127.53 a day, $2 down from last month, at this rate will take just over 21 years from June 1st 2008 to reach 1 million dollars : I’ll be a millionaire 2028 when I’m 58 years old. Still no where near my millionaire at 45 years old goal, but at least before I retire.
Still recovering from my back operation, had two discs fused and progress is very slow. Still in pain and on morphine, every time I do exercise I get muscle spasms in my back, quite large lumps near where the back was operated on which stops me exercising! Managed to tile half a bathroom wall this month,
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David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)
4 responses to Affiliate Revenue Report $3,109 for April 2009
Dave, Your income is respectable, do not worry about a decline, you had a major operation.
If your earning over 100 bucks a day from adsense and affiliate/private ads that is better than most, its very good in fact and I would put you in the top .1% of other guys swinging away out there!
I think people in the know are moving to private ads, I do like it for various reasons.
I like adsense as its low stress and very easy set up. I use your templates with good results.
For me I like building an adsense empire rather than too much dabbling in many things. Adsense is all about creating things on your site so people will come to it. If you have a few sites you all your eggs are not in one basket. If you every wanted to convert them into sales sites its possible.
Therefore your energy is put into building quality traffic rather a specific product. But you have made the point you get paid more on affiliates. But I say ahh yes, but you must work to keep them up. While adsense empires just build and build and slowly on auto pilot you get rich. Your creative energies go into content.
About your back. 2 years. My friends with operations are better in 6 months, but the whole healing process is about 2 years. I think healthy living etc is very important for the healing, but you know this.
As always best regards, Mark Biernat
Affiliate Revenue Report $3,109 for April 2009
If you want more people to comment on your website, remove the “nofollow” tags.
Thanks Mark, appreciate the comments.
I have to admit I do prefer AdSense to trying to make money from ClickBank etc… as you say you put your creative energy into the content and what you do today can be still making money 5+ years from now. With affiliate content you always having to keep it up to date and if you want to do well have to cover products you have little interest in.
I like writing about SEO/AdSense/making money, but not so much reviewing products that I might like/use, but don’t really feel passionate about (not fun).
I started a WordPress SEO Tutorial http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/seo-tutorial-for-wordpress a few days back and wrote the first 5 pages in under 2 days, some of them are really long pages
I really enjoyed the process. In comparison I’m doing well if I write one product review every 6 months!
David Law
Affiliate Revenue Report $3,109 for April 2009
Unfortunately Nabil when I’ve allowed links on comments that are not nofollow I get a significant number of comments that are not very good quality.
The sort of posts that are one line with a mention of the topic, but no real meat. When I add nofollow to WordPress blogs, most of these types of comments mysteriously disappear!
There’s lists going around of dofollow blogs and when you get on one you are inundated with low quality comments and of course even more automated SPAM comments.
I already spend to much time dealing with the automated comment SPAM (I own 50+ WordPress blogs), without having to spend more time deciding if a comment is just for the backlink or because they found the post useful.
I have posts on other sites with dozens and even hundreds of comments on them, (have one post with 600 comments!) most real people who comment on blogs don’t do it for links, they comment because they found the post interesting and want to take part in a discussion or learn something.
David Law
Affiliate Revenue Report $3,109 for April 2009
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