Total affiliate type revenue for July was $3,453.12 ($111.39 a day).

Quite a good month, up almost $600, very good considering the downtrend I’ve experienced lately with Clickbank!

As mentioned last month put effort into private ad sales and that’s resulted in a $300+ increase in that area, looking at August revenue so far for private ad sales I’m at almost $2,000 (up another $200 almost). Still working on more private ad sales promotions, so with a little luck maybe make more than $2,000 in August.

Have created a little content for AdSense reasons in July, will take months for any revenue increases as on newish domains, also did a little link building work, the PR of my sites have died over the last year or so, used to have multiple PR6s and loads of PR5s, now finding it hard to find PR5 pages in my network!

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 July 2009

June 2009 revenue is listed in italics to the right

Google AdSense Revenue : $1,188.22 ($38.33 a day) $1,023.09 ($34.10 a day)
ClickBank : $367.93 ($11.87 a day) $320.80 ($10.69 a day)
Amazon + Shareasale : $89.47 ($2.89 a day) $39.93 ($1.33 a day)
Private Ads : $1,807.5 ($58.31 a day) $1,484.49 ($49.48 a day)

Still not doing much in new affiliate terms.

July Affiliate Revenue = $3,453.12 ($111.39 a day) $2,875.64 ($95.85 a day)
Extrapolation = $40,657.70 a year $34,986.95 a year a year

If I save every penny from 1st July 2009 and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take just under 24 1/2 years to become a millionaire (really would be less time since compound interest on the saved amount).

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

Date Added Total #days
July 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 $45,359.46 365 ($124.61 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report June 30th 2009 : $2,875.64 $48,235.1 395 ($122.11 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report July 31st 2009 : $3,453.12 $51,688.22 426 ($121.37 average earnings per day)

Since June 1st 2008 to July 31st 2009 I’ve made $51,688.22 from affiliate revenue sources.

Average monthly revenue $3,692.02 $3,710.39

One year two months to break the $50K mark, was hoping for more, but we are in a recession, so can live with it :)

Since revenue per month can fluctuate, better to average my earnings over the entire period (July 1st 2008 to July 31st 2009) and then extrapolate with that average.

Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 426 days) : $121.33 a day, at this rate will take just over 22 1/2 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.

Clickbank revenue is still on the low side, barely getting any sales from what used to be popular products, I must find the time to change the products I promote to ones that actually sell! Now combining Amazon and Shareasale revenue, Shareasale is less than $10 a month and Amazon isn’t exactly stellar sales, if I add any more affiliates will combine them unless they make significantly more than $100 a month each.

Had a MASSIVE traffic spike from Bing last month, around the 20th a site on Conspiracy Theories received thousands of extra visitors, usually the site gets about 500 visitors a day, over the moon landing 40th anniversary it got:

Thursday, 16 July 2009 1,529
Friday, 17 July 2009 3,225
Saturday, 18 July 2009 1,569
Sunday, 19 July 2009 2,530
Monday, 20 July 2009 33,664
Tuesday, 21 July 2009 4,237
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 1,586
Thursday, 23 July 2009 1,065

Was back to normal on the 24th.

From a revenue standpoint it SUCKED, AdSense CTR below 0.5% so didn’t make a lot of money from this spike from Bing :(

Interestingly the extra traffic from Bing came through one SERP which suggests there was a temporary static SERP link on a particular Bing page for a while, one celebrating the moon landing (I couldn’t find it though).

Two months ago I posted I was closing on 400 Twitter followers, a month ago just over 2,000, today I have just over 2,500 Twitter followers. Haven’t done anything except follow anyone who follows me on Twitter this month (login every week and click follow a lot), so looks like I’ll slowly grow 500 new followers a month if I do no promotion at all.

Hmm, that’;s interesting, I just followed about 120 people who recently followed me and this took the people I’, following 50 more than followers. that means about 50 people are no longer following me who was about a week ago since a week ago the number I follow/and followed by was the same (within 5 of each other). Twitter changed it’s interface recently which when you look at who you follow it no longer tells you if they follow you, makes it possible to follow thousands of people, wait for them to follow you then drop them and they can’t easily see this!

Found a web based tool at http://friendorfollow.com/DavidLaw/following/ for checking who isn’t following. Have removed the ones I can remove (can’t remove suspended Twitter accounts), was 56 Twitter Users not following back.

Still don’t know what to do with Twitter to make money other than SPAM the crap out of it, which I don’t want to do.

Follow me on Twitter

David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)