Total affiliate type revenue for February was $3,589.41 ($132.00 a day).
Late again creating this report, spent six days in hospital after a lower back operation, if fully successful not only will I have a lot less pain (been in pain 15+ years), be able to finally have a fun life with my family (missed a lot of fun stuff due to being stuck in bed) but also be able to make a lot more money (make money in many more ways).
OK, back to the money 
This month I made about $400 less than last month, but February was only 28 days, so the daily earnings is actually up $2, so not too bad. Didn’t do a great deal of affiliate based work last month, so 99% of this revenue is based on work done previously (good search engine rankings basically).
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 February 2009
January 2009 revenue is listed in italics to the right
Google AdSense Revenue : $1,228.01 ($43.86 a day) $1,333.93 ($43.03 a day)
ClickBank : $518.95 ($18.53 a day) $779.93 ($25.16 a day)
Amazon : $108.31 ($3.87 a day) $63.02 ($2.03 a day)
Private Ads : $1,726.64 ($61.67 a day) $1,730.90 ($55.84 a day)
New revenue sources as of July 2008.
Shareasale : $7.50 ($3.50) LOL
Still not feeling like putting time into affiliate type work. I have a three month period to recover from my back operation (two discs fused) before I start physiotherapy, so might get stuck into some serious content creation soon.
February Affiliate Revenue = $3,589.41 ($128.19 a day) $3,911.28 ($126.17 a day)
Extrapolation = $46,790.52 a year $46,052.17 a year
If I save every penny from 1st February 2009 and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take just over 21 years to become a millionaire (really would be less time since compound interest on the saved amount). Reality is I don’t really save this money, for example our fixed rate mortgage term ran out end of January and in February I paid about £12,000 from the mortgage (got the mortgage to about £75K now) and plan to pay up to another £10,000 maybe even £15,000 (have to decide what I need money for) from the mortgage just as soon as I can walk to the bank comfortably and then find another fixed rate deal for a few years.
That would make me 59 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)
Since June 1st 2008 to February 28th 2009 I’ve made $35,904.26 from affiliate type revenue sources.
Since revenue per month can fluctuate, better to average my earnings over the entire period (June 1st to February 28th) and then extrapolate with that average.
Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 272 days) : $132.00 a day, same as last month, at this rate will take just under 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.
The forum I bought last month, Star Forums is still dead traffic wise, other than a few posts of mine there’s ZERO activity. Looks like the content isn’t as good as I’d hoped and still links haven’t aged, so not a big deal yet. Worst case scenario I wasted $60 on a dead forum
As mentioned above I went into hospital in February (26th) for 6 days. Had two vertebrae fused and have a lovely scar to prove it! The operation took 4 hours and I lost a little blood so needed a transfusion a couple of days later, my blood count was 7 when it should be around 14 (was a little anaemic before the op, 13. something). Have to admit having a blood transfusion scared the #### out of me, wasn’t worried about HIV/hepatitis since there’s thorough testing now, but the factors (prions) that cause Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) or mad cows disease. As far as I’m aware they haven’t figured a way to test for the damage proteins that cause CJD.
Anyway, I think the operation has gone well (still alive and not paralysed), had AWFUL pain management the first 3-4 days due to poor communication between various hospital staff and the doctors not taking into account I’ve been taking 360mg of di-hydrocodeine a day for over a decade and in February I could manage about 1 hour (2 on a good day) activity a day on a very high dose of DHD (max dose should be 240 mgs, I should have been on morphine for years really).
Eventually after not being able to even move position in bed for three days the doctors increased my pain meds to 240 mgs time released morphine (two times 100mg tabs twice a day) I could then start to move (still hurt like hell). By day 6 was strong enough to travel the 1 hour drive, was meant to get hospital transport but they closed in the evening and it took so long to arrange the morphine prescription that I was going to have to spend another night in hospital!!! No thanks, so got a taxi home, was expecting it to cost about £100, but was only £55 (£55 was well worth sleeping in my own bed).
Got home and I’m now slowly recovering, currently (20 days after the operation) I can manage to walk for 20 minutes at a time twice a day. Aiming to walk three times to day, so three times 20 mins.
Funny thing, was meant to have my staples out day 10 which was Sunday, the staples really irritated my back a lot because I hurt my hip a few years back and can’t lay on my sides for more than a few minutes at a time, so have to lay on my back. Couldn’t get a nurse out until day 12 so got my wife to take a crack at it using a pair of tweezers so the sterile staple remover would stay sterile. Turns out the staples are curled into the skin like paper staples, so pulling them with tweezers would never remove them! Fortunately no damage done, after reading the instructions on the actual staple remover my wife removed all 20 staples in a few mins (a few hurt like a bitch due to being so deep). All the holes left from the staples scabbed over and are now healed.
Worst problem right now is because I spent three days lay flat on my back in the hospital unable to move I managed to bruise the left side of my lower back and it hurts quite a bit to even have a quilt lean on it!! I think what happened is because I couldn’t move the skin got rolled up a squashed (bed sore almost) and this has caused a bruise and possibly nerve damage. When a nurse helped wash my back on day 4 she thought I had faded black marker pen where the damaged area was, so presumably a lot of damage. It’s slowly getting better, lot less painful today than a few days ago.
Can’t wait to be able to walk to the beach again, been ages since I walked that far without worrying about it (less than a mile from home!). Which reminds me, I’ve pretty much completely neglected my car, think I’m going to have to buy a new one just as soon as I’m able. Was walking the kids to/from from Cadets a few nights back (5 mins walk from home) and a used car sales lot was next door and one of the cars had the number plate SEO3 (forget the rest). Was advertised at £3,000+, very tempted to buy it for the plate being an SEO consultant
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David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)
6 responses to Affiliate Revenue Report $3,589 for February 2009
Dave, great you are alive and well! That is all that matters of course. Maybe you should reward yourself next year with a vacation somewhere. I went to Israel and can recommend that.
Reading between the lines it seems affiliate sites start to go down if now maintained but adsense are more self sustaining.
I know you are partial towards affiliates I am towards adsense). I think there are more adsense millionaires than affiliate millionaire (this is only a guess and maybe I am very wrong about this). It is more a question to the Guru.
Affiliate Revenue Report $3,589 for February 2009
Hi there,
So sorry to hear about your plight with your back. You need to see a Feldenkrais practitioner. It’ll make all the difference in the world to you.
You need to learn how to move more efficiently, and they’re the ones who can help.
Best of luck on your journey.
Affiliate Revenue Report $3,589 for February 2009
Thanks Mark,
I’m VERY happy to still be alive, I was reasonably confident I would get through the operation OK, (I’ve decided when I die it’s going to be due to drowning, just have a feeling!!) but there’s always that small percentage of people who react badly to the anaesthetic, get a bad infection, surgeons/doctors/nurses screw up etc… so it was in the back of my mind when I was lay on the trolley outside the operating theater having the various injections to put me to sleep this could be the last thing I ever do!
That’s the first time in my life I’ve had a situation like that and it really does give you a new perspective on life. A couple of days later I was lay in bed on the ward in the middle of the night in pain and I heard a blackbird singing outside and I couldn’t have felt happier or more looking forward to life. After I got home I kept saying everything is awesome despite feeling like I’d been run over by a bus
Anyway, yes I generally agree with your assessment of affiliate sites and AdSense. As long as you don’t loose a lot of traffic AdSense is quite stable, if you look at my AdSense revenue for the last few months it’s hardly changed, but my Clickbank sales are all over the place!! When a Clickbank product was updated I had a big jump in sales in November at the same time the publisher increased the price and long term this resulted in less sales. So CB sales went up followed by a big down!
That being said look at the numbers for this month:
Google AdSense Revenue : $1,228.01 ($43.86 a day)
ClickBank : $518.95 ($18.53 a day)
This is for all my sites, the vast majority of which have AdSense on every page, but only a small fraction (less than 1%) are promoting Clickbank, I have two domains seriously promoting CB products, rest promote no products (info pages)!
If when I started building websites I knew about Clickbank (or affiliate marketing, I built sites for link bait) and had built say 5% of the pages I currently have promoting Clickbank products I’d probably be making 10x what I make from CB right now. Basically you can make many times more money promoting CB products than from AdSense, but AdSense income is far more stable and easier to maintain: any content can make some money from AdSense, the same can’t be said for CB.
If I was starting from scratch today I’d put as much time as possible into researching and promoting Clickbank products and have AdSense as the secondary source of income.
I don’t like the majority of other affiliate offers because of the really low revenue share they give, Amazon is as little as 4% which is pathetic! Clickbank is usually 50% or more, so at least you make a fair chunk of change without having to get hundreds of sales.
Despite all my Amazon stores being penalised by Google I still sell more books a month than I sell Clickbank products, but the books will sell for less than $20 each and my share per sale is pitiful ($1 or less!).
Last month I made $108.31 from Amazon, that’s probably a 5% share, so I sold $2,000 worth of products from penalised sites. Decided to look it up and I sold $1,902.08 worth of Amazon products at a 5.7% revenue share.
The CB products I promote are almost all at the 50% revenue share, so I only sold $1,000 worth of CB products.
So to make the same from Amazon as I make from Clickbank I’d need to sell $10,000 worth of Amazon products each month! Actually would be less since as you sell more the % share goes up to around 8%, so probably $8,000 worth of Amazon sales would match $1,000 worth of Clickbank.
The only good thing about affiliates like Amazon is you can create stores with thousands of products really easily, but you have to have a LOT of them AND have traffic to direct to them (they don’t pull in much search engine traffic) to make a pittance! I haven’t built an Amazon store in years. I’ve tried using datafeeds for other affiliates (Shareasale for example) to see if I can get them to rank in their own right, but so far no joy.
Would be great if I could crack the Google downgrading datafeed sites, but I won’t be holding my breath, I’ve tried all sorts of stuff from hosting the images, adding language translations to the sales text, cloaking the affiliate links… the only thing left would be to write the product descriptions from scratch and that would defeat the idea of using datafeeds (meant to make fast affiliate stores). If I’m, going to write the product descriptions myself, better to spend the time promoting CB products because of the better revenue share.
David Law
Affiliate Revenue Report $3,589 for February 2009
Congrats David!!
For the successful operation….I am sure you gonna walk and enjoy your rest of your life like other normal guys!!Do share your health position once in few days…as it would make us happy to see you recovering
Hi Chad,
Thanks for the idea of using a Feldenkrais practitioner (which I had to look up
). Right now I have to take it easy while the vertebrae fuse, at the three month mark I start physiotherapy.
After I’m sure everything is working fine I’ll be looking at ways to exercise safely, maybe yoga or Feldenkrais (after research) as know that sort of gentle/low impact exercise is very good for back problems.
For now I’m working on walking until the post op pain dies down as I’m also really unfit due to years of low activity, didn’t help getting a virus in the New Year that left me feeling as weak as a newborn baby (not fully over that yet!). I used to weight train until I met my wife and went to Uni in my early twenties and had quite a good body. While I was in hospital one of the nurses couldn’t find a vein in my arms, she actually gave up!! I’ve lost so much muscle mass it’s scary, the smaller veins are a symptom of the lack of exercise. I used to be REALLY vain about my body and if the operation has been successful I’ll be working on getting rid of the spare tire I gained over the last 15 years or so
David Law
Affiliate Revenue Report $3,589 for February 2009
David,
Your comment regarding Adsense vs. Affiliates was great – could be a post of its own.
I’m at the just starting out phase when it comes to building an income stream from websites so I’m definitely going to take your advice and make some serious attempts at Click Bank revenue.
Thanks for sharing!
Affiliate Revenue Report $3,589 for February 2009
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