Affiliate Revenue Report $3,985 for December 2008

Total affiliate type revenue for December was $3,985.55 ($128.57 a day), which should cover my wife’s Christmas shopping bill

Although I’m down around $1,800 this month compared to November, it’s still a good month relatively speaking since I’ve been creating these revenue reports this is the first drop in revenue.

Didn’t do a great deal of affiliate type work this month again (busy with SEO clients). Really need to find some time to review more Clickbank products since page by page you can make a lot more from Clickbank sales than AdSense etc…

So can’t be bad, almost $4K complete profit without having to do much.

If you’ve been following my revenue reports since September you’ll know my Free Recipe site was hit with a bad Google penalty (possibly for selling text links) on September 4th costing the site about 8,000 visitors a day and a fair amount of lost AdSense revenue.

Well on December 4th the penalty was lifted, (about 50% of the lost traffic was recovered) wahoo, unfortunately one week on the Google penalty was reinstated which is weird! SEO consultant here and I’ve never heard of this happening before!

When I get 20 mins spare will send in another re-inclusion request to Google and hope the penalty can be lifted forever, fingers crossed.

BIG drop in Clickbank revenue this month. Since all my traffic is organic search if an important Clickbank review page looses some SERPs you can really feel it in Clickbank sales!

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

Affiliate Revenue for December 2008

November 2008 revenue is listed in italics to the right
Make Money Online Affiliate Revenue
Google AdSense Revenue : $1,315.18 ($42.43 a day) $1,273.36 ($42.45 a day)
ClickBank : $880.67 ($28.41 a day) $2,982.15 ($99.41 a day)
Amazon : $159.84 ($5.16 a day) $42.03 ($1.40 a day)
Private Ads : $1629.86 ($52.58 a day) $1,504.96 ($50.17 a day)

New revenue sources as of July 2008.

Shareasale : $0 ($0)

Last few months not felt like putting time into new affiliate programs, AdSense and Clickbank are far more lucrative.

December Affiliate Revenue = $3,985.55 ($128.57 a day) $5,802.50 ($193.42 a day)
Extrapolation = $46,926.64 a year $70,597.08 a year

If I save every penny and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take 21 years to become a millionaire (really would be less time since compound interest on the saved amount).

That would make me 59 years old, still time to have some fun

Money I would accumulate assuming I kept every penny-

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)

Since June 1st 2008 to December 31st 2008 I’ve made $28,403.57 from affiliate type revenue sources.

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

Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 213 days) : $133.35 a day, ~$1 less a day than last month, at this rate will take just over 20 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.

I’ve not had time to create new content on many of my sites, so been looking to buy content from others. Depending on the quality of the work you can buy articles from as little as 0.1 cents to over 1 cent per word. If an article has 1,000 words (which is a fair size) it will cost up to $10. If I add a article covering not to hard SERPs to one of my sites that tends to rank OK I should make that back eventually: really depends on the site I add it to and the SERPs.

A worse case scenario example: if a new article pulls in 10 new visitors a day then in 10 days it should receive at least 25 cents from AdSense (a low 2.5% CTR and a low cost per click of 10 cents). Therefore to recover the $10 investment it will take roughly 400 days. After that it’s all profit, so considering spending a few thousand dollars on new articles for my sites to increase revenue long term.

Note: I’ve never bought content before, all my content is either created by me or public domain content.

Happy New Year.

David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)