Total affiliate type revenue for September was $4,289.05 ($142.97 a day). That’s up 3 months in a row, about $450 more than last month, but still way off the November 2008 peak of almost $6,000.
At the beginning of the month my Clickbank revenue was non existent, at one point I thought Clickbank might be broken or something as not had a sale for over a week!! Despite this I made more money this month than last from Clickbank, due to a nice rally in the final week which resulted in over half the months sales.
Private sales are up again (almost $500 more this month), I saw on the news online advertising in the UK passed TV advertising for the first time, so looks like I’m reaping the rewards of advertisers moving to online adverts. So far in October it’s up another $200, so private ads are going well. I worked out my sites get around 8 million visitors a year right now.
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 September 2009
August 2009 revenue is listed in italics to the right
Google AdSense Revenue : $1,041.66 ($34.72 a day) $1,144.25 ($36.91 a day)
ClickBank : $506.53 ($16.88 a day) $331.36 ($10.69 a day)
Amazon + Shareasale : $18.47 ($0.62 a day) $63.97 ($2.06 a day)
Private Ads : $2,722.39 ($90.75 a day) $2,293.31 ($73.978 a day)
Still not doing much in new affiliate terms.
September Affiliate Revenue = $4,289.05 ($142.97 a day) $3,832.89 ($123.64 a day)
Extrapolation = $52,219.18 a year $45,129.19 a year
If I save every penny from 1st September 2009 and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take just over 19 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 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 $45,359.46 365 ($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)
Affiliate Report August 31st 2009 : $3,832.89 $55,521.11 457 ($121.49 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report September 30th 2009 : $4,289.05 $59,810.16 487 ($122.81 average earnings per day)
Since June 1st 2008 to September 30th 2009 I’ve made $59,810.16 from affiliate revenue sources.
Average monthly revenue (16 months) $3,738.14 $3,701.41
Since revenue per month can fluctuate, better to average my earnings over the entire period (June 1st 2008 to September 30th 2009) and then extrapolate with that average.
Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 487 days) : $122.81 a day, at this rate will take just under 22 1/4 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.
Have been working on three of our sites this month, say our sites as two of them are pretty much my wife’s projects.
Have better optimised Images and Pictures Photography Blog which is 99% my better half’s work (closing on 400 photos). Since I don’t like the default way WordPress deals with images I created a manual way to add images that worked from an SEO perspective. I didn’t think my wife would seriously get into a photo blog, so only gave one format. Big mistake, she’s added almost 400 images!! So I’ve made her about 8 different formats to cover all relevant photo, image, photograph, photography type SERPs and as it was my mistake not to do this in the first place, I’ve been manually editing all 300+ posts to the new formats (got about 50 left to do)! Site barely makes any money because it’s images, still it saw over 8,500 unique visitors (or 127,000 hits if I want to make it sound really impressive 
) last month. Will be interesting to see how the new format affects traffic.
Have been creating and optimizing articles on Skegness Attractions and Skegness Tourist Information which again my wife creates most of the content, she writes it and I go and make it sound spammy for more search engine traffic We had the SEAS Festival at Skegness last week, so we’ve been looking at the various art exhibits around Skegness and complaining at how poorly organised the SEAS Festival was (great idea, but poor organisation). I caught the last half of a really funny act called Graffiti Classics (Graffiti Classics Review) in a church of all places. I missed the first half because most of the SEAS Festival was not my ‘thing’ and the info about the show from the council was almost non existent, (assumed it would be some rubbish European artistic work I wouldn’t get) so with my back problems didn’t fancy sitting 2 hours for it! Wife called me in the interval that it was really funny, so I caught the last half and it was REALLY FUNNY, our 13 year old son got to participate (Youtube video coming soon on review site). Back hurt after, but it was well worth it.
I live in the UK and it scares me that next year the UK will probably have a Conservative government, and just to top things off with a likely prime minister with 2/3rds of my full name (my full name is David Cameron Law). So I started a politics site UK General Election 2010 to discuss politics. I’ve basically taken each of the main parties policies and created a page for each to be discussed, so far only a small amount of interest (about 200-250 visitors a day), but it’s early days. You never know might be able to persuade a few thousand people not to vote Conservative and certainly not BNP next general election.
David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)
Website - SEO Consultant
3 responses to Affiliate Revenue Report $4,289 for September 2009
Aren’t you converting your AdSense earning reports to Euros? Google told me my AdSense reports will be only available in Euros very shortly, so I decided to go Euro now.
My AdSense income is now reported in GBP’s £ so I convert to USD $ with whatever the conversion is at the time.
The number of hours is usually relatively low per month since the content and sites are already made. I do have times like now when I’m spending 4 or 5 hours a day on my sites, but right now that’s because my dedicated server has been compromised! Had so far 5 of my domains hacked and files changed on them, someone was using my sites for links to their sites! So spending quite a lot of time tracking down problems and working on server security (which is damn complicated). Some how the hacker got my FTP passwords and not tracked how yet!! Not sure the server is fully secure right now, fortunately I have backups so worst case scenario I get another dedicated server and start again (takes about a week to install all those sites on a server!!).
I suppose on average I spend 20 hours a month on maintaining the sites, creating new content etc…, but a lot of that I don’t NEED to do, for example the three sites I mention working on in my revenue report above don’t make a great deal of money, they are sites for fun/personal interest which have AdSense added. I’m awful at fully monetising my traffic.
David Cameron Law
Affiliate Revenue Report $4,289 for September 2009
You are doing vey well, I am quite impressed! I have a small question. You list your average income per day, but what would be the hourly wage? I mean, how many hours of work does it take you to get these numbers.
Good luck with your back and your goals!
Meika
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