Total affiliate type revenue for February was $4,719.55 ($168.56 a day).
This is my last monthly revenue report, going to move to quarterly reports from now on.
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 February 2010
January 2010 revenue is listed in italics to the right
Google AdSense Revenue : $1,075.48 $1,075.97
Chitika Revenue : $33.04 $35.42
Clicksor Revenue : $346.34 $122.39
ClickBank : $177.88 $380.32
Amazon + Shareasale : $24.01 $26.33
Private Ads : $3,062.80 $3,243.35
February Affiliate Revenue = $4,719.55 ($168.56 a day) $4,883.78 ($157.54 a day)
Extrapolation = $61,564.84 a year $57,541.96 a year
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)
Affiliate Report October 31st 2009 : $4,506.82 $64,316.98 518 ($124.16 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report November 30th 2009 : $4,807.53 $69,124.51 548 ($126.14 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report December 31st 2009 : $5,022.81 $74,147.32 579 ($128.06 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report January 31st 2010 : $4,883.78 $79,031.10 610 ($129.56 average earnings per day)
Affiliate Report February 28th 2010 : $4,719.55 $83,750.65 638 ($131.27 average earnings per day)
Since June 1st 2008 to February 28th 2010 I’ve made $83,750.65 from affiliate revenue sources.
Average monthly revenue (21 months) $3,988.13 $3,840.25
Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 638 days) : $129.56 a day.
David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)
Website - SEO Consultant
6 responses to Affiliate Revenue Report $4,719 for February 2010
wow.. i think you`re matered affiliate program
congrats to you mate
btw, why didn`t you create a free ebook that contain your knowledge about adsense, cb, etc??
My costs to make the above affiliate revenue.
I should have added on all my affiliate revenue reports that I don’t spend a penny on advertising, so I don’t use AdWords, Overture, I don’t buy links or traffic.
Every visitor I get is either organic search engine traffic (mostly Google) or organic click thru traffic from other sites that have linked to my content.
Currently at over 20,000 unique visitors a day, all free traffic basically, obviously it’s not really free since I have to create the content, generate links, maintain a dedicated server, pay for domain registration etc…, but the point is I don’t pay for any traffic.
My actual costs are for a dedicated server ($99 a month) and domain registration fees for about 100 domains (some are SEO test domains though).
If we over estimate a domain costs $10 a year (my .co.uk domains cost about $5 a year) to register ($1,000 a year) plus the $1,200 for the dedicated server a year, my costs are around $2,200 a year or ~$180 per calendar month. It’s an over estimate, but it does show my costs are very low for what I make this way.
Out of the $4,719 I made in February 2010, over $4,500 of it was pure profit.
David
Affiliate Revenue Report $4,719 for February 2010
With your 100 domains have you ever thought of consolidating so you have say 5 of your best sites? Or even two sites and you with full focus build content for those two?
I have a score of domains also and sometimes think it would be easier with a couple good ones (less stuff to maintain).
The are two reasons I do not consolidate now:
The first reason is they are all growing slowly and I like the idea of diversification, just in case one gets hacked or banned or I have an idea to market with one of them in the future.
So my thought is at some point, as long as I keep adding unique interesting content they will increase in value with age.
The second reason is with one large site, older posts somehow get lost, but with say ten niche sites with a moderate amount of content I think maybe things get indexed better. Maybe I am wrong.
On another note this WordPress 3.0 will have some great features including a MU SU merge. You will be able to run a social network (buddy press) with a plugin (unlike before with the ridiculously hard set up). Now it is easy. Adding buddy press to a site like your political site with mu when WP 3.0 comes out could be dangerous or interesting. People would have their own blogs, chat features etc.
I enjoy reading your revenue reports but I guess they are time consuming so you have moved them to quarterly (:
How are your Adsense alternative themes etc coming? Or is this idea on the back burner? There has to be a way to diversify from just Adsense that is just as profitable, maybe not, as Adsense is very easy to set up and pays.
Best regards!
Affiliate Revenue Report $4,719 for February 2010
Network of domains/sites vs a small number of sites.
Yes I’ve thought about it, but as you’ve pretty much answered your own questions with why I keep creating new sites rather than concentrate on a small number.
Take the General Election site for example: http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/. I registered the domain in June 2009, so it’s 9 months old, but didn’t start adding a decent amount of content until September 2009. When I register a new domain I’ll usually add a little bit of content (few pages) so Google’s got something to index and I have something to link to. I’ll then start building links. Sometimes I’ll get bored with an idea, $5 to register a domain for a year I buy domains on a whim and never really use some of them. With this one I didn’t get bored and added a fair amount of content and traffic picked up (currently can see 5,000 visitors a day).
Now had I tried to create this site as a sub section of an existing site in principle it would have made the ranking process faster and I wouldn’t have had to go to so much effort with links. However, I don’t have another site just about politics or even one with a lot about politics, so I’d have no where obvious to put it.
But more important than all of this, sites get banned/downgraded by Google all the time for not doing anything obviously wrong. My recipe site http://www.free-recipes.co.uk/ had broke the 12,000 visitors a day mark, great rankings when Google downgraded it for no obvious reason! It started to recover for a week, but currently it’s still downgraded and so it would be stupid to add more content to it.
So to protect my content I like to spread it out on plenty of domains, it’s more work since you’ve got the Google sandbox to get over which takes links and time. Some of my domains don’t even break even, mainly because I’ve got bored with them, but overall they make money. It’s also a heck of a lot easier to find links for 100 domains than it is 5. I’m in the process of setting up a link exchange with the Times online newspaper which is pretty cool. I doubt I’d have got the offer if the election content was on say my classic literature domain say http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/. But then I can create sections like http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/magazines/ which is 100% affiliate content and in the last 12 months made £130 from AdSense. Had I put that on a new domain I’d have been lucky to make £20 a year even with links. This one http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/comics/ again affiliate content, made £2.85 in the same period
Was testing the concept of translating affiliate content to other languages to see if it could get past the thin affiliate content filters, I’d say no it didn’t work every well.
The monthly reports take quite some time to compile and as there’s already a lot of them, they don’t really add anything SEO wise to this site. So quarterly makes sense.
The AdSense alternative themes have been put on hold for a bit, I wasn’t impressed with the Clickbank AdSense like ads tests and switched everything back to AdSense where I could, so not sure what I’m going to do now.
If you don’t mind going overly spammy with ads Clicksor can compete with AdSense, but it’s the pop unders that make the money, not the AdSense like ads. You could have the standard AdSense ads and the Clicksor pop unders if you have a site that you don’t care about the visitors too much. They are very intrusive ads, http://www.free-funny-jokes.com/ has Clicksor and it’s competing with what the site used to make from AdSense, before it was banned from the AdSense program: I’ve stopped moderating that site, added racist jokes since if you check the jokes SERPs they are the main traffic joke SERPs! but it’s resulted in a LOT of racist comments (hence the AdSense ban)!
David
Affiliate Revenue Report $4,719 for February 2010
Regarding moderating a site, I am playing around with comment filter plugins. You can add a huge list of words that might even slightly be considered race related. These in theory should do the moderation for you.
WordPress 3.0 should be a huge improvement and if you like me run more than one site, I have read something about one admin panel cold control multiple blogs. We will have to see what this means.
About being hack, I do not know if I mentioned it, but another thing I am playing around with is projecthoneypot.org there is even a plugin.
Thanks as always for your clear wisdom regarding WordPress.
Affiliate Revenue Report $4,719 for February 2010
I’m looking forward to WordPress 3, looks like another step in the right direction for those not really using WordPress as a blogging platform per se.
As I’ve got 50+ WordPress installations I’ve been trying to find a way to update them all from one source, right now I upload it one site at a time by FTP which is a PAIN. I know there are easier ways, but I have a custom WordPress core file to remove nofollow that needs to be updated as well, so can’t use the automatic WordPress upgrade plugin.
Hoping WordPress 3 gives me more options.
I recall seeing projecthoneypot.org mentioned somewhere, so maybe you mentioned it before. Didn’t look at it until just now.
Are you using the WordPress plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/httpbl/
I just downloaded it, not installed yet, but if it can reduce the number of hackers, email spammers, comment spammers that view my content and try to abuse it, that would be highly welcome.
Akismet deals with 99% of the SPAM comments I get automatically, but with 50+ WordPress installations even with one SPAM comment per installation getting through to the Pending Comments section a week means I get 50 emails telling me I got a comment that needs checking out!
David
Affiliate Revenue Report $4,719 for February 2010
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