Another great month, total affiliate type revenue for November was $5,802.50, which is nearly $1,000 extra compared to October which I’m ecstatic with since last 2 months increase was also big (over $1,000 extra). Hard to believe when I started tracking my affiliate based revenue on this web site I was at $2,000 a month and now I’m closing on $6,000!!!
Made $193.42 a day which at today’s exchange rate is almost £130 a day, interestingly since ALL my affiliate based revenue is paid in US dollars the weakness in the pound is benefiting me 
This is also true for my SEO business, majority of my clients are US based, so they pay in dollars, though because I price my SEO services in pound sterling it’s costing them more (lost a few clients recently, this won’t be helping)!!
Also my wife has been buying presents for Christmas so every penny helps )
Another month free from dedicated server problems, actually had a very lazy month affiliate wise, updated a few Clickbank product pages which couldn’t have taken more than an hour or two work, other than that not done any affiliate promotion type work!
Can’t be bad, almost $6K without having to do much.
Still my Free Recipe site that by September 4th had gone from breaking over 10,000 visitors a day to dropping to under 2,000 is still not recovering. Looks like my Google reinclusion request has failed, which sucks as that would add at least $30 a day in revenue from AdSense if it fully recovered. I was happily adding new recipes when the penalty hit, I’d be at my 100K recipes by now if it wasn’t for the penalty (stopped adding recipes) and would probably be at 20K visitors a day due to the new pages. Recipes aren’t exactly high paying AdSense type pages, but with so much traffic I’d make at least $50 a day from AdSense, so it’s a big loss long term.
I love Clickbank, another great month from this affiliate provider. A product I promote was updated last month and had a lot of sales, in one 7 day period made $1,376.81, previous week made $497.62 so having that product update made a big difference this month.
Looking forward to a good Christmas period, since I tend to work in the make money market with the world economy worsening I should get more traffic!
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 November 2008
October 2008 revenue is listed in italics to the right
Google AdSense Revenue : $1,273.36 ($42.45 a day) $1,182.71 ($38.15 a day)
ClickBank : $2,982.15 ($99.41 a day) $2,269.66 ($73.21 a day)
Amazon : $42.03 ($1.40 a day) $40.53 ($1.31 a day)
Private Ads : $1,504.96 ($50.17 a day) $1,368.52 ($44.15 a day)
New revenue sources as of July 2008.
Shareasale : $0 ($23.88)
Last few months not felt like putting time into new affiliate programs, AdSense and Clickbank are far more lucrative.
November Affiliate Revenue = $5,802.50 ($193.42 a day) $4,885.30 ($157.59 a day)
Extrapolation = $70,597.08 a year $57,520.47 a year
If I save every penny and make this amount of money every month from now on it will take 14 years to become a millionaire (really would be less time since compound interest on the saved amount).
That would make me 52 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)
Since June 1st 2008 to November 30th 2008 I’ve made $24,418.02 from affiliate type revenue sources.
Since revenue per month can fluctuate, better to average my earnings over the entire period (June 1st to November 30th) and then extrapolate with that average.
Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 182 days) : $134.16 a day, ~$12 more 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 getting better.
Will have to think of a way to take into account interest earned if I did save every penny, just to see how many years that knocks of my millionaire by 45 years old goal.
Really struggling to think of other things to do that will take my revenue over the top so to speak. Clickbank is my big earner right now, but it’s so hard to find good affiliate products! A year ago I wasn’t making anything from Clickbank, so if I could find another Clickbank type revenue I could add a couple of thousand more dollars a month while still maintaining current revenue.
David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)
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2 responses to Affiliate Revenue Report $5,802 for November 2008
WOW you are doing great…Thanks for the report…I just have one doubt…how do you select product from clickbank..what are the things you take into account while selecting a product..hope you dont mind sharing this
Main things are:
The product is good quality, since with Clickbank you have 60 days to get a refund if products are rubbish your going to get a lot of refunds!
I look for niches I can learn about and understand to enough degree to use the product and write about it since I’ve found with Clickbank promotion you have to review the products to have any chance of selling them.
After that it’s down to organic search engine traffic, (i don’t use PPC traffic) if there’s no traffic available or it’s too hard to obtain will mean there won’t be any sales. So there has to be traffic available and be obtainable without having to add a million backlinks to a product page.
For example with mortgages there’s some mortgage Clickbank products, but if you do keyword research at any of the free tools like http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html you’ll find quite a bit of mortgage relevant traffic, but it doesn’t match up well to the Clickbank products available (people aren’t searching for mortgage ebooks) and those products have a low gravity meaning they don’t sell well either anyway.
So we have a reasonable traffic niche (mortgages) with quite a few Clickbank products available to promote, but it would appear from research that niche from a Clickbank prospective doesn’t do very well.
Affiliate Revenue Report $5,802 for November 2008
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