Another very good month, total affiliate type revenue for October was $4,885.30, which is less than $100 extra compared to September which I’m pleased with since last months increase was big (over $1,000 extra). Made $157.59 a day which despite making a little more this month is almost $2 less per day since October is 31 days and September is 30 days, so relatively speaking I made more per day in September vs October 
Happy to report no server problems this month, but unhappy to report my Free Recipe site that by September 4th had gone from breaking over 10,000 visitors a day to dropping to under 2,000 has still not recovered despite putting in a Google reinclusion request. Either Google’s not looked at the site yet or they have and think something is wrong with it still!
Clickbank again came through for me, 2 months in a row making over $2,000 which is great. Almost completely lost some decent SERPs in the month when the latest blog link you get from DigitalPoint forum messed up my SERPs!
This latest blog link uses the anchor text of your latest blog post to link to the HOME page of the site. So I had hundreds of links pointing to the home page of one of my sites using the anchor text for an important page, since I name my pages with SEO in mind this told Google etc… the home page of the site was as/more important for this SERP than the page I’d specifically created for the SERP.
99 out of 100 times this won’t cause a problem, but guess what, yes the page the anchor text is from almost got deindexed from Google! You could only find this page through a Google site:domain.com search and when checking the money SERPs the page that used to have the SERPs was missing and the home page was listed instead, but not as high (the home page isn’t SEO’d for those SERPs, so the listing was due to the links from DigitalPoint).
After making a few changes the page eventually got it’s search engine listings back, though slightly lower than before! So lost some Google rankings there which if they don’t recover will cost me a lot of revenue long term.
Since this happened Clickbank revenue dropped a fair bit, basically I had three really good weeks recently making around $800 a week, which would result in Clickbank revenue of over $3,000 a month. Now I’m struggling to break $400 a week, (I think I’d be making $600 a week if it wasn’t for this SERPs mistake!) which though much better than say 8 weeks ago is likely to mean a drop in revenue next month (November) if I don’t recover this revenue somehow.
Nothing worse than loosing money when it was easily avoided. Just got to hope the rankings fully recover this month.
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 October 2008
September 2008 revenue is listed in italics to the right
Google AdSense Revenue : $1,182.71 ($38.15 a day) $1,318.96 ($43.97 a day)
ClickBank : $2,269.66 ($73.21 a day) $2,244.94 ($74.83 a day)
Amazon : $40.53 ($1.31 a day) $117.03 ($3.90 a day)
Private Ads : $1,368.52 ($44.15 a day) $1,099.35 ($36.65 a day)
New revenue sources as of July 2008.
Commission Junction (CJ) : £0.00 (£0) (not promoted recently)
Kontera : $0.00 ($0.0) (not promoted recently)
Chitika : $0.00 ($0) (not promoted recently)
Shareasale : $23.88 ($10)
Last few months not felt like putting time into these programs, AdSense and Clickbank are far more lucrative.
October Affiliate Revenue = $4,885.30 ($157.59 a day) $4,790.33 ($159.68 a day)
Extrapolation = $57,520.47 a year $58,282.35 a year
If I save every penny will only take 17 years to break one million dollars from affiliate type revenue only at the above monthly figure
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)
Since June 1st 2008 to October 31st 2008 I’ve made $18,615.52 from affiliate type revenue sources.
Averaging affiliate revenue per day (over the 152 days) : $122.47 a day, ~$10 more a day than last month, at this rate will take just over 22 years from June 1st 2008 to reach 1 million dollars : I’ll be a millionaire 2034 when I’m 62 years old. Still no where near my millionaire at 45 years old goal.
To meet my millionaire by 45 years old from affiliate type revenue I’m going to need to do something BIG.
David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)
Website - SEO Consultant
5 responses to Affiliate Revenue Report $4,885 for October 2008
WOW David….I am sure you gonna you are going to be a millionaire using affiliate revenues…if not in 45 but may be at the age of 50
Good Luck
Hi,
I doubt I will since I have a problem with saving all the money I make
Currently owe about £90,000 on the mortgage which in Jan/Feb 2009 goes from a fixed rate of 4.79% to variable and with what’s happening right now with the credit crunch etc… looks like it will jump to over 7%!
Currently can pay an extra £9,000 this year (which I’ve already paid extra) then in Jan/Feb when there’s no longer a limit in over paying without a penalty I plan to throw as much of our savings at the mortgage as possible.
Unfortunately we are renovating our home, we live in a 4 storey ex guesthouse with around 16-18 rooms (depends on what you consider a room) and still have a lot of work to do (probably about £30K to £40K worth) so have to have some money for that as well.
Since I hate to be in debt all the affiliate revenue and a lot of my SEO business revenue is going on the house/mortgage for the next two or three years (I want the mortgage paid ASAP).
I can’t complain though, loads of people are loosing their homes right now and I’m worrying about paying a little extra mortgage interest which we can afford.
David Law
Affiliate Revenue Report $4,885 for October 2008
Hi David,
Very interesting what you are doing. I would like to get back into Adsense as it seems to represent the most stable earnings, what with a heavy reliance on good ‘ol SE traffic.
I’m curious to know, which of your templates do you use mostly for your sites? And do you write your own content or outsource it?
Chris
http://www.ProfitsWithChris.com
Hi Chris,
I also find AdSense the most stable income source, (I make money every day) but traffic wise Clickbank makes a LOT more money per visitor, but you do get days when you make little and even nothing the odd day.
Also it’s really easy to gain traffic from search engines as long as you don’t mind too much what SERPs you target, at one point I was getting around 6-8,000 visitors a day to a Poetry section of a site, (so all the traffic was poetry relevant, people looking for poems etc…) but the conversion was RUBBISH from AdSense (must have been a few cents a click and CTR was LOW). Conversely gaining specific traffic, say mortgage loans type traffic is quite hard, so when you choose a particular Clickbank (or any) product to promote your unlikely to pull in 5,000 visitors a day: most of my Clickbank pages are seeing 10s to hundreds of visitors a day each.
If you’ve read all my revenue reports you’ll see I recently lost a big chunk of traffic (my recipe site) which has cost me around $30 a day from AdSense. So $30 a day from about 8,000 unique visitors a day!
In comparison I’ve added a a few hundred extra visitors a day recently to Clickbank pages (so single pages, not whole sites) and those are making more than the lost $30 a day from 8,000 visitors!
My 12 year old son made over $100 from AdSense in about a 10 day period last month from a few hundred visitors on a site I gave him to use as a blog. In the same period the site would have made a few dollars from AdSense as well.
When you look at it that way AdSense is terrible, however it’s really hard to find good Clickbank products, so though there’s the potential to make a lot of money, in practice it’s quite hard to find the right products to promote.
With regards content, the content that makes about 80% of my money is written by me, I’d love to outsource, but find it hard to find good content writers. As I’m a SEO consultant I’m going to rewrite it anyway, so might as well do it all myself.
The template I use with best results AdSense wise is Talian that I sell at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html I consistently get 6% CTR on the majority of sites I use it on. I’ve considered switching all my sites to use it, but I’d then have over 50 identical looking sites!
David Law
Affiliate Revenue Report $4,885 for October 2008
WOW looks like your son is also as good as you…..You are really doing a good job by teaching your son something that you know…You think that your son is really interested in SEO? If so then you are lucky…as there is a guy to take your business
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