Make Money Online Revenue Report : 2nd Quarter 2011
This is the second quarterly revenue report, for 2011.
Total online revenue $16,020.03 ($176.04 a day)
Over all a good quarter, actually second best quarter since tracking this way.
Almost lost my AdSense account!!! My entire AdSense account was banned for about a week, reasonably confident the problem was my Google AdSense publisher ID was used on a domain (not owned by me) breaking the AdSense TOS.
All my AdSense themes have my AdSense publisher ID as the default publisher ID, users of my themes are supposed to edit the theme after installation and add their own ID, but a very small percentage don’t. At anytime there might be 20 domains (not mine) that are using my AdSense ID, they tend not to be high traffic, but might make me a few dollars over time (free money 
).
Cost me a weeks AdSense revenue (about $500!!!) while I communicated with Google AdSense to have the account reinstated.
Have now added the approved domain feature, this means only my domains will be used to track AdSense impressions and pay for clicks, rest will be ignored. Only problem is it’s limited to 100 domains and I’m at around 95 domains so far and have more planned. Think I’m going to have to get my wife an AdSense account and put her domains (about 6 sites now ) and split the domains over two AdSense accounts.
Would not have been fun trying to replace AdSense, no similar program is as good as AdSense. Chitika is so bad I’ve removed it from my jokes site that’s been getting over 10,000 visitors a day some days, Chitika was paying an eCPM of ~10 cents to that site just before I removed Chitika in early May, month before it was around 50 cents (50 cents eCPM isn’t very good). So my joke site is again making no money at all.
This make money online revenue report does not include earnings through my SEO business, AdSense themes sold at SEO Themes or any investments, so ONLY affiliate and advertising (AdSense type programs) revenue.
2nd Quarter 2011 Make Money Online Revenue
Previous quarters revenue is listed in italics to the right
Google AdSense Revenue : $6,425.14 $6,496.58
Chitika Revenue : $201.68 $419.39
ClickBank : $2,225.14 $625.22
Amazon : $110.02 $80.31
Shareasale : $1,233.56 $886.72
Private Ads : $5,824.49 $6,066.38
Make Money Online Revenue = $16,020.03 ($176.04 a day) $14,574.60 ($161.94 a day)
Extrapolation = $64,300.18 a year
Money I would accumulate assuming I kept every penny (not including bank interest) from January 1st 2008
1st Quarter 2008 : $3,259.08 : ( $36.21 daily earnings)
2nd Quarter 2008 : $4,395.65 : ( $47.78 daily earnings)
3rd Quarter 2008 : $11,662.10 : ($126.76 daily earnings)
4th Quarter 2008 : $14,673.35 : ($161.25 daily earnings)
2008 Make Money Online Revenue : $33,990.18 : ($93.12 daily earnings)
1st Quarter 2009 : $10,954.06 : ($121.71 daily earnings)
2nd Quarter 2009 : $8,877.47 : ( $97.55 daily earnings)
3rd Quarter 2009 : $11,575.06 : ($125.82 daily earnings)
4th Quarter 2009 : $14,337.16 : ($155.84 daily earnings)
2009 Make Money Online Revenue : $45,743.75 : ($125.33 daily earnings)
1st Quarter 2010 : $15,128.73 : ($164.44 daily earnings) 90
2nd Quarter 2010 : $19,641.62 : ($215.84 daily earnings) 91
3rd Quarter 2010 : $13,847.58 : ($150.52 daily earnings) 92
4th Quarter 2010 : $15,014.22 : ($163.20 daily earnings) 92
2010 Make Money Online Revenue : $63,632.15 : ($174.33 daily earnings)
1st Quarter 2011 : $14,574.60 : ($161.94 daily earnings) 90
2nd Quarter 2011 : $16,020.03 : ($176.04 daily earnings) 91
2011 Make Money Online Revenue : $61,189.26 : ($167.53 daily earnings) estimated
Total online revenue since January 1st 2008 : $173,960.03
Average quarterly revenue (14 quarters) : $12,425.72
Average monthly revenue (40 months) : $4,349
Working on a Stallion Theme update that adds new Stallion layouts and will add a new SEO menu to the WPRobot Autoblog Plugin. WPRobot is by far the best autoblog WordPress plugin on the market, it’s got loads of modules covering a large list of content sources (it’s awesome), but it’s got the usual SEO mistakes like using nofollow, not hiding affiliate links and affiliate/autoblog footprints Google etc… can use to downgrade autoblogs, Stallion 6.1 will remove most of the footprints.
Also finally got around to making the Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin that recovers link benefit from sections of a WordPress blog you don’t want indexing (admin/login pages, monthly archives…).
David Law (SEO Consultant and wannabe millionaire)
Website - SEO Consultant
8 responses to Make Money Online Revenue Report : 2nd Quarter 2011
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In what format are you promoting these items?
Money online and Adsense alternatives the reality
As we have exchanged ideas on this in the past it would be good to have a strong alternative to Adsense, just in case someone gets bumped from the program and does not get reinstated.I think you are lucky you did get reinstated.
Your Stallion theme does offer good alternatives like Clickbank, but Adsense is so easy to plug and play and does pay reasonably well with patience that this still seems like the best way to make money online for most people starting out.
Eshops of whatever sort can make a lot. I have seen people with eshops that have very modest traffic, at least according to Alexa, but seem to make a full time living off them. But that is a different busienss model.
Make Money Online Revenue Report : 2nd Quarter 2011
Make Money Online Selling Products
You are right Mark, there’s a lot more money to be made online selling products and services than trying to make money from AdSense and affiliate products.
My first online business that was selling adult products made £80,000 in sales the first year, had I kept that business running and increased the traffic to the level I have across my network I’d be selling around £800,000 worth of products a year.
Pretty easy to build traffic to online shops as well, especially if they have a lot of products. I don’t have any unique ones now, but have a small number of thin affiliate shops that I’ve not put any serious SEO time into (basically SEO tests) and most don’t rank well because of being downgraded (you know how Google hates thin content sites) yet in June they sold over $4,000 worth of products (would be $36,000 yearly): it’s around 10% affiliate share (so $400 for me). If these were unique product online shops I’d expect the traffic to be 10 times higher. I also have SEO clients with online shops and some have been with me over 5 years paying my SEO fees (most of my clients pay around £5,000 a year) because the organic search engine traffic is so lucrative.
David
Make Money Online Revenue Report : 2nd Quarter 2011
One of the things over this 3 month period is missing is the expenses. Obviously, you have stated you have over 95 domains. Other times, you have stated you had over 100 domains.
But, there must be some type of expense that is incurred for you not only to build, but also maintain them. That biggest expense presumably is getting sound backlinks.
Reading many of your articles here, I honestly don’t understand how you are able to build the traffic or implement your backlinking strategy.
How are you able to do this successfully among all your sites and continue to grow them?
What is your monthly costs for launching 1 site and “completing” a traffic and backlinking strategy?
How long does it take for you to start & complete your full backlinking strategy?
Make Money Online Revenue Report : 2nd Quarter 2011
Make Money Online Expenses
Good questions, my costs are relatively low.
My domain numbers change as I add domains and allow domains to expire. Not counted them for a while, so been estimating: used to be over 100, but let quite a few expire so was guessing it had dropped below 100. Counted them and have 101 domains, 4 have nothing on them (not even redirected) and 1 isn’t mine: registered it for a homeless guy who is travelling around the UK coastline making pebble sculptures, search Google for “Dr. Geebers Pebble Art”.
So I have exactly 100 domains.
100 domains registered, it’s about $0.75 per month per domain registration fees, so $75 a month.
I’m renting two cheap Virtual Servers from Godaddy: used to use dedicated servers (not virtual), but after a dedicated server problem switch temporarily to the Godaddy virtual servers I have now and they worked fine, so stopped looking for a new dedicated server company.
Monthly virtual server costs
Virtual Dedicated Hosting Deluxe Linux CentOS 40GB HD space, 3Gb RAM + 15 GB FTP Backup $76.78
Virtual Dedicated Hosting Deluxe Linux CentOS 30GB HD space, 2Gb RAM + 15 GB FTP Backup $52.78
So about $130 a month (it was over $300 a month when I had a dedicated server).
I buy the odd product rarely, paid around $160 for WPRobot Autoblog Plugin about 10 months ago, nothing since. So lets say $10 a month for buying scripts etc…
That’s it, I have no other regular costs.
Total monthly costs around $215, but lets round up to ~$2.50 a month per domain.
That means of the $16,000 revenue in the post above over $15,300 was pure profit. This obviously doesn’t take into account costs for new PCs on a regular basis and Internet access, though I have a business (making money online is a hobby) so the business pays for that.
I’ve been working on websites for about a decade and in that time have built resources people use and link to, so I rarely have to look for links now. I occasionally setup reciprocal links with friends, but not often. So I don’t specifically spend my time trying to find links, I build content people will link to so I don’t have to look for links. I don’t post on forums or anything like that regularly for links, I’ll occasionally have an interest in something and post to a forum, but will quickly get bored, so the number of links long term isn’t important.
I spread link benefit through my entire network, so the sites that are difficult to obtain links for get links from sites that are much easier to obtain links for. One of my newer sites is WordPress SEO Themes and I added links from relevant sites I own (not done any other link building) and it’s now PR3. Long term I might add some free SEO themes to that site that link back to the site, some users will be grateful for the free theme and not remove the backlinks.
David
Make Money Online Revenue Report : 2nd Quarter 2011
Thanks for the follow up David.
It helps to get some insight into how you are achieving such great success.
It’s still confusing on traffic strategy though. Perfect example is with the WordPress SEO Theme site you mentioned. You stated this is one of your “newer” sites. However, right now, it’s already has a Page Rank of 3. Now, I don’t know how long ‘newer’ is -as in 2 months, 6 months, 1 year — but, from what you have showed, it’s a PR3 with only 1 post, and 5 outbound links, and about 1,019 Backlinks.
So the questions I would have are:
1. How long did it take to get from PR0 (ie: Launch) to the PR 3?
A. Given that a PR”X” (in this case PR3) may not necessarily be directly correlated to revenue – the underlying question is, is this site generating revenue?
2. Based on your statement, having the other sites you built up over a decade, then is it safe to say that now you have the ability to create a brand new site (say tomorrow) and in X number of days have it ranked a PR2 or above given that you drive backlinks to it from your existing sites?
3. So, based on your statement, this means you don’t do any other bookmarking, submitting to directories, or posting or creating web 2.0 sites?
4. Even with this new site (WP SEo Themes one), you stated spreading links throughout your network. How exactly do you do this? And how long does it take?
A. If you have 100 domains in your network, does this mean you are spending the whole day going from each site & creating a link manually yourself? (Meaning no outsource or staff).
I’m trying to get an understanding of what it really takes to achieve the same results as a single owner without having to use & train outsourcers or get other assistance. I mean, today, people don’t have to worry about “creating a wordpress site”, it’s simply add theme & add content. But I feel the biggest issue is having a specific and results oriented traffic strategy. The ones I’ve been reading and learning about is all about “wait at least 2 months to see real results. Very depressing to achieve for example 100 sites in 2 months, and suddenly you have no results to show for it ya know?
Make Money Online Revenue Report : 2nd Quarter 2011
Make Money Online SEO Strategy
I registered the WordPress SEO Themes domain in January 2011, same time I registered the Stallion WordPress SEO Theme site and http://stallion-theme.co.uk/, http://talian-theme.co.uk/, http://stallion-seo-theme.com/ for a theme launch (wasn’t sure which domain to use, so registered multiple domains).
Decided on the 2nd domain above for the launch and started using it in February and did nothing with the other domains (reminds me should 301 redirect them). In early May installed WordPress to the 1st domain above and added one post, as I’ve been maintaining relevant sites (have a fair number of sites about WordPress SEO) I’ve added backlinks. Basically as I maintain my network of sites I’ll add links, I might be upgrading WordPress or approving moderated comments and spend a few minutes adding a few links to other sites in the network, so it doesn’t take long. The SEO Theme site has probably taken 20 minutes to add those links because it wasn’t link building per se.
Although the home page is PR3 (would have had enough links for that by mid May) it takes about a year for a new backlink to pass full link benefit, so I’m not expecting great rankings for a year basically.
What I tend to do is get an idea for a site (I don’t really plan them, remember this is more a hobby than a business : I don’t NEED a large network of sites for my core SEO business). Register a domain, add a little content (can be one page), add some links from my network and forget about it for at least 6 months while the links age. If I don’t forget all about the domain and still think it’s a good idea and I have the time I’ll add content and see what happens, some domains I’ve got are PR3+ with barely anything on them : Virtual Light Bulb and Web Technology Guru are examples (not inspired to use them yet, they are more than ready to use).
I manage the entire network myself, I don’t outsource anything. I barely do any link building, spent most of my time on my SEO business (SEO clients who pay the bills) and spare time tinker around with my domains. I try to spend most of my time researching SEO, testing concepts etc… to keep up to date. To be honest with you I don’t get that much done in a day (with regards my sites) because between my SEO business and SEO testing there’s not a lot of time left. I write comments like these for a break from working
David
Make Money Online Revenue Report : 2nd Quarter 2011
WP robot
Do you recommend using the WP robot –
I know it is subjective as you own this tool, but anyway I also know that you are very honest.
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