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I read a post at http://www.moneyhospital.co.uk/blog/post/could-you-actually-live-off-60-a-week-20183 regarding living off Job Seekers Allowance (the DOLE) which is apparently £60.50 a week now.

The user comments brought back memories and made me think some people would be better off starting their own business (self employed) rather than being registered as unemployed and claiming job seekers allowance (JSA) or income support (you claim income support if you haven’t paid enough national insurance contributions).

When I started my first business selling adult lingerie and sex toys I’d been out of University for about three years after leaving on medical grounds (chronic back pain, had a back operation earlier this year to fuse discs). I’d been unable to finish my degree in genetics or work due to disability and had been claiming income support on medical grounds (I wasn’t classed as unemployed, I was too disabled to work).

Total affiliate type revenue for August was $3,832.89 ($123.64 a day).

Another good month, up almost $400 on last month, (almost $1,000 compared to 2 months ago), still no improvement in Clickbank and just lost all my Amazon stores as Amazon updated it’s API and the Amazon script I’m using broke (need to find a new one)! That’s 2 months in a row increasing revenue after a 7 month stretch of revenue falling: best month was November 2008 with $5,802.50 earned, so still $2,000 down from that high (high was due to a Clickbank product updating).

Private sales have again increased, August made almost $2,300 and looks like I’m already at $2,600 for September. Going to keep working on private ad sales as this is nice growth.

Total affiliate type revenue for July was $3,453.12 ($111.39 a day).

Quite a good month, up almost $600, very good considering the downtrend I’ve experienced lately with Clickbank!

As mentioned last month put effort into private ad sales and that’s resulted in a $300+ increase in that area, looking at August revenue so far for private ad sales I’m at almost $2,000 (up another $200 almost). Still working on more private ad sales promotions, so with a little luck maybe make more than $2,000 in August.

Have created a little content for AdSense reasons in July, will take months for any revenue increases as on newish domains, also did a little link building work, the PR of my sites have died over the last year or so, used to have multiple PR6s and loads of PR5s, now finding it hard to find PR5 pages in my network!

Total affiliate type revenue for June was $2,875.64 ($95.85 a day).

Pretty much the same revenue this month as last, (just $5 less) my Clickbank sales are WAY DOWN recently which is hitting revenue overall. I only promote a small number of Clickbank products and think the problem is the main ones increased their prices just before Christmas when there was a big update (for those products). This with the credit crunch/recession has pushed sales down (similar traffic, much less sales).

I signed up for Twitter around this time last year as part of an attempt to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to make more money online through social network marketing.

After gaining thousands of Facebook friends (which was a pain to achieve) my first account was banned by Facebook: if you requested friends at a high rate you’d get a warning. Stop requesting friends for a while and the warning goes away and you can request more friends. Despite listening to those warnings my account was locked (still is)!

Signed up for a new Facebook account, but didn’t make any friend requests (probably have 10 friends now). Do have 2 Facebook groups about AdSense Secrets and SEO Secrets with hundreds of members, but not doing anything with them as fell out with Facebook

Total affiliate type revenue for May was $2,892.67 ($93.31 a day).

With this revenue report I have a full years data

Another drop in revenue this month, that’s 6 consecutive monthly revenue drops despite quite stable traffic levels (lost traffic in some areas, gained in others). Based on ClickBank sales (see screenshot) and private ad sale revenue I’m quite confident the drops are caused by the recession (less people buying), so not worried (yet). Little disappointing this month dropped below $3,000, but means it will look so much more impressive when it goes back up again

Total affiliate type revenue for April was $3,109.16 ($103.64 a day).

Another drop in revenue this month, I’m not working hard on affiliate type revenue so my traffic is pretty stable last 6 months, so looks like I’m getting hit by decreased sales etc…. due to the recession. Half way through May already and this month is looking worse, thankfully this isn’t my main income, so not a big deal if I loose it all.

As always this revenue does not include the money I make through my SEO business, themes sold at AdSense Themes or any investments, so ONLY affiliate and advertising (AdSense type programs) revenue.

Affiliate Revenue for April 2009

March 2009 revenue is listed in italics to the right

Total affiliate type revenue for March was $3,453.37 ($129.89 a day).

This month I made about $140 less than last month, but March is 3 days longer than Feb, so not a great month. I’m still not feeling like working on affiliate type projects, so 95% of these earnings are from work 6+ months ago! I MUST get the will to want to add more Clickbank reviews etc… as these can make a fair amount of money with not too much effort. Shows how bad I am at getting around to some affiliate type stuff, this is the 10th month of doing these reports and it’s taken me to this one to add a link to the ClickBank Affiliate Program below for anyone to sign under me! That’s basic affiliate marketing, I really need to take this stuff more seriously.

Total affiliate type revenue for February was $3,589.41 ($132.00 a day).

Late again creating this report, spent six days in hospital after a lower back operation, if fully successful not only will I have a lot less pain (been in pain 15+ years), be able to finally have a fun life with my family (missed a lot of fun stuff due to being stuck in bed) but also be able to make a lot more money (make money in many more ways).

OK, back to the money

This month I made about $400 less than last month, but February was only 28 days, so the daily earnings is actually up $2, so not too bad. Didn’t do a great deal of affiliate based work last month, so 99% of this revenue is based on work done previously (good search engine rankings basically).

Total affiliate type revenue for January was $3,911.28 ($126.17 a day).

Little late creating this report, been busy creating new WordPress AdSense/SEO themes fr my use and the site I sell AdSense Themes at.

Pretty much made the same amount this month as I did in December, down a massive $70 odd

My Free Recipe site is still hit with a bad Google penalty (possibly for selling text links) on September 4th costing the site about 8,000 visitors a day and a fair amount of AdSense revenue. In December it recovered for 7 days before again being penalized, have sent another reinclusion request!!!