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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!

A very good month, total affiliate type revenue for September was $4,790.33 (up over $1,000 compared to August which is awesome!). Made $159.68 a day which is ~$15 more a day from affiliate revenue in September compared to August!

After last months server problems that probably cost me $150-$200 in lost revenue, Google has penalised one of my most important sites traffic wise! My Free Recipe site by September 4th had gone from breaking over 10,000 visitors a day to dropping to under 2,000, which sucks big time!

I think I know what the problem is and have rectified the issue and put in a reinclusion request through Google Webmaster tools, but it can take weeks for Google to review a site that’s been penalised (that is if they reinstate the site).

You’ll hear a lot on forums about making money online from Blogspot blogs and Squidoo lens/blog pages mainly because they are completely free, (lot of cheap people trying to make money online )

I rarely use Blogspot as a CMS since I prefer to use hosted WordPress blogs which means I buy a domain and host it (got 2 dedicated servers currently). This costs money (not a lot really, for me ~$1,500 a year for over 100 domains) and a hell of a lot of people who are supposedly serious about making money online are unwilling to spend any money!

I’ve been using Clickbank for about 18 months now to make money as an affiliate, (sign up as a ClickBank affiliate here (it’s free). Currently I don’t have any products in the Clickbank marketplace, (so I only market others products) but can see that would be the way to go to make a lot of money.

I’ve been practicing SEO for over 10 years and offering SEO services for about 8 years, so I could make an SEO product to sell on the Clickbank marketplace (probably will).

Clickbank Affiliate Products

In the meantime I’m a Clickbank affiliate promoting a handful of personally reviewed products, I don’t seriously promote a Clickbank product in a review format if I don’t think the product is worth buying: in other words I’ve bought and used the product and recommend others to use it because I think it’s good.

Was reading a blog post titled If You’re Reading This Blog Post… You Could Get $100,000 Worth of Coaching and Products From Me.

Basically you answer three questions to win some business coaching and products from Rich Schefren. Inspired me to write a post as it hit home to a problem I’ve been having for going on two decades!

1. Do you know what your single greatest constraint is right now? If so, what is it?

My biggest constraint is a physical disability, while at University in my early twenties (studying genetics with an aim to being a research scientist) my lower back got so bad I couldn’t complete my three year Bsc degree. After dropping out of Uni I couldn’t work due to back pain whilst sitting/standing (had to claim government benefits on medical grounds).

Another good month, again important revenue forms have again increased resulting in making $10 more a day from affiliate revenue in August compared to July!.

Would have been more, but the last week of July I had serious server problems that cost quite a bit of AdSense revenue and other revenue! It appears one of my sites had a jump in traffic and this resulted in MYSQL issues, server kept hanging. Just rented a second dedicated server, so hopefully that will solve the problem.

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.

Was reading a post on Digitalpoint forums where someone who was trying to make money online through AdSense had posted they had lost their job! Started a post but it got long so turned it into this post on my site (why waste the content on a forum).

I’ve been doing what this person is trying to do for years (make money online) and I have banned sites making more money than what he reported ($2 a day from AdSense).

Some of my Google banned sites make more than this because they have a LOT of pages, but they are penalised (not really banned as they are still indexed in Google) because the content is thin affiliate content: Google hates thin affiliate (meaning you use the affiliates content with nothing unique) sites, will spider/index them but send very little traffic to them.

Had a good month, most important revenue forms have increased resulting in making 59% more affiliate revenue in July compared to June, that’s $1,228.18 increase (very nice!).

Amazing what a little inspiration can do

This 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 July 2008

June 2008 revenue is listed in italics to the right

Google AdSense Revenue : $1,635.86 ($52.77 a day) $1,203.32 ($40.11 a day)
ClickBank : $628.68 ($20.28 a day) $363.83 ($12.13 a day)
Amazon : $46.73 ($1.50 a day) $98.25 ($3.28 a day)
Private Ads : $957.08 ($30.87 a day) $402.72 ($13.42 a day)

I don’t normally bother to track affiliate based revenue regularly, but think it will be interesting and inspirational to track it from now on, month by month to see how my millionaire plans are progressing.

This 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 June 2008

Google AdSense Revenue : $1,203.32 ($40.11 a day)
ClickBank : $363.83 ($12.13 a day)
Amazon : $98.25 ($3.28 a day)
Private Ads** : $402.72 ($13.42 a day)

June Affiliate Revenue = $2,068.12 ($68.94 a day)
Extrapolation = $25,162.13 a year

Hmm, thought AdSense was going to break $50 a day on average last month.
ClickBank revenue is up, Amazon revenue down.

I have to admit I thought I was good at AdSense ad placement already and have been selling AdSense templates (mainly for WordPress) for about 8 months, I get a lot of practice placing AdSense ad units and see the CTR from a lot of websites.

When you believe you know everything there is to know about a subject you’ve already made a serious mistake, so I’m always open to learning I’ve made a mistake.

Thought I had a Good AdSense CTR

I use AdSense on a lot of sites and over them all my CTR was around 1.7% for May 2008. An AdSense CTR of 1.7% isn’t particularly high, but this includes sites in niches that are just not going to result in a great deal of clicks (like Classic Literature, CTR below 1%!).