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1
May
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Every month I make a public blog post about my online earnings for that month. These income posts are never meant to be for bragging purposes. The true purpose of them is so that I can be completely transparent about what I make online, and so that years down the road I can show everyone my journey to wealth. Being completely transparent about what I earn online also allows me to show you my biggest mistakes, and what I have learned from the most. The more mistakes I have, the more I learn from, and the more I show you how to avoid. My monthly online income reports are a summary of where I made my money, and where I lost my money.
Blog Statistics
Numbers in parenthesis are stats from last month to show improvements or declines.
- Google Pagerank 5 (2-4 because of a penalty)
- Seomoz PageStrength 4 (3.5)
- Alexa Rank 135,608 (53,549, the Alexa ranking system changed incredibly)
- Technorati Rank 10,433 (10,523 - it received a penalty or a hand edit because it was under 10k a long time ago and it has only grown since)
- Technorati Authority 493 (423)
- Total Visitors 6,794 (5,746)
- Total Pageviews 14,519 (13,543)
- RSS Subscribers 542 (460)
Advertising
- Adsense $37.79 ($44.78)
- Adtoll - Removed
- Kontera - $7.38 (I have now removed it)
- Paid Reviews - $40 ($80, I had two but one $40 review was free)
- 125×125 Ads - $60 ($90)
Affiliate Marketing
- NeverBlue Ads - $77 myself, $21.75 through my affiliates. (Sign up for Neverblue Ads)
- Market Leverage - $5.25 (I have only done one offer so far, still trying to find time to expand).
Consulting Clients
- Link Building & Viral Marketing - $2400
Other Sales
My Ventures
I have one site that has been coded already, but I am just waiting for the designer to finish and then I will launch it publicly on my blog. Stay Tuned!
Monthly Expenses
- Google Adwords - $43.61 + $5 signup cost
- MSN Adcenter - $0.30 + $5 signup cost (although I have $75 of free spending money now)
Total April Online Revenue - $2749.17
Total April Online Profit - $2695.26
Profit per day - $89.84
Conclusion
April was another very solid month for earnings, and a solid growth for the blog. I reached a pagerank 5 already, which was months ahead of my prediction as well. I have started getting my feet wet with affiliate marketing, and I will enjoy doing that and will continue to spend a lot of time learning it in May. I have referred 19 affiliates to neverblue ads, one of whom is making $200-500/day with it, netting me a nice amount of money through the 2% referral system. Congrats to whoever is utilizing neverblue ads from my post! The only thing that really went down this month was my technorati rank, but considering my technorati authority went up a ton I have to believe it was a manual edit because it happened hours after my post about how much technorati sucks… so I am not too worried about them. My future goals for a few months from now are to be making $100/day profit, and I believe I should be there in a couple of months easy.
How well did you do this month?
3
Apr
While I do realize that a lot of you may have already heard of Squidoo, I still wanted to make a post about it to let the users who haven’t heard about it get a chance at using it, as well as being able to use this post as a reference in future link building posts.
Squidoo is a huge community powered site that allows users to write about topics they are “experts” in. In return for writing these articles (they call them lens’), Squidoo shares half of the advertising revenue with you and also gives you anchor text backlinks inside your articles.
Squidoo has previously been hit with a Google penalty for being so heavily spammed with pharmaceutical and casino related articles, but it is still worth the time to write a lens about something and include links to your site/blog in it, as nobody can compete with free backlinks! Even after the penalty has hit them, hundreds of their pages still rank in the first few pages of Google and send monstrous amounts of traffic to the pages.
This is part 25 of my series called the link building cookbook that aims to be the ultimate link building resource on the web.
1
Apr
Every month I make a public blog post about my online earnings for that month. Let me start off by saying that these income posts are not meant to be bragging in anyway. The purpose of them is so that I can be completely transparent and help you make money blogging. My goal is to show you that there is a lot of money to be made indirectly from your blog, whether it is from career offers, consulting jobs, marketing your other websites through your blog, or using your blog as a launch platform for your startup websites. Something I did not learn until I started blogging for awhile (but I wish I had learned far earlier), is that being an authority about a topic that you enjoy will earn you money from sources outside of your blog. Blogging has helped me network with hundreds of webmasters, and has landed me my highest paying jobs. Before I started blogging, I did lots of search engine optimization, link building, and viral marketing for my own sites, but had no idea that I could do that for other people and make a living from it. If I had not started this blog and shared my secret link building strategies with my readers, my current clients would have never known I was an authority at viral marketing/link building. All in all, lets move onto what everyone is waiting for — my online income report!
Blog Statistics
Parenthesis are stats from last month.
- Google Pagerank 2 (Lowered for link selling, will return to 4-5 in a few months)
- Seomoz PageStrength 3.5 (4) - It stopped tracking .gov links
- Alexa Rank 53,549 (48,496)
- Technorati Rank 10,523 (14,061)
- Technorati Authority 423 (343)
- Total Visitors 5,746 (7,999)
- Total Pageviews 13,543 (??)
- RSS Subscribers 460 (416)
Total March Online Income - $2657.07
Online Income Per Day - $85.71
Advertising
- Adsense - $44.78 ($39.87)
- Adtoll earned a few dollars, but I removed it.
- Paid Reviews - $80 ($120)
- Kontera - $12.29 ($5.71)
- 125×125 Ads - $90
Consulting Clients
- Link Building - $500
- Viral Marketing - $1500
Other Sales
My Ventures
I have a few projects “in the works,” but I have had a few different programmers scam me out of my time and money. I had planned on launching one site this month, but now that will be delayed until late April or early May. It will be worth the wait, however. 
Conclusion
While I did make more money per day in February, there were fewer days in that month. I made over $85 per day this month and I am very happy with that number. I had a lot of mishaps happen with my sites that are being developed and still being able to pull this amount of money is a good thing. I look forward to expanding my blog this April and potentially breaking that 500 RSS reader milestone.
One thing that I am very proud of, is that I quit my part time jobs this month. I now officially make a living completely off the internet. There are not many 18 year olds that can pull that off, so I am glad to be one of them. Since I enjoy the work I do, I do not consider myself working anymore. I find doing internet marketing, link building, seo, and viral marketing a hobby, not a job. Therefore, I am officially retired at 18! Hopefully I can keep that up and expand my monthly revenue even more. With the way this year has been going, I don’t think that will be a problem at all.
30
Mar
In what is most likely the largest blog contest of all time, Gyutae of WinningTheWeb.com currently has $14,575 in sponsored prizes, including a $40 paid review from my blog.
The best part is, it is actual useful products and not just garbage ebooks that are sold expensively. There is even $2100 in straight up cash just for using Gyutae’s referral link to register to the different sites. In a very smart marketing move, Gyutae will not only gain a huge promotion from the blog contest, but most of the prizes are sponsored and he will gain hundreds of referrals. He will get a lot of new readers, new backlinks, and new affiliates which will earn him money all the while he is keeping his costs down.
After the blog contest was originally launched, it spread like wildfire around the web. Gyutae took advantage of the hundreds of new visitors to his site to offer “additional entries” to his contest by basically gaming Stumbleupon and Sphinn, sending another flood of traffic. He is a very smart blogger, and has milked this puppy all month.
By writing this post, I am gaining additional entries to win some of the great prizes he is giving away, and if you want to do the same you better hurry as the winner will be chosen April 2nd.
There are far too many prizes to list here, so if you are interested in joining the contest I recommend you read his post in full.
