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Apr

Online Income Report - March 2008

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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.

  1. Google Pagerank 2 (Lowered for link selling, will return to 4-5 in a few months)
  2. Seomoz PageStrength 3.5 (4) - It stopped tracking .gov links
  3. Alexa Rank 53,549 (48,496)
  4. Technorati Rank 10,523 (14,061)
  5. Technorati Authority 423 (343)
  6. Total Visitors 5,746 (7,999)
  7. Total Pageviews 13,543 (??)
  8. 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.

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Feb

January Earnings

It is the first of the month, which means I will post my income earnings from my blog for last month. I have since changed the main topic of my blog to make money blogging, so I choose to publicly disclose all of my income totals every month so that after my blog is at least a year old we can all look back to see the growth. I will begin with my blog statistics and then move into my January blog earnings.

January 2008 Blog Statistics

*Parentheses represent last months numbers*

  • Google Pagerank: 4 (0)
  • Alexa Rank: 58,481 (110,051)
  • Technorati Rank: 20,986 (61,585)
  • Technorati Authority: 252 (106)
  • Total Visitors: 85,152 (7,392)
  • Total Pageviews: 105,208 (16,908)
  • RSS Subscribers: 325 (119)
  • Reached the 100+ posts and 1000+ comments milestones.

In conclusion, all of my stats had a mammoth improvement, mainly due to my Digg post getting 5650+ diggs. My RSS subscribers have also increased as lots of people are telling their friends about my blog and the techniques I give away for free. In my opinion, a recommendation or a lead is worth far more than a quick buck, so I plan to continue effectively promoting my RSS and to keep writing great posts.

January 2008 Blog Earnings

*Parentheses represent last months numbers*

  • Adsense: $109.03 (Last Month: $12.08)
  • Private Ad Sales: $40 (Last Month: $75)
  • WordHugger/rssHugger clients: $660
  • WordHugger/rssHugger acquired: $12,775.98

Total January Earnings - $13585.01
Total Earnings Per Day - $438.22

In conclusion, January was an amazing month for my ventures. My two largest sites earned a nice amount of money and then were acquired, paying off a large portion of my college tuition. After making more than $30,000 since January 07, I have a good chunk of my tuition paid for. If I play my cards right, I might have all of college paid for by the time the first semester of college starts. This would leave me with four years to expand my blog while going to college.

Now that my largest ventures have been acquired, I expect my February earnings to not be as high. Even with that in mind, I will be promoting my blog vigorously and I also have an incredibly large website in development. I am getting extremely anxious waiting for my programmer to finish coding so that I can let all of you readers join the beta, but for now I am required to keep the details quiet. My blog is about teaching you how to make more money blogging, and I can say that my new site in development will help everyone earn more money and get more traffic. Stay tuned!

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