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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.

1. Google Pagerank 5 (2-4 because of a penalty)
2. Seomoz PageStrength 4 (3.5)
3. Alexa Rank 135,608 (53,549, the Alexa ranking system changed incredibly)
4. 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)
5. Technorati Authority 493 (423)
6. Total Visitors 6,794 (5,746)
7. Total Pageviews 14,519 (13,543)
8. 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

1. NeverBlue Ads - $77 myself, $21.75 through my affiliates. (Sign up for Neverblue Ads)
2. 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

• PR7 Blog Links - $100 (sold the last spots)

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

1. Google Adwords - $43.61 + $5 signup cost
2. 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?

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

• PR7 Blog Links - $430

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.

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 4
2. Seomoz PageStrength 4
3. Alexa Rank 48,496 (58,481)
4. Technorati Rank14,061 (20,986)
5. Technorati Authority 343 (252)
6. Total Visitors 7,999 (85,152 from Digg post)
7. RSS Subscribers 416 (325)

In conclusion, the blog has had a healthy growth. While the visitor numbers are far lower, the overall daily readers has improved. Last month’s numbers were a bit inflated because of my really popular post that hit the frontpage of Digg and sent tens of thousands of visitors. If my blog grows at this rate every month, I would be happy.

Total February Online Income - $2,987.81
Online Income Per Day - $103.02

Advertising

• Adsense - $39.87
• Adtoll - $22.23
• Paid Reviews - $120
• Kontera - $5.71

Consulting Clients

• Link Building - $1000
• Viral Marketing & Link Building - $1500

Other Sales

• Sold the code to an old site of mine - $300

In conclusion, this month wasn’t even close to last months $13,585, but I expected that from day one. Selling my sites for a large sum of money was a one time sale, but I have since been replacing it with new recurring clients and increasing income. The income is not a lot, but it is becoming a lot more stable and growing. I know a lot of people who would die to make over $100/day from home.

Adtoll Experiment Case Study
While Adtoll did make over $22, I have to say I am very disappointed with the outcome. I managed to get 26 new clients signed up under me, and yet out of those 26 I had only made 15 cents! Even when Adtoll gave away $20 in free advertising I have yet to see any affiliate income. Another sad fact is that the network ads that Adtoll displays are irrelevant and very low paying. It is almost better to have a completely ad-free blog and then sell your own advertising, because if you use Adtoll and do not fill your own inventory you will just be throwing away money. I would much rather have a visitor on my blog for an extra 30 seconds than 2 pennies for him to go visit a flashing banner ad.

The Adtoll Result
I am going to “keep what works” and “drop what does not.” In other words, I completely removed the 160×600 banner advertisement as it was having a lot of flashing colors and had a very low click-thru ratio, with a very high noticability. I did not sell any 160×600 advertisements so I have replaced it with Adsense like I originally had. I am going to be keeping my 125×125 advertisements as they have been selling well (and they should because it is only $3 to advertise for an entire month!). I will also keep my top banner ad with Adtoll until the last sponsored advertisement has run its course. Would I recommend Adtoll? — Only if you can sell your own advertising space.

My Upcoming Ventures
I am very proud to say that I have THREE big websites being developed. Unfortunately, I only expect one of those three to be ready for a public launch this March. I will give you more information as it gets closer to the release date. The only information I can tell you right now is that it is going to be a social media site that will help bloggers and webmasters like you promote yourselves and make money. Stay Tuned!

How much did you earn in February?