Monthly Income Report: July 2009

This is my second installment of my monthly income report. My oh my it has been a busy month. These reports will give me an assessment of where I am at in my online money goals and what I may need to change. It is such a great way to really help me as well as give you some ideas of how to make money online. As I did before, I am going to write about what I did this month, things that I have learned and what I plan on doing next month. These monthly post may probably be the best part about my blogging. I learn so much from it and I hope you take something from it as well. I hope you like it:

What I Did in June

If you visited my blog on weebly you may have noticed that I switched to blogger. I thought this was a better place for me because it offers so much more options, templates and it ranks so much higher in search engine traffic. What sucks is that I may have to change all of my urls from my old site in articles to the new one. As for now, I just posted a link to my old site to the new one here. I think once I plan on getting a domain name I can really start seeing my business grow.

This month I have been focusing on spreading my writing across several sites on the web. I had to take a break with my eHow articles to focus on my other sites. I was really focusing mainly on Xomba and Bukisa. Also, towards the end of the month I joined Infobarrel and started writing articles for them as well. They had a contest at Infobarrel that could earn you 90% adsense revenue if you earned over 30 points. I earned above 50 points but I still never got an email informing me of my prize. I'll keep you updated if I do.

I also started looking into affiliate marketing for another stream of income. I heard it was a great source of passive income for online earners. I have been looking into ClickBank and Commission Junction mostly. I'm not sure which one I want to try though. There are no penalties for using both on my site though. But the main difference I hear with ClickBank and Commission Junction is in the products they sale. ClickBank sales a lot more eBooks and paid Memberships which can earn me a good amount of commission from that. However, I hear they don't give me a banner and just a simple link or "hopper." Commission Junction, on the other hand, sales actual commercial products that must be mailed to customers. I hear they offer a lot more products to promote and because the products are from places like eBay it may be easier to sell. Also, they give you banners which you could post a several places.


But before I get into all of that here is my Earnings Report for July the brackets indicate the increase or decrease in earnings for the last month:

Earnings Report for July

eHow: $115.71 ($28.47 increase)
Bukisa: $6.16 ($2.53 decrease)
Adsense (Xomba and Infobarrel): $22.65 ($20.88 increase)
Bidvertiser: $0 ($0 increase)
CashCrate: $3.81($3.11 increase)
TreasureTrooper: $5.33 ($2.38 increase)
GetPaidTo: $0.25 ($0.75 decrease)
CashLagoon: $0.25

Total: $154.16 ($50.16 increase)

Still not much but I increase my earnings by $50 extra bucks this month.

What I Learned

I finally found a few places where I could work comfortably and efficiently online. Working in a place that has little to no noise helped me concentrate on my goals online. Also, I will no longer try to study with headphones in my ear. I never discovered how much more difficult it is to concentrate with even classical music playing in the background. I was so glad when my headphones broke one day because I would not have discovered this. I work so much faster and better with no noise coming in.

I also learned a bit more about keywords and how important they are in getting on the front page of search engines. You can't have too little or too many keywords in your writing or you will not rank well. Too many and search engines may think you are a spam site while too little will cause your pages to end up on page 20 of search engines.


I also learned that it might be better to focus on less to earn more. This month I was trying to get referrals for so many different sites that it really spread me thin. It would be so much better for my business if I got referrals for maybe 4 sites rather than trying to get them to 12. That is why I may not be advertising a lot of my GPT sites this month. The only ones I may focus on getting referrals from are CashCrate and TreasureTrooper. I may add one other GPT site that pays daily if the other 2 really start earning some income from referrals.

Also, I am completely done with Bidvertiser. I haven't gotten one click from them and the ads that they show on my blog are just terrible. Most of them never match the topics on my blog so I would rather not even have it on my blog.

Goals for This Month (August)

This month I will still keep writing more articles on Xomba and Infobarrel. I was very impress with the amount I earned from Google Adsense for my first month. That is a lot more than what I have been earning from eHow my first month. It kind of makes me wonder what eHow is really doing in terms of paying there writers. It makes me think that they are holding out on a lot of hard working eHow writers.

Also, I am going to only work on CashCrate and TreasureTrooper for surveys this month. It will help me focus on just earning a good amount of income with them and not spread myself thin with GPT sites.

I think I may join an affiliate marketing program this month as well and see how that goes. I may join both ClickBank and Commission Junction as soon as I get a bit more research on them.

I have to head back to school at the end of August so I expect my earnings my fluctuate due to me getting ready to head back. I have a lot of supplies I have to get and just getting ready for school again. I plan on working online as I go to school but it may not be as much as I have been doing since the summer. So instead of doing about 8-10 articles a day I may have to reduce it to 4-5 articles on the weekdays and maybe 8 articles on the weekends. But hey, I may not do any articles on the weekends. It's college I'm going to! Therefore, I'll probably be doing what every clique college kid does on weekends ;).

Hope you enjoyed me Earnings report for July. Hope I can increase my profits by double the amount I earned this month. Fingers crossed!