Monthly Income Report: August 2009

This is my third installment of my online monthly reports. I have been working for a total of three months online since making this blog. I am very excited to be adding another earnings report. This month has been very hard for me because I start school again halfway through the semester. I have had to get ready for classes, take on homework again, meet new friends and catch up with old ones.

What I Did in August

Well, I spent a lot more time on Xomba this month adding more articles to increase my adsense revenue. I was hoping it would have increased by two folds this month but it did not. It didn't even come close to that. But, as with working online, it always gets better as the time goes on. Even though it didn't earn me a lot of money in the first month doesn't mean it will not earn something in a year. I love how residual online income works.

Also, I started doing a Xomba Experiment to increase my page views and earn me even more money online. I felt that it did help earn me more page views. If you didn't read it you should definitely take a look. It may even give you ideas on how to make money online in general.

I finally got my own domain at spillguy.com. I think it is a great achievement that I had the guts to really get my own domain. I don't have to worry about google deleting my blogger blog and I can have a more professional look to the site.

I also started getting into social bookmarking a bit more to increase my earnings online. As of now, I am only using social bookmarks which can earn me money online. The ones I am using so far are Redgage and Xomba. I have gotten a good amount of money from each for the small amount of articles a bookmarked.

So this is my earnings report for August. Honestly, I did not do as well as I hoped:

Earnings Report for August

eHow: $104.78
Bukisa: $5.29
Adsense (Xomba and Infobarrel): $16.90
CashCrate: $3.82
TreasureTrooper: $0.16

Total: $130.95 ($23.21 decrease)

I made a decrease in earnings this month. Oh No! Oh well, I just will have to try harder the next month. I have faith because the content I posted this month will start to mature and earn me money the next (I hope).


What I Learned

I learned that online work is still work. If you want to see the benefits you will have to put in the time. I am at school now which means I will have less time to make money online. However, I still will put a certain amount of time dedicated to making money on the Internet. I plan on posting 15 pages of content every day. Now that does not mean 15 pages of articles. At the most, I may do 5 articles a day and 10 bookmarks a day. I can do the bookmarks very fast and it helps to promote my online work.

Goals for This Month (September)

This month I am going to focus much more on Infobarrel. I have a good number of articles on Xomba now so I can start spreading my articles around even more. I think Infobarrel is another great site for adsense earnings because they rank fairly well for being a new site. Also, they will give you 90% of the adsense revenue. So infobarrel is going to be the next piece of the puzzle for my online work.

I also plan on bookmarking a lot more articles on Xomba, Bukisa, Ehow and Infobarrel so I can earn even more money online. This will help increase my page views, give my article a backlink and hopefully make me money.

I hope you enjoyed my August earnings report. I'll keep posting on my progress and any advice I learn along the way.