Monthly Income Report: January 2010

I know that it has been a while since I started one of these but I have been really this past few months and have not had time to assess my online work. But, it will be done this month and I hope I will learn from the many mistakes that I have had. I have made several changes to how I work and what I do online and off. Some of them have helped me through a lot and some have not. So, I think I will assess what I have done this month, show you my earnings and then say some ideas I will do for the future.

In the month of December I happened to be on of the unlucky persons to be shut out of the Google Adsense account. So I can no longer make money online using the famous google adsense. I was pretty mad at first but I looked at my earnings and discovered I really wasn't making anything from Adsense anyway. I also can focus more on a few sites to make money rather than several. I will no longer write for sites like Infobarrel because you can only make money through Adsense. I think the adsense shutdown has helped me in getting more focused on a few sites rather than several.

Another crazy thing that happened in the past few months was the launch of eHow's UK site. That site has caused more trouble for us American eHow earnings than ever before. In January, several earners and writers of ehow saw there earnings decrease day after day. People began writing more and more in the forums and soon Rich (one of the community managers) finally wrote what was happening. Basically,eHow was taking out U.S. articles and posting them on the UK site, that sounds good right? Wrong! Because the thing they did not mention was that people clicking on ads on the UK version of your article did not earn you money. So they were taking our articles which have been making us and eHow money for years and not paying us when they posted them on the UK site. People began to protest until eHow got there act together, they soon took all the U.S. articles off the UK site. And, soon we might even get paid (or hopefully reimbursed) for having articles on the UK site.

I started working on triond and squidoo this month as well. I only made a whopping .67 cents but I think I may need to do a bit more research on triond to see what really makes money from it. That goes the same for Squidoo because I have not worked on anything like it before. I want to increase my earnings on sites like eHow and Bukisa before I start on any other site though. I did posts a few articles and Squidoo lenses just to get an idea of each site. But I will do more research and write fro each of them exclusively as my earnings increase.

If you have been following my blog for a bit you may have noticed that I changed it a lot. I have a new wordpress them for it and I think it works better and looks a bit more professional than my basic blogspot ugly blue background. I hope this will attract more visitors and keep them on the site for longer. I think I am becoming more satisfied with the look for the blog but it still may change as my knowledge increases.

Another thing I really started getting into was Amazon Associates. I really promoted amazon links a lot this month to see how I did. I may need to do a lot more research on how to place and where to place an Amazon link so I can really maximize my profit on the site. But anyways, here is my earnings for January:

eHow: $84.93
Triond: $0.67
Bukisa: $6.23
Amazon: $4.50
Regage: 9.33 (total)

Total: $105.66


Not much but I think I need to make a lot of changes this month if I want to increase my earnings. Theproblem that I have had ever since I started was having a game plan before I got to 'work.' If I don't have one tend to get lazy and never get anything accomplished. That is why I have become organized when I start working online. My goals are very specific and it is not in terms of money. Instead, I plan on working in terms of tasks. That will give me something to do every day when I get up and go to the computer. On the weekdays, I plan on writing 2 articles a day on eHow and Bukisa. And, I will also bookmark 5 posts on sites like redgage. Along with that, I need to finish reposting the articles on site like Xomba and Infobarrel to sites like Triond or Bukisa because I can't earn from Adsense. But I will only do that on the weekends. I will also be doing some work on the weekends. That will also include 2 articles a day and 10 bookmarks because I have more time on my hands. So:

Weekdays: 2 articles a day, 5 bookmarks a day
Weekends: 2 articles a day, 10 bookmarks a day

This should keep me on a schedule and really help me focus on the 'work' that I have to do rather than the money. If I do the work I really automatically see the money come in. It is simple as that and I should see some improvements in how I work.

Hope this helps you in making money online. Good Luck. I'll try to keep you posted.