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.

Monthly Income Report: October 2009

Here is my next post about my earnings that I make online. In these posts I write about what I did in that month, my earnings and what I plan on doing to increase my earnings next month. I know I didn't post my September Income report which was a bad idea on my part. The thing is I haven't been able to do a lot of work online because I've been preoccupied offline. But I'm here and trying to make up for a lost month of none income reporting. I really hope you enjoy this post on my monthly income. It is probably one of my favorite things to post about.

Keep in mind though, I did make about the same amount of income in September that I did in August. So there was no huge increase or decrease in earnings for the month of September. I also didn't really do anything new in terms of tactics to increase my earnings (which is probably why I earned the same amount of income).

October was a fine month for me and I got a good amount of work accomplished. The main thing that I have been doing for this month was more on the editing side. I have been tweaking and fixing all of my articles online rather than posting new ones. I already have a great deal of articles spread throughout the Internet so I was having trouble coming to grips with why my income did not increase. I have over 500 pages of content on the web as of now but did not make a great deal of money. Some writers say you should be making at least a dollar a day on each of your articles. As you will tell by this report I am far from that number. So I began to browse and read through many successful online writer blog's and articles. I just wanted to see what they were doing that I was not really getting. I am still a bit of a noob when it comes to online writing so I am always looking for helpful hints.

There were a few things that I saw and read that I clearly was not doing. I have been bookmarking many of my articles on Xomba and Redgage but that is not the only thing I should be doing. I saw that many writers also post related articles at the bottom of the Ehow articles, post there referral link on Xomba articles, post comments on other Redgage content and a few other things that I was not accomplishing. So I decided to edit all of my existing articles before I continue with new posts. I think I can really boost my earnings by at least $200 every month if I do this correctly. Before I get into that let me show you my income report:

Earnings Report for October:

Ehow: $93.56
Bukisa: $8.16
Adsense (Xomba, Infobarrel, Hubpages): $7.18
Amazon Associates: $0.00
CashCrate: $21.03
TreasureTrooper: $0.00

Total: 129.93 (1.02 increase)

I made about a dollar increase this month from August. I know it is really not a lot of money at all. But it is an on going process that I really have a lot of faith (through hard work) in.

What I Learned In October:

I learned that you have to work smart as well as hard. You can't just post hundreds of articles on a site and expect to rake in the money. Especially if this is your first time on 'the job.' All of the great investors and millionaires (Rockefeller) started from nothing but worked hard to achieve an empire. The thing is I need to work smart now that I have a good amount of articles on the world wide web.





Goals for November:

This month I am going to really continue on editing all of my articles on the internet. I have a lot of things to tweak about them that I am going to outline here. I am going to edit my Ehow, Bukisa and Xomba articles. The main thing I will do is post related content at the end of all of my articles and tweak my keywords. Also, at the end of my Bukisa and Xomba articles I will post my referral link so I can increase my network. I am also going to continue bookmarking all of my articles on Xomba and Redgage. So here it is:

Edit Articles For:
Ehow (Related Content, Keywords)
Xomba (Related Content, Keywords, Referral Link)
Bukisa (Related Content, Keywords, Referral Link)

Bookmark Articles For:
Ehow
Xomba
Bukisa
Hubpages
Infobarrel

I hope you enjoyed my post. I will try to update my blog more often and not have that two month hiatus again. Leave comments about what you think and if I should change any of my tactics.

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.

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!

Monthly Income Report: June 2009

This will be the first installment of my monthly income that I earn online. I am very excited to be posting this because I get to see where I earned and how I can improve for the next month. I hope this will also give you an idea of how to make money on the Internet. I will also write about things that I did during the month and how that would have effected my earnings. At the end I will probably write what I will do next. So I will write what I did in the month, my earnings, things I learned and what will happen the next month. I hope You will enjoy:


What I Did in June

This month I have been focusing a lot on Ehow and getting more articles on there. I have read so many successful stories that I wanted to maximize my articles and have proper SEO on each. I have been apart of Ehow since January but really did not start posting articles until mid May. My goal was to reach 500 articles my July and I come pretty close with about 487. I will probably just write the rest of them throughout July when I have the free time.

I also just recently changed my Web site greatly to the one you see now. It may take a few more changes as the months come along so I can have a better layout and implement Google Adsense.
I have been looking for ways to get my site more popular since I started but I have not been very successful. I only use the back links technique which is working some what but I will need to increase my page views. If I can increase my page views I will have more people Adsense earnings. I hope it will be that simple but nothing really is.

I signed up with Xomba and plan on writing mainly for that site this month. I want to get around 250 articles by the end of July to really see some substantial passive earnings come in. Xomba is a bit like eHow but the only thing is they share Adsense earnings with you. You simply sign-up your Adsense publishing number and start writing to make money. I have seen a good number of people earning a lot from Xomba so I will see how successful it is for me.


Advertising my Gpt sites will be another main goal for the July earnings. My hopes are to reach the minimums for my monthly sites and keep earning money from the daily ones. I have been doing fine with Gpt sites so far but no where near the ones who are earning $1,000+ from them.
OK I'll shut up now and Post my Earnings.

Income for June

eHow: $87.24
Bukisa: $8.69
Adsense: $1.77
Bidvertiser: $0
CashCrate: $0.70
TreasureTrooper: $2.95
GetPaidTo: $1.00
ChillinCash: $0.52
DealBarbiePaysFast: $0.34
CashTroops: $0.34

Total: $103.55

Not much but that month I was really focused on eHow. Now I will have more room to work on everything else (hopefully). I was really invested in eHow because I knew it was reliable.

What I Learned

It's important to find a place that you can work in peace. I was really struggling to look for a spot where I can sit down comfortably and do all of my work for the day. I tried going to the library, locked in my room upstairs, the living room downstairs and sometimes sitting on my bed. For me, the best place to do my work with efficiency and speed is at the library. I am not so distracted with all of the things I can do at my house and it is very quite. I think in July I will plan on making more frequent trips to the library and get friendly with the librarian.




Eating before you start working hard is a must for me. There were some days where I would forget to eat enough food and my brain would be gone in less than 2 hours. Eating a good nutrition filled food is great for the mind and body.

Breaks are really a great thing and something I need to take more of. I can get so much more done if I take a short 5 minute break and get back to work than if I force me to get it all done in one sitting.

Goals for This Month

In July I will be focus a lot more on Xomba, Bukisa and GPT sites. I will be trying to diversify my income streams and hopefully have money coming in from all of them. It may be a little bit more challenging for me because I have been use to working on just one site (eHow). But I'm sure I can get it done.

Goals for End of July

These goals are to keep me motivated and so I have something to work for. I may not reach all of them but I can try my hardest to come close.

Xomba: 250 articles
Gpt Sites: Reach the minimums
Bukisa: 500 page views a day

Thanks for Reading