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.

My Online Article Earning Goals

I've been thinking about my online goals and what I want to achieve with them. I have joined many writing sites and really want to earn a great deal of income with all of them. I know that it is important to write out your goals so you have something to reach for. Therefore, I am writing this to really find a gameplan for what I want to achieve in the short term goals. So here it goes:

Bukisa: It's a fairly new site that I joined a few months back. I am starting to see an increase in earnings but nothing that really has me jumping for joy. My overall goal that I want to achieve by the end of September would be to earn 1,000 page views a day. As of now, it's hard to get over 100 page views. However, with my new experiment on how to earn more money online with article writing I can know I can start really seeing those earnings grow. I've seen many Bukisa articles (including mine) reach the front page of many search engines. So the site is very popular and capable of earning me money online.

Bukisa Goal: 1,000 page views a day by October 1, 2009

Join Bukisa

Xomba: I am really enjoying my earnings from Xomba. I have only been a member and an avid writer for about a month and have already earned over 20 dollars. So I know I can reach my goals of earning 5 dollars a day by the end of September. I am already earning a few cents every day and with my experiment of increase my categories I know I can earn a lot more. I will be writing mostly Xombytes and linking a few articles from my eHow and Bukisa site to help with backlinks and increase search engine rankings.

Xomba Goal: 5 dollars a day by October 1, 2009


Infobarrel: I very nice site that I just started posting articles on. I have actually seen quite a few of my articles end up on the first page of search engines which is great. I am still getting a hang of what Infobarrel accepts for articles so I need to get more use to the site. However, my page views are really great on the site and I have just read a lot of positive feedback with it. I know I can earn about 5 dollars a day using Infobarrel but it may take a bit longer due to the site being fairly new. I have been writing mostly blank articles but I think I will start writing how-to articles. They have better ad placement with how-to articles and I can definitely increase the amount of clicks with it.

Infobarrel Goal: 5 dollars a day by November 1, 2009

eHow: eHow is the first site I started publishing articles on. It is really a great site that has everything a first time writer online needs. With a great forum section full of members that are willing to help you make money online with eHow you can't go wrong. I am already earning over a hundred dollars a month with eHow which is fine. But I know I can earn over 1,000 dollars with all of the success stories I hear from other members. I don't plan on making that any time soon but I know I want to make about 10 dollars a day this year. I plan on expanding the categories I write about on the site and tweak a few articles as well. This will really help me achieve my goals on eHow.

eHow Goals: 10 dollars a day by December 1, 2009

Check out My Ehow Articles

I have my fingers crossed on this. I'll let you know and keep you updated on my progress with my earnings. Hope You enjoyed the post.

Increase Google Adsense Earnings on Xomba and Infobarrel

This month has started off fairly well for my adsense earnings. As of today, I have earned money from my adsense account every single day. It is such an amazing thing to know that I can earn money with Google Adsense. I have been a member for a while and would be surprised if I earned anything after a month. I owe it all to my content written on Xomba and Infobarrel. As you can see, as of this post, I do not have any Adsense on my blog. The only earnings I am getting is from Infobarrel and Adsense. I wanted to share with you a few tips I have learned to really increase your Google Adsense earnings. Read on.

First of all, you have to keep writing articles every day to start seeing an improvement in Adsense earnings. Many people fail to do this and never see any substantial revenue coming in. They just believe that they can write 15 or 20 articles and start making 1,000 dollars a month.You need to make sure you are putting the time and effort to writing online if you ever want to see the benefits.

Make sure you are doing some research on topics for your articles. This is something that I learned half way during my writing online. If you really want to make money online writing you will have to write about topics that people are searching for. The best thing about article writing is that you can write about all of the topics as long as you do the research. It is not like writing on a blog where it is very niche. You can write a few articles on all of the popular topics on the web.

Make sure you are linking to your other articles. If you can get a reader to stay on your articles you will be able to make money online. Therefore, maybe at the end of each article you should link them to a related one. This will keep them on the site and reading your articles with your adsense code on it. This is a step that I learned from my eHow articles. I plan on linking related articles to all of my articles on Xomba, eHow, Infobarrel and Bukisa.

Include keywords in your article body and your title. This will make your articles rank higher on search engines and earn you more page views. Usually, more page views means you will earn more adsense revenue. Also, certain keywords written in the body will cause it to become a click ad. Have you ever read an article on eHow or Xomba and seen the double bar line under a certain phrase like "make money online?" That means that the phrase has turned into a pop-up ad. This can earn you even more money with adsense on Infobarrel and Xomba.

I have a few goals that I really want to achieve this month in terms of adsense earnings. I hope I can achieve them all. Hope you enjoyed my post.