$3,202.52 in Online Income For July 09
Summer is flying by really quickly. It seems like I just wrote about my $7,353 in Q2 online income and now its time for another update! July has been a stellar month and I managed to pull in just over $3,200 in online income.
As usual, Ebay was my biggest earner with nearly 33% of the online income. I’m glad I’m not dependant on only one source for the majority of my income, especially since I found out that one of my friends got booted from the Ebay Partner Network (EPN). While the real reason is a mystery, I can only guess it was one of the following:
- He wasn’t promoting related products on his blog. This tells the EPN that you’re not a serious affiliate marketeer and that you don’t know how to internet traffic conversion works.
- Some of the other sites were thin-sites. A site with no content and just affiliate links to products doesn’t usually rank well in the search engines and as a result gets no traffic. This also indicates that you’re a novice.
Ebay is facing problems increasing their revenues. They desperately need people to market their products for them. However, they don’t want people to sign up for the affiliate program and use it subsidise their own purchases. If you make it seem like your internet marketing skills are non-existent there’s a pretty high likelyhood of their rejecting you. But you do have 60 days to try out BANS and get a refund if you don’t like it. If you don’t like BANS you can try this other Ebay plugin for wordpress that is pretty decent.
For more information read my 1,000 word guide on how to make money from BANS.
Anyway, here’s the monthly breakdown for July’s online income:
- Ebay Publisher Network: $1,171.08
- TLA: $491.84
- Linkworth: $271.73
- Adsense: $111.12
- Kontera, RevResponse & Direct Ads: $1090.55
- Amazon: $13.77
- Other/Affiliate: $47.54
Direct Ads were a huge portion of the income as well. But this number goes up every July! Check out last July’s online income numbers. This July, the online portion is almost 40% higher while my dividend income is 40%! Speaking of dividends, I need to write a post about that!
My “other affiliate” is pretty low. It’ll probably be higher next month since I won’t be working and can devote more time to it. Lets see how that works out.
In the past year I’ve experimented a lot on different sites and I’ve found that Ebay’s affiliate program is pretty easy to implement. I’m also experimenting on new things, many of which just don’t work so I scrap them and move on. One of the things I did try a while ago was automated blogging. You create a site that pulls content from other sites and you put adsense around it. Not only did I get little traffic, the site was de-indexed from google and adsense blacklisted the site. Essentially I was warned that my adsense account might be shut down if I continued such blatant theft of content! While I don’t make much money from Adsense, it’s still $1000+ a year.
Anyway, let me know how you guys are doing and what seems to be working for you (or not!).
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August 13th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Wow I did the math and I actually make around $22/month from adsense
, and that is just from pure organic search traffic from posts. I spent most of my time working now so I blog very rarely.
I know once day I will turn these two blogs into some decent money generators. As of now they pay for themselves so I take my time and try to write quality content once in awhile.
My main problem is consistency and staying on topic. I can’t help it, that is just how my mind works. Maybe one day I will figure out how to harness that.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
By the way, how are your Oil trusts doing lately?
August 13th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Oil trusts not so bad – but the ones that are natural gas have pretty much stopped paying out!
luckily ben & obama are setting us up for hyper-inflation so it should work out ok. eventually!
August 14th, 2009 at 4:09 am
How much time would you guess you spent on your ebay sites? A few hours a week while you’re building it up?
It seems like you’re making pretty good money on the ebay sites… why not build more around diff niches?
Great blog and congrats on the nice online income…
August 15th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I enjoy reading your blog. Your numbers inspire me, but I am not sure as a beginner how to start creating passive income. How and where do I start ? I have some dividend and interests from CDs and bonds, but that’s pretty much it.
You mention CANROYs. What do you own and how do you buy those ?
Thanks
Moe
August 15th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I own AAV, PGH, ERF and TYY. If I had to start buying now, I wouldn’t buy anything!
ERF, KMP, TYY are some of the good ones.
August 31st, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Very impressive man! I guess Adsense is pretty small and dinky. Maybe I should move on! The best is to just have a direct advertiser pay $1,000 a month or whatever to post their ad on your site for that duration. That’s when you hit it big.
Financial Samurai
September 5th, 2009 at 3:25 am
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