2008-10-26

Earnings Report: October 20-26 2008  

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Well, not a bad week. Some earnings from Amazon affiliate links, and even some cash from putting adverts in my RSS feeds.

Adsense: $1.66
Scratchback: $0.00.
Widgetbucks: $0.00.
Amazon Affiliates: $1.32
Squidoo: $0.00.
Total $2.96 for the week.

$12.12 for 10 weeks work.

So I'm aiming for a dollar a day from each site. And I'm getting just over a dollar a week from 5 sites.

2008-10-19

Earnings Report: October 13-19 2008  

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Well, not a record week - and a bit of a lack of posting on my behalf if I'm being honest. But at least some payment is still trickling in. Whether or not it pays for my hosting for some of my sites will be another question!

Adsense: $2.50
Scratchback: $0.00.
Widgetbucks: $0.00.
Amazon Affiliates: $0.00.
Squidoo: $0.00.



$9.14 for 9 weeks work.

If I was aiming to monetise successfully, a viable target from my research seemed to be around $1 per day, per site. Not a huge amount, but if a site could raise that with a minimum of upkeep, and that could be scaled across numerous sites, I could make the start of a reasonable second income, say $10 per day, $70 per week, $280 per month and $3360 per year. Enough to pay for all hosting, and make a really small profit - enough to then start adding more.

Instead, I'm currently managing $1 per week across five sites (Three on blogspot, and two self-hosted).

That's a looooooooooooooooooong way off.

2008-10-12

Location, location, location for adverts? Earnings - October 6-12, 2008  

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Well, here are the figures:

Adsense: $3.87.
Scratchback: $0.00.
Widgetbucks: $0.00.
Amazon Affiliates: $0.00.
Squidoo: $0.00.

$6.64 for 8 weeks work

My best Adsense week since starting this tracking, and it mainly appears to have come from one blog, which I tweaked recently to have bigger Google Adsense adverts in a more prominent position for eyeballs.

I actually implemented it before last week's report - when I earned a record $0.00. And that's despite the fact traffic has been similar for both weeks, so either it took a week to really start to kick in, or I've just been lucky - the next couple of weeks should tell!

2008-10-05

Earnings report: Sep 29-Oct 5, 2008 - The credit crunch hits me?  

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Well, things really have fallen apart this week. Whether it's the credit crunch and economic recession, or some other disaster, I don't know, but I've earnt nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch.

Adsense: $0.00.
Scratchback: $0.00.
Widgetbucks: $0.00.
Amazon Affiliates: $0.00.
Squidoo: $0.00.

The irony being that I've actually moved a couple of ad placements for what should have been an increase in responses!

So the total is: $2.77 for 7 weeks work

2008-10-04

Widgetbucks offering a $25 new sign-up bonus  

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It's not often you can get such a big boost when you sign up for an affiliate advertising scheme, so here's a link to earn $25 if you sign up to Widgetbucks as a new publisher.

So if you were considering trying it out, do it during October, and you'll get a $25 bonus when you reach $50 total! Click here to sign up and have a chance of getting a free $25 bonus.

I can't tell you how Widgetbucks compares with Adsense etc in terms of performance yet, as it's still early days. But their widgets are certainly attention grabbing - or at least I hope so (look to the right!)

2008-10-03

How will the credit crunch and economy affect blogging for money?  

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Not a straight test of affiliate advertising etc, but it's obvious that the effects of the economic downturn and credit crunch don't just affect big business and mainstream media.

Not only do advertising budgets get cut first when businesses need to cut costs (Even though a lot of people advise spending your way through hard times to make the most of the opportunities), but a lot of the products that tend to be advertised online and on blogs are those that are the first to be cut from individual's spending.

After all, if you're worried about your job, feeding your family and paying the mortgage, are you going to invest in some new software, upgrade your iPod, or buy a new blog template for example?

So it's going to be tough for any blogger who is looking to create a primary or secondary income - at the same time, there is still a huge amount of opportunity:-

Besides creating money saving blogs and tips, there's also another benefit to the fact it's harder to monetise blogs - less competition.

The harder it gets, and the more people realise the amount of work it can take to make a decent revenue from blogging, the less people will be keen on spending the time - especially if they're already struggling. After all, most people could make far more by simply getting a second job delivering pizzas etc.

Which means those people who keep pushing, and keep going are likley to reap more of the rewards that are left. And as you can see from my previous earning reports, I'm definitely doing this more for fun than to make myself rich - but if less competiton increases my earnings, I'm not going to complain!