Affiliates Tested

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!

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

Well, not the greatest of weeks, despite traffic still being ok.

Adsense: $0.01
Squidoo: $0.00
Scratchback: $0.00.
Widgetbucks: $0.00
Amazon: $0.00.


So $0.01 for a week's worth of reasonable traffic, and no clicks. Since the 24th August, 2008, I've made a whopping $2.77 for 6 weeks work! And that's despite moving some of my Adsense ads around for a better response.

Back to the drawing board!

Despite getting more traffic then ever across my sites, it's a rather disappointing week this week. Sometimes increasing traffic doesn't always lead to an increase in revenue - if only it was that simple.

And on with the figures:
Adsense: $0.37.
Amazon: £0.00.
Scratchback: $0.00.
Squidoo: $0.00.

So the reward for a busy week's work? $0.37.

I also have my Twitter account on Twitads, but no bidders yet.

Part of the purpose of this blog is to help me keep track of where my efforts are being directed, and hopefully focus them a little better, due to ever increasing financial commitments.
So my first earning report, on 4 blogs, ranging in age from 2 years to this one, and six Squidoo lenses is:

Adsense: $0.60.
Amazon: 2 clicks. No order = $0.
Scratchback: $0.00.
Squidoo: $0.00.

Total earnings: $0.60.

If I had been solely concentrating on blogging and websites to make direct revenue, I'd be rather disappointed that two years and a lot of hours hadn't had a bigger impact. Luckily my main focus is on expanding my knowledge, contacts and opportunities in my career - and that's where blogging has really paid off so far.

Hopefully, though, I can improve on the financial return as well...maybe a whole $1 next week?