Dec 03 2007
November Earnings Update
This month has been the first time since June where I didn’t set a record with my earnings. They came in at $1648.80 for November though which I’m still really pleased with. That’s still my second best month ever and considering I was only aiming for a consistent $500 a month by December, I’m really happy to continually exceed my expectations.
Earnings breakdown:
- Google Adsense - $276.21 - Once again I just missed the $300 mark which is frustrating but I can live with that. I’m just happy to continuously be coming close to $300.
- Affiliate Sales - $1188.37 - Another great month for affiliate sales but it’s still the same single program that’s coming through. Trade Doubler did well for me last month with around $80 in commission and that dropped off to $2 this month which is a let down. I need to find ways to get the other programs on board.
- Linkworth & Text Link Ads - $114.22 - This is creeping up slowly without much work on my part so that’s always nice. I had two Linkworth links but one has just been cancelled. I’ve never really had much consistency from them.
- Private Link Sales - $70 - This is where my earnings took the biggest hit. I usually seem to get link sales out of the blue and I didn’t this month. Well, I got two but one of them hasn’t paid yet so I’ll roll that over to next month. I have two recurring links for $10 each as well and it’s nice to be able to count on that. Setting up monthly Paypal payments for link sales is a great way to go.
Next month will be an interesting one because I have $700 worth of private link sales that are due for renewal. I can’t believe a year has gone by since I first discovered this revenue stream! I’m curious to see how many renew, especially since my PR is now 4 instead of 5. I think December could be the month where I break through the $2000 mark if some of the links renew.
December will also be the month when I get my freedom! I don’t start travelling properly until January but I’ll be home in Canada for three weeks starting December 14th and I’ll be able to work full time on my sites. I doubt that will have an impact on my earnings until down the road but it will be interesting to see if it does.
So all in all I’l extremely happy once again and looking forward to seeing what the future holds!
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I've been travelling since January 2008 living off earnings from the web. Follow me as I bum around Asia and beyond, getting up to mischief and working online as I go.
Goood job Kirsty G pretty much stopped me buying traffic to one of my sites creating a $200-$300 hole in my earnings, apparently 1 page sites
will not cut it even if they are relevant! Kinda sucks as they are dictating what we must do. Apart ca I continued to get rewarded with AS & maintaned > $10 a day. Once XMAS is over I will get back to my own sites at present it’s all about work as we do 4-5 months income in 5-6 weeks, cant complain though the other 46 weeks are pretty easy
That affiliate program sounds like a real earner, is there a tiered affiliate signup or can you earn any money from signing up new affiliates?
Congrats! I’m pretty excited about you dumping your day job and traveling. It’s nice to see people actually doing that. Man, I can’t wait until I join the ranks though
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Hi Kirsty,
Very nice! Wish you to break the $2000 mark this month: you will
I sent you an email 3 days ago by the way. Did you get it ?
Four to five months income in 5 to 6 weeks sounds like a damn find deal to me!
WJM nope it’s not tiered. I’ve never really dabbled in that sort of thing at all… might be something to look into more in the future.
47 cheers, I think I’m sort of excited myself. Just a little bit.
Fab I don’t think I got your email, can you send it again? I’m off to a blazing start so far in December with a few of those random link sales that didn’t come last month so it’s looking good!
Thanks for the inside look into your web income portfolio; it’s encouraging in some ways. At least it got my husband’s interest to check out the affiliates… in our own ‘batty’ way for a starter. I don’t know where it will take us, but it’s a beginning!