I really should have posted this update before my friend arrived on August 2nd and the Olympic chaos began, but it slipped through the cracks. But it hasn’t been forgotten and July turned out to be a great month coming it at nearly $2280. I hadn’t even realised I’d earned so much until just now when I pulled the numbers together. Considering how much I spent over the past month, that’s good news.
Earnings breakdown:
- Google Adsense – $359 - After falling last month, Adsense is slowly creeping back up but it’s still below the $400 mark that I reached a few months ago.
- Affiliate Sales – $1130Â - I had a good month boosted up by nearly $100 in insurance sales through Clixgalore and $220 in van insurance sales.
- Linkworth & Text Link Ads – $150 -Â Same as last month. No changes to report which is surprising given my fall in PR across most of my sites that use Text Link Ads.
- Private Link Sales – $640 - Link sales came through this month with a few renewals and five new sales, all on my Working Holiday Insurance site. That site was miraculously awarded a PR5 (it has since fallen to PR4) and I decided to take advantage of that while I could and sold nearly $500 in new links as a result.
Ok it’s time for bed. I’m trying to cram work in anywhere I can. It’s hard when I’ve also got to catch up on emails and Facebook stuff. Too busy! One more week and I will be able to spend my days however I want to and that’ll mean a lot of time soaking up free wifi in cafes.
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Hi Kirsty, I’ve been dropping in from time to time since your email. I really admire what you’re doing. I’m just interested, how many sites do you have? And when you’re earning over $2000 a month, what’s the profit in that after you take away costs of running the sites? Don’t worry, I’m not about to plagiarise your work! Maybe you could do a post on this? Xiexie… Ant
You still got it
Must be nice having money still coming in while out having a blast.
Nice earnings. Better than what I did last month.
I’m still wondering if link sales are good or bad in the long run. Seems you are constantly making a good chunk of your income from them, but the drop in PR (and possibly in SERP position) that comes with them has so far kept me away.
Ant I’ve got about ten sites and it doesn’t cost me much at all to run them. I’ve done lots of posts on the sites I run. I did a list of them not long ago but I forget where I put it. Just scroll back a few pages and it should come up.
Weltreise I wonder the same thing. I’ve been approached by people lately wanting permanent links in my old posts. It won’t really affect the look of the site, but I wonder what the impact of more outgoing links will be so I’ve turned them down. I prefer to sell links on a monthly or yearly basis so if I begin to notice an impact I can nix them. I’ve had drops in PR but never a drop in SERPs, at least not for the keywords I keep track of.
Wow, I definitely hope to get to that point some day. Does all of this income come from all different sites that you run? Is it possible to do this well on just one?