I’m travelling at the moment so posts to Nerdy Nomad might be a bit sparse in July and I figured I should do my best to at least start off well with my earnings report for June. I’m up from last month and just a bit short of the $2000 mark. I came in at $1970 for June and, once again, I’m pretty happy about it.
Earnings breakdown:
- Google Adsense – $348 - This was the first month that Adsense fell in a long time. It dropped about $50 from May and I think Google’s mysterious smart pricing is to blame. My London site was the main victim and for a couple of weeks I was only earning a few cents per click on that site. I think things are back on track now though.
- Affiliate Sales – $1182Â - Same old story with affiliates sales. The usual star performer is still doing well but everything else is pulling up the rear. I sold some van insurance for $60 with Clix Galore, but that’s about it.
- Linkworth & Text Link Ads – $150 - Text Link Ads is on the decline. dropping from $145 in May to about $125 this month. I think that’s due to Travoholic.com falling from PR4 to PR3. I’m not too worried about this as it’s relatively not that big of a drop in income.
- Private Link Sales – $290 - It was a pretty bad month for link sales but I didn’t make any effort to sell them, so I can’t really complain. I had $30 worth of subscription links and a sale for $260 to a company selling travel insurance. the reason I got so much out of them is because I sold the link using UK prices and they went for it. Sweet!
I’m annoyed that I didn’t get the websites I was working on finished, but I’m hoping I can squeeze some work in over the coming weeks and have them finished before August which will be a complete write off as far as doing work goes. I had expected June to be a huge month because I thought I had $1100 in link sales lined up. It turns out that those might not come through until July, if at all, so the massive month I was expecting is just average.
July and August could potentially be writeoffs for productivity. I will try to work while I’m travelling but if I dont have wifi I might not get much done. August will certainly be work-free as I’ll have friends to host and will be filling my time with watching table tennis and weightlifting, among other things. It’ll be interesting to see if my earnings are effected. Hopefully I’ll get a nice surprise and not see any drop.
Not a bad month! Hopefully when you’re taking time off in August you’ll not feel bad about not getting work done. You’re traveling so enjoy it!
Are you going to be in Southeast Asia at all? I’ll be in Bangkok starting in August and would love to sit down with you have you explain this stuff to me. I’ll trade a dinner for it.
Sometimes its good to forget about the web stuff and more often or not you might be pleasently surprised when previous months hard work starts to trickle through and pay off.
Well done you should be proud of yourself! That’s a pretty liveable wage in most of the world. The hard thing with internt marketing is that the payoff is often months down the line from the effort! You are reaping the rewards now though
Not bad at all Kirsty. Where are you now?? No doubt in a place where $2k will keep you tied over for a month quite well! doing business by the pound is great if you are spending in most other currencies. As Elizabeth said…enjoy it, you should be pleased with that and there is more to come next month I am sure.
My main source of income is affiliate sales also. I’m working on Adsense…there’s just so much to figure out with it. Great job!
Ya, once again I’m pretty happy. I just remembered that my goal at the beginning of the year was to be earning $2000 per month by the end of this year so I’m really happy to be coming in around that mark.
Matt I’m in China now doing a bit of travelling. Then heading back to Beijing for August. I will be in SE Asia at some point before the end of the year but when depends on whether I can volunteer in Sichuan or not. And on Chinese visas. Keep in touch and hopefully we can meet up.
“The usual star performer is still doing well but everything else is pulling up the rear.”
Many would like to know who that star performer is, can’t you make money by signing sub-affiliates?
Thanks, as always, for posting your earnigns. They give me such inspiration to get my site off the ground!
@Webjourneyman: no, she can’t.
Could write an Ebook, “How I earn $1000 plus per month with my favorite affiliate programs”, 20 pages, sell for $50 each.