Archive for September, 2008
How Much Money Do I Make Online?
Sep 4th
I was asked by AnotherMMOBlog a little while back to reveal how much money I make online. I know that its been a few months that I haven’t disclosed earnings but this blog brings in a nice little supplemental income every month.
Here is what the breakdown for last month looked like:
Private Ad Sales: $60
Private Review Sales: $60
ReviewMe Sales: $85
Market Leverage Comission: $75
InfoLinks: $75
That adds up to a little over $350. I’m not throwing Adsense in there because it wasn’t even substantial if you look at the other revenue sources. Also, keep in mind that I round up/down my income to make the numbers divisible by 5. The blog brings in a couple hundred every month regardless of the private ad sales and review sales. Having the review price at $20 really gives me an advantage in getting more advertisers and review opportunities.
The Private Ad Sales includes things such as the Peel Away Ad and the 125×125 banner spots. The Private Reviews are any reviews that advertisers purchase directly from me and the ReviewMe sales are any reviews or commissions earned through ReviewMe.
The new addition for the month was Market Leverage which turned out a nice $75 income and obviously switching from Kontera to Infolinks helped me jump from a couple of dollars to almost $75. As many of you have requested, here is a proof of payment from InfoLinks via PayPal.
I really don’t have any other online ventures at the moment but in the past with my web design work I have brought in a couple thousand. Not bad considering that was when I was between 12 to 16 years old. This blog has definitely earned a good amount of income during its lifetime and I know that not being diversified in more blogs is hurting my total income but, I really don’t mind considering I’m happy with it. So, how much money do you make online?
Picking Offers For Affiliate Marketing
Sep 3rd
So, you know that I’ve been playing with the idea of Affiliate Marketing with Market Leverage and the end of August concluded my experimentation and I realized that there are ways that you can pick offers to maximize your earnings specially as a beginner. I’m going to share a few tips as to how you can pick the right offers and what to look for:
1. Target Audience - Every offer that you pick to advertise has a target audience. If you’re advertising dating websites to a 60+ year old audience then it won’t be as profitable as advertising to an audience between 20-30 years of age. You have to keep your target audience in mind because thats how you can expect to generate the most leads.
You can do one of two things (1) select your target audience and then pick offers or (2) pick offers and then decide who the target audience is. My opinion is that the second option works better because after you have picked an offer, selecting a target audience after that will make it more accurate.
2. Dont Look at Just CPA – Sometimes individuals decide to pick offers that provide large amounts of money for a lead. Don’t look JUST at the CPA. Obviously, you have to look at it but don’t just pick an offer because it offers you a great CPA. Make sure that the offer you pick is the one you want based on the number of leads you can expect to generate. Consider this:
1 Lead with a $100 CPA = $100 for you
20 leads with $20 CPA = $400 for you
So its not really about how high the CPA is but how many leads you can generate from it.
3. Would You Click On It? – Sometimes you have to think whether you’d click and complete the offer that youre putting out there. Its not necessary for you to think that but sometimes the offers require quite a bit of information and you’d have to think whether someone would be willing to fill the information out.
Some offers that require emails or zips earn low CPA but they can convert really well since most people are okay with giving that information out. Others that require a lot of information and specially credit card information can tend not to do as well unless you know what you’re doing. I’m just suggesting that if you’re a beginner stick to the basics for now.
Conclusion
So hopefully you guys can take something away from this post. I know that some of you are getting started and I’d like to hear some advice from some of you who have already experimented with affiliate marketing. Let me know your thoughts! Have a great mid-week Wednesday!
Top Commentator August 2008
Sep 2nd
This month’s Top Commentator was surprisingly a new blogger. A new individual that has done so well in the blogosphere these past couple months that you’ve definitely heard about him. I won’t ruin the surprise so lets take a look at how you stacked up:
1. ImWithJoe – ImWithJoe is a fairly new discovery for me and instantly I have been hooked on Joe’s contest. I know that I haven’t contributed as much specially lately with my last year at school and stuff but you really have to check out Joe’s blog daily. Honestly, there are a few blogs on my mind that I visit daily before class starts considering I get there early, and Joe’s blog is one of them. The videos are great and hilarious and the posts are unique and informative. I mean, its a no brainer!
2. Dr. Teeth – Dr. Teeth has started up a new venture lately called Webmasters.bz and has been busy with that however the site already seems to be doing really well. Much like anything Faheem is involved with, he is a 100% committed and I wish him luck!
3. Balkhis – Syed is the one blogger that I have even added as a shortcut on my Ipod. Its just that simple. Great content, great tutorials and the reader interaction is amazing. He even wrote a tutorial recently based on my suggestion. How great is that? Syed is a very talented young blogger and it would be great to see him continue on the path of success.
4. Dinesh – There used to a lot of contest blogs out there but lately they seemed to have disappear and in this time of scarcity I turn to Dinesh’s blog to check out the newest contests going on in the blogosphere. Yeah, I said blogosphere. What happened with some of the other contest blogs was that they started to cover contests that had no relation to blogging. I know that Dinesh’s blog is in my watch list for new contests all the time.
5. LifeIsColourful – Abhijeet has been the longest supporter of the blog and with the recent design upgrade he has received from Balkhis, I think that he’s ready to take his blog to the next level. Abhijeet is on a very tight schedule and I’d really like to see him blog more often but I’m not complaining since I’ll take what I can get plus I know what its like to juggle several different things all at once.
When you look at the list, you’ll realize that Joe has taken over Nick from RomanDock and that means that Joe will get a free blog review this month. Since I already wrote one recently, I’ll write it for the middle of the month and I’m sure that although Joe doesn’t really need the extra traffic, he’ll enjoy it 
. So basically it pays to be a top commentator and I really enjoy reading comments and implementing them on my blog so why dont you try for next month? I think its worth it.
