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Online Income Report - June 2008

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Hey everyone, I am posting this from my Top Affiliate Challenge team room here in Nebraska. For those of you who have been reading my blog for less than a month, I make my online income report post once a month about my online earnings. These income posts are never meant to be for bragging purposes, but rather so that I can be completely transparent about what I earn online, so that years down the road I can show everyone my journey to wealth and how much hard work and dedication it involves, contrary to what many ebook sellers tell you. By being completely transparent about what I earn online also allows me to show you my biggest mistakes, and what I have learned from the most. The more mistakes I have, the more I learn from, and the more I show you how to avoid. My monthly online income reports are a summary of where I made my money, and where I lost my money.

Blog Statistics
Numbers in parenthesis are stats from last month to show improvements or declines.

Google Pagerank 5 (5)
Seomoz Pagestrength 4.5 (4)
Alexa Rank 92,193 (165,703)
Technorati Rank 8,190 (7,328)
Technorati Authority 467 (507)
Total Visitors 4,151 (5,058)
Total Pageviews 9,550 (12,770)
RSS Subscribers 633 (555)

Advertising

Adsense $27.01 ($35.03)
Paid Reviews $140 ($210)
125×125 Ads $125 ($95)

Affiliate Marketing
Market Leverage - $15.75 ($5.25) (Sign up for Market Leverage)
CX Digital $10.75 ($0)

Consulting / Clients

Link Build & Viral Marketing - $1900 ($2050)


Total June Online Revenue - $2,218.51 ($2460.90)
Income Per Day - $73.95 ($79.38)

Conclusion
While many 18 year olds would be more than happy with almost $74 per day, I am actually unhappy with that number due to the fact that I have had two good months before that and it is on a decline. Being as I am competing on the Top Affiliate Challenge, I know that my July stats will be slightly off since I am focusing my time there, rather than solely on my blog. On the other side, if I win the Top Affiliate Challenge, my July earnings will have a nice spike to them. Either way, I am going to spend the next few months optimizing everything I am doing so that my earnings are more consistent and on a slight growth rather than decline.

I would like to give two shoutouts. The first would be to Randall of XY7.com (who sponsored my team on the Top Affiliate Challenge). Randall is a great guy and an excellent marketer. If you ever join xy7.com, ask for him as your manager. Randall and I will definitely be doing business together in the future.

My second shoutout goes to the team at Market Leverage. They are also a sponsor of the Top Affiliate Challenge (unfortunately I haven’t done any of their offers due to our team not having a login setup). Market Leverage and their crew are readers of my blog, and have recently purchased TWO 125×125 advertisements for a month, and are also sponsoring me some KILLER prizes for a blog contest that launches when I get back from Nebraska. I have barely started making money from them and they are already providing excellent support, prizes, assistance, and their dedication to the present-day “little guys” shows that they are believers in the long term. They have provided me with more money (in prizes) than I have made on their network, which shows that they truly care about their affiliates. I will definitely be using them as one of my primary long term affiliate networks after I get back from Nebraska. Thanks Jennifer, Deborah, and the ML team!

ONE FINAL NOTE:
I will not be making any blog posts about the Top Affiliate Challenge until I get back. The reason for this is because of a few things. First, The episodes they film need to be edited/cut, uploaded, and then released on the site at 1:00CST the next day. The duration between when I am writing and what people are seeing is confusing for people to read, and especially for me to remember what you could have seen. The Top Affiliate Challenge had a ton of problems when it launched, but so far the episodes are getting better and better, so if you gave up watching the show after the first episode, I encourage you to start watching the newer ones and see the difference in quality. For those of you who are wondering why I pulled my last post, it is because I sent a ton of MIXED SIGNALS that I didn’t intentionally want… (I wrote the post at 2 in the morning, in addition to the already huge lack of sleep I was getting). Thor has put a ton of work into this show and it is not an easy task to do what he had the courage to launch. In addition, the editing crew behind the TAC are improving their skills after each and every episode. You can see a clear difference in episode 1 from episode 5, and I know that episode 6 will be even better. For those of you remember my low quality TAC audition video, I would be the LAST PERSON to ever call someone out on their editing skill.

I hope that cleared up any unintentional mixed signals that I said in my last post, and since its nearing 1am again I am going to stop blabbing before I put my foot in my mouth again and say something I didn’t mean, seeing how I turned my monthly income post into another content blab post. Long long long story short, expect very few mentions of the Top Affiliate Challenges on my blog (other than a huge post when I take all the money home). :-D

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8 Comments »

Comment by David from PPC
2008-07-07 00:44:09

Transparency is great, as nothing is as satisfying as stats, especially positive ones! Congratulations on your Alexa Page Rank, some really good growth there! Pity about the drop in visitors and page impressions though. Good luck with the Top Affiliate Challenge, may the best man win!

 
Comment by Link Building Bible
2008-07-07 01:07:21

Your stats show how lame Alexa is…. you had less visits this month, but better rank (by a significant amount)…..

 
Comment by Adelle
2008-07-07 05:42:46

I read your Top Affililiate Challenge post yesterday before you pulled it. I did not see you bad mouthing anyone or anything on there merely explaining some trials and tribulations. Weird. So, evidently, it was a matter of interpretation for sure. No matter what, I look forward to hearing about your win and, likewise, watching your monthly earnings substantially increase!

 
Comment by Dennis Edell Subscribed to comments via email
2008-07-07 08:14:45

Drops or not, it’s impressive and inspirational. You went up where it counts, except for advertising :)

 
Comment by Freelance Jobs
2008-07-07 11:43:28

It looks like TAC is taking toll on your blog. Visitors have decrased by around 900. But as a webmaster you have to look for other programs too. Only blogging won’t pay you much. Learning affiliate marketing is too imp for webamsters.

Congrats and good luck for TAC.

 
Comment by Sacramento Weddings
2008-07-15 18:27:27

Colin…you rock my man! Keep up the good work.

 
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