I wanted to create my new income report on July 1, 2011 — but my old Toshiba laptop caught a virus or died from all the video editing I was attempting, and even a complete restore wouldn’t fully get it back online. Maybe that will fix itself soon.
Thank God for my husband, who graciously gave me his new Toshiba laptop while the Geek Squad fixes his other one and I can continue to work online from home and anywhere else I want.
A couple of months ago I wrote “I made $11,660.32 online in 4 months: Trying to make fast money online when you’re desperate…”
So as I can see from the numbers, I’ve made a good almost 5 grand in a couple of months online.
Of course, my pride tells me that it’s not the over 50k I made in 2010, but I can already see different things happening this year. I’ve got a new opportunity to earn money thru different means, like real estate income and other projects, so I’m going with the Holy Ghost flow and not sweating the small stuff.
Here are my 2011 income earnings from blogging and writing online thus far:
As you can tell, Examiner.com heads up the pack — still earning me close to $9,000 in 6 months. I was thinking to myself how back in 2009 or earlier that I heard some of the most popular Examiner.com writers were earning $8k PER MONTH — not $8.8 in 6 months, like I just pulled down.
C’est la vie…the Google Panda tells us when it’s time to move on. Well, not really. I still haven’t fully moved on — and thanks to the Arnold “Sperminator” situation, I still made some decent money:
Date Name Gross
1/20/2011 Clarity Digital Group, LLC $1,530.39
2/18/2011 Clarity Digital Group, LLC $1,946.98
3/18/2011 Clarity Digital Group, LLC $1,699.48
4/20/2011 Clarity Digital Group, LLC $743.64
5/20/2011 Clarity Digital Group, LLC $1,094.30
6/20/2011 Clarity Digital Group, LLC $1,803.38
Examiner.com AKA Clarity Digital Group, LLC Total $8,818.17
…but I won’t lie, some days with Examiner.com writing feel like an exercise in futility when I write, write and write — and then they don’t put the pieces in Google News where they belong!
Some times I jump back on when a hot story hits, and due to sheer numbers and favor of God of me writing so much, they’ll put a good chunk of my news reports in Google News and the traffic will hit and everything comes together for good.
How much did Amazon Associates pay? Oh yeah, and what about that tax situation where they are kicking out some affiliates?
Amazon is still a worthy winner of an affiliate referral program, and they proved to be my next highest earner at just under $3,500 for the first six months of 2011:
01/26/11 AMAZON $1,144.06
02/26/11 AMAZON $705.51
03/26/11 AMAZON $768.81
04/26/11 AMAZON $391.68
05/26/11 AMAZON $157.39
06/26/11 AMAZON $264.50
AMAZON Total $3,431.75
But I’m keeping a watchful eye on the Amazon Associates program kicking out affiliates due to the online tax drama…
And the comments section of Chris Guthries’s What To Do When Amazon Shuts Down Their Affiliate Program In Your State wherein he posits using a registered agent in another state to keep your Amazon Associates income flowing after you’ve been kicked out.
Some people call this tax fraud — I hope it’s not. Thankfully, I haven’t had to go that route. I call it creative thinking in finding the silver lining of black storm clouds.
The drama continues…
Adsense is kicking butt next — and increasing
So ever since the Panda change on Google and the drama concerning Amazon Associates and the online tax debate, I began concentrating on creating more niche sites like DarkGirlsMovie.com and others that interest me and lots of other people, too, I pray to get my Adsense and other affiliate income up.
So far these numbers are hovering around over $500 for the first 6 months, but July 2011 is coming in at over $700, and hopefully each month will drastically increase in this arena:
1/25/2011 Adsense $526.58
2/25/2011 Adsense $452.37
3/25/2011 Adsense $364.18
4/27/2011 Adsense $522.23
5/25/2011 Adsense $571.46
6/24/2011 Adsense $571.53
Google Adsense $3,008.35
I feel pretty comfortable with Adsense, and don’t think they’ll suffer from the online tax snafu — plus, folks don’t have to buy anything to click on those Google ads — and, some of those clicks can pay $1 or $2 or $3 or more for each click if you get a good topic. I mean, I’ve seen ads that advertisers are willing to pay $20 per click for — so it’s probably worth me making more niche sites out of the terms I’m researching through Google Analytics all the time.
Yes, I may not have come close to my “30 niche sites in 30 days” that I was planning for June 2011, but perhaps that can be a good goal for July 2011.
It’s good to push ourselves beyond our comfort zones at times.
Text Link Ads paid around 30 bucks…
…and I don’t even remember who the links are from.
1/1/2011 Text Link Ads, Inc $4.25
2/1/2011 Text Link Ads, Inc $4.25
3/1/2011 Text Link Ads, Inc $4.25
4/1/2011 Text Link Ads, Inc $4.25
5/1/2011 Text Link Ads, Inc $4.25
6/1/2011 Text Link Ads, Inc $7.65
Text Link Ads, Inc Total $28.90
Yahoo! Contributor Network AKA Associated Content is stil paying well, mostly on autopilot…
At first I thought my pay from them had dropped drastically, but at least their First Person assignments look promising, and I got nearly 90 bucks last month from them, and I haven’t written for them in a little while:
1/12/2011 Yahoo! Contributor Network $128.26
2/8/2011 Yahoo! Contributor Network $124.59
3/9/2011 Yahoo! Contributor Network $121.73
4/13/2011 Yahoo! Contributor Network $72.69
5/11/2011 Yahoo! Contributor Network $75.20
6/8/2011 Yahoo! Contributor Network $87.90
Yahoo! Contributor Network Total $610.37
Think I’ll put a great and interesting article up for publication on there, and see how well it does — hopefully a great assignment that can go viral on the front page of Yahoo!
I haven’t forgotten my dream where an article I’d written showed up fully in the Akron Family Magazine I used to write a monthly column for, and a snippet of it showed up in Esquire as well.
The Lord speaks to me a lot through my dreams, so I’m taking that to mean my writing is going national in a good way soon!
The Company Corporation paid me money…
I used The Company Corporation to set up my writing business as an LLC — I call it Plunder, LLC — after I did a “Bible dip” and my finger landed on the word “plunder” in some Old Testament passage about possessing a land where you don’t even have to go to war or work for the plunder received.
So people are clicking on that affiliate link and doing what I did apparently: spending $200 or so to set up their own LLC businesses — and The Company Corporation pays me 40 bucks for each sale.
It took me a minute to figure out who the “TCC” was that was paying me the money — so after I received that blessed check in the mail, I promptly went in an put my direct deposit info in the website’s affiliate page account info — and bless God, I got another email last week or so that I’d made another $40 sale. This is the kind of income that it might be worth setting up a niche site around.
05/31/11 THE COMPANY CORPORATION AFFILIATE PROGRAM $40.00
THE COMPANY CORPORATION AFFILIATE PROGRAM Total $40.00
To be continued on that one…
CJ.com earnings are increasing…
I had a dream where I was running an HTML process automatically, so after I woke up I learned how to import CJ.com product feeds into Excel and create a huge file out of them and manipulate them into posts and automatically upload them to WordPress using the CSV Importer plugin.
I’m still hoping to work out the kinks whereby it times out sometimes if I try to import more than 400 or so lines at a time — after all, some of these product feeds have 54,000 products in them or more! — but I hope that will come soon.
Because it’s already helping to increase my CJ income to something more consistent than these numbers:
01/20/11 CJ $69.54
03/18/11 CJ $54.80
CJ Total $124.34
I’m already up to probably more than 50 bucks in my CJ account, and a lot of that was earned this month via pitching products from QVC.com, Best Buy and others on my product blog where I do the automated stuff.
That’s a good research blog to see specific products take off and are deserving of their own niche site being built around them.
Ebay paid around 25 bucks…
…and I honestly haven’t logged on there in a minute.
Would love it if they had a product extract feed — but like Amazon Associates, I think theirs is more of an API thing, which I’m still learning how to do. We’ll see how far down that road I go…
03/20/11 EBAY PARTNER NETWORK PAYMENT $25.22
EBAY PARTNER NETWORK PAYMENT Total $25.22
Kontera won out over Infolinks…
This could’ve been a “goodby Kontera” post like the Grown-up Geek recently wrote — he’s one of the only other guys besides John Chow that I found writing about their Kontera income from years ago, and he said goodbye to them, despite excellent customer service.
I did try Infolinks on a blog or two — but I think I ended up removing all their code and went back to Kontera on most of my sites.
The Infolinks links just annoyed me as a writer, so I know they would annoy readers — even though they let you control certain features abount how many max links you want, etc.
Who knows? I might end up getting a direct deposit or paypal payment from Infolinks, because I don’t know if I even removed them all or how much I’ve earned since I last logged on there!
04/01/11 KONTERA $107.06
02/03/11 KONTERA $97.43
06/01/11 KONTERA $223.04
KONTERA Total $427.53
And even though Kontera offered to help me figure out how much my coming payments were, I’ve left it to be surprised by their direct deposits and barely even try to figure out how much is coming.
I mean, come on, I check coming payments from Adsense and Amazon Associates and plenty of other sites that make it easier to figure out what you have coming than Kontera does. Hopefully that’ll be a programming tech enhancement support ticket that gets heeded in the future.
Finally, there’s Linkshare…
…which paid me 50 bucks in the last 6 months — and 4 cents.
Honestly, that might be from iTunes stuff or Walmart or whatever, but maybe I’ll pop again on there and see what kinds of product feeds they offer, if any.
I haven’t paid them much attention — or don’t agree with pitching some products — and it shows in these earnings for now.
01/24/11 LINKSHARE $3.81
02/07/11 LINKSHARE $39.38
02/28/11 LINKSHARE $2.90
05/06/11 LINKSHARE $1.25
6/6/2011 LINKSHARE $1.25
06/26/11 LINKSHARE $1.45
LINKSHARE Total $50.04
So there’s how I brought in over $16k in six months online. I know some folks might not think that’s much — others wish they could bring in half that.
It goes to show newbies that this blogging thing is interesting and cyclical and it pays to move with the times and watch the signs and learn when to move to earn.
Thank God I’m still in the game, in spite of the days I start thinking of going back to corporate America, but then promptly come back to my senses and seriously thank our God and Savior that I even have a choice in the matter.
$16K plus in 6 months does not mean a $32K blogging salary for 2011…
It’s back to figuring out new and interesting ways to make more money online — and avoid the tempation to think my salary is $32,000 this year.
Because with the online world, 2 plus 2 does not equal 4, especially in God’s economy.
The world might double the $16k and think I’ll come in around $32k for 2011 — but I know that I have the potential for my writing income to explode by year’s end.
Different things are happening, and that’s the benefit of working in a world where you’re not salaried. The potential for income to skyrocket is always there…make it so…in a “Good News” way, Jesus. Amen!
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