$23,332 online blogging income from 1/1 - 9/30/2009: Here's how I made the money online...
My last income post explained how I was up to nearly $20,000 of blogging income in the first 6 months of 2009.
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And I felt it was time to get an update 3 months later, and find out how much money has come into my accounts (PayPal and checking) in the first 9 months of 2009.
The grand total of monies brought in (not just earned, more is coming) is $23,342.66, as broken down below. As first I thought I was mistaken, "only" brought in $3,689.22 in the last 3 months since I updated, approximately $1,229 per month.
Note: The $23,342.66 doesn't include the amount of expenses I've spent this year thus far for doing business, including about $900 for web hosting fees, even more for Google Adwords advertising and such. I'll update with more numbers later...
Which is a good thing in terms of the amount of taxes I'll owe next year -- the whole reason I'm trying to estimate how much I need to pay Uncle Sam come April 15, 2010 (and the reason I'm researching filing my Plunder, LLC writing business in ways to make it more tax effective.)
Since I've started writing for Examiner.com and am pulling in more money -- which will start flowing in soon, my next income posts will reflect that kick up in blogging income that I'm so glad the Lord opened the door to, especially after my income fell earlier this year when I got two of my websites banned by Google.
So here's the breakdown in blogging income and how it's shaking out, with links and stuff:
Google Adsense is still the front-runner with $9,375.85 coming in during the first 9 months:
1/26/2009 google adsense paula's earnings for December 2008 $1,538.34
2/27/2009 google adsense paula's earnings for January 2009 $1,634.26
3/27/2009 google adsense paula's earnings for February 2009 $480.95
4/27/2009 google adsense paula's earnings for March 2009 $536.59
5/27/2009 google adsense paula's earnings for April 2009 $499.56
6/27/2009 google adsense paula's earnings for May 2009 $1,537.72
7/27/2009 google adsense paula's earnings for June 2009 $1,225.91
8/27/2009 google adsense paula's earnings for JuLY 2009 $1,015.27
9/27/2009 google adsense august 2009 earnings $907.25
Amazon Associates earnings were next up at $7,942.46 in earnings across the USA and from Germany monies, please note, this doesn't include the money I dropped on Google Adwords advertising the products before Amazon banned that practice:
01/21/09 amazon - november 2008 usa earnings $1,837.70
02/26/09 amazon - DECEMBER 2008 usa earnings IN JESUS' HOLY AND POWERFUL NAME $2,098.31
03/24/09 amazon - JANUARY 2009 usa earnings IN JESUS' HOLY AND POWERFUL NAME $655.80
03/31/09 amazon germany deposit January 2009 monies earned: 66,29 euros AND uk 143.64 gbp $282.37
04/23/09 AMAZON FEBRUARY 2009 EARNINGS USA $1,491.45
05/24/09 amazon MARCH 2009 earnings united states $298.73
06/24/09 amazon APRIL 2009 earnings united states $307.89
07/28/09 amazon MAY 2009 earnings united states $527.84
08/24/09 amazonN JUNE 2009 earnings united states $271.18
09/24/09 amazon july 2009 earnings united states $171.19
Kontera continues to be a steady earner at $2,380.42 for the first 9 months of this year (hot tip: my most popular keywords are "Oprah" and "episode" and such:
01/01/09 kontera november 2008 earnings $391.35
02/01/09 KONTERA DECEMBER 2008 EARNINGS $162.37
03/04/09 KONTERA JANUARY 2009 EARNINGS $285.17
05/04/09 kontera Feb. and March 2009 earnings $237.89
07/01/09 KONTERA APRIL AND MAY 2009 EARNINGS $576.73
08/01/09 KONTERA JUNE 2009 EARNINGS $232.32
09/02/09 KONTERA JUly 2009 EARNINGS $296.62
10/02/09 KONTERA JUly 2009 EARNINGS $197.97
The Associated Content total was $1,224.93 broken down as such:
1/14/2009 Associated Content $124.26
2/11/2009 Associated Content $186.34
3/11/2009 Associated Content $155.73
4/8/2009 Associated Content $135.35
5/13/2009 Associated Content $122.57
6/10/2009 Associated Content $142.80
7/9/2009 Associated Content $122.99
8/12/2009 Associated Content $121.20
9/9/2009 Associated Content $113.69
Linkshare sales brought in $958.73, and that is mostly from iTunes sales:
01/09/09 link share payment $36.92
02/09/09 LINKSHARE NOVEMBER 2008 SALES $177.70
02/09/09 LINKSHARE NOVEMBER 2008 SALES $10.43
02/16/09 LINKSHARE PAYMENTS $18.00
03/11/09 LINKSHARE PAYMENTS $559.99
03/11/09 LINKSHARE PAYMENTS $6.18
04/17/09 LINKSHARE $18.00
04/23/09 LINKSHARE $65.04
06/08/09 LINKSHARE $10.68
06/12/09 LINKSHARE $13.79
08/28/09 LINKSHARE PAYMENTS $31.72
10/06/09 linkshare payment $10.28
CJ.com brought in $673.13, mostly from last year's sales of Apple Store Black Friday sales, which I had to email the Apple Store affiliate manager to get the rest of:
02/24/09 CJ JANUARY 2009 EARNINGS $605.63
09/21/09 CJ PAYMENT $67.50
Text Link Ads was next at $589.88, and some ad link sales have fallen off:
1/2/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $60.70
2/1/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $101.79
3/1/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $95.35
4/1/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $72.70
5/1/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $55.09
6/1/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $47.75
7/1/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $47.75
8/1/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $53.84
9/1/2009 Text Link Ads, Inc $54.91
Buy.at brought in $134.25 after some TicketMaster sales went thru, but Buy.at is clunky and I can't even login anymore!
04/29/09 BUY.AT PERFILIATE TECHN PAYMENTS $94.75
05/29/09 BUY.AT PERFILIATE TECHN PAYMENTS $39.50
EBayPartnerNetwork.com has only brought a little over a buck, but now that they've changed their business model to PPC, check back to see if I make more next month:
07/28/09 EBAY PARTNER NETWORK PAYMENT $1.03
Don't even know really how I made the Linkworth -- I think it was thru a referral, but some people like them:
2/10/2009 LinkWorth $50.00
And this sale was due to recommeding a blogger theme sale:
5/8/2009 Niche Blog Media $11.98
Comments
The idea of bringing in an extra $2,500 per month from blogging is remarkable.
I promise to pay more attention to your tips over the coming weeks and months as I would love to replicate your results in my blogging efforts.
peace, Villager
Though, the drop is irrelevant link ads. But he stated that the company is performing great year by year and its alexa rank is also improving day by day.
My Que.: Have you tried it? or Will you try it in near future?
which one do you suggest me? You know, for a newbie blogger!
Yeah, I've heard of InfoLinks and am pretty sure I signed up, but I'm just so enmeshed in Kontera that I never switched over -- but perhaps I'll try it on one of my sites to see.
Yes, let's definitely go to lunch some day. It'll be good to get away from my laptop. I haven't been to PF Chang's yet. I don't know if they're open for lunch, though.
Are you on Facebook, I've gotta check and I can get your cell phone number to text you.
Great reading this post, Iam thinking, have you ever tried investing some of the money buying ads and links to increase traffic.
But you have to know how much each customer brings in before you buy them.
As long as there is a positive return on investment, you are laughing.
Most bloggers do not buy traffic directly and indirectly. But in PPC it is fundamental. As long as you are careful with the calculations. Jim Karter is a master of reinvesting the income to increase traffic, he submits paid articles to increase traffic.
I experimenting with reinvesting income into a blog.
Was you traffic lower, or the conversion rate lower?
But blogging can be a hard way to make money online.
I am tempted to enter the making money online niche.
some say the make money online niche is saturated, but it depends on what you have to offer and say and everyone has a gift to share. just follow the good voice inside
Thanks for this anyway,
regards,
That'll help me know how much to save for taxes to pay by April 15, 2010.
Plus, stay tuned for more blogging info.
amazing, it must be hard to get that~
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I would love to do email you and really get to know the sista before the blogs. Also I know i may be asking a lot but i have to ask, for i don't find many sista's doing what i am trying to do in this vast obis of the interenet. Would you look over my works and give me your honest opinions. I assume many have asked the same, & i understnad if it's not possible. Thank you for reading this extra information.
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i will follow this for my blog too.
Need to act now.
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