Thanks to Design Delight, that mysterious and loyal comment-leaver who reminded me to update you guys with my 2009 income.
And THANK GOD for Examiner coming into my life in September 2009 -- because as you can see, they make up a good chunk of the year's income -- and that's just for 4 months' worth of income from them. So glad I can pay Uncle Sam what I owe him.
Apply to Write for Examiner.com here now...
I didn't include my expenses, so this is just gross income for now. Perhaps I'll come back and update the expense numbers, like anything I spent on Adwords:
Name Payment Received
Associated Content Total $1,611.58
Clarity Digital Group, LLC Total (Examiner.com) $12,217.90
LinkWorth Total $50.00
Niche Blog Media Total $11.98
Text Link Ads, Inc Total $676.04
AMAZON ASSOCIATES Total $10,648.51
BUY.AT PERFILIATE TECHN PAYMENTS Total $134.25
CJ.com Total $673.13
EBAY PARTNER NETWORK PAYMENT Total $3.07
KONTERA.com Total $2,271.43
LINKSHARE Total $1,022.70
GOOGLE ADSENSE Total $14,612.25
Grand Total $43,932.84
Comments
But I find that writing a good SEO'd post about a particular product -- like the Zhu Zhu Pets or whatever -- brings more buyers looking specifically to buy that product on Amazon, not just slapping an Amazon link or badge and hoping they click.
Sandy
I also wanted to add a comment for Jodi - You might want to check Squidoo for promoting your affiliation with Amazon. It's a great social business solution for promoting whatever you have, Amazon included and it won't cost you a thing except a little of your time. Hope that helps.
Do you set blogging goals?
Um, I've written out some of the general things I want to accomplish in 2010.
But God changes things and moves -- so I want to move as the cloud moves, ya know?
Today I sat around and prayed and thankfully learned Proverbs 1:1-7 by heart and wrote in my journal and tried to understand the ways He speaks to me: thru Scripture, Sleep and Situations.
I'm learning to slow down and listen and not spin my wheels and waste my time on stuff that won't matter in the end.
Do you set blogging goals?
That's awesome. I totally agree with you.
I have a few goals but the main one I am focused on is to establish a blogging schedule.
Thank you for sharing your success story with us. Speaking for myself, it gives us all something to aspire to.~LexiB.
Greetings from Italy
Dont you think having a blog on blogger put your business on a shaky ground? i mean clearly your making money from this blogs as well, but if they decide to shut you down for any reason (which they have done to many people who were making money from their blog for years) all your hard work will be gone. You cant recover it.
I am not trying to be mean or anything, but if you make $14000 a year, why not spend $10 a year so you can have your own domain, and be in control yourself?
Otherwise I think its a great post and very motivational for other blogger.
My blogger blog is just one of my websites.
The others are dot coms on dot com domains.
Believe me, I've spent more that 10 bucks on domains the past few years.
And I was blessed enough to bring in $43k last year -- but I've gotta still reduce my expenses from that number.
You were very right about Examiner, the scret there seems to be to write a great deal of artcles quickly, which rank.
The income will grow as your number of post grow.
I am finding ways of getting around restrictions on article writing for non-Us based writers.
Way to go making that much last year. That's a massive achievement and I hope you're super-duper proud of yourself. I'd be over the frikkin moon if it were me.
More grease to your elbow in 2010 (whichever way you choose to go). Follow your own light.
Take care...