Archive for 2008:

December 2008 Earnings

December was a far more successful month, primarily from my Christmas clearout. Here’s a breakdown of my earnings…

• Website Sales: $1350
• Private Adverts: $150
• Text Link Ads: $27.50
• Media Jump: $35
• Adversal: $2.50
• Total: $1880 - Daily Average: $60.64

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

November 2008 Earnings

November earnings weren’t much different from October, with Adsense still being low (are they crap just now due to the f**ked economy or is it just me?) and the fact I’m not concentrating on mini-sites, I’m letting them mature whilst I concentrate on domain leasing. The breakdown of November’s earnings is as follows…

• Google Adsense: $57.96
• Text Link Ads: $27.53
• Media Jump: $15.48
• Adversal: $3.00
• Total: 103.97 – Daily Average: $3.35

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

October 2008 Earnings

October’s earnings were down, partly due to a decrease in the PPC from Adsense and no private ads purchased. Here’s a breakdown of my earnings…

• Google Adsense: $65.98
• Text Link Ads: $27.53
• Media Jump: $8.55
• Total: 102.06 – Daily Average $3.29

I’m upset

September 2008 Earnings

September saw a slight rise in earnings due to the maturity of my current network and selling two 125 x 125 ads privately. Although I didn’t document my August earnings well, my daily average has gone up $2 from $5 per day to $7! Some progress at least! Here’s a breakdown…

• Google Adsense: $86.77
• Private Advertisement: $60
• Text Link Ads: $26
• Adversal: $26.10
• Media Jump: $18.40
• Total: $217.27 – Daily Average: $7

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

August 2008 Earnings

August was another slow month, with little or no revenue generated. I’m still working hard to establish quality sites on the WWW and slowly but surely my content is being ranked well. I hope in due course to persue revenue through private advertising, but for now I’ll need to stick with 3rd party ad networks.

The good news is that my blog is generating a few dollars these days, with the sale of all 5 of my text link ads. The ranking for KhalidsLife.com has shot up to 4th in Google for “Internet Entrepreneur” and I hope the blog will stay strong in due course.

Revenue for August: $21.

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

July 2008 Earnings

Revenue from July was only really from a single source, the sale of CoolNicknames.net. I sold this to top up my income as I was spending money like water on new projects. Aside from the $600 I accrued from this sale, I also generated $15 from Text Link Ads – not bad for part time blogging but I could be doing much better.

Total: $615

This post is a short and sweet update as I am currently working on new projects over the next few months that won’t generate much in revenue as they are taking a long time to develop, build and launch. I hope to being generate substantial revenue before 2009 but with only a few months to go this will be a difficult challenge.

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

June 2008 Earnings

I know it’s slightly late, I actually almost forgot to post my earnings until I was kindly reminded through multiple blog posts by other webmasters. As you know, I don’t really have any sites earning money except CoolNicknames.net and this blog as I sold my entire network recently.

A trickle of revenue came in from Media Jump and TTZ Media. Here’s a breakdown….

>> $42.71 : Media Jump (down from $119.30)

>> $0.15 : TTZ Media (down from $36.45)

>> Grand Total: $42.86

>> Daily Average : $1.38

A shocking month for TTZ, I think I’ll need to review the networks I have placed on this blog to earn more money, after all it is the website I update the most!

Moving forward, I have been ploughing money into a jobs network I am working on as part of the foundations for Bar Vacancy and I am considering placing advertising on their in addition to links and banners pointing to the site. My aim is to have multiple base sites in specific niches, for example “Bar Jobs in Edinburgh” with information and a link to the Bar Vacancy site for them to find a job or post for staff. I’ll let you know how I get on!

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

May 2008 Earnings

May was a fantastic month for earnings overall, but the majority of that was the sale of my tattoo network. Here’s a breakdown of the revenue achieved…

>> $12,000 : Sale of Tattoo Network

>> $119.30 : Media Jump (down from $163.22)

>> $37.45 : Value Click Media (down from $50.19)

>> $36.45 : TTZ Media (same)

>> $7.5 : Text Link Ads (same)

>> Grand Total: $12,200.70

An amazing month and I’m very proud, it’s a shame it won’t be like this next month! The revenue from ad networks dropped due to the ad codes being changed on all the tattoo sites in the middle of the month.

>> Daily Average : $393.57

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

March 2008 Earnings

It is nice to see all my hard work finally paying off and a nice trickle of income coming my way. I’ve been working really hard and I’m glad to see some significant progress. In fact, I can report I have succeeded in achieving my first goal of $10 per day!!!

Here is a breakdown of my earnings for March 2008:

>> Media Jump’s Quick Links: $319.20

>> TTZ Media – $35.10

>> Value Click Media – $13.37

>> Text Link Ads – $7.50

>> Review Me – $10.00

** Grand Total: $385.17 = $12.42 per day! **

I still have a long way to go but it’s a start and I’m pleased

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

Achieving my $10 goal

On January 1st 2008, I blogged about my goals for the year. One of these was to earn a minimum of $10 per day online profit and I thought I’d dedicate this post to discuss how I’m well on my way to that figure.

My father recently told me “saving your first £1,000 is the hardest, but once you manage it you’ll find it easier to save your next £1,000 and you’ll never want your bank balance to go below £1k again“. I believe the same applies to making money online, infact doing anything that involves a challenge. Your first couple of steps are the hardest and you need to learn to walk before you can run.

My earnings with Media Jump’s quick links fluctuate daily and as they don’t have any sort of tracking or statistics, it is a bit of a guessing game finding out what works and what doesn’t. As you can see from the image below, my earnings up until the 23rd of this month are $120.65, which brings my daily average to $5.24.

Two things I’ve realised is that 1) You should never rely on a single source of income, and 2) you should spread your risks. As a result, I’ve implemented TTZ Media across my biggest sites and spread my risks (income wise) over two companies instead of one.

TTZ provide much better stats similar to Google Adsense and pay a whopping $0.15 per click minimum! This is fantastic news to publishers who are looking to get paid a respectable amount for their efforts. Their fill rate is 100%, the ads are relevant to your keyword(s) and the ad formats are easily edited in their control panel.

I’m looking to manage a CTR of 2-4% which is a reasonable target and one that should turn my goal into an achievement.

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.