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…
Good luck with your persuits,
Khalid.
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…
I’m upset 
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…
Good luck with your persuits,
Khalid.
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.
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.
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 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.
April was a good and bad month for me. Good because I managed to sell a site in 15 minutes and make $525, but bad because my network earnings were down with my main publisher partner, Media Jump. Here’s a breakdown of my income…
Media Jump was my biggest loss but my overall searches were up from 11,000 to 17,000 – higlighting they are just not paying as much per click. It is disappointing because I would have broken March’s earnings without the site sale if they had maintained the same pay per click.
Value Click was almost triple because I added two more banners and the network provided over 200,000 impressions in the month’s period. TTZ was up slightly, again due to more visitors, but their downtime over April has caused my earnings to be less than expected.
On a plus note, I doubled my income and can smile when I look back on my achievements.
How did you do last month?
Good luck with your persuits,
Khalid.
There comes a time when you have to let something go and move on, whether that be because your abilities are limited with what you have or to simply better yourself. For the past 8 months or so I’ve been working on a tattoo network, targetting a number of different keywords within the same niche but over a collection of sites to improve my overall reach.My hard work and dedication has resulted in me now owning 8 sites that generated over 150,000 unique visitors per month. As time progresses, I anticipate the network’s reach will exceed 200,000 and this will eventually settle somewhere below the 300,000 mark.
In my last post I mentioned how I earned $1,000 from over 42,000 clicks – it worked out at around $0.02 per click. I’m not complaining, but I have realised that I need to move on and out of the tattoo niche. My earnings are limited here and I need to expand outwith this category to avoid limiting my success as an Internet Entrepreneur.
I have been researching a little bit and found two niches I could enter. One fits in the same category as bodyart and would expand my network nicely sideways, the other is targetting specific cities and providing local information. Business wise, the bodyart network would receive more visitors and has less competition but the latter has more potential for higher paying keywords and private advertisers.
Unfortunately I have yet to secure any domain names therefore I cannot reveal my two choices entirely, but based on the above paragraph, which do you think I should move in to?
Good luck with your persuits,
Khalid.
Years after receiving my first Google Adsense cheque (see first pic below), I received my first deposit from Media Jump, the company behind the text link ads across the majority of my sites.
I feel I have reached a milestone and I am now building on the strong foundations I have laid over the past 7 months. Yes I have seen thousands of dollars come and go with selling sites, but this is the first time in 2008 I have received a deposit for over £100.
Fingers cross it’s a sign of good things to come.
Good luck with your persuits,
Khalid.
