OK, well mirroring real life I thought I’d write in here even though I’ve not really felt any urge to do so for a few months recently. My personal life took a battering in October but things are a lot better now, although there are still a number of issues I’m battling with, but that’s another story for another day 
So how have my earnings/website promotions fared in recent months? Truthfully not too good.
There seems to be a sort of base line of earnings which my money has not dropped below.
I still earn a bit of adsense every day, plus some amazon and clickbank sales each month. I also get traffic to other things I promote but the earnings are not so good.
So how much? Well Its quite embarrassing if I’m honest because they’ve dropped a lot, in line with me “not doing any work on them”.
The Adsense has averaged around $250 to $350 a month, and has never really dropped below that, which is nice, because thats kind of like free money each year coming in and in. Amazon normally sits around the $50 to $100 mark and Clickbank around $30 a month. I also earn $100 a month from some software I promote which has a monthly membership attached to it, plus some earnings from the promotion of none other than the WordPress Goldmineforum I am a devotee of (and have been since October 2009). So about $580 a month coming in.
My issue has always been ramping this up to ten times this level… a level most people aspire to, having all bills paid each month so there are no financial strains placed on me.
The annoying thing is that at one point my adsense was really increasing very well, and some days I was getting to around $40 a day in adsense alone. This came as a result of paying people to write articles for my sites and for backlink promotional work.
I think now and imagine what I could have been earning by now… a full time income should really have been on the cards at this stage.
At the time my earnings were going well, I was devoting around $300 a month to content creation. Then family issues meant that the budget got cut and that then saw a decline in earnings.
These days its been around 4 months since Ive really been “in the zone” and methods change. At the moment people are talking about content curation but I want to concentrate on my sites.
Ive tried to focus on 2 or 3 of my best earners and have regularly placed backlinks to my pages using BMR, but have added very little new content. Im now trying to address this again and increase the content. I did see some earnings increase from this last month but once again Ive eased off because I guess I feel distracted with other aspects of my life.
Some thoughts that go through my mind are the fact that one guy who runs a website on the solar system only writes content, 2 -3 pieces a day, and he now makes over $50,000 a month from Adsense!
So.. should I just go content mad, and forget about linking, or do both… ???????
Im guessing both.. but another thing that enters my mind is that when you set a new site up it can rank on page 1 within days sometimes, just from Google so it makes you wonder how important backlinks really are. I know there is a whole can of worms that can be opened up but it would be good to discuss this… so feel free to discuss below.
With 41 sites I simply cant afford to do this:
- write 1-3 backlinks a day via BMR per site
- write 4-10 content pieces per month
- use UAW or EZAL
- use socialadr
so Ive been trying to focus on my best earning sites… even when theyre boring, lol. Thats why Im outsourcing stuff.
Anyway id love to hear your methods at the moment.. Im just fed up that each month is the same… id like to see progress each month, adding $200-$500 a month in earnings and increasing…
whats your thoughts?
Thanks!
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Mar 4th, 2012. 31 Comments. 
Ok, so I have to say I am VERY happy with the great start to 2011.
Every single month the past 5 months has been a growth, so I am on the right path FINALLY!
My Adsense earnings rose from my previous best month (November)
November was £149.73 – January was £163.29 – yay ($262.38)! Around a 10% increase on my personal best.
My Clickbank earnings were like WOW this month – I have no idea why
$273.60 – my personal best every before was around the $100 mark.
My Amazon earnings were decidedly average at $69
I also earned $10 via wpgm commissions,
$200 for other items.
So overall this month came in at $745.98 WOW!
Kind of a buzz….
Why not join me at WordPress Goldmine and do the same as me.
This is all while Ive been struggling to get back intoa work flow for my “day job” of writing for others. Can’t moan!
Yes Ive got expenses, software and services I am subscribed to but I am happy to say things are going upwards.
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Filed under My progress by on Feb 1st, 2011. Comment.
Hi,
Just felt the need to drop something down in here today. I have made myself very busy, very busy indeed. I have set some high targets I want to hit by the middle of July, so I have been extremely busy pushing really hard with promotional activities on all of my 50+ sites (eek!).
I think I’ve got too many, but have neglected several for some time, and I am pushing to see which are worthy of keeping before their domains come up for renewal. It’s time to shape up I guess!
Anyway this boost of activity is all good. I had expected a dip in earnings for 4-6 weeks while the backlinks hit and settle down, but I am surprised and have seen a couple of orders on Clickbank, so I am actually at my highest level ever in Clickbank, which is cool. I’m not going to complain, lol!
I tell you what though, It’s really sinking home about the amount of work needed, and more importantly, picking the right keywords in the first place. A good 60% of my domains were a bit wishy-washy, but surprisingly several of them are looking good.
I started all this IM stuff October 2009, and was lucky to be making 30 cents every few days. It continued like this for months. Funny how things are for once going upwards, even though slowly. I am now working harder than ever and more consistent than ever too.
Oh well, onwards and upwards – essentially Adsense is going at least as good as last month, if not a little better. Amazon is average and clickbank is a good month – my best yet.
Keep pushing folks..
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Jan 16th, 2011. Comment.
Hi folks, well 2011 and is certainly upon us eh? I want to round up the fun Ive had this month with Adsense, Amazon and Clickbank earnings.
If you didn’t know, I made the decision to try this full time in April when I had some cash sitting round. I wasn’t 100% sure back then how much I could do, and to be honest I spent a lot of the time dealing with things related to my late father in laws estate, having a driveway and patio built.
Anyway, what Ive noticed is that many people in WordPress Goldmine would take at least a year for things to start sinking in. During all of this time many people would also join and leave, but that’s life. Then there are those who “get it” very quickly and really impress you.
Just a few of the people who have really impressed me the most this year are:
Paul Nicholls – I noticed he spent some time getting it together but once he “got it” – he really got it.
Heather Hyvarinen – This lady proudly states she was a technophobe just a short space of time ago and she is now doing incredible things
George McNaney – I spent a day doing training with this guy, and after seing “proof” I can asure you all this “IM stuff” is “very real”.
There are MANY more I want to say thanks to who have each done their “little bit” to switch certain lighbulbs on inside my head, ranging from Mark Thompson, Paul Forcey, BHJMom,Keith Evans,Leepy40,Rita012,Richr and many more. So to ALL of you, I really want to say a genuine thank you. I apologise if I missed anyone obvious.
Let’s take a look at how the finances went in December
Adsense: December £106.87 (166.84 USD) - November was £149.73 ($233.39 USD) – down by £43.
Amazon: December was £107.54 ($167.89 USD ) -November was £29.36 ($45.77) – up by £77.
Clickbank: £19.53 ($30.49 USD) – November was £38.49 ($60) – down by around £19
WPGM – $20 earnings.
Other earnings: $260
So the overall earnings was $645.22 USD (£413.29 GBP)
Expenditure is £112, leaving a clear profit of £301.29 ($470.35 USD)
That’s that out of the way, so now it is time for me to plan for the future once again.
I’ve been going over my plans and there is a clear couple of pieces of software essential for my business. Linxboss and Ezarticlelink.
These two are part of a collection of things I use that I deem to be essential.
Both are very very powerful. Ezarticlelink is fantastic and Linxboss is like “wow”. It’s hands-free and it shot 2 of my sites to position 1 page 1 within a month of use. This was 5 months ago and they are still there.
I did unsubscribe from both of these for 3 months recently when earnings took a dip and I needed to gear up for Christmas, but I have renewed both services again.
What’s going to be happening in 2011 for me?
After mytraining with george and skype help from heather and Paul Forcey as well as email help from Paul Nicholls (thanks all of you) I have now proven myself.
Ive carefully built 3 sites since my training, and predicted where they would land in the serps.
They all did what I wanted. Page 1. Nothing to do with spammy rubbish content, but rather building up decent sites with plenty of pages and of course good on-site seo.
So I now believe I understand the keys, and now this is going to be my year.
I have seen my colleagues go from a few hundred a month to a few thousand dollars a month, all in the last year. I hope to follow that same path in 2011 and be 100% passive income reliant before the end of 2011.
I recommend you do the same if you want to get going and change your life. Only when I stopped all the “crap” and flitting from program to program did things start to happen. Weird huh?
Now before you think you haven’t got any time, think of me. I work from home full time by writing for others. This is because it’s my dream. It’s hard but it’s paid the bills, and I have very little time left each day.
Take care,
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Jan 1st, 2011. 3 Comments.
Each month is getting better and better.
Well my Adsense is – its grown each month and has once gain beaten last months earnings.
Talking of earnings… lets take a look:
Adsense: October was £85.71 (that is $137.63) – and November was £149.73 ($233.39 USD)
Amazon: October was £56.70 (or $91.07) – and November was £29.36 ($45.77)
Clickbank: October was £19 (Or $30) – and November was £38.49 ($60)
WPGM – $20 earnings.
Other earnings: $260 (down from $300)
So the overall earnings was $233.39 + $45.77 + $60 + $20 = $359.16 USD (£230.42 GBP)
So overall down on last month by around $300 – why?
Well I got an unplanned $50 hosting commission last month which I didnt get this month, as it was.. erm.. “unplanned”
Ive been promoting some software and the number of repeat buyers are dropping, and have dropped a lot, but this is just the name of the game.
The things I have always wanted to focus on are Adsense, Amazon and Clickbank, the others have been nice bonuses.
I am over the moon because this month I had been focusing on Adsense,.. and guess what.. earned more. In fact it went up by almost 80%!
I’ve dropped a few of my un-needed subscriptions to keep costs down, but plan to come back to some of them later.
So, expenditure is now only £112 so overall clear profit is £118.42 which is a small drop on last month by around £40 on the previous month.
In recent months I’ve been doing some Skype training with Heather Hyvarinen from the wordpress goldmine forum as well as having spent a day with George from Broon Dog Internet Marketing for a days training.
Both of these are available inside wordpress goldmine and offer training services.
Its starting to pay off.
Now I am focusing on keyword research, having had identified my weak points, things are really coming together.
When I was with George we built a site together which ranked on page 1 of Google within 48 hours.
Then I went home, did the same and predicted a position 7 on page 1… guess what…
position 8! lol, but to be fair another 48 hours later it DID get to position 7 – so its GOOD TO KNOW that doing it right and knowing how to do it works.
So expect to see continued growth.
I am now going to be pushing and pushing pages – pages that this time, I know should rank well.
A guy in the WordPress Goldmine forum called Briyan focused. In 5 months of doing Adsense he is now earning $117 a day.
If like me you want to waste 14 months tinkering along without really knowing what to do then carry on, else join WordPress Goldmine and you could see things happning for yourself.
Anyway, that obviosu bit of promotion out of the way, the serious note here is that with knowledge and focus comes money. Bryan did this. He focused on Adsense and took what he found to work and turned it into a full time income.
Guess what – he has built 200 pages of content – 50 sites with 4 on each, and only 64 of them are on page 2 – all that money from page 2!!!!
When he hits page 1 his income is going to shoot up to incredible levels.
Anyway, armed with this, Ive drawn a planner for my wall with 200 squares on it. Can you guess what Im going to do with it…?
Each page I make using my new found understanding is going to have a line drawn through that square.
Im aiming to do 1-2 or more pages a day so Im keen to see what happens in 3 months from now. Im going to be focusing on Adsense.
Thanks
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Dec 1st, 2010. 6 Comments.
Well I am happy to report continued good things are happening, and so far each month is improving on the previous month.
Onwards and upwards in baby steps right?
I am actually ecstatic with the progress that has been made this month and I can wholeheartedly put it all down to what I have been doing with WordPress Goldmine (go on, take the crazy $5 trial!).
I’ve been doing a number of things this month and wanted to lay it all out – if I can do it, believe me, ANYONE can do it!
For a start I have been tweaking the overall layout of where to put the Adsense ads on each of my 50 sites. In the WordPress Goldmine forum a layout for best ad placement was revealed and I have used this to tweak each site. It’s only been a few days but I have definitely seen somewhere between a 30% and a 50% improvement in earnings.
Talking of earnings… lets take a look:
Adsense: September was £47.20 GBP ($74.28 USD) – in October I managed to turn it into £85.71 (that is $137.63) – so it almost doubled.
Amazon: September was £10.35 ($16.30 USD) – In October I saw a great leap. I earned £56.70 (or $91.07)
Clickbank: I earned around the same as last month £19 (Or $30)
New sales: I managed to pull in a hosting client for a nice $50 commission
WPGM – $30 earnings.
Other earnings: $300 (down from $480)
So the overall earnings was $300 = $$30 + $50 + $30 + $91.07 + $137.63 = $638.70 USD (£397.75 GBP)
So overall about $33 UP on the previous month, despite a drop of $180 from promoting some software.
Expenditure is £235.94 so overall clear profit is £161.81 which is £20 more than the previous month despite the big drop.
Ok, last October I knew nothing about internet marketing. Zilch!
Now I wish this was more but it isn’t, I’ll deal with it, lol.
As with any learning curve you tend to not notice any big changes for ages, and then once it begins, it snowballs. So Now I “know” what to do it’s just a case of continuing on with this.
Oh well back to work!
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Filed under My progress by on Nov 1st, 2010. 4 Comments.
Well, so far so good, things continue to be on an upward trend.
At this stage of the game I am happy to report I have pretty much already beaten last months earnings via adsense and amazon. There are still 2 weeks left so this was a nice surprise.
My old friend Murphy has been throwing his law at me with a lot of vengeance this past month, and some of those arrows are taking me away from I.M. arghhhh!! but, in true fashion, I’m pushing back. Theres no other choice – when you HAVE to push back thats all you can do. Sometimes you gotta take the rough with the smooth.
I’m excited though to see earnings seem very consistent on an average daily basis of around £2 – £3 a day – woah, yeah big money, not … I know…. (Im talking about adsense). This is most certainly due to the push of those 20 sites I had developed.
Now, more interestingly, I had a site I made a few weeks ago. I set up the frame, SEO etc then had to complete some other work. When I came back to the site it had ranked at number 3 in Google with no content other than the domain name and site setup. A shell basically.
So I set out to add content and create backlinks to it. It was doing well, until I pushed one too many backlinks and now its vanished. I know it will return, but just goes to show you have to tread easy when the domains are new.
So that would be my advice for new sites 
As per usual, if you want to start doing what I do, read my wordpress goldmine review.
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Filed under Random Thoughts by on Oct 17th, 2010. 2 Comments.
Well, as the old saying goes, there aint no smoke without a fire.
Right now there’s a lot of smoke, and just for the sake of getting a pun into this blog post, things are progressing nicely, and a fire is rumbling underneath it all!
Adsense: £0.00 (BIG jump in traffic though!)
Amazon £0.40 (3rd item from yesterday got shipped)
Clickbank £0.00
OK so it’s still small numbers but in another aspect when you look at the business overall, it continues to tick along nicely.
Traffic still flows. This is key.
One of my sites saw a really big spike in traffic yesterday and I noticed traffic coming from bt.com search engine which has provided much of the extra boost, especially since my site’s inner page is ranked in position one there.
And for those people who have just arrived here – yes I’ve been doing this since October 2009, but my father in law passed away around the same time and we have had to deal with his estate which has been time consuming, to say the least.
I’ve actually committed to working at this game full time now so I’m expecting to see good rises steadily each month.
What did surprise me is the site whose pages went to position one, and the spike in traffic – giving over 70 unique vistors a day which is over 2000 a month, so now my mind is sharpening up and I need to focus on getting the most bang for buck from that site.
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Filed under My progress by on May 7th, 2010. Comment.
Well today drew zero in terms of revenue, but in terms of “number of hits received” – it has given another good day in fact the number has increased for one domain due to the fact one site is now going into its main season (an annual event). I must see if I can increase site CTR on that site.
I am seeing ongoing traffic to my regular blog, my domains, and to my backlinks.
Yesterday I wrote 2 more articles for low hanging fruit search terms.
So onwards and upwards.. this month is going to be slow and poor in terms of money but its the first real month Im pushing hard so watch this space over the coming weeks!
I love wordpress goldmine!
Adsense: £0.00
Amazon £0.00
Clickbank £0.00
yay!
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Filed under My progress by on May 4th, 2010. Comment.
Well I thought it was pointless providing progress updates the last couple of weeks and of course the past 8 weeks I haven’t really done any internet marketing at all.
Thanks to wordpress goldmine though, things could not be better, given the circumstances.
Someone criticised my progress a few weeks ago which I thought was unfair given the fact we have been dealing with the estate of my now dead father in law who died suddenly from a heart attack, in the street.
Now thankfully most of the stuff is behind me and all I can say is WATCH THIS SPACE for May!
Now on to the results.
My Adsense dropped a little bit compared to last month by 36%
Adsense £5.48 (£8.63 last month)
I know why the drop was significant. Last month I had a single click from one site for £1.98 and that site hasnt had any further promotion from me yet.
And really this isnt a good measure on just 5 or 6 sites.
Clickbank earnings £0.00
Amazon was a good result: I doubled the number of clicks to over 200 and the earnings came out at almost double compared to last month too. Not bad for zero work.
Amazon earnings: $7.04 (USD) or £4.60
As for referring new people to WPGM I increased the signups for a third month in a row, with one per month.
This is all testament to the fact that this WORKS.
I am wholly convinced beyond ANY reasonable doubt whatsoever and now have been a member since October 2010.
The ONLY reason I’m not doing hundreds per month yet is because of the family death and everything we’ve had to do since then – the whole affair was left for me and my wife to deal with.
6 sites up, 5 are on page 1 with 2 of them at position 1 in the search engines.
I know that I can build a site a day if I want to, but I also know that in a lot of the cases you need to continually work on each site adding backlinks, pushing them higher up the rankings and keeping them there.
I have friends who can build one site a day and with great research do little else to them until they need it – a nice approach, but to encompass all kinds of sites we need to push all methods.
i.e. diversify…
Now, I can go on and on and on about this for hours as it’s something I went into very thoroughly a few years ago and I intend to get some reports written up to give away in the future to explain what I mean…
Thanks
Shaun
p.s. read my WordPress Goldmine review and decide for yourself if your life is worth changing. I dont know what else I can say. It works, period. When you stop thinking all about the hype, spam, crap and stupidness that exists and you have a clear head, then that is the moment in your life when you need to make a proper and sensible decision. Stay clear of the crap that clutters the net.
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Filed under My progress by on May 1st, 2010. Comment.
