Wow, its that time again already? This month went by so fast however I pulled in the highest amount of income of the year so far. I am really happy about that but at the same all that money was spent on content, logo, and design for my new poker site. I still have a lot of work to do on it before I start promoting it so my income just might take a big blow next month. May should pull in a minimum of $400+ since that’s what I average each month from selling direct ads.
I still have a few websites to sell before I can completely give all my time to blogging about my poker career on my poker blog, building a poker community, and my latest project which will be my biggest income source once I get everything completed and promote it. This week the new design will be live on the site. Tell me what you think of it.
I am really happy how it turned out. My web designer even came up with an idea to place the logo on hats and tshirts. Since he and I was so pleased with the way the logo turned out. He even made me an example on how it would look.
I am pretty sure I could come up with a promotion giving away hats and tshirts. Let me know what you guys and gals think of the idea of selling my own clothing line. Now with that out of the way, let’s get into the traffic stats of this blog and the income report of my network.
April 2010 Traffic Stats
Visits: 492
Pageviews: 959
Pages Per Visit: 1.95
Bounce Rate: 67.07
Average Time On Site: 1.59
New Visits: 83.54
Top 5 Traffic Providers
1) Direct (Type-in, url shorteners)
2) Google
3) Poker Affiliate Listings
4) Feedburner (RSS feed readers)
5) selbstaendig-im-netz.de
Top 5 Viewed Posts
1) March 2010 Income Report
2) How To Add 3 Widget Areas To Header In Thesis
3) February 2010 Income Report
4) 2010 Professional And Personal Goals
5) How To Sell Direct Ads And Find Advertiser
As always of the past few months traffic is very low because I haven’t been blogging. I want say sorry about that. I have been busy with my business and I should have been writing about that at least. May I will try to get back into the groove of blogging here again. I will try to find some time to comment on some of your blogs as well. I know I haven’t been commenting either but I have found some time to read your blogs.
April 2010 Income Report
Direct Ad Sales: $480
Ad Networks: $3.29
Google Adsense – $2.93
Infolinks – $0.34
Adbrite – $0.02
Affiliate Marketing: $14.81
Yoga Poker – $8.07
Outstandingpoker – $6.74
Other Income: $800
Domain/Website Flipping: $800
Total Gross Internet Income Of April 2010: $1,298.10
Remember, my income is from my small network of blogs, websites, affiliate marketing, services, and website flipping.
In The Mind Of Deneil Merritt…
Wow, what a month. I don’t know what I was thinking but for some reason it all make sense. I was thinking to myself. Why have so many websites making very little money and have to build backlinks for them all? When I can just focus on a few and sell the rest. So I sold 3 websites and should have the others sold soon. Not sure though. One of them I just might keep. It’s so close to ranking on the first page to start making money. So I don’t know, I am starting to lean towards keeping it. Two or three weeks link building everyday should be the boost it needs. So you never know what will happen.
Since I really like the way the new site design came out. I plan on hiring Eduardo ( eyenod ) for all my website designs. So after I get the design live and start promoting the site and save up some more money. I will have this blog as well as my poker blog revamp with a new design. I got an idea for this blog that just might put me back into the blogging mood.
Speaking of blogging. I will be blogging more often as I need to write stuff down. I will be going over things as I work on them and give a few tips or resources to apply to your own niche site. I have some big plans for my niche site so I am sure everyone will find at least one or two resources or tips useful.
You seen my income for April, how was yours?
as well.
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Wow Daniel you did a great job buddy.I think $1,298.10 is good enough.
And i hope it would be double next time, when i will see your next report.
Yeah, it’s a start. I don’t know about double. Hopefully I can produce the same numbers again. You never know.
Wow very nice income for the month. Keep up the great work Deneil. Greg Ellison
Nice month indeed, I will keep doing my best.
Your AdSense sucks but who cares about that when everything else rocks so much
lol, yeah I only use adsense on one website that I don’t spend anytime on. I’m happy with anything it produces since I don’t work on it.
As for everything else rocks. Not at all, my affiliate marketing is down and that’s what I am going to focus on improving. Hopefully I can do it this month or next month.
Excellent stats for April. I love the look of your new site. It definitely does pay to get an expert on the case.
Good luck with this month’s targets.
Thank you, you are so right. It does pay off to pay the expert.
Thanks, I hope you reach your targets as well.
Mine wasn’t bad either but I still believe I can rack more AdSense earnings with my traffic.. a blogging friend can with his tech blog
But still have to be grateful with getting some constant private advertisers per month
lol, I see you still hooked on adsense. Michael I can honestly say I could careless about adsense. It’s the lowest form of income. I prefer to spend my time producing content for the big bucks which is affiliate marketing.
I been preparing my new site to boost my affiliate marketing income so I could stop focusing on selling private advertising. Finding advertisers is taking away the time for working on my site. So hopefully, in a month or 2 I could really spend ALL my time working on my sites and not some of it on selling ads.
I always like trying to increase earnings through AdSense because really it takes the least amount of work, you build up traffic, optimize keywords and let it be. Unfortunately, I only earned about $40 in AdSense last month, I aspire to reach your earning levels. Though I don’t dabble in nearly as many different online ventures.
You know the same reasons you have for using adsense are the same things needed to make much more money with affiliate programs. But whatever works for you. Everybody has their own way of doing things.
I personally don’t like using adsense and programs like it because I always have the thought of “what if they click made a sale? I could have made a lot more money from that click if I was promoting that product.” So it really bugs me. As for doing so many different things. I am trying my best to cut back on that. That’s why I sold some of my sites.
Good luck with increasing your adsense earnings though. A little hard work goes a long way.
Never tried domain or website flipping, but apparently it’s pretty profitable. Looks like I should give it a try
Go for it. Doesn’t hurt to try.
Not a bad month at all. Just think how much you could make if you were producing content every day. I know it’s a grind but sometimes that’s what it takes. Good luck!
I try to produce content everybody but days it just doesn’t click for me. You know what I mean? This month I have been producing a lot of content though. Good to get back in the swing of things.
I have a dream to have your visits….. ; ) good Job
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