This past month went pretty fast. Starting new projects, choosing which projects will take the back burner. Finally focusing on which projects are most important in the last week of the month. Top projects I will be focusing on is promoting my website I am going to sell at the end of the month or next month and promoting GDI. Just joined yesterday since I been talking with my friend Wade and he showed me how he’s making $4k a month from GDI. My blog is 3rd on the list. Lets get into the reason you came to read this. The traffic stats and income report.
August 2009 Traffic Stats
Visits: 1,714
Pageviews: 4,716
Pages Per Visit: 2.75
Bounce Rate: 47.72%
Average Time On Site: 5:42
New Visits: 40.78%
Top 5 Traffic Providers
1) Direct (Typein traffic & url shorters)
Visits: 513
Pages Per Visit: 3.82
Average Time On Site: 10:02
New Visits: 45.22%
Bounce Rate: 44.83%
2) Google
Visits: 261
Pages Per Visit: 1.98
Average Time On Site: 3:26
New Visits: 49.09%
Bounce Rate: 58.03%
3) Stumbleupon
Visits: 164
Pages Per Visit: 2.09
Average Time On Site: 3:03
New Visits: 30.49%
Bounce Rate: 64.02%
4) Making Money Online
Visits: 78
Pages Per Visit: 2.79
Average Time On Site: 6:21
New Visits: 7.69%
Bounce Rate: 34.62%
5) Twitter
Visits: 37
Pages Per Visit: 2.05
Average Time On Site: 3:54
New Visits: 35.14%
Bounce Rate: 51.35%
Top 5 Viewed Posts
1) July 2009 Income Report
2) How To Sell Direct Ads And Find Advertisers
3) How To Add 3 Widget Areas To Header In Thesis
4) How To Get Started In Affiliate Marketing Without A Website
5) Girlfriend Went Crazy With Logo And eBook Cover
July 2009 Income Report
Direct Ad Sales: $200
kushmoney – $200
Ad Networks: $1.53
Google Adsense – $0.35
Infolinks – $0.26
Adbrite – $0.92
Affiliate Marketing: $47.23
Market Leverage – $1.40
SocialSpark – $2.46
Clickbank Products
Twitter Trick – $2.12
Poker Affiliate Programs
Full Tilt Poker – $24.28
Spin32 Poker – $0.08
Pitbull Poker – $16.89
Other Income: $5
Net-Entrepreneur.com Contest – $5
Total Gross Internet Income Of August 2009: $253.76
Remember, my income is from my small network of blogs, websites, affiliate marketing, services, website flipping, and ebook.
As you can see the traffic is down around 300 visits. The reason for that is I stop promoting my blog. If I would have kept doing the things I normally do. The traffic would have at least reach 3,000 visits. One thing that did standout to me is the search engine traffic is up since I switched over to the thesis theme. So I got my answer, yes. The thesis theme is the perfect SEO theme. I will do the thesis review soon.
Now onto the income report. Like I said in the last income report. The earnings was not going to touch $1,000 but I did my best. $750 short of my goal. This month should be a lot better. I am going to completely focus on only 3 projects this month. The rest will have to take the back burner for awhile. I know some of you thinking what about your ebook. Why no sales there? I haven’t promoted my ebook. I thought about what people would do if they did buy the ebook. People will have questions and ask about different methods. So I am going to completely redo the business model. I am going to make it a membership site that will provide different methods of growing your mailing list from blog commenting, craigslist, selling your own product, and etc. The ebook is still available until I get around to completing the membership site. So grab your copy while you can and for affiliates, keep promoting!
August Goals
eBook Sales: 110 (Incomplete)
Gross Income: $1,000 (Incomplete)
Twitter Followers: 1,000 (Incomplete)
Mailing List: 1,000 (Incomplete)
Visits: 10,000 (Incomplete)
Pageviews: 25,000 (Incomplete)
Videos: 4 (Incomplete)
None of the goals are complete, WTF Deneil! Calm down my friend. I started new projects, faced some problems, and took a break around 2 and half days. This month I got a plan that will be not only productive but very helpful for both me and you. Just take a look at the goals below.
September Goals
Goal 1) Finish the website to flip
Goal 2) Get the ebook chapter 3 done. (This requires posts on this blog)
Goal 3) Get 50 signups in GDI
Goal 4) Gross $1,000
Goal 5) Do 4 videos
What do you think about my income and goals?
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I think they are doable and income it can be better. You just have to work at it little bit harder. I know I have to work harder and find different ways to make money. Greg Ellison
I agree, we just need to focus, work harder, and work smarter. Cheers to our success.
Keep on keepin’ on, Deneil
It’s cool for you to post these. Gives incentive to all of us out there!
George
Hey, Nice site and cool income report. You show up on google
I just made my income report too and I’m shooting for some crazy goals. Keep up the good work and I’ll be back to see an increase next month.
I really like how honest you are in these reports. I know you will get to your goals very soon!
I will, doing my best.
Happy to help motivate others.
Thank you Paul. I seen your income report. I wouldn’t say its a crazy goal. It can be reached. We both can complete our goals. Just got to keep up the good work. Cheers to our success.
Well Tycoon, I believe the truth is always better than a lie any day. Plus it would do me and my readers no good to lie in these reports. Hopefully everything works out great and I complete my goals.
I like the way you list out specifically the goals that you would like to achieve. I should do that too. And you earned a lot online from multiple sources, mine only depends on at most three sources of online income. Anyway, all the very best to you.
Not bad. But I thought you normally earned much more than this?
My only main source of income is from AdSense
You definitely sound like a busy guy Deneil… which is good. One thing about business… the things you work on now (like your other projects) take a bunch of your time up while building them and earn you no money at the time… but down the road the real money starts pouring in.
I really enjoy how honest and thorough you are with these posts. It’s very refreshing.
I wish you much success in achieving all your goals!
As far as your comment that your search engine traffic is up since you switched to Thesis… why do you think it was because of Thesis? Don’t you think it is because you just keep adding new content each month and more things get indexed. I have noticed that my search engine traffic seems to be growing on a weekly basis. I am just curious why you think it is Thesis?
Deneil, I can see how serious you treated your blogging business, I appreciate your effort Deneil! You have quite good income this month and I’m sure your traffic will be increased in some days. I’ve recently switched to Thesis too, I’m waiting to see the improvement in term of search engine ranking and traffic too.
Cheers,
Lee
Still a very good income
Sorry to see your visits have gone down, but as you say, once you stop promoting that’s what is likely to happen.
I’m already looking forward to your September report
I like to try things to find what works. When you find something that works for you roll with it.
It was a down month but we will see what happens this month.
Try a combo of Google adsense and CPA networks like marketleverage. Maybe that would do it for you?
Yeah, I been very busy. Trying to find what works best for me. You right about doing work now and it paying off later. The money I make from the poker affiliate programs is mostly from promotion I did in 2008 and some this year.
Being honest is the only way to go.
Well I took into account that all my posts are indexed within the first hour of being posted and new content. I went through the stats to see which posts I didn’t build backlinks for, didn’t rank well for keywords before I switched over to thesis. The traffic is up from search engines for those posts. With a little more focus on SEO. I’m sure the traffic from search engines is going to be great.
Not just my blogging business Lee. I treat my internet marketing business serious. The income was ok but I can do better. I’m sure the traffic will increase as well. Should be a minimum of 2,500 visits this month. Yeah, we will see how thesis helps us both.
Hello my friend, I can see that you still doing well with your income…except this month wasn’t very effective for you according to your stats and income. Strangly, I’ve got about 5500 pages view last month! and my blog income is increasing little by little… I’ll soon reach the amount I was looking for! My main income come from private advertising… Wish I could sell more products…
The income was ok. Traffic was only down about 300 visits, so I am not sad about that. I will have a little more time this month to promote the blog so traffic will be good.
We will see how that goes.
Hey Ben, the month was a great testing month. Good to see your pageviews up. How much is the income? We all hope to sell more products.
Well done. Ok, it’s not as close to your previous income, but like you said that you did not promote your blog.
Onward and upward, my man. Still not bad figures; you beat mine. I just signed up with the Pokerstars affiliate program, but they haven’t approved me yet.
You should not stop promoting your blog buddy. This kind of mistake can kill your reputation online my friend
be careful
This blog as nothing to do with my income. This blog doesn’t make any money. So if I promote it or not, it doesn’t effect my income.
Pokerstars is a good affiliate program. I know an super affiliate that income goes up every month promoting pokerstars. Try contacting them to get approved faster.
Chris, not promoting my blog can not kill my reputation online. It just makes less people aware of me.
Its ok, keep up the good work though. THere will always be a month or two when you dont reach your goals, and that is ok. Just keep up the good work and in short time you will be near $1,000 monthly income.
I agree with you, I change my focus from one time payment affiliate programs to recurring affiliate programs. That way I can build up my income and know each month I will do the same or greater every month.
Man I forgot to check my Social Spark earnings.
Even so Deneil I’m still not going to catch up on you. Even though it’s not what you wanted it’s still pretty good. That GDI sounds interesting. Once I get some free time I reckon I will have to check that out. Thanks for the update mate.
Great to hear that Deneil! I think most of the full time blogger treat their internet marketing business serious, I treat it serious too even though I’m working it part time. I just need more time to increase the earning for my blog too. And yes, Thesis is really a great theme!
How is GDI going for you?
lol, I completely forgot about GDI. Been busy working on my ebook and membership site.
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