June 2009 income report showed the highest I ever earned in one month until July came. Finish selling all the sitewide year links on my other blog and did a few paid posts. So July was really nice for income. Traffic on the other hand grew but took a below from the blog being down and me working on my ebook and not promoting my blog.
All in all, July was a really good month. Too bad I didn’t do my ebook launch right so no sales. You read that right, no sales in July. I will do my best to create a buzz for jump start mailing list this month.
July 2009 Traffic Stats
Visits: 2,035
Pageviews: 5,202
Pages Per Visit: 2.56
Bounce Rate: 48.85%
Average Time On Site: 4:52
New Visits: 42.80%
Top 5 Traffic Providers
1) Direct (Type-in, url shorters)
Visits: 486
Pages Per Visit: 2.93
Average Time On Site: 6:00
New Visits: 57.61%
Bounce Rate: 50.62%
2) Stumbleupon
Visits: 297
Pages Per Visit: 2.91
Average Time On Site: 7:23
New Visits: 23.23%
Bounce Rate: 48.15%
3) Making Money Online
Visits: 77
Pages Per Visit: 2.35
Average Time On Site: 5:32
New Visits: 3.90%
Bounce Rate: 49.35%
4) Google
Visits: 74
Pages Per Visit: 2.30
Average Time On Site: 2:24
New Visits: 83.78%
Bounce Rate: 58.11%
5) Digital Point Forum
Visits: 68
Pages Per Visit: 1.51
Average Time On Site: 0:55
New Visits: 83.82%
Bounce Rate: 79.41%
Top 5 Viewed Posts
1) Are You Sick Of Seeing Me Everywhere?
2) June 2009 Income Report
3) Bad Day Or Good Day?
4) Am I Really A B-list Blogger?
5) Blog Comment System
July 2009 Income Report
Direct Ad Sales: $1310
kushmoney – $1310
Ad Networks: $1.88
Google Adsense – $0.82
Infolinks – $1.06
Affiliate Marketing: $43.43
OIOpublisher – $19.50
SocialSpark – $4.32
7 Dollar Secrets – $7
Poker Affiliate Programs
Full Tilt Poker – $12.50
Spin32 Poker – $0.11
Other Income: $8.33
Squidoo – $2.21
Memorail – $6.12
Total Gross Internet Income Of July 2009: $1,363.64
Remember, my income is from my small network of blogs, websites, affiliate marketing, services, website flipping, and ebook.
As you can direct ads was most of the income so I looking at this month is going to be around $100 – $300. Depends on what I do this month. I know I will keep promoting my ebook, hopefully get some sales from it. My goal is 110 sales. I will keep making money from twitter and see if I can rech $100 from that. You can learn how I make money on twitter. I am also going to do some affiliate marketing with peerfly.
To give myself a gift for reaching $1,000 last month. I am going to buy thesis for my blog and of course I told my girlfriend I would buy her a laptop same as mine. So with the money left I will pay my monthly bills. (hostgator & aweber) I will also be promoting my ebook. Hopefully the sales will roll in.
July 2009 Goals
Website Flips: 2 (Not Completed)
Gross Income: $1,000 (Completed)
RMP Signups to Poker Rooms: 25 (Not Completed)
Twitter Followers to my personal account: 1,000 (Not Completed)
July 2009 Blog Goals
Videos: 4 (Not Completed)
Visits: 10,000 (Not Completed)
Pageviews: 25,000 (Not Completed)
Mailing List Subscribers: 1,000 (Not Completed)
August Goals
eBook Sales: 110
Gross Income: $1,000
Twitter Followers: 1,000
Mailing List: 1,000
Visits: 10,000
Pageviews: 25,000
Videos: 4
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Great job, Deneil! Keep working at it and soon enough that will be $10,000 instead of $1,000!
Still, great work! Keep it up!
It looks like your one website is doing really good. Keep up the great work Deneil. Greg Ellison
Very nice indeed, Deneil. How’d you get Kushmoney to invest in your bog like that? Keep it up; gives the rest of us something to shoot for.
That’s neat! You finally managed to make a good amount of money online! Congrats my friend! I was glad to contribute a little to your success by buying from your link.
Deneil… Great numbers. You DEFINITELY are one the bloggers that really inspire me to succeed. Thanks and much more success! GREAT JOB!
As always it’s interesting to see where other people make the most of their money. In this case it do feel like you have a 80/20-scenario where 80 percent of your income come from 20 percent of your methods.
That’s amazing, really good job Deneil. I hope you don’t mind if I follow roughly your format for my July 2009 report, to be posted in a few days. It’ll be my first, I didn’t do it today cause I was still thinking of what to include and exclude, I wanted to include as many details as possible but were not sure if It was a good idea to include too much about visits – but seeing you do it, heck, what’ll happen
By the way – I can’t get your RSS feed to work, it just says something like the file doesn’t exist, once I import your feed URL: http://stx.websitewelcome.com/~deneilme/?feed=rss
Hmm, was my post just lost in cyberspace? I don’t see it, not even “awaiting moderation”… I don’t wanna write the whole thing again if it’s just caught up in Akismet or something, please let me know if you find it
Awesome job, Deneil. You should be real proud.
Rock on, big guy. And when you get to the top, remember all us little peeps.
George
Well done. Keep it up.
Good work, breaking $1000 is quite a landmark figure.
On the e-book sales I have a suggestion. In this niche it’s very hard to sell anything that doesn’t relate 100% to making money directly. In other words e-books like “Do This And Make $10,000″ sells (no matter how rubbish the content) where as “Do This And Get More Tarffic” doesn’t really sell (even if it’s top notch content). In MMO people only seem to be interesting in spending money if it directly makes them money.
So don’t get down about it, it may just be better if you considered it as content for leveraging traffic OR perhaps making a point of explaining how much your list is making you. Just an idea.
You have to respect a guy that can go out and set realistic goals and achieve them, great work Deneil and I like the way you layout your monthly recaps.
Now get CommentLuv
Oh yeah, following you on Twitter now also.
I am surprised that your earnings from AdSense were that low? I figured most (more than 50%) of your earnings would be from AdSense…
Congratulations for the earnings! Those are a lot of goals, but goals are the best way to constantly improve. Good luck!
I’m so glad to see the rise in your monthly income, though It will be better if we have a recurring list here which will give you income security for every month. The bottom line is you doing things in the right way and I’m sure every month we will see a great rise in your income..
Wow, your earnings are always high. Well done!
I see your stats for august have been set high, but I’m sure that you will reach them
Wow nice earnings! I thought it all came from this blog because I was surprised to see how you can make that much money with the amount of low visitors lol
Great dude. It’s nice to see that ur gross income is going up to 1k soon.
I wish you get a double income in August.
Whew! For now, I can only dream of attaining those stats of yours man. But having a day job and blogging only part time will never get me anywhere, I suppose.
Anyway, I wish you better and better results Den.
Wonderful income dude. Am yet to work with affiliate sales and is only with CPC for now. I think to reach the $1000 monthly I’ll need another 12 months lol. Am still at approx 300 for now. Keep up the good stats.
i see you are using Thesis now, well done on the conversion. Thanks for buying it through my link. Let me know if you need help with anything.
Great income…. hope i can also make such income soon.
Good Earning! Congrats for your earning. Wishing you good luck!
I love the way you’re planning out your month’s tasks and setting goals at the same time. This is really the way to succeed in any business.
“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.” ~ Brian Tracy
Regards
Phil
Thank you, I would love to be making $10,000 instead of $1,000. I think everybody would be happy with that.
Yeah, too bad I only have one last link slot on that blog to sell. So this months earnings are going to be a lot lower.
Kushmoney is my other blog. A lot of work went into that blog. Had it for over a year and half. Had the domain for over 2 years.
Yeah, finally is the key word there. Yes, thank you for buying through my affiliate link.
Thank you, lets hope all our income keep growing month after month.
Yeah, its going to be a change up this month. Hopefully I can maintain $1,000+ a month.
I agree! I really like it that you get a good amount of traffic from our site. I saw similar type stats on another blogger’s report too. That makes me happy
I guess your blog has a nice amount of traffic coming to it because it gave me more traffic than john chow and shoemoney.
Yeah, go right ahead. I think their should be more income reports. Last year it seem everybody did them and a lot of people stop doing them.
The redirect wasn’t working, everything should be fixed pretty soon.
Your comment was stuck in spam. I approved it.
Wait; is that Kushmoney, the poker site? If so, I didn’t know that was yours.
Yes, kushmoney is mine. It was once like this blog before I changed it to poker. It’s pretty awesome to be able to blog about my hobby.
Yeah, its a very profitable niche even for article writing for others. I have seen poker articles sale for $25 each.
I am not that good at poker. I need to play more often. Good luck in your tournament.
Oh man, that’s my hobby also. I’ll be writing about it later, but I earned an entry into a $750 tournament a few weeks back, so I’ll have my shot at $50,000.
I am proud, just hope I can keep it up.
Don’t worry, I will.
Thank you, took me a long time to reach it.
I guess you are right. I should have facter in human greed for money. I will have to use this month as a case study to build my mailing list and make money from it. Then use the stats on the sales page.
That way I can focus on how much money they can make from using my ebook to sell more copies. Thanks for the idea.
Thank you for your kind words. I believe in one step at a time. I thought the layout was a little too much but thanks for letting me know its perfect the way it is.
Sorry, not getting commentluv.
Thanks, I am following you as well John.
Why are you surprised? Adsense has never been a strong part of income plan. I just use to hold ad slots when I don’t have anything else to take it’s place.
Thanks, I don’t think its a lot of goals but I do hope to complete them all this month.
It’s just that I see a lot of people making money from AdSense, so I figured you would be making a lot since your site is better than a lot of other websites. I guess I was wrong.
Deneil… why don’t you want to add CommentLuv? Just curious. I would like to add it to our site, but for some reason it does not play well with my theme and/or other plugins. I am wondering why you don’t want to use it?
Personal choose really. I want people to read my posts and leave a comment the first thing that comes to mind while other people not comment at all.
I don’t want any comments from people who sit there thinking about something to say just to have a comment on a blog with commentluv.
Same reasons I didn’t install the plugins keywordluv or nofollow free.
I hope that clear things up for you.
Did you contact the maker of commentluv? Ask why its not working with your theme and/or other plugins.
Thanks for thoroughly answering that Deneil. That is a very good reason!
I have not contacted CommentLuv, but I should… thanks!
Everybody business model isn’t the same. I will make a post about why I don’t focus on adsense income. Give you a clear idea why I don’t.
Yeah right, we do need more recurring income. I am a hugh fan of passive income and working on passive income. The poker affiliate programs pay 10% – 40% for life as long as the players are playing. Maybe I should focus on affiliate marketing a little more with peerfly, neverblue, and marketleverage. Get more people to sign up through my link and terach them how to make money from the cpa networks. 2% – 5% from that for life would be nice.
I wouldn’t say the goals are high but they will be there month after month until I complete them.
lol, yeah a lot of people thought that. That’s why I put the note right under the total amount. I hope we all make more money this month.
lol, I can only be so lucky to double my income this month. To make $2k in one month would be awesome.
James, don’t count yourself out. Keep working on it, you can’t fail if you never give up.
Thank you for the kind words.
Well at the moment you are doing better than I at CPC. My affiliate marketing and CPC together still don’t match up to your $300. Keep working on it, we both can do it. There’s nothing stopping us.
You welcome, I told you I was going to buy it through your link. I am a man of my word. I will be contacting you soon.
Stay focus and work hard at it. You can make $1k.
Thank you, I do my best. You did really good last month as well. I seen your income report. Great earnings for one website.
Thanks for visiting my blog buddy. I am trying to understand one important thing here that how can you make so much of $$ with Kush money ??
Would you mind sharing ??
You welcome. I recommend reading this post How To Sell Direct Ads And Find Advertisers