Man this time of the month came really quick. So many things went on this month it almost was a disappointing month. However, I believe it’s the most work I have gotten done in one month. I spent more time working on getting things done then focus on pulling in short term income. From that I had a bit of a money depression or something because the last half week of the month I tried almost everything to pull in more money. Lucky a three advertisers contacted me which resulted in adding a nice chunk to the direct ad sells.
While I did do over $100 in content writing services. I realize why I don’t like selling content. I much prefer using the content on my sites or using it for article marketing. Also, sometimes the content sits there listed without a bite for awhile before it sells. Which leaves me with the thoughts about using the content for myself! So in June I guess I will be using all the content I produce. I’m not giving up on replacing my direct ad income with content writing. I just don’t want to go into the thoughts of I should have used that article not sold it. In June I am going to produce the same amount or more content and put it to good use to see if I feel much better doing that.
May Goals
I know in the May Goals post I listed a few goals I wanted to complete in May. I am proud of what I got done. However, I know I could have done much better. I just need to clear my mind. I notice I have been having problems focusing on work, poker, and even texting on the phone. More on that later. Let’s see what I completed and what I didn’t complete.
The first goal was produce 10,000 new words of content. Didn’t matter which site of mine I place it on, didn’t matter if I use it for article marketing, or sold it. So how did I do? I stop counting after I reached 10k words. A lot of the articles was hanging around the 600 words mark. I did a few for my rakeback/limit holdem site that was over 1k each. So reaching this goal was easier than I thought. Maybe 20k or 30k would have been a real goal. 10k words was far too easy.
My second goal was revamping my poker community site into a poker news site. Well this job is a big project. With zero funds to revamp the design right now. I have focus on revamping the sidebar on different pages, adding a ad slot within the news posts which was very easy since I use oiopublisher, and I move the news to the homepage. So google can notice the site is being updated daily.
Ok, my next goal was very disappointing. The only keywords I reach on the first page in google was for the sites name. I know google did a lot of updates to their systems last month so a lot of people seen drops in traffic while others got a really nice boost in traffic. Since this is not a to being first for keywords. I am ok with not completing this goal. I am sure I will start ranking for keywords as time pass. I still have a few things to do with branding and producing content before I go full force with my backlink building efforts.
My last goal for May was to finish the follow up emails for the newsletter of the new site with aweber. I finish that within a day or so. It was pretty easy since I like to send subscribers back to the site with each email. Completing this so quick allowed me to come up with more goals in the half way through the month post.
I made the twitter, facebook, and youtube accounts for the site. Feel free to click and check them out if you want. I have some work to do to customize the fan page. Also, the channel will fill up with videos pretty soon as I get the intro done for the videos. Oh, I almost forgot. I also got the banners done for the site. Check out the 468×60 banner below. I also have other sizes; 728×90, 125×125, 250×250, and 160×600. If you have poker traffic you can sign up to my rakeback site and use your referral link if you want too. 
I would love your comments on the banner. I love the way it came out but I always like to hear other people opinions. Let me know your likes and dislikes about the banner.
This month I am not going to post the most viewed posts and traffic for this blog. I realize it’s just a waste of my time since I don’t post very often. I said I was going to do more posts this past month but I didn’t. This month, I will be posting what I am doing with the new site so that should get me back into the blogging mood. I just might start producing more posts for both blogs and for the poker news site. Until I can hire someone of course. Now let’s get into the income report. I know that’s what you came for. 
May 2010 Income Report
Direct Ad Sales: $660
Ad Networks: $1.44
Google Adsense – $0.85
Infolinks – $0.58
Adbrite – $0.01
Affiliate Marketing: $38.12
Yoga Poker: $4.68
Full Tilt Poker: $0.30
Spin32 Poker: $1.94
Outstandingpoker: $12.70
OIOpublisher: $18.50
Other Income: $187.20
Content Writing: $150
Sponsored Tweets: $12
Hits4Pay: $25.20
Total Gross Internet Income Of May 2010: $886.76
Remember, my income is from my small network of blogs, websites, affiliate marketing, services, and website flipping.
Since I know most people only read this post for the income stats. I will post June goals tomorrow. So how much did you make in May?
as well.
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Wow, another impressive month for you. Seems the direct ads are doing very well as you made over $600.
It’s doing ok. Always one of my highest income sources.
Well done for achieving the majority of the goals that you set yourself for May. I have never thought to count the amount of words I write. It seems weird to think that the number could actually amount to the equivalent of a novel or something.
I love the look of your new banner – the purple colour scheme is gorgeous.
Good luck with your goals for June.
Thank you, June goals will be a lot harder to complete given it’s all about producing content. Counting the words was my first time. I must say it does push you to provide more details in your articles to boost the word count. Glad you like the banner. I like the purple as well.
Thank you, good luck to you as well.
Congrats on achieving your goals. What is your secret behind direct ad sales?
Thank you. There is no secret. I made a article on how to go about it.
http://deneilmerritt.com/how-to-sell-direct-ads-and-find-advertisers/
Amazing numbers again, Deneil
I can’t help wondeirng, why do you bother with AdBrite (and Infolinks for that matter) when they pay so little? I would imagine that adbrite ad spots (if that’s what they are) could be used for something better, and get rid of infolinks (on whatever site they’re on) not to annoy some readers, since they only make you that little money compared to all the other stuff?
lol I knew that question was coming sooner or later. The truth is I don’t use adbrite. I check my account when making the monthly income report and it’s changes in the account. As for infolinks, I have it on site where visitors dont click and there is very little content on the site. The site is full with videos and not text.
I hope that explains why the income from adbrite and infolinks is so low.
Congratulations on the earnings, I agree about content writing, it is more time consuming than other area’s of earning.
maybe it is somewhere but can you tell me how much is your poker site traffic. i mean kushmoney site. Im just interested because im trying to go into poker affiliete business also.
Sorry, I do not release those details.
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