How rubbish that the main stars did not bother to turn up for the London premiere.  I have read the books in the Twilight collection and am looking forward to seeing the film.  Will wait until all the craziness is over before I venture to the cinema.  Gotta love Orange Wednesday – watching a film for half price in the afternoon while all the annoying kids are still in school and there are only about 20 people in the screening room. Ah what bliss.

Back To My Earnings For June

When I first reviewed the results of my money making experiment for the month of June, I was a little disappointed that the end figure wasn’t higher.  However I did take a week off at the beginning of the month and spent the time with friends in the city of Rome, which was fabulous.  So taking that into account and the fact that I don’t do anything with the sites that have adsense on them, I have done pretty good.

Milestones & Achievements For June 2010

• I wanted to add more backlinks to two older sites – done
• I wanted to get these sites on page one of Google – done
• I wanted to order more articles from Freelancer.com – done
• I wanted to create 2 new clickbank sites – Articles done, need to add to sites
• I wanted to buy 10 more dot info domains – I bought 5

So to the figures – how much did I make in June 2010?

Earnings This Month

How Much Can You Earn From Adsense?

Nearly all my sites earned roughly half the amount they did in the previous month.  It has only been in the last week or so that the numbers has started to rise again.  Wonder if this was the after effects of the MayDay Google Samba Dance or something? The good thing is that this was mostly passive income as I haven’t done much work on these sites.

Adsense earnings from Hubs = £116.24 last month = £122.74

Adsense earnings for Info barrels = £12.00 last month = £5.65

Adsense earnings from Free blogger blogs = £22.05 last month = £13.08

Adsense earnings from my Hosted sites = £39.97 last month = £83.49

Adsense earnings from Xomba, & Snipsly = £2.82 last month = £1.60

Unknown earnings = £4.08 last month = £3.89

Total Adsense Earnings = £197.16 last month = £230.45

How Much Money Can You Earn From Amazon Affiliate Links?

Nothing via my UK links but an increase in Amazon USA.  I have been working hard on these sites and hope that this will show up in this July’s results.

Total Earnings from Amazon USA this month =£257.75 last month = £204.76

Total Earnings From Amazon UK this month = £0 last month = £2.13

How Much Money Can You Make With Clickbank Products?

I finally received my very first Clickbank cheque in the post last month. It wasn’t much but it is a start.

Earnings From Clickbank = £7.53 – Last Month = £7.53

Making Money with Kontera

Kontera is only on my hubpages. I will most probably stay with it until I reach the payout limit.

Earnings From Kontera = £4.34 – Last Month = £4.43

TOTAL INTERNET EARNINGS FOR JUNE 2010

= £466.77 Last month = £449.30

I was really hoping to break the £500 barrier for June.  Hopefully this will be achieved for the month of July.

Things To Work On In July

This month I will try to refrain from buying more domains.  I need to work on the ones that I currently have.

I also want to go through the sites that are earning very little adsense and remove the coding.  Most of these have Amazon products so I should not let potential buyers get distracted by the adsense blurb which ends up earning me only a few pennies whereas an Amazon click could potentially make more. I have also removed adsense from this blog as it wasn’t doing much anyway.

The Challenge 2010

The Thirty Day Challenge that used to be hosted by Ed Dale has a new name. It is simply called The Challenge. It is a free internet based series that shows you how to make money on the internet.  I hope to take part and learn some great lessons on how to make more money on the internet.  The system has changed for this year so will be interesting to see how different it is and if I can still make money for free using the tools that they will introduce.

So that’s it for now.  I will now enjoy the beautiful summer here in London town and try not to get too distracted by the lure of my garden.

If you have any advice, I would love to hear from you. Good luck with your earnings for July.

(As you may – or may not – have noticed, I have changed the theme.  The last one was looking a little tired.  Still need to work on creating a better looking header picture though. )

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It’s Sex and The City Time!- part 2!

The month of May has been a good one for my money making experiment.  I got a lot done but I could have done even more if I hadn’t been distracted by the fascinating blogs of all those other people who are doing what I am trying to do – that is to make money on the internet.

I discovered the following sites via web surfing and reading the comments on other people’s sites.  The stuff that I have read has been both interesting and also very enlightening.  It has helped me to confirm that I am doing certain things correctly but that there is still so much to learn and so much more opportunities out there.

If you are looking for further reasons why you should continue trying to make money online then take a look at the following sites for yourself and you are sure to feel your own motivation grow.

Tiffany Dow

Mike Iser

Kaka Helmy

KJ Fleming

Making Money On The Internet

The Salespotentiator

Milestones & Achievements for May 2010

I wanted to complete 200 hubs on my main hubpages profile – done

I wanted to create some squidoo lens – done

I wanted to make a sale via Clickbank – done

I wanted to buy some more domains – done

So to the fun part – how much money did I make in May 2010?

Earnings This Month

How Much Can You Earn From Adsense?

Most of these sites were not made particularly with adsense in mind. I will need to go through them and replace the less successful ones with something more suitable like Amazon or CJ product links. I am very happy to see the jump in results though.

Adsense earnings from Hubs = £122.74 last month = £69.80

Adsense earnings for Info barrels = £5.65 last month = £8.07

Adsense earnings from Free blogger blogs = £13.08 last month = £12.00

Adsense earnings from my Hosted sites = £83.49 last month = £69.55

Adsense earnings from Xomba, & Snipsly = £1.60 last month = £2.87

Unknown earnings = £3.89 last month = £2.01

Total Adsense Earnings = £230.45 last month = £164.30

How Much Money Can You Earn From Amazon Affiliate Links?

I am very pleased with the earnings for this month.  I have a lot of work to do if I want my UK affiliate links to increase.

Earnings from Amazon USA this month =£204.76 last month = £109.92

Earnings From Amazon UK this month = £2.13 last month = £12.42

How Much Money Can You Make With Clickbank Products?

After realizing that I will not be eligible for payment via Clickbank until I get 5 or more things bought via different credit cards, I thought I should try a little bit harder with this revenue stream.  Still baby steps though.  At the moment I have bought and set up one domain and have another one to work on.

Earnings From Clickbank = $11.04 = £7.53 – Last Month = $32.60 = £21.01

Making Money with Kontera

Kontera is only on my hubpages. I will most probably stay with it until I reach the payout limit.

Earnings From Kontera = $6.50 = £4.43 – Last Month = = $10.91 = £7.14

TOTAL INTERNET EARNINGS FOR MAY 2010

= £449.30 Last month = £303.57

This is a fantastic improvement on my earnings so far.  The great thing is that I can see that the work I am doing is actually making a difference. The overall numbers are heading in the right direction.  Slowly but surely I will get to the point where I able am to live completely from my online earnings.

Outsourcing My Website Content

I always thought that you had to be earning thousands in order to justify hiring someone to do some work for you.  After reading the blog posts from the people mentioned above, I decided to dip my toe in the water and signed up with Freelancer.com. I was a little worried about the quality of writing I would receive.  I initially requested 10 articles for $20.  The articles I got back were really well written so I will definitely be doing this again.  This is going to be excellent for the really boring keywords that I choose.  I can then concentrate on the more interesting stuff.

Buying Dot Info Sites

I set myself the target of buying 50 dot info sites and I have currently got 24. They will be a mixture of adsense sites, Amazon sites and clickbank sites.  19 out of the 24 have at least one article post at the moment.  The great news is that I have already made sales through a couple of these sites which is fab. I will continue to add posts and work on the back linking stuff.

Things To Work On In June

As well as  buying more domains , writing more hubpages and adding content to the new sites, I want to concentrate my efforts on the older domains that I have.  The earnings I have achieved are great but most of my sites are not on the first page of the Google results.  If I actually took the task of keyword research and back linking seriously I am sure that I would see a dramatic increase in my potential earnings. A more focussed approached is definitely needed.

So for June I want to:

• Buy at least 10 more dot info domains
• Order at least 10 articles for these sites via Freelancer.com
• Create 2 Clickbank sites
• Work on getting one or two of my older sites onto page 1 of Google search results
• As well as the normal article writing, surfing the net, watching TV and getting distracted by everyday life.

Hope all you fellow money makers have had good results for all your hard work for the month of May.  If you have any advice to share, I would really love to hear from you.

Good luck with your targets for June.

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During the month of April I have not done as much work for my oh so little money making experiment as I would have liked.  This is due to a couple of things. One is because I have been distracted by a fantastic TV programme called In Treatment now available on DVD.  It stars the gorgeous Gabriel Byrne who plays a psychiatrist.  Each episode concentrates on one patient and their issues.  It is a great insight into what happens during a session with a shrink and how people work through their issues.

I also took a short holiday break and spent the week with friends who live near Disneyland Paris.  It was nice to be free from the computer safe in the knowledge that I was still earning a lovely passive income without doing anything.

During April I was able to reach a few milestones.

• I managed to get to100 hubs for one of my profiles on hubpages.
• I made some sales via Clickbank
• I purchased a few more domains.

I have also included earnings gained from other avenues.  The sums are very small but, hey, every little helps.

So how much did I earn online for April 2010?

Making Money With Adsense

Each avenue lost a little bit in earnings which is a bit of a shame.

Adsense earnings from Hubs = £69.80 last month = £70.44

Adsense earnings for Info barrels = £8.07 last month = £12.50

Adsense earnings from Free blogger blogs = £12.00 last month = £24.57

Adsense earnings from my Hosted sites = £69.55 last month = £89.46

Adsense earnings from Xomba & Snipsly = £2.87 last month = £2.02

Unknown earnings = £2.01 last month = £5.51

Total Adsense Earnings = £164.30 last month = £204.50

Making Money With Amazon

Earnings were very nice for April.  There are still a lot of products that have been ordered but not yet delivered so I am still waiting for quite a bit of commission.  Hopefully this will reflect even better in next months figures.

I also get to add my very first earnings for Amazon UK.  A good start I think.

Earnings from Amazon USA this month =£97.50 last month = £108.65

Earnings From Amazon UK this month = £12.42 last month = £0

Making Money With Clickbank Products

I have been signed up with Clickbank for a couple of years now but have not really done anything with it.  These products don’t particularly interest me so I find it difficult to motivate myself to write articles for any of them.  I did however promote one product through a couple of posts and did achieve a couple of sales last year.

BUT I didn’t read the terms and conditions which states that if you do not reach the payout threshold within a certain amount of time and if payment hasn’t been made from a minimum of 5 different credit cards, admin fees will be taken from your earnings.  I only found this out when I went to check my account and found that it had gone from $38 to $0 due to inactivity.

So I wrote a couple of hubs to see if I could get to the payment threshold again.  During this month I have managed to make 3 sales so far.  However I need to get two more sales before payment is issued.  Figures crossed this will happen before I start to incur admin fees again.

Earnings From Clickbank = $32.60 = £21.01

Making Money With Kontera

Kontera is another affiliate programme that I am using on my hubpages.  The earnings for this are absolutely rubbish but hey, it’s another earnings avenue and I don’t have to do anything.

Earnings From Kontera = $10.91 = £7.14

GRAND TOTAL OF INTERNET EARNINGS FOR APRIL 2010

= £302.57 Last month = £313.15

I am happy to see that the total earnings are similar the figures I collated for my earnings for March 2010.  I need to push myself to try and get the figure even higher.  I want to get be able to make at least £1,000 per month on the internet so that I can leave my boring ass job. The aim is to do this by the end of 2010.

Ideas For May

I have been reading quite a bit of stuff from other people who are making a great living working on the internet. One person in particular is a gent livin the life in Spain called Dave. He has just started up a really interesting blog called Making Money On The Internet.  He is very successful in many areas, especially using the Amazon affiliate programme.

Prompted by one of his comments about creating dot info sites, I decided to initiate my own mini challenge.  I am hoping to create 50 dot info sites with Amazon links on them.  This is a great (and cheap) way to practice my keyword research as I still have a lot to learn.  I am picking general products so that I can write about a range of different brands.   I find it easier to write for hubpages so the style will be similar to that sort of format. We’ll see how it goes.

Dave – I look forward to reading your monster post of how to make good money with Amazon.

So that’s all for now. Hope all you other internet money makers have recorded good results for your April earnings.

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Making Money In March

The progress for my money making experiment for March 2010 has been really good, however I did get a little distracted due to the release of the Twilight New Moon DVD.

I am fan of the Twilight collection, both books and films so after reading all the books, I had to see the movie.  People are choosing between being a follower of Edward Cullen, the beautiful vampire or Jacob Black the gorgeous werewolf. I have to admit that I am a member of Team Edward.

But I digress – Between reading the Twilight books and enjoying the DVD, I have managed to get some money making work done.

I created a few more hubpages and bought four more domain names.  I have written a few posts on a couple of them at the moment and have already generated quite a few articles using the Best Spinner.  I have been really happy with this particular acquisition because it is easy to use and the multiple articles I have been able to generate have all been accepted by Ezine Articles or have been published on info barrels and hubpages without any problems.

So to the interesting facts for March – How much did I earn?

Earnings This Month

Adsense earnings from Hubs = £70.44 last month = £49.60

Adsense earnings for Info barrels = £12.50 last month = £7.59

Adsense earnings from Free blogger blogs = £24.57 last month = £14.21

Adsense earnings from my Hosted sites = £89.46 last month = £51.81

Adsense earnings from Xomba & Snipsly = £2.02 last month = £2.27

Unknown earnings = £5.51 last month = £8.20

Total Adsense Earnings = £204.50 last month = £133.68

Making Money With Amazon

Earnings from Amazon have also increased this month. I am over the moon that I have passed the £100 mark again.  I wasn’t sure how long it would take to get to this point again after the Christmas period.  Earnings are from both my hosted sites as well as hubpages.

Total Earnings from Amazon =£108.65 last month = £68.29

GRAND TOTAL = £313.15 last month = £201.97

Miles Stones

It is an excellent feeling to reach the figure of £200 plus for adsense alone.  I was looking forward to getting to £150 for this month so to surpass this figure is wonderful.

Earnings Via Hubpages

The increase has been a nice surprise since I haven’t really written that much this month. It seems that the work I have already done is nicely maturing. I look forward to getting to the £100 mark for hubpages alone.

Earnings Via My Hosted Sites

The adsense earned on my websites is also great.  I am getting a little bit better at choosing better keywords so that my web pages get onto the first page of Google.

Earnings Via Amazon UK

I have finally made money via Amazon in the UK.  I wasn’t really interested in this particular market as Amazon UK does not offer a wide range of goods compared with the American site.  However I was pleasantly surprised to check my account this month and find that 4 items had been ordered. The items were dispatched on 1^st April so I will add the commission to April’s earnings.  I will now continue to add UK links to future websites that I create.

Ideas For April

The same thought keeps going through my mind – keep focussed, create a schedule and keep to it. I will try but sometimes writing articles can get so monotonous, that I can’t help but get distracted by reading other people’s blogs or watching rubbish on the TV.

Creating Squidoo Pages

I do want to start experimenting with Squidoo.  I have created a couple so far as backlinks to my domains and it seems to be pretty straightforward.  I have learned enough basic coding to place clickable pictures and anchor links where I want them so I will see if I can make a success with Squidoo.

Right, I might just watch my New Twilight Moon DVD one more time before I …….., no, focus….

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January was all about being distracted by Edward Cullen in The Twilight collection of books and DVD and February’s’ distraction came from Bill Compton and Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood.  This is the vampire story for the older generation with a lot more sex, violence and death by vampire attacks. And did I mention the sex?  Glorious.

Anyway….. I have been busy creating more backlinks for the sites that I have bought and for quite a few of my hubpages.

This has consisted of writing countless articles and adding little snippets to sites like Xomba, Snipsly and SheToldMe.

I have invested some of my hard earned online cash in the newest article spinner on the block called The Best Spinner.  It didn’t take too long to understand how to use it and I am happy to see that the articles I have been able to recreate have been accepted by ezinearticles with no problems.

At the moment I am only using the basic settings so I know that this tool can still do a whole lot more.

Evaluating My Websites

After doing a thorough evaluation of the sites I currently own, I know that I am doing the right things in order to get them onto the first page of Google.  I now need to concentrate on picking keywords that have a higher search rate.  This will lead naturally to higher earnings.

So to the interesting part, the breakdown of my earnings for February 2010.

Earnings This Month

Adsense earnings from Hubs = £49.60 last month = £39.51

Adsense earnings for Info barrels = £7.59 last month = £5.57

Adsense earnings from Free blogger blogs = £14.21 last month = £21.90

Adsense earnings from my Hosted sites = £51.81 last month = £42.13

Adsense earnings from Xomba & Snipsly = £2.27

Unknown earnings = £8.20

Total Adsense Earnings = £133.68 last month = £114.70

Making Money With Amazon

There has been a slight decrease in the commission earned via Amazon for February.  I hope to be able to create more hubs and my own websites in order get these numbers up.

Total Earnings from Amazon this month =£68.29 last month = £73

Ideas For March

The month of March will see me continuing to create new websites.  I will increase the amount of articles I produce for each site using the best spinner and try and attack keywords with a higher search rate.

I will still be producing several sites that may not make much money but are purely for fun.  This is the only way to keep myself motivated.

Right – Time for the next True Blood episode, no I mean article writing…….

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