Monthly earnings month 12

Linky Love is one year old already, and the last month of the first year we made $148.12.

This month we made the most money using Bidvertiser.

We made a total of $3062.7 in 1 year blogging 🙂

$ 3063.9 total earnings

• Month 12: $141.32 (this monthly earnings report covers March 12, 2008 to April 11, 2008)
• Month 11: $127.09
• Month 10: $305.93
• Month 9: $ 288.56
• Month 8: $ 516.25
• Month 7: $ 217.76
• Month 6: $ 713.18
• Month 5: $ 368.57
• Month 4: $ 195.56
• Month 3: $ 44.10
• Month 2: $ 62.28
• Month 1: $ 24.81

Breakdown Earnings Month 12

• ConTextual ads:
  • Bidvertiser : 45.72$
  • Followed by Kontera: 31.81$

• Niche web sites: (read how to find niche websites here)
• Gwen Stefani Clothes: 15.05$
• Adopt a Puppy for Free: 14.29$
• Blogging for money: 1.20 $
• Smorty: 1.20 $ : Thanks to bloggers who blog for money and signed up for FREE here for Smorty. For each post they write, I earn 5%!
  Now that’s easy money: you only need people to sign up under your name and you make money when they make money!

  

  Thanks whoever signs up FREE under my name!
   

• ScratchBack: 18 $
  These are the text links on the right top in "My TopSpots". Some links are there already for more than 6 months, that’s less than 2$ a month… Only EntreCard is cheaper, as that’s free 🙂

  Tip $10 here and Linky Love places your link in MY TOPSPOTS instantly!
   

• Project Wonderful: 23.25$
  This is similar to EntreCard, but you can use real money in stead of "Entrecard credits"

How to find niche websites?

I used to look for 1 day manually for niche websites:

• type in a keyword in Overture Keyword Selector and
• choose those keyword phrases that don’t give many results in Google

After 1 day of looking I found :

Gwen Stefani Clothes making 15.05$ after a few months only

Now I use an automated Keyword Selector Tool that comes free when you buy Atomic Blogging.

After 10 minutes of running the program I found :

Adopt a Puppy for Free: making 14.29$ in it’s second month already.
2 months to go and I have my money back from Atomic Blogging using that blog alone.

Needless to say I went overboard with Atomic Blogging and have now 100 niche domain-names ready to monetize… Small detail: when am I going to find time to do all this? Maybe I should just re-sell the domain-names…

Evaluation

Why is a site attracting so much visitors only making $3000 a year? We will explain in detail in our next post on Monday.

The main problem is this:

We started running on 1 leg…

Our fundamentals are handicapped. Remember when I said:

1. you need to start blogging about your passion…

That’s unfortunately only half of the fundament, which I only came to find out after 1 year trying my best and working hard.

So what’s a better start?

Starting off with 2 legs:

2 fundamentals of making a blog to make money on the Internet:

• write about your passion
• know how to monetize you passion BEFORE you even start writing

I mean: if you want to rush and start running like the girls above, but wearing high heels in stead of running shoes… it’s all going to be painful sooner or later.

Ok, now you say: so how to know how to monetize you passion? That we will tackle next week.

Linky Love’s future

So we started running on one leg. Now we have to figure out for ourselves:

• do I put on a prosthetic leg and learn how to run with it or
• do I start all over again with 2 healthy legs and the best sport shoes ever?

Most likely we will do both so you can see for yourself which option it easier in the process of making money online.

If something is not well explained in this post or on this blog, please ask in a comment!