Welcome to my earnings report numer 12! One year of my Making Money Experiment is over now and the last months I made my biggest earnings so far!

To make it short, in September I made exactly $1,115.21 in gross profits! I say gross profits because only a small percentage of this money actually found its way into my wallet, most of it is already reinvested in my projects in order to make even more.

I believe you already know where most of the money was coming from? No? Ok, it’s NeoBux again. This brilliant PTC brought me $994 in this month alone. Thanks to all of my 1850 referrals who heavily contributed in making me that big bucks! Thank you so much!

The next biggest earner was my first niche site. It made me a total of 3 sales for this month and I got another $85 in my Clickbank account. It’s quite amazing how well this site performs since I’ve actually put only around 8 hours into it. The last year it made me over $250 without any further work. Affiliate marketing really rocks!

The rest of the money mainly came from selling links here on TMME and contextual ads (which I’ve dropped right now since they make me barely any money).

In september my blog only received about 2,500 unique visitors, a declining trend not only seen here on TMME but also on other websites. My blog still has a Pagerank of 2 and an Alexa rating of 200,000 due to the drop in monthly traffic.

Anyway, september was the best month in my whole one year making money career, regardless of how much traffic my site has received. Since the earings have massivly increased, I’m quite lucky about it.

Everything began with a small blog hosted on Blogger.com, nearly exactly 12 months ago. I had no visitors, my earnings were around 1% of what I currently make and I was a complete noob. Now, 365 days later, I can say that I’ve managed quite alot the last weeks and months. My blog attracted nearly 25,000 unique visitors. Can you imagine that crowd in one place? Sure, Probloggers and Shoemoneys may laugh about that because they receive such traffic on a daily basis, but I’m still very proud of myself!

But that should definitely be not the end! In the long run I’m trying to quit my regular day job, so I’ll definitely need more cash, and I should also concentrate my work on more serious money making opportunities like affiliate marketing for example. Feel free to follow me the next years to come, I’ll do my best to bring you quality information!

Just a side note, I’ll give up reporting my earnings on a monthly basis since I feel like a boaster and also because a lot of research work is involved with it. But have no fear, from now on I’ll report my earnings quarterly, that means every 3 months instead of one!

Thanks to all my readers, referrals, commenters, my friends, family and especially my wife for supporting me and my Making Money Experiment! THANK YOU!

Cheers,
Querblogger

PS: In some minutes I will announce the winners of my birthday contest!

I’ve just created a separate page to show you my earnings for the last months. I’ve listed them chronologically, monnth by month with links to detailed reports that show you how I made the money and how well (or not so well) my blog performed. You can find it in the top naviagtion or by clicking here!

Happy reading!
Querblogger

Only one month ahead and I’ll have completed a full year of online money making activity. And right before I’ll reach that goal, my earnings have again increased. Well they have increased a lot…!

In August I more than doubled my usual earnings from my different online money makers. While I “only” made $278 in July, I now have made $651.69, an amazing number! But to be true, not all of that money is a net profit, the most of it is already invested in different money makers to make more out of it. But anyway, it’s quite a lot compared to what I’ve earned when I began this little experiment. In October 2007 I made $18…

You may ask why my bucks have grown so mystically within the last month. In one word, NeoBux! Yepp, you’ve heared right, NeoBux turned out to be a monster money maker! Although I have lost a bit of my “trust” in Paid To Click websites (you know, Bux.to and such), I was completely surprised that it’s still possible to make such money from them. The best thing about NeoBux is that they DO pay, within seconds! I can’t repeat that too often, they really pay you instantly, no scam or such! In August I made $524 from NeoBux alone, thanks to the help of my 1126 referrals. I’m currently making around $17 each day and I spend most of the money in renting even more refs. I’m currently playing the MegaJackpot too, a jackpot comparable to a lottery, the more people spend money on buying tickets (one does cost only $0.10) the bigger the pot gets. Right now you can win some $1,500, but the jackpot goes until sunday!

The second best money maker this month was my niche site. It brought me 2 affiliate sales each worth around $25. Far away from perfect but if you consider that I left that site like I created it several months ago without any editing afterwards, not bad…

This brings me to another project I’m currently working on. As already meioned, I’m about to start 3 new niche affiliate sites where I want to promote Clickbank products. But this time I will emphasize my efforts in bringing way more traffic to them with help of different technics like article marketing for example. Right now the first site is already done, there are only some minor issues with some design flaws that show up in older versions of Internet Explorer (what else, damn browser…). I’ll keep you updated whenever I have time for it, the next days will be very hard for me.

The rest of the money, at least a great portion of it, was made through selling links on my blog. Evil, evil, evil I would think if I were Google…

In August my blog received over 3,500 unique visitors, Pagerank is still the same and the Alexa rating is balancing around the 200,000 mark. No big increase in traffic, unfortunately…

Well should be enough info at the moment. You know, I’m busy! Thanks to all my readers, blogging and online friends, all the people posting nice (and sometimes not so nice –> spammy) comments, my real life friends, my wife and family for supporting me, my money makers and all the people that will visit my blog in the future (man, I just felt like doing such a big Thank You, hehe)!

Bye Bye
Querblogger

Wohaa, I’m slowly heading toward one year of doing my Making Money Experiment! Ten months are already over now and today it’s time again for another monthly update on my current progress and earnings.

In July I earned $278, that’s even $72 more than back in June. Although far from letting me quit my day job, I’m happy again. I can slowly feel how things start rolling and I’m now somewhat more fluid when it comes to spend some bucks for my hosting, software and other things I need to build up my small online business.

July was ruled, and my earnings show that, by my efforts in building a nice downline in NeoBux. You can read about it on my NeoBux Squidoo lens if you will. After directly referring a total of 120 people so far plus 220 rented refs, I now make around $5 each day. This month I made a total of $141 from NeoBux alone. It’s a great PTC, probaly the best PTC if you ask me. They pay instantely, introduce one new feature after the other and the earning potential is quite high. I have already upgraded my account to a Golden membership, something I would highly suggest everybody who wants to make some good money with them.

I also earned $50 from Bux.to, but to be honest, I more and more doubt that it’s really worth it anymore. Although they have promised to clear their payment backlogs, nothing special happend so far. Sure, current payment dates for premium members with a Bux card have moved to the beginning of April, but that’s quite normal in a near 4 week time frame… (insiders may know what I’m talking about, otherwise move on reading more interesting stuff).

This month I also made my fourth affiliate sale from my niche site, it brought me $30 on Clickbank. It’s quite good because I haven’t done anything with this site for several weeks now but I still earn some bucks.

Another $20 I made from writing some articles for a friend from Belgium. He actually wanted me to write articles about NeoBux in both English and German. It was a nice work and he already paid me, no problems, perfect! Thanks again Stijn!

Around $30 were earned from selling links on my blog (yes, I am that evil). No need to further talk about because I won’t get into trouble with Google, hehe.

The rest, around $10, came from contextual ads (Speedyads, Kontera) and several other minor activities like my articles on Triond for example.

In July my blog received 3,500 unique visitors and this number isn’t moving in any direction right now. My Alexa ranking is at around 180,000 and my Pagerank hasn’t changed after the last Google update some days ago (although my backlinks have increased, needs some time).

Ok, enough? I think so. I try to write some new posts the next week before I go on vacation for two weeks. Maybe I’ll write some more posts that will automatically published while I’m away, let’s see.

Thanks to all my readers for your support and commenting. Keep on reading, tell your friends about your findings here and have some nice days!

Bye,
Querblogger

Time is running and already 9 month are gone since I started the Making Money Experiment. I’m still happy with my money making progress and I’m currently working on even more projects that will hopefully bring me even more cash.

Because I’m currently heavily involved in creating a new website, this report should only be a very short one (also because not to bore you all)!

The best money makers for June 2008 were as follows:

1. $100.00 from Bux.to (also I won’t see this money anytime soon because of many delays)
2. $38.50 from Selling Links on my blog (no details or links about it, sorry)
3. $37.00 from Affiliate Sales (thanks to my niche site)
4. $13.44 from NeoBux, an amazing new PTC. They pay within seconds!
5. $10.67 from My Homepages Friends, a nice Get-Paid-To-Search service
6. $03.22 from Speedyads, contextual ads like Google Adsense
7. $02.94 from different other sources like Triond and such

That will give me a total of $205.77 for the month of June, not as much as last month but still very nice!

My blog is still ranked with a Pagerank of 2 and my Alexa rating has levelled of at around 183,000. At the moment I get an average of around 120 unique visitors per day, the last days even more than 150.

July will be a month full of work for me. As you may have noticed, me and Tiberius have stopped our project called Shrtnd.com because it wasn’t really worth it. I’m now working on creating a completely different website at this domain and you may already guess what it is about, no?

Ok, should be all for now. Thanks to all my readers, subscribers and especially the many commentors on my blog posts!

See ya,
Querblogger

Month number eight of my Making Money Experiment is over and my earnings have increased a lot compared to the last month. I have more than doubled my money in May.

This report shouldn’t be too long, because I don’t have too much time at the moment. But let me tell you in short about my best money makers for May 2008.

In May I made $192, that’s more than twice the amount of my April earnings ($75). I’m really happy with it, although I hope the numbers will rise in the future.

My Money Makers

My best money maker, like last month, was Bux.to. With help of 72 referrals and my own and almost daily clicking, I made $105 on Bux.to alone. Sure, that’s not the money I already have received in my bank account, but the payment should arrive soon. For now I would call it “theoretical” money…

I made $30 from my second affiliate sale. I already reported about it some days ago. Another 30 bucks came from a review I’ve written and published on my blog. Sorry I can’t reveal more details about it.

Also worth to mention is NeoBux, a fairly new PTC site I’ve joined. With help of 31 referrals I made $6.50 from it. Not much compared to Bux.to, but this is mainly because of many inactive referrals in my account.

$13.5 came from selling links on my blog. Although Google doesn’t really like that evil stuff, I think it’s a good way to make some extra cash, as long as the placed links are relevant to your niche.

Finally, around $5 came from contextual advertising with Speedyads. The rest of the money was made from my articles I have published long time ago on Triond.

Some Statistics

In May nearly 3,000 unique visitors came to my blog, most of them searching fro information about Bux.to and NeoBux. Within the last days my blog received around 120 visitors per day.

My blog still has a PageRank of 2 (thank you Google) and my Alexa ranking gets better and better. I now have a ranking of 191,411 with a weekly average of even 164,000!

Final Note

I’m very lucky with how my efforts worked out so far. While constantely working on my blog and other projects like Shrtnd.com for example, I already reap some fruits from it. I make some good money, although I’m not yet able to quit my day job (but I’m working on it).

If you too want to make money online, all you need is patience and some strictly set goals!

Cheers,
Querblogger

Once again it’s time for a new report. April is over now and I’m glad to say that it made me the highest monthly income so far. It’s also the first time I made an affiliate sale, I will tell about it in short.

Besides porting my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress install, April was mainly characterized by two things I’ve done to make money online. The first things was buying more referrals for Bux.to in order to increase my daily earnings, the second thing was setting up my first niche website to generate affiliate commissions.

In April I made a total of $75, where $40 came from Bux.to, $30 from affiliate sales and the rest from other money makers like Triond or Speedyads (contextual ads on my blog) for example.

The last days I have bought 65 referrals for Bux.to and I’m currently making around $3.5 a day. I’m also waiting for my second payment of $75 to my brand new Bux.to Mastercard. Bux.to is definitely the best PTC at the moment. It has incredible huge income potential (it’s not a scam, I already got paid and many others too). I will invest more into this site in order to increase my daily earnings even more. But I will only invest money that I already have earned from clicking ads on this site.

This month I’ve also set up my first niche site, which I use for affiliate marketing. I won’t reveal the site’s address here (I don’t want more competition). All I can say is, that I have around 300,000 competitors for my choosen keyword and the site is already ranked at position 24 in the Google SERPS. That in turn means, I get some targeted search engine traffic and therefore sales. This month I made my first sale, which brought me an instant $30 to my Clickbank account (yes, I promote a Clickbank product). All I have done for starting this niche site, was setting up a Wordpress blog with only 2 keyowrd oriented posts on it. Combined with some articles that I’ve published on different article directories, I have increased the overall site ranking very fast. I will tell you more about my attempts in one of my next posts.

In April my blog received his first Pagerank. I now have a PR 2 blog, thanks Google! My Alexa ranking has increased to 427,078 with an weekly average of around 200,000. This month 1,610 unique visitors found their way to my blog, that’s an average of 50+ visitors a day. I have to definitely increase this traffic for the future. My feed subscriber count shows 20 at the moment, well…far away from perfect.

Ok, this should be all for now. Check my latest post about NeoBux for a brand new money maker! More information will come this month, I’ll go into some details about affiliate marketing (or call it “serious” money making) and many aother things. So, stay tuned!

Bye,
Querblogger

It’s over now, today I will close my Making Money Experiment and you’ll never see me again. Ok, it’s a real lame april fool I know No really, phase one of my experiment is over now after six month. Now I’ll enter phase two with my blog and set me some higher goals than only making $100 within six month. But before I’ll present you my monthly statistics as usual.

In March I made my second highest “income” on my whole blogging journey. I made $30, which only gets topped from my January earnings where I made 40 bucks. I’m overly happy about this statsitics, not only because I’ve reached nearly 150% of my initially goal. All in all I made a total of $145 which comes down to an average of $24 a month. It’s peanuts I know, but I have learned some useful lessons while making those bucks.

The best money makers for this month were Bux.to and Paid.vg, both are really good PTC sites that pay $0.01+ for each click on an advertisement. With help of some bought referrals and some “natural” ones, I was able to make $15 with Bux.to (22 refs) and $12 with Paid.vg (8 refs). So far I only got paid from Bux.to and I’m still waiting for the Paid.vg payments.

You see, I have concentrated most of my time in those 2 programs. The remaining 3 bucks I have made from advertising on my blog.

On March I got 2,297 unique visitors on my blog. On one day I had over 500 uniques from StumbleUpon! My overall traffic for all those 6 month comes down to 6,884 unique visitors. My Alexa ranking dropped down to 686,388 (it dropped again because of my new domain name which “resetted” my old ranking). I’ve run a Pagerank predictor over my blog and it showed me a Pagerank of 1 for the next Google update, but I hope it will be higher because I’m still building backlinks to my new domain.

So, the first phase of my Making Money Experiment is over now. I’ve reached my goal to make $100 within 6 month, I even made a total of $145. The experiment showed me that it is really possible to make money online, although my earnings are rather low. I’ve learned many things on my journey and I’ve gathered enough knowledge to enter phase two of the experiment.

I will give you some more details regarding my future goals soon, so far I can only say that it’s more than $100 within 6 month. I’ll try to start doing niche affiliate marketing, expand my referral base on PTC sites and several more things to earn a good amount of money and maybe make a living from it in the long term.

So far I will thank all my readers, commentators, my blogger friends, my money makers and especially my wife for her support and understanding for having less time for here.

See you soon,
Querblogger

And yet another month passed by on my way on earning $100. But this month is a special one, not only because it´s one day longer than a normal February.

This month is so special for some reasons. The first one is, I have bought a new domain for my blog to make it easier to remember and to let it look more professional (oh, I like that word Unfortunately I´ve lost my PageRank (ok, I had only a PR of 0) and Alexa ranking. But I hope that I´ll get it back within the next weeks. You can help me with it too. If you would like to, please link back to me, stumble/digg this blog or add it your Technorati faves. Any help is appreciated, although I won´t beg for it

The second reason for February being a special month is my earnings. Compared to January, where I earned $40, I´ve only made $21 this month, but I´ve reached my personal goal for making $100 within six month. Yes, I´ve done my job already and made the money in only five month! But please don´t panic, my experiment will go on, promised!

Until now I´ve made a total of $115, which is an average of $23 per month. Ok, I hear many people laugh about this “income”, but I personally think that it shows me what is really possible in the world of making money online. All you need is to set you an own goal and stay with it. The success will follow for sure. So I think if I set me a higher goal, say to make $100 a month, I can reach that too. Would definitely be a good idea for another experiment I could start here, but let´s see.

Let me tell you some short words about my best (and worst) money makers in the month of February. For some reason my best earnings came from Paid.vg, a really nice PTC site comparable to Bux.to, but with a more clear design in my opinion. Compared to Bux.to where I made only $6 this month, I made $12.50 from Paid.vg alone. And all that with only 4 referrals! It seems that many people go to other sites than Bux.to, because they actually have some statistic problems. This may also be the reason why my Bux.to earnings dropped this month, fewer people click on the ads lately. I hope it will get better when Bux.to release the new VISA debit card for handling payouts and they fix their server problems.

One of my worst money makers this month was Subvert and Profit. I made only $0.50 from my referrals alone. Since they raised their pricings from $1 to $2 per Digg/Stumble, it seems less people like to pay for it. It´s too expensive! There are nearly no advertisers left, I only got a single task this month (and unfortunately missed to take it on time). I hope they´ll think about their pricings, because I´ve made good money from them before the prices changed.

The last good reason that shows that February was a good month, was that I worked on a brand new project with my friend Midwest, which will be introduced to the public by next week at the latest. I won´t reveal any details (even if you would beg for it), I can only say that it has made us a lot of fun to work on (I especially liked the hour long funny GMail chats with Tiberius . We are almost done with it, only some little details are left. We both make an announcement when it´s finished!

So, I think I´ve written enough words here and I hope all the best for my last month with my experiment. Mhm, I should think about the second phase….

Thanks to all my readers, feed subscribers, diggers, stumblers, commenters….!

Best Regards,
Querblogger

The fourth month is already ower now and it seems the time is running. Many things happend in January and I can proudly say, I´ve never earned more since I started TMME. So let me tell you more about the dirty little details

Technical Statistics

After being a bit lazy with writing in December, I wrote 20 new articles the last month. Sure, many well-known bloggers write that amount within a week, but I´m no Problogger yet I´ve also seen a return of this “investment”, I got a steady stream of search engine traffic to my blog. Content is king, this is the first rule any SEO expert will tell you, and it seems to be true.

My statcounter statistics showed me 967 unique visitors with 1282 pageviews, that´s an average of 31 unique visitors each day. I noticed a good portion of traffic from the Philippines with around 7%, I´m so international, hehe

I´m still having a Google PageRank of zero, seems they have forgotten me after the last PageRank upgrade at the beginning of this year. My Alexa rankings dropped to 597,415 points.

Earnings Statistics

Now for the best part of this report, my earnings. In December I made around $22, in November I made even less, only $13. But in January I made $40, so far the highest amount I´ve earned within the last four month. I´m really happy. Let me tell you where those earnings came from.

The biggest money maker I´ve added to my money list was PayPerPost which made me $20 alone for writing my first sponsored post. So far I haven´t written a second sponsored post, because I´m looking for the right ones that fits within my money making niche.

Another good income source really worth to mention was Bux.to. After buying my first 15 referrals (see here, here and here) from them, I broke even with my investments only around 2 weeks after my purchase. Now I´m in the profits with around $1.00 to $1.50 per day. The net profit from Bux.to was $9.16 and it keeps running. I also felt is was time for a second investment, some days ago I upgraded my membership to a premium account, not only for faster payments, but also for showing proof if Bux.to is legit or not.

There were also some changes on Subvert and Profit, the third best money maker. They recently changed their payouts from $0.50 to $1.00 per story you digg or “thumbs up” via StumbleUpon. I made $4.90 in January, $4.00 from my activity and the rest from my 10 referrals. Thank you my friends!

There were also some new additions the last month. The first thing was joining NetAudioAds, the company that wants to revolutionize the advertising market with audio ads. I´ve written about them earlier and they are about going live at these moments. So far I have´t made any money because those audio ads are still not playing. According to their last blog post, they´ll do a soft start and start playing audio ads in different phases. It could take some weeks before they really going full steam.

The second addition was Ucash.in, an newly started online service from the founders of Flixya that turns your links into cash. See my article about Ucash.in for more details and why you should join them now! I´ve already made $0.11 within the last days of January.

Conclusion and Outlook

The last month was a really good one. You can see, that my earnings increased and many new money making opportunities showed up. I´m really excited in seeing those audio ads start playing within the next week, seems like a good money maker.

At the moment I´m also trying to learn more about niche marketing. I´ve joined Commission Junction, a big affiliate program with many advertisers waiting for the hungry marketer. Currently I´m trying to become a member of the US-based eBay affiliate program. I´ve written some mails already, but they don´t accepted me as a meber yet. I´ve also read some great articles and ebooks about people seriously making $100 within one day! With hard work everything is possible

Two month are left for my experiment and it seems I will reach my goal. I only have to earn 8$ to get a total of $100. Seems it´s time for buying a domain name, hehe…

Thanks to all my readers, friends and everybody who helped me in reaching these goals. Expect to see more articles and big updates about different money makers this month!

With the very best regards,
Querblogger