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