Tenth Month Report!

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

Posted on 31st July 2008 by Querblogger in Reports, The Making Money Experiment - Tags: ,

Ninth Month Report!

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

Posted on 1st July 2008 by Querblogger in Reports, The Making Money Experiment - Tags: , ,

Seventh Month Report!

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

Posted on 1st May 2008 by Querblogger in Reports, The Making Money Experiment - Tags: , ,