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!

It was an evening around the end of September 2007 when I finally realised that I should take action in order to make some cash online. All I’ve done before was searching the net for some nice and easy ways to get rich quick. Everyday I had the hope of finding the holy grail of making money online. Unfortunately I soon had to accept that there’s no such thing as easy money on the net (at least not that often). It was clear, I had to take action!

My first idea was to create a blog since I had seen many popular and also successful ones bringing in much money day by day. I never created a blog before and I must admit that I was such a noob in these days. Anyway, I somehow managed to set up a free blog at Google’s Blogger.com, a great service by the way, I highly recommend them! The Making Money Experiment was born and also the idea to bring to proof if it’s really possible to make money online at all.

I set myself a personal goal, namely to make $100 within the next 6 months to come. I first had my doubts if I would really be able to accomplish this, but later on I thought “Where ther’s a will there’s a way” and so I went on, and that was the best thing I’ve ever done in my money making career.

The first officially posts on TMME were written and published even before October 1st and dealt about writing articles for the Triond publishing platform and how to make money on myLot. In September I made a little over $5 and I was full of pride, not knowing that much more is possible. The first weeks were also the days when I joined many PTC sites and the Yuwie social networking site. I tested nearly every single money maker on the net these days (well ok, most of them…).

My blog slowly became more poular, my traffic rose and so did my earnings. In October I already made $18 (hey and don’t laugh about it…). I also decided to integrate Google Adsense in my blog to make the big cash. Unfortunately Google banned me from their network, probably because of using Linkreferral to “artificially” drive traffic to my blog. Well, for me it was a chance to test even more online money makers so I could even thank Google for that ban.

Later on, in December 2007, the Forex market got my big attention. Also not closely related to making money online, I was quite fascinated from exchanging different currencies to make money. Unfortunately till today I never had enough time and money to test it out, but I probably will somewhere in the future.

Month after month my earnings barely increased, in March 2008 I still made only $30 per month. But one good thing was that I did finally reach my goal to make $100 within 6 months and to be honest, I was really proud. Right before, sometime in February, I already bought the domain MakingMoneyExperiment.com since I had so much money, hehe… Some days later I moved my blog to a self-hosted Wordpress install.

By the end of April 2008 I found the wonderful NeoBux, one of the greatest and innovative PTC’s I’ve ever seen in my career. Till today, NeoBux is my biggest money maker and I brings in some good cash to spend on future projects in order to make even more! April was also the time I started to dive into some more serious money making stuff like niche and affiliate marketing. I created my first niche website and already made my first affiliate sale with Clickbank. My blog received its first Pagerank of 2, damn was I proud.

The following months I spent most my time in getting more referrals for NeoBux and working on my niche websites. I also found a nice way to make money from searching the internet. In June 2008 I made over $200 and I still find it funny when I compare this with my first days with TMME, a major increase in my opinion but still way more possible.

Just lately, since August 2008, I can say that I make real good money from my money making attempts. NeoBux, as I already said, is one of the major money makers I’m involved with. But I do even more to generate some cash. I sell links on TMME, do writing jobs for other people, work on more niche affiliate sites and I’m still searching for more online money makers since I can’t get enough (ok, I do it because I will eventually quit my day job and make a living from my online business).

The short recap above only reflects a slim percentage on what I’ve done and written about here on TMME. It’s way too much to tell about here in detail. But I can say that I’ve learned several lessons during my journey, good ones and bad ones.

With help of my blog I got many new friends, including my buddy Tiberius Burciu who has never regret to help me out in testing times. I also got dozens of loyal readers who follow my blog and participate in heavily commenting on my posts. Thank you so much for your support!

I’ve achieved several things over the last 12 months. I started with nothing but some spare time to manage a simple blog and my will to work toward my goals. Now, 365 days later, I can finally say that with some hard work nearly everything is possible to achieve. I’m now making nearly $700 a month, something I’d never had accomplished from sitting in front of my PC searching for ways to get rich quick…

That’s it, my recap on the first year of The Making Money Experiment. May many more years follow so I can provide you with even more information on making money online! And another thing, if you want, start your own online money making career too, it’s well worth it. Just put your heart and soul in it, take massive action and you will see the benefits!

See you soon,
Querblogger

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