July Earnings

I had a really good month last month, which is funny because I probably did the least amount of work online than I normally do. My total earnings were just over $3,000 for the month which was a mix of affiliate sales (primarily Amazon), and also some Adsense and sales of my own products.

I must admit that I’m getting pretty good at making money with Amazon, but that’s probably because it’s the one way of making money online that I enjoy the most. I mean what girl doesn’t like shopping ;)

$3,000 isn’t the most I’ve ever made in a month, I made over $10,000 last Christmas promoting Amazon products, but I used PPC then to drive traffic to my sites. Now I’m using SEO baby. I love SEO. So I’m actually more excited about the $3,000 than I was over my Christmas earnings because it means that I’m learning this SEO game.

So my next goal is to get to $5,000 per month. That’s $US too – not $AUS which would be considerable less in my pocket ;)

So I’ve decided to be a little more open about what I actually do in my blog so that I might hopefully be able to inspire you to do the same and earn money from home as well. Because after all, who actually wants a real job – I certainly don’t! LOL

My Plans for This Week/Month

At the start of every month I usually go and do the backlinks that I get from Angela’s and Paul’s backlink packages. I try and space it out over a period of two weeks or so. I usually do around 6 to 8 backlinks a day using their guidelines to one site only. This get’s me a total of 80 backlinks over the course of the month.

There has been a lot of controversy over their backlink packages now that they are becoming more common and more and more people are using them. Because the idea is to place your link inside a profile page on a high PR site some sites are getting wise and when a few hundred people all sign up to their website for the sole purpose of placing a link on it, some of them are getting a bit cranky.

Therefore people are saying that Google is going to crack down soon on links from profile pages. I have no idea whether that is true or not, in fact I don’t like to speculate what Google will or will not do. It would be hard to determine whether you are just signing up to place a link legimately or for spamming purposes. These sites ALLOW links on their profile pages – which means that you ARE allowed to do it. They are just pissed that you don’t stick around longer.

My personal take on it is that while I do agree that it’s borderline profile spamming by just signing up to place a link, I make sure that I only place links to good sites (so no porn or viagra sites – not that I have any of these anyway). In fact I mainly link to my hubpages. I’ve found that it only takes around 20 to 30 links to get my hub on Page 1. I’m thinking of using a different hubpage name lately though as I’ve noticed that many people are following and copying the hubs that I make. LOL I guess I should be flattered.

Secondly I also plan to write a lot of articles this month. Ezinearticles have a challenge on at the moment called their #HAHD challenge (Hundred Articles Hundred Days). I’ve always been a fan of article marketing both for traffic and backlinks so I’ll be ramping up my article writing efforts to my sites this week. I’m not sure I’ll make the 100 in 100 days (although that’s a reasonable amount to do) but I’ll see how I go. Even if I only do 50 in 100 days that’s still a big jump in traffic and backlinks.

Finally I’m going to try and bring more traffic to some of the resell rights books that I purchased and hopefully make some more sales there.

I like the fact that money goes straight into my PayPal account rather than having to wait months for a check to arrive like with Amazon. I’ve got around 5 or so ebooks that I’m trying to sell this way – mostly straight from article marketing. I currently only have around 1 or 2 articles pointing at each salespage, so with this article writing challenge I should be able to increase that and thus ‘hopefully’ increase my income.

Making Money Online by Autoblogging

I was also asked to take a look at Instant Blog Submitter and give my opinion on it. It’s a neat little program that allows you to make quick posts to your blogs but more importantly it has a feature where you can grab rss feeds and get content submitted to your blogs over a period of time.

I’ve never got into auto blogging before but I kind of like the idea of it. So I’ve taken one of my old domains that had a BANS site on it that get’s virtually no traffic. Last month this site got a massive 41 visits and made 0.50 cents on eBay. I know I’m already planning on what I can buy with my profits.

So I’ve taken BANS off and put up a WordPress blog. I’ve scheduled a few blog posts and twitter feeds to be ‘autoblogged’ onto it over the next week and I’m really interested to see how it goes. If it’s a success I plan on rolling it out over a few more of my blogs.

It takes a bit of getting used to (probably because I’ve never used an auto poster before) and I had to watch the video on the sales page to understand what I should be doing, but once I did I think I’ve got the hang of it.

One thing I wish it did have was the ability to insert keywords so you can get a more specific feed to your blog, but alas it does not. That means you’ll have to do a little more work finding relevant content to post.

I haven’t monetised the site yet as I’m waiting to see what will happen with traffic first.

I’ll keep you updated on my results.

 

Wow, this is the longest post I’ve written for a long time on this blog – I think Ben & Griz influences are starting to rub off on me ;)

Now I need to go and do some work and start making money online (have I said that keyword enough yet LOL). Catch ya!

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