It's time for last months income report: May 2012.
Well, I'm sure you can tell that it's been crazy around here being the fact it's the 22nd and we're just now doing the income report!
I've spent a lot of time in the past several weeks working on finishing my book (mostly the book proposal), adding new content to our niche site, filming videos for the niche site, and also adding regular content to my main blog.
The site was officially launched around February 1st and it just 4 short months, our traffic has almost quintupled! June is definitely going to surpass that as we've seen our record number of visits in one day broken twice.
Say what? Wow, another record month. I had to add it up twice just to make sure I didn't make a mistake. 🙂 Let's breakdown some of the numbers.
Adspeed. This is my CPM network (banner ads) and my traffic was very good in the month of May on main site, so the revenue earned was very nice.
Media.Net. This is a new PPC (pay per click) that I'm testing on my sidebar near the bottom. For being near the bottom of my blog, making $97.00 isn't too shabby. My CPM network is going to be on hiatus starting today for about 1 or 2 weeks due to the 2nd quarter ending. I'm going to test the Media.net ads above the fold near the top of my sidebar to see how it performs in that time frame. I'll be sure to report back!
New "Secret" Beta Affiliate. Nothing like the word "secret" to make you curious, huh? 🙂 I was contacted by a new online startup that has to do with retirement planning and they wanted to use my blog as a beta test. It's a combination PPC and CPA (cost per acquisition) campaign. Basically, that means I make a nominal fee if someone clicks the ad and then I get a larger fee if they actually open an account with the ad they clicked. Having a combination of the two, getting paid up front and potentially on the backside, is pretty atypical in affiliate marketing so I was excited to test it out.
Get Passionate! We were excited to do our first Skype interview with Bob from ChristianPf.com and BloggingYourPassion.com. The interview was awesome (see HERE) and Bob shared his latest product for those that want to really make money blogging. Several of you bought it – thank you so much! We know Bob put a lot of time into his product and I'm sure you'll all benefit from it. If you didn't get a chance to check it out, click here.
Niche Site. As you can see the niche site only brought in $70 this month. That's a pretty stiff reduction from the $1251 we made last month. Why you ask? With the product/service I'm offering on the niche site, conversions take time. The day you get an interested party that wants to buy, it may take 2-3 months to actually see some revenue. It's definitely a waiting game. The good news is that I'm several leads in the pipeline. 🙂 The bad news is that I don't think I'm going to get paid on any of them in the month of June. 🙁 Fingers crossed, I think the July Income Report will be extra special.
You guys are great inspiration. I hope I can develop my blog and eventually online business to a fraction of what your business is. Keep up the hard work!
As always, thanks for the info. Mandy, you are really growing. Missed you at Haven! I'm sure Tonya will catch you up on all the deets.
I just discovered this site today and find this income report very useful.
I never heard regarding some ads platforms that you use!
Just found you two. Can't wait to learn more! Monetize, monetize, monetize.