How Much Money Do I Make Online?
I have been receiving queries on how much money I make online with my web site and blog. I’ve been shying away from this question because I have to hit $10K a month yet.
But, I’ve stumbled upon this post of Paula Neal Mooney and I realized that it is a good idea to share this kind of info to others who want to work at home and make money online. It is better if you will know how much a certain blogger or webmaster make money with the kind of blog or web site he is running. Though, some may overstate or understate their earnings. So, just evaluate and judge it by yourself.
My Top Money Makers
Below are my top money makers from January to July 2007. I started some of them only in the middle of the period:
Resell Rights Packs - $3,228.00
Adsense - $2,833.53
Commission Junction - $329.92
Kontera - $207.34
5 Pillar - $292.13
MaxBounty - $39.65
AuctionAds - $27.35
Web site traffic is the main factor to make money online. If you have a huge web site traffic, you can make huge money on the net. Honestly speaking, driving a good traffic to your site is not plain and easy. It needs dedication, patience, creativity, sociability and continuous learning. Here are the top 7 sources of free web site traffic that could help you.
My Online Advertisements
If you want to speed up increasing web site traffic and you are ready to invest some amount of money, use online advertising. Here are my online advertising that bring around 25% of web site traffic at an average cost of $100 a month:
Google Adwords
BidVertiser
Clicksor
Text Link Ads
AdBrite
LinkReferral
To maximize your ROI (Return on Investment), make sure that you give a clear direction on you site or blog for your visitors to follow. This is the direction that will guide them to find what they’re looking for. By doing so, you hit your goal as well.
My other minimal expenses are for my domain name and hosting, as follows:
Domain Name with Netfirms - $9.95/year (first year was $4.95)
Hosting with Hostmonster - $3.95/month with fantastic features
My Website Background
Honestly, I learned website building from scratch in 2005. Then, I registered my domain name in October of the same year. It was just for fun of having my own website to brag with my family and friends. I had zero knowledge in SEO, then. Hence, my domain name was not optimized.
I built my website in 2006 with nonsense content. On the later part of 2006, I learned the detailed SEO techniques from Ken Evoy, who has been instrumental to the success of several top money making web sites. So, I immediately revamped and redesigned my website. I began posting search-engine-optimized contents that help others make money online. From then, it has started gaining PageRank, receiving web site traffic from search engines and beginning to make money. And in January 2007, I started my blog and it reached PR4 in April.
So far, I am happy with the money I make with my website. I have a limited time for writing and posting blog entries as I’m still working as a slave horse. But, I am very much optimistic that I can make more money in the future. I see vast opportunities to work at home and make money online, full-time without a BOSS watching over my shoulders.
I believe you can make it, too. Just take the first step…Do it NOW!
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Great job, Efren A!
I can learn a lot from you.
And thanks for the link love.
Thanks for the visit, Paula. You deserve a link love.
Thanks.
I am a beginner to the blogging world. I learnt alot from you.
Keeyit, thanks for the compliments. I’m just sharing what I’ve learned from the real guru, Ken Evoy and from Google. I am sure, you will not regret joining the blogosphere. You can surely make money online, too.
Thanks for the post, I enjoyed it. I started a blog this month called Skiing at Home dot com. Not really a popular topic but there is a specific target who will read it. Wonder if it can be monetized?
Hi efren, this is a great blog and has given me some good ideas on how to monetize my own blogs.
I’ve put a link to here from my blog at:
The Honest Way
Thanks - Terry
Thanks to you, guys!
Skiing? There are 188,000+ searches for skiinng and 7,000+ for skiing snow in January 2007 if you checked the Yahoo Keyword Suggestion Tool. That can be a big money for you Travis.
Terry, thanks for the link love.
Hi.. efren, learn a lot from your blog. I am newbie in blogging. I try to make money with adsense but I failed to drive good traffic to my blog. I put a lot of effort to this blog… Please comment my blog.. located at
http://getpaidworkathome.blogspot.com.
Thank you…
I wish I have your experience. Thank you so much for sharing your success. You have inspired me and keep me hopeful.
BTW, you have been tagged in “My One Money Advice” in Hin’s Tech Corner in this blog post My One Money Advice. Hope you can join us with a post if you find it interesting.
http://techtheman.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-one-money-advice.html
I think I need more work at leaving a clear path for my reader. Not sure about that…its hard.
I am trying to make it the same way that you did, from scratch. The difference between now and then is that there are tons of resources now and many sites like yours that are dedicated to helping people like me.
Yeah, you’re right. But, there are many ways of doing the same thing. If you can give people better or simpler ways, you will shine with proper SEO implementation.
I have linked to and talked about Paula’s list of blogger salaries all the time! People I know who would surely like to know this kind of information and to see that there are many people (with many different types of sites) are able to earn money online and doing it legitimately!
I believe that almost any type of blog can be worked with to optimize it to earn money as far as adsense goes.
I’m a big believer in adsense - that is my main program that I like but I’m also aware of some of the other programs that you mentioned though it will take me some time to get to them.
I guess adsense has “spoiled” me against others!
Sister2Brother, thanks for sharing your thoughts. It is important that you have alternative source of income ‘coz anytime or unexpectedly, Adsense may kick us out of the program.
Not too much for mine ….
How to get that big earnings …
Share your tips please ….
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