Hey all.... It's been quite a while since I posted here and wanted to let you all know I was still around. Yes it's been busy... it always is actually. I've been off from some of my offline work this week working hard on my websites. I could use several weeks like this in a row and I might be able to catch up to a few of my projects that are currently brewing.
I am still making good money with adsense: around $300+ a month right now. My focus has shifted a bit to affiliate sales since I've had a bit of a breakthrough with a couple of products in particular and am making quite a bit more a month view affiliate sales. I really need to keep pushing ahead with those ideas since it's really running hot right now and has some room for expansion.
I think adsense and affiliate sales are both good and valid ways to make money online. Some sites and niches lend themselves better to one or the other. In fact, one affiliate product approached me about becoming their affiliate because they were getting adwords clicks from my site. They basically offered me a $100 bonus to become an affiliate and thought I would make more each month with affiliate sales than their adwords ads running in adsense on the site. Sure enough I was making $200 or more a month on one site within a couple weeks. So, I started rolling out a big expansion of that and some related sites to try to take good advantage of the product.
I still have adsense running on those sites although it's not as prominent as before and that has pushed the overall adsense revenue down by about 2-4 dollars a day per site. Yes... I was up in the $500 or more range for a good while (even up to $800 or so with adsense. (Another site was really cranking well for that stretch.)
I've ha another good milestone in the last few months. I managed to make over $2000 online for March of 2011 with all sources combined. Although this "week off" isn't over I've done some math and so far I've made about $400 while I've been "off work". Last time I had a week off I think I only made about $200 from my online projects so.... not bad. I only had to do something for about $75 of that, everything else was on autopilot.
This week has been all about putting in some big time on my other websites. I have a couple that have some very high paying ad clicks on average (several dollars a click.) They've been getting some good traffic in a couple specific topics and I had resolved that one of my priorities was to dig in and get more content in those topic areas to try to maximize the ad revenue I was getting over there.
In the last several months I've mostly worked out of the large part of one of my offline jobs. The income from that one has now dropped down to usually less than $500 a month. That big reduction in commitment has been possible thanks to my online work. It seems that everyday I have more ideas for sites or content, but.... very rarely have a lot fo time to write and do it. That's still a frustration, but I do see the summer coming and one of my offline jobs tends to slow down a good bit in the summer and I'll be having a bit more time to develop these other web projects.
These last few years have been fun to see the development of my online business(es). I'm hoping that this week will help shore up my adsense revenue somewhat and the added content may help me push back up towards $400 a month here soon.
So much to do, so little time.
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