MyBlogEarnings For May 2007

Earnings Report

Here are the scores on the doors for May 2007.

Note: Figures for last month are in brackets and some numbers are estimated (in italics) as data for 31/5 was not available at the time of posting.

Although I didn’t quite break the magical $8k/pm barrier (I was so tempted to do some sort of special offer for $50 dollars yesterday!), I did manage to break a more important barrier for a limey – the £4k/pm barrier:

• Google Adsense: $4782.21 ($3,648.26)
• Intellitxt: $988.58 ($555.05)
• Text-Link-Ads: $780.01 ($535.43)
• Tribal Fusion: $615.62 ($437.10)
• Direct Ad Sales: $300.00($750.00)
  
• Feedburner FAN: $220.74 ($350.24)
• ReviewMe: $150.00($0.00)
• Blogads: $72.90 ($0)
• Vizu Polls: $38.23 ($110.72)
• Chitika: $9.88 ($31.79)
• Tumri: $6.00 ($0.00)

Grand Total: $7,964.39 ($6,418.35)

Overall my earnings for May increased by 25% over, and I’m hoping that I can continue the growth I’ve seen this year (Jan $2,259, Feb $3,908, Mar $8,913 and Apr $6415.23) for a few more months.

As for the target I set to be hit by September to pay for the new car. Well, I passed it in May which I’m very, very happy about! What’s even better is my current run-rate is looking very good, although given my heavy reliance on Adsense which is extremely volatile, this could all change very quickly.

Successes For The Month

Adsense

As I mentioned in last month’s MyBlogEarnings report, the signs were there in the last week of April that the disastrous Adsense performance was about to end. Not only did it end, but it shot up to new record levels and I even had two $200+ days for the first time ever. Lets hope the numbers stay high for at least another month.

Intellitxt

I nearly doubled my Intellitxt earnings this month, which I’m sure is because the quality of the ads has noticably improved. Hopefully this month the numbers will continue to increase.

Disappointments For The Month

Direct Ad Sales

Although I managed to sell $300 worth of advertising, this was a result of direct approaches. I’m determined this month to implement my ‘plan’ to try and secure a few big ad deals.

TLA

My strategy of dropping TLA advertisers was working until very stupidly halfway through the month, I decided to move the placement of my ads. I’m sure that some of my advertisers noticed this, which led to them cancelling their campaigns. Hopefully I’ll find some replacements in June.

FAN

My earnings were down this month, despite having ads running that had high CPMS on paper. I’m not sure if my fill rate is bad, or if in previous months I was earning more as a result of the code I missed in my theme release. June should provide the answer.

Vizu

Rather than constantly whining and getting upset about Vizu Polls, I’ve decided to just ditch them. I finally realised that keeping my blood pressure down is much more important to me than earning $50-100 dollars per month!

Plans For Next month

I’m reducing the number of goals for this month and focussing on just a few big ones:

• Reduce reliance on Adsense

Even though Adsense has been very good to me of late, I’m still very uncomfortable about being so reliant on one scheme

• Implement direct sales plan

It WILL happen this month. If I’m successful, it will reduce my reliance on Adsense which will help me sleep better at night

• Drive As Much Traffic As Possible To Ghacks.net

Martin’s Intellitxt trial period ends mid-month, which will trigger my referral fee. I want to make sure he exceeds an average of 500k/pm so that I get an extra $250!

• Push my feedcount over 2000

I need to find a way to convert more of my approx 200k unique monthly into feed subscribers. Even if I can only convert 0.5% that would take me up to around 2500 subscribers (any ideas or tips?). If you haven’t subscribed yet to this blog then click here to help me out. Go on – you won’t regret it!

• Motivate The Team More

It’s taking longer for the cumulative earnings from the team posts to generate revenue, so I’ve started adding new features to the program to encourage the team. I also want to do more coaching as I really enjoy working with the guys.

I hope that the amount of information I have shared here will encourage you to do the same (An alternative way is to tag your post ‘MyBlogEarnings‘ so that your details can be found easily on Technorati), or provide you with food for thought. The more info we share with each other, the more we will all hopefully make.

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