I have been a proud Amazon Associate since this summer and during this time I have made some (as I think) pretty solid income from Amazon Associates program.Nowadays for me it's hard to remember what impulse got me to switch to Amazon, because for more than 5 years I have been using Google Adsense only to try to monetize my internet assets. But I'm glad…
Welcome to the first online income report of www.reinisfischer.com website.
My blog now is about 4 months old, and starting in January I decided to experiment - can a blogger earn any decent income from blogging, I decided to make public my online success or failures. I have been active online since 2005, it's almost 10 years now. But my online income was and still is relatively low.
In a matter of 5 years, I have earned Google AdSense a lit bit more than $100. But I'm willing to change that.
Starting this year (2014) - I have implemented Google AdSense on 4 properties (including this blog), they all are modest in daily traffic.
For now, I'm using Google AdSense (on 4 properties) and Booking.com (1 property) affiliate to monetize my sites.
Here is my online income report for January.
- Google AdSense - $8.37
- Booking affiliate - 0
Total - $8.37
On average in January I earned $0.27 per day. What makes me below extreme poverty if compared to the World's poorest country
Recently I set up my first AdSense goal - to break even my hosting expenses, which make about $40/month. To achieve this, I must earn at least $1.29 per day. I guess achieving my first AdSense goal should be relatively easy - I must increase my revenue about 4.7 times per day. Or let's say I must drive 4.7 times more visitors, or better raise CPC.
Update: It took me about 19 months to actually crack that $40/mo milestone. Read more: How I Reached My Google AdSense Goal To Make $40.00/mo In 19 months
Speaking of CPC - yes, in January it was pretty low, but I changed ad placement above the fold, and it went up pretty well. So in this case, it's rather to improve CTR and CPC, than just drive traffic, What I actually did in January I drove pretty good traffic from Facebook, and I got a pretty huge traffic spike from Reddit.
In both cases, my sites were not optimized for good CTR, and I received too few clicks for the huge amount of traffic I received.
My guess is that in February I should be about $10, but with expectations of about 2 times less traffic.
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