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Blog Income Report :: July 2007

This income report has been revised because of an account adjustment by LinkWorth.

In an email dated September 11, 2007, LinkWorth notified all affiliates that a programming error had overstated affiliate earnings on new referrals. As a result of this mistake, they debited $300 from my account ($90 of which they had already deposited into my bank account for July, and $210 for September).

At the time, I had referred around 30 new publishers and each time I logged into my LinkWorth account, I saw a $10 credit for each of these referrals. LinkWorth claims that their policy never included this credit, and that it was a mistake to show it in our accounts.

Because of this change, my LinkWorth earnings in July were actually $66.13 instead of the $156.13 reported in this post; and total earnings were $444.48 instead of $534.48.

Genius Types income was up 35% in July, with total earnings at $534.48.

That brings the compound growth rate (three-month rolling average) to 50% per month!

With 43,442 page views in June, my ICM (income per 1000 page views) was $12.30, up 52% from last month.

The big star this month was LinkWorth, which has blown away all my expectations.

Income Breakdown

July Income

Google AdSense $186.61

    AdSense reclaimed the top spot this month. My click-through rate has continued to increase ever since I changed the link color in my AdSense ads from red to blue.

July AdSense Income

LinkWorth $156.13

    I was introduced to LinkWorth last month as an alternative to Text-Link Ads. I was skeptical at first, by my mind was quickly changed when my first ad sold for over twice the rate that I was getting from Text-Link Ads.

    LinkWorth allows you to set your own prices for ads. As an experiment, I set my ad prices at $100 per link (vs. $40 for Text-Link Ads). You also have the choice of taking 70% of the revenue and letting the market decide how many ads you sell, or 50% and having LinkWorth help market for you. I chose the latter and sold 2 ads within the first two weeks.

    After those two ads were pro-rated for the remaining days in the month, I earned $66.13.

    LinkWorth also has an outstanding affiliate program that gives you $10 per signup and 5% of the recurring transactions for the life of each account. Being a cashflow guy, I really like this model of recurring residual income.

    As a result of an article I wrote about Linkworth, 9 people signed up last month for a total of $90.

Text-Link Ads $120.56

    Text-link Ads dropped from 1st place in June to 3rd in July. I’ve just about sold out of my links, but my link price has been stuck at $40 since I joined.

SEO Book Affiliate Program $45

    My review of SEO Book last month brought in a $25 bonus and $20 for a sale. This ebook is definitely worth the money, and they have a pretty generous affiliate program to boot.

Amazon Affiliate Program $13.95

    Commissions from Amazon have been steadily rising with every book review. It’s not much, but worth the time to put in the affiliate links.

Tips $11

    Thank you to all the generous readers who left tips last month! I’m always very surprised and flattered when I find a dollar in my jar!

Revver

    Bringing up the rear again, was Revver.com, with a total of $1.23. I’m obviously not very impressed, but I’ll take the money and buy a cup of coffee.

It feels great to be making over $500 a month!

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Comment from BeachBum
Time: August 14, 2007, 4:35 am

Well done. I also publish my income stats on my blog. Right now I am at a little under $100 a month.

BeachBum

Comment from Randy Yniguez
Time: August 14, 2007, 5:31 am

Congrats! Looks like you’ve streamlined the layout of your site since I last visited. Much better on the eyes and for navigation. Keep up the good work.
Cheers!
-RY

Comment from JL
Time: August 14, 2007, 5:32 am

Congrats. The exponential growth of money made from blogs is simply amazing. Most people are very happy with 5% increase per year (regular bank accounts), where you’re getting a 50% increase per month!

When I finally have a high traffic website, I’ll remember to setup LinkWorth on it, sounds like a great income stream.

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Comment from Brian Lee
Time: August 14, 2007, 9:37 am

Thanks guys! I appreciate your support.

Comment from Justin Goff
Time: August 14, 2007, 10:39 am

Nice job. It’s great to see other people posting income amounts each month as well.

I posted mine a few days ago here…. http://www.justingoff.com/?p=74

I haven’t monetized my actual blog yet, but I am looking into a few different ways, mostly paid advertising and text links.

Comment from Alex Shalman
Time: August 14, 2007, 10:39 am

Congrats Brian, 50% increases three months and running. Amazing!

Keep cranking out those great articles.

Comment from MillionDollarJourney
Time: August 14, 2007, 7:40 pm

Hey Brian, congrats on your achievements. Did you do anything special to get LinkWorth advertisers? I’ve been a Linkworth member for months now but only 1 advertiser from them. TLA on the other hand is just about sold out.

Thanks.

Comment from Brian Lee
Time: August 14, 2007, 7:48 pm

I chose the 50/50 option, where they supposedly suggest your site to potential buyers. It seems to have worked.

Comment from Carl of PseudoPower
Time: August 15, 2007, 10:41 am

Wow that’s interesting. I need to check out different ways to monetize my blog.

Comment from Savvy Frugality
Time: August 16, 2007, 6:56 pm

I launched my own blog recently, but I’m at a loss at how to attract more traffic. I’m using Blogger, so the layout is what it is, but I think the content is halfway decent. Do the search engines bring you most of your traffic? How do you get more than 40,000 hits in a month? I know it doesn’t happen overnight, but my traffic leaves much to be desired.

Comment from Brian Lee
Time: August 16, 2007, 7:12 pm

Traffic can be a slow, gradual process. It took me almost a year to get to where I am now.

The most important thing when you are starting out is to contribute to other people’s blogs. Link to them, leave comments, and email their owners.

In time, they will return the favor and you will begin to create a reader base.

Also, if you’re really serious about blogging for income, I would switch to Wordpress. It’s a lot more flexible.

Email me at mail@geniustypes.com if you want to get set up on the same server that I’m on. It’s $19.99 a month, it’s fast, reliable, and I’ll even install Wordpress for you with all the plugins that I’ve spent the last year finding.

Comment from Stephen Weller
Time: August 17, 2007, 6:37 am

It’s great watching your site grow to produce significant income!

Quick question - how have you been able to get to #2 on Google for “passive income”? That is awesome!

Did you really optimize on “passive income” or has that just happened?

I am blogging mainly as a personal journal, but I would like to get some traffic as well. I know I need to use Wordpress, but I am looking to pick up whatever other tidbits I can as well.

Keep up the good work!
Stephen

Comment from Brian Lee
Time: August 17, 2007, 12:44 pm

It was part planned, part secondary benefit of my overall pagerank. Google has ranked this site at a 6. Although no one knows their exact formula, I think it’s because I have so many backlinks.

A lot of the people who linked to Genius Types used specific anchor text that gave me a boost. If you’re really into that sort of thing, you should read SEO book.

Comment from Riley
Time: August 18, 2007, 4:23 pm

hi i enjoyed the read

Comment from Jude
Time: August 20, 2007, 9:33 am

Your site has helped me begin to explore the passive income route using a blog. Its a personal selling/trading site. I just got if off the ground yesterday. http://www.beyondmyhorizons.com I have yet to do the ad stuff from google and textlink, but I’m in trial and error process. Thanks for the great tips and motivational topics. Keep up the good work.

Comment from Sanel
Time: August 22, 2007, 5:11 am

Hey Brian,
Great work. It appears theexponential factor of your site continues and that you are also on target to reach the 1K subscriber reading by month end.
Good luck!

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