Blog Income Report :: July 2007
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Posted: August 14th, 2007 under Affiliate Programs, Blogging, Income Reports.
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
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$186.61 from Google AdSense
$156.13 from LinkWorth
$120.56 from Text-Link Ads
$45.00 from the SEO Book Affiliate Program
$13.95 from Amazon Affiliate Commissions
$11.00 from tips
$1.23 from Revver.com
Google AdSense $186.61
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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.
LinkWorth $156.13
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
Related Articles:
- Blog Income Report :: June 2007
- Blog Income Report :: May 2007
- Blog Income Report :: April 2007
- Blog Income Report :: March 2007
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