Blog Income Report :: June 2007

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by Brian Lee on July 11, 2007

Income produced on Genius Types jumped by another 58% in June, the third consecutive month of 50%+ increases! Total earnings were $396.29.

The compound monthly growth rate (three-month rolling average) is at a very healthy 60%.

Let’s pretend for a moment that I can keep up this insane rate of income growth for the next twelve months. If that happens, I’ll earn $69,665 in June of 2008!

With 48,952 page views in June, Genius Types earned $8.09 per 1000 page views.

Income Breakdown

Does this graph remind you of anything? How about exponential growth?

June Income

Text-Link Ads

Text-link Ads Ads out-performed Google AdSense for the first time. I sold $174.93 worth of Text-links in June.

This number was boosted by a $25 commission for referring a new publisher to Text-link Ads.

Google AdSense

I’m currently averaging around $6 a day from AdSense. The day-to-day earnings have been much more consistent now that I’m averaging more than 1000 page impressions a day.

I made a huge discovery that almost doubled my click-through rate. By simply changing the color of my AdSense ads from a pinkish-red and black to bright blue and orange, I saw an instant increase in CTR.

June AdSense Income

Tips

June was my best month ever for tips, $37.

Ever since I changed my tip link from “please consider leaving a tip” to “please consider leaving a $1 tip,” tips have become a contributer. Requesting a specific number seems to be working.

Amazon Affiliate Program

I earned $10.51 in June from Amazon.com book sale commissions. The more books I review, the more books Amazon sells.

Revver

Bringing up the rear again, was Revver.com, with a total of $2.49. (Hey, it’s better than a sharp stick in the eye!)

Thanks again for all your support. I can’t wait to see what next month brings!

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1 homemom3 July 11, 2007 at 6:53 am

Congrats! I got the book by the way and agree wtih many of the things it states. As far as income I’ve made some money but not much this past month, been thinking of adding that tip jar to my site.

2 HalOtis July 11, 2007 at 1:44 pm

Awsome numbers! keep up the quality posts and I’m sure you’ll get it up over $1000/month.

what have you been doing to attract more traffic to the site?

3 Ben July 11, 2007 at 2:24 pm

Do you also keep track of the time you spend on this site? I would guess your time spent has gone down a lot since originally building the site and is now fairly steady despite increases in earnings.

I think it would be interesting to show how a website becomes more and more passive over time.

4 Brian Lee July 11, 2007 at 3:27 pm

Very insightful, Ben. Unfortunately, I haven’t been keeping accurate records of my time spent; but I can tell you that I was spending about 80 hours a week for the first month, 40 for the next 2, 20 for the next 3, and now I’ve got it down to about 10 hours a week.

5 Lisa July 17, 2007 at 3:29 pm

I’ve never paid much attention to the world of blogs generating money (not that I didn’t know it was going on – I’ve just never spent time reading details) so interesting post.

I have adblock turned on in firefox so I never see anyone’s ads on their blogs and it always surprises me that others aren’t doing the same. But even more amazing is that people actually click on the ads. This is why I have no problems with credit cards – I hate to shop and feel no need to own a lot of stuff.

I do admit I’m an amazon affiliate – although I’ve never made much money with it. Except last christmas someone bought a plasma screen tv clicking through my affiliate link. That $200 credit with amazon was a nice surprise. I haven’t gotten a check since then – clearly I don’t have the right mindset.

Maybe you should review televisions to go for a the high ticket items on amazon. Books don’t generate much cash in comparison.

6 Brian Lee July 17, 2007 at 4:29 pm

That’s not a bad idea, to go for higher ticket items; but reviewing books is more of a passion than a money-maker. The affiliate links are really secondary.

7 dubaiforvisitors.com August 21, 2007 at 6:15 am

just waiting for this time to come when i can make about 100$ or more from affiliates.

8 Gonzalo August 7, 2009 at 2:51 am

i’m still trying to get to those numbers.

I’m confident that eventually will get there.

Regards.

9 as well November 25, 2009 at 6:19 pm

i’m stii trying to get to those numbers.
i’m confident that eventually will get there.

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