Genius Types income last month was $787.33.

Income

The compound growth rate (three-month rolling average) is currently at 21% per month.

With 55,415 page views, the CPM (income per 1000 page views) was $14.20, up 20% from the month before.

Income Breakdown

$331.58 from Text-Link Ads
$242.89 from Google AdSense
$150.00 from LinkWorth
$20.69 from Amazon Affiliate Commissions
$10.00 from tips
$2.17 from Revver.com

Text-Link Ads: $331.58

Text-link Ads took the top spot for the first time ever. Genius Types made $181.58 from text links sold and an additional $150 from affiliate referrals.

Google AdSense: $242.89

AdSense income took a drop for the first month this year, falling into the second spot. Traffic has been slower lately, and AdSense income is reflecting that.

LinkWorth: $150.00

No new LinkWorth advertisers were added last month, but the residual income on the 3 that I’ve had remained.

Amazon Affiliate Program: $20.69

Amazon income paid for another book to read this month.

Tips: $10.00

A little excitement in the tip jar last month. Ten bucks from some really generous readers!

Revver: $2.17

I keep Revver around just to giggle every time the income stats come in. Most of the money comes from this little video that we did of our cat Milo. We like to joke that that makes him employed, unlike our other cat who mooches off us all day.

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Genius Types income was up 24% in September to $784.08.

LinkWorth Reversal

If you follow my income reports, you might notice that September’s figure is actually lower than the figure I reported in August. The reason for this discrepancy is a controversial adjustment that LinkWorth made to affiliate accounts last month. This adjustment affected affiliates who have recently referred new publishers to LinkWorth.

In an email dated September 11, 2007, LinkWorth notified affiliates that a programming error had overstated affiliate earnings on new referrals. As a result of this mistake, they debited over $300 from my account. They even debited $90 that had already been direct-deposited into my bank account.

This whole mess started in July when I referred 9 new publishers to LinkWorth. Each time I logged into my LinkWorth account, I a saw a $10 credit for each of these referrals for a total of $90 that I thought I earned in July. In August, I referred another 21 publishers and showed a $210 referral credit for the month.

I had referred even more publishers when I received the email telling me that these credits had been a mistake. LinkWorth informed me that this particular referral fee was never promised in their terms and that a programming error was mistakingly crediting affiliate accounts.

In an email, I asked LinkWorth to consider correcting the problem from that point forward, but to leave our accounts alone. From my point of view, reporting it on our login screens implied that we earned the money.

LinkWorth’s response was basically that it was clear in the contract and they were going ahead with the account reversals. As a result, I’ve had to restate two months of blog earnings and I’m over $300 poorer than I thought I was.

LinkWorth is still a strong money earner for Genius Types and I would recommend it; but I think you can understand my frustration.

September Income

The compound growth rate (three-month rolling average) is at 25% per month: excellent, but less than the 50% I thought I had with the LinkWorth referrals.

With 66,207 page views in September, my ICM (income per 1000 page views) was $11.80..

Income Breakdown

$339.38 from Google AdSense
$200.00 from LinkWorth
$191.29 from Text-Link Ads
$17.64 from Amazon Affiliate Commissions
$3.00 from tips
$2.77 from Revver.com

Google AdSense: $339.38

AdSense income jumped 26% in August, on par with overall income. AdSense has been the most consistent and productive income earner since the beginning on Genius Types.

With rumors of a shifting policy at Google towards link-sellers, I’ll be interested to see if Genius Types keeps its pagerank of 6 and therefore high search traffic and AdSense clicks.

LinkWorth: $200.00

I now have 3 advertisers purchasing links through LinkWorth and my cut is $50 each.

The other $50 is a result of LinkWorth’s new affiliate policy on publisher referrals, which now pays $50 if the referral does over $100 in business. One of my 30+ referrals has achieved this.

Text-Link Ads: $191.29

Text-link Ads sold out all ten spots in September. At $20 per link, that got me pretty close to $200. Now, the only way I’ll make more with TLA is when they adjust my price per link. With traffic on Genius Types increasing the way it has been, I anticipate that happening soon.

Amazon Affiliate Program: $17.64

All the book reviews I’ve been doing as of late have paid off. The income is nothing like AdSense, but it’s better than a sharp stick in the eye.

Tips: $3.00

The tip jar had 3 bucks in it last month. Thank you!

Revver: $2.77

Almost all of my Revver.com comes from one article: Five Ways to Create Passive Income with Little or no Money which also happens to be my most viewed.

Overall, a great month on par with expectations. Let’s see what next month brings.

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 August were actually $138.71 instead of the $348.71 reported in this post; and total earnings were $631.58 instead of $841.58.

Genius Types blog income was up an incredible 57% in August, with earnings totaling $841.58. The gains were fueled in large part by stellar results from LinkWorth.

The compound growth rate (three-month rolling average) has consistently registered at 50% per month!

With 62,311 page views in August, my ICM (income per 1000 page views) was $13.51, up about 10% from last month.

I predicted this blog would grow exponentially, but I had no idea the growth curve would match up this perfectly.

Income Breakdown

$348.71 from LinkWorth
$259.74 from Google AdSense
$203.26 from Text-Link Ads
$22.31 from Amazon Affiliate Commissions
$4.95 from tips
$2.61 from Revver.com

LinkWorth $348.71

LinkWorth has been a surprise money-maker since I introduced it to Genius Types last month. LinkWorth is a text-link broker in the spirit of Text-Link Ads, but with more flexibility.

It claimed the top money-making spot in its second month.

Since LinkWorth allows us to set our own prices for ads, I’ve been able to harvest a higher fee per link. I sold another link in August to bring my total to three ads. I get 50% of the $100 fee per link for a pro-rated total of $138.71.

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, 21 people signed up last month, giving me a total of $210 in referral fees.

Google AdSense $259.74

AdSense income jumped 39% in August. The click-through rate has continued to be strong, and the average income per click is edging up slightly. Of coarse, the main reason AdSense income increased was the dramatic increase in pageviews.

Text-Link Ads $203.26

I reached a significant milestone with Text-link Ads in August when I sold out the ad slots. Unfortunately, TLA has kept the fee for each ad the same since I opened an account with them.

Amazon Affiliate Program $22.31

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with my Amazon affiliate income lately. I never really expect to make anything with them, but I’m selling more and more books for them with each book review.

Tips $4.95

I’m always amazed at people’s generosity when they leave something in my tip jar! Thank you to everyone who has!

Revver $2.61

Revver.combought another coffee for me last month. The majority of the clicks are from a silly little video of my cat, Milo. I guess I can stop bugging him to get a job.

I can’t wait to see what next month will bring!

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

$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

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

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!

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

$174.93 from Text-Link Ads
$171.36 from Google AdSense
$37.00 from tips
$10.51 from Amazon Affiliate Commissions
$2.49 from Revver.com

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

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.

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!

Income produced on Genius Types jumped by a whopping 61% in May! Total earnings rose to $245.41.

The three-month rolling compound monthly growth rate of income earned is at 51%. Can you imagine a stock that grew at 51% per month!

Income Breakdown

$113.81 from Google AdSense
$105.33 from Text-Link Ads
$12.00 from tips
$10.00 from Amazon Affiliate Commissions
$2.91 from Steve Aitchison’s Affiliate Program
$1.36 from Revver.com

Google AdSense

Since I broke $100 a month with Adsense in April, it’s been really fun to check my stats. I set a one-day record in May with $12.55. Here’s a breakdown over the last six months.

Text-Link Ads

I sold $105.33 worth of Text-link ads in May, more than doubling my April number.

Tips

It was a good month for tips. After going dry in April, my tip jar had 3 tips for $12 in May.

I changed my tip request in May from “please consider leaving a tip” to “please consider leaving a $1 tip.” Maybe the strategy of a specific number paid off.

Amazon Affiliate Program

I earned $10.00 in April from Amazon.com book sale commissions. A renewed emphasis on book reviews appears to be working out.

Steve Aitchison

I sold an eBook for Steve Aitchison that earned me a commission of $2.91.

Revver

Last, but not least, I earned $1.36 from Revver.com.

Thanks for your support of Genius Types!

Income produced on Genius Types jumped by over 50% in April! Total earnings rose to $152.53.

The compound monthly growth rate of income earned on GeniusTypes.com over the last three months is sitting at 34%. If it continues to grow at that rate, Genius Types will earn over $3800 in April of 2008.

Six Months to $100

Last month’s prediction of six months to $100 in Adsense just barely came true. Total Adsense income for April was $100.34. You can bet I was glued to my Adsense stats in the final hours of April. I got that last click to put me over $100 in the nick of time.

Income Breakdown

$100.34 from Google AdSense
$45.17 from Text-Link Ads
$6.72 from Amazon Affiliate Commissions
$.30 from Revver.com

Google AdSense

It was a great feeling to get over the $100 hump with Google. Here is a breakdown of how AdSense has treated me over the last six months.

Text-Link Ads

April was an exciting month for Text-Link Ad Sales! A total of three slots were sold for a total of $45.17.

Amazon Affiliate Program

I earned $6.72 in April from Amazon.com book sale commissions. It was nice to see Amazon actually do something this month. Hopefully, I’ll see more out of it in the future.

Revver

For the second month in a row, I earned $.30 from Revver.com. This brings my all-time total up to $15. This month, I should start to see more now that I’m producing more video.

Stay tuned for the full passive income report next week!

Monetization of Genius Types is right on schedule. I’m happy with the amount of money I’m earning and especially the growth rate.

The compound monthly growth rate of income earned on GeniusTypes.com in 2007 is 24%. If it continues to grow at this rate, Genius Types will earn over $1000 in March 2008.

Six Months to $100

I was reading a thread on Steve Pavlina’s Forum discussing the idea that it takes six months of good blog posts to achieve $100/month from Google AdSense. Most of the other responses echoed the truth in this general rule of thumb.

Steve himself responded, saying that he earned $53.02 in his fifth month, and $114.63 in his sixth. Reading this validated my performance, since March was my fifth full month of blogging and I earned $74.46 from AdSense.

Total Income

March’s total income was $96.97.

$74.46 from Google AdSense
$10.00 from Text-Link Ads
$10.00 from Tips
$2.21 from Amazon Affiliate Commissions
$.30 from Revver.com

This was a 36% increase over February’s total of $71.25.

Google AdSense

AdSense has been my most productive and reliable income source since the beginning. Here is a breakdown of my AdSense revenue over the last five months:

Text-Link Ads

In March, I sold my first Text-Link ad spot. Thank you MortgageTv.com for buying a link.

Tips

March was the second month in a row that I earned $10 in tips. Thank you Matthew Jabs of eJabs.com for your generous contribution and article.

Amazon Affiliate Program

I earned $2.21 in March from Amazon.com book sale commissions. I don’t know any blogger that is making much from Amazon, but I think it’s worth the value it provides to readers.

Revver

I only earned $.30 from Revver.com this month. This brings my all-time total up to $14.70. Almost all of this income is from the ads at the end of the videos in the article Five Ways to Create Passive Income with Little or No Money.

As I add more video content to this site, I’ll see this number rise.

Thank you to everyone for your support of Genius Types. It’s exciting to see my hard work paying off by people finding value in my posts!