October 2010 ???
Haven't been too good at updating the site heh? So summer wasn't too bad ($2000 for July and about $2700 for August), so was September ($2600-$2700). However, October seems to be dreadful. In terms of Adsense, things haven't changed, as a matter of fact, it even has seemed to increased. But like many people seem to wonder on their blog, while I am expecting and increase in sells due to the upcoming holidays, I have instead seen a drastic reduction in people's spending (or at least using my websites)... Don't know what's going on. Because my affiliate programs are normally the main source of revenue, I am now worried we won't even see the $2000 this month...
What's going on?
End of November
In November, for the first time, we experienced "holidays" revenues weeks, which are scary low. Thanksgiving week was far our worst week in several months. A week with extremely low number of people coming through the sites, therefore low revenue. We figured people probably spend quality time away or with their family ;)
Nevertheless, we are, once more, reaching a new high with a big total of 2109.10. This is very encouraging.
This month, for the first time, we made more in affiliate-based revenue than in adsense-based revenue.
Table of progress
| April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November |
| 78.36 | 369.16 | 589.28 | 818.12 | 839.07 | 1810.94 | 1969.13 | 2109.10 |
And on thanksgiving, we had a taste of what the new google will be like... We were really excited when we realized that many of our websites are showing on the first page or near the first page with google caffeine! However, Google decided to postpone to the new year the full release of caffeine because they did not want to risk messing up their servers and people's site before the holidays... SIGH.
Mid-October update
This month has sure not looked as great as September in terms of growth. I have been averaging 40-60$ per day, with a low of 23$ and a high of 91$. Too many of my websites are still not showing on the first page for the main keyword yet. Also, I noticed a decrease in the number of sales. Maybe September back-to-school had something to do with increase spending and purchase through amazon.com. While we are still working on bringing the remaining websites to the first page (to the top 2 preferably), I created 2 new websites, and hope to have them ready for Christmas! I intend of creating another 2 websites over the weekend, all amazon affiliate sites. I am particularly interested in Amazon for the upcoming months because I know that the number of searches/purchases surge exponentially for the holidays.
I hope that for my end-of-month update, some of my websites will have moved to the first spot, or at least first page!