Nat n Hatch » amazon

Recap for May 2010

Nat — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:19:40 +0000

So this is a quick summary of May. May has done slightly better than the most of April with $2723.10 ($2590.29 in April). Despite the drop between March and April, the trend still looks like a positive growth.

I decided to compare the graph below, and although there seem to be a strong affiliate (amazon) increase, we can see that the adsense increase seems to have plateau since September of 09. This make sense since most of our new sites have targeted affiliate programs rather than adsense-based websites.

Overall, the month was sparsed with many high days, and many very low days. Not sure what is going on with google, but the rankings of the websites have seemed to be dancing around, something being pushed as far as 2nd or 3rd page before coming back to the first page. We have also lost a few first positions for some keywords that had looked strong in 1st position. We did not change anything... Google change in algorithm?? Difficult to say... Anyway all we can do now is keep pushing the websites and the keywords and hope that we can rank for more keywords and get our first places back.

Recap Dec 2009 to Feb 2010

Nat — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:31:27 +0000

As of March 27th 2010, we now have 46 growing websites. Of which, only about 11-12 of them have consistently been making money.

Apr '09	May '09	Jun '09	Jul '09	Aug '09	Sep '09	Oct '09	Nov '09	Dec '09	Jan '10	Feb '10
78.36	369.16	589.28	818.12	839.07	1810.94	1969.13	2109.1	2654.95	2184.03	2597.29

As we can see, the graph above shows an almost linear growth curve for the amount of money generated by the websites.

This is pretty exciting and amazing to see that the amount of money generated does correlate with the amount of effort put into the websites over time, and that they add up.

The month of March is following this trend and is on track for another record month, going for an over 3000$ month.

With all the money generated, we decided to incorporate a company, which will allow us to receive a tax break on this extra income generated on top of our regular income.

Our company became effective as of Mar 26th 2010 and we are very excited to read and learn more about running our very own company!

Goal : We are expecting to hit a 4000'ish $ month by the month of June. In order to do so, we need to bring more websites/keywords to the first-second-third positions of Google/Bing to increase the number of visitors.

Nat

End of November

Nat — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:23:40 +0000

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.

End of October, Record High, and New Websites

Hatch — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:19:46 +0000

I've never posted here, so I thought I might try my hand at it. While Nat usually handles the creation of the websites, I often handle some of the other aspects of creating websites. Usually that involves research, trying out various tools, and doing SEO. Mostly boring stuff. I might write some posts on different SEO techniques I've tried, or the tools we use.

Last month we hit a high of $1810.94, and as of yesterday, we've surpassed that. The last few days of the month are all record setting now, and we're averaging about $60/day at the moment so hopefully we can come in $200-300 over last month's high. Cross your fingers.

With Christmas approaching, we've registered an additional 4 Amazon based sites. We're hoping to fill them with content and being ranking them before Xmas hits. This is a bit of a rush job, but I think it's doable. One of the sites has already crawled its' way into the top 10 on Google, the others don't appear at all for their keywords yet.

Mid-October update

Nat — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:29:58 +0000

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!