November 2010 update
This is a quick update of earning trends. Following Google updates earlier this year, where we saw our revenues take a plunge. Then, the growth seemed to slowly come back and somewhat stabilize around 2500. November wasn't as strong as I was hoping it to be... But the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sure sold a lot of items : ).
As for December, so far so good (knock on wood). We even sold an expensive piece of item yesterday (which makes me all smiles and wanting to work even more). We decided not make more websites, but rather concentrated on making the one we already have better and better "seo'd".
Recap for May 2010
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 for March 2010
The month of March follows our somewhat linear trend with a total revenue of $3421.06!
This is our record month, and throughout the month, we have finally reached the goal of the challenge that inspired us to start making website... the "100 bucks challenge", where Steve Crooks challenged himself to make 100$ a day in 3 months using 1 website and only adsense. Well we did it in 12 months using 46 websites, adsense and other affiliate programs ;) (but anyway, long story short, he did not succeed to make 100$ a day in 3 months using only adsense and 1 website).
And this morning, we woke up with an awesome surprise... A lot of the websites that were ranking low are suddenly moving to the top !! We started adding more content to some of the older websites, and apparently, Google liked it...
Easter weekend is coming up, we would not be surprised if this weekend would see low days of income, due to people probably gathering with their families and friends.
Nat
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!