My Passive Income Online Blog

June proved to be another record month for me! Here are the figures:

AdSense: $253.18
ClickBank: $344.58
Amazon: $18.66
Other Affiliate Network Sales: $57.70
Total Earned: $674.12

Reflections on June’s Earnings:

Although I fell a bit short of the goal I set last month for earning $730 this month, I’m pretty happy with the results, especially given the “MayDay” changes in Google’s algorithm.

AdSense was the area where my earnings were hit hardest by this change. Overall, my AdSense earnings were down about 20%. I went from averaging $10.44 a day down to $8.44 a day. Some of this drop I attribute to a loss of some long-tail searches, and some of it is due to a drop in visitors to one gardening site that has peaked in terms of seasonal interest. For July, I hope to get these earnings over the $10 a day mark again (at least $310 for the month).

ClickBank was the area I saw the most improvement. My VA has been targeting several of these sites hard with backlinks, and I’ve seen some nice SERP movement. As a result, my ClickBank income nearly doubled between May ($186.54) and June ($344.58).  I went from having only ten sales in May to having 19 sales in June (plus three refunds). For July, I am aiming to earn at least $500 and to have 25 sales from ClickBank.

Amazon sales were way up from last month when I earned only .41 cents, and I fell just short of meeting my goal of earning $20 for the month. I went from only having one sale in May to having seven Amazon sales in June, demonstrating to me that just a little effort can make a huge difference when it comes to Amazon sales. Amazon is also the area I’m targeting most strongly with my website building efforts too right now, and I hope to see the results of the efforts soon. For July, my goal is to earn at least $40 from Amazon.

Other Affiliate Network Sales: I have a few affiliate links for products discussed on this blog and a few other blogs I own that belong to different networks. In June I had a total of four sales from these various affiliate networks, bringing in $57.70. Although these sales seem a bit unpredictable at this point, I’m going to set a goal of aiming to earn $50 from other affiliate sales in July.

Total Earnings Goal for July: $900

In terms of my work productivity, here is what I said I was aiming to do and the results:

1. Complete ten new websites. Status: 7/10 completed (5 Amazon websites plus two AdSense websites). I finished seven new websites and have another two ClickBank websites near completion. In addition, I have the articles ready for my tenth (AdSense) website but I still need to put the site together. Hopefully I will have all these done in the next day or two, and then move onto building websites for July.
2. Set up four Aweber lists. Status: Only built two lists. I’m still struggling with these.
3. Subscribe to Unique Article Wizard and make at least ten UAW Submissions. Status: I subscribed to UAW and did seven UAW submissions this month (well, my VA actually did three of them). All were approved, with most articles going out to over 900 directories and blogs at a rate of 30 a day. I’m eager to see the results from these submissions!
4. Track my websites. Status: I’ve been tracking things pretty closely this month, and later today I’ll be running through all my keywords again to see where things stand.
5. Find keywords for July’s sites. Status: not done. I’ll be doing keyword research for July’s sites in the coming week.
6. Cloak affiliate links for eight of my completed affiliate websites.  Status: Only got links on four websites cloaked, although I realized that several of my websites don’t really need this done since I’m redirecting using .info domains. Still, I do have a few that still need this done.

Goals for this Month:

1. Build 10 More Websites.  I’m aiming to build five more Amazon websites, three more AdSense websites and two more ClickBank websites.
2. Set up four more AWeber lists. Same goal as last month, let’s see if I can do it this time.
3. Create a standard backlinking system for my new websites and put it in motion. I’ll be writing more on this system in a few days and my VA will be doing much of this work.
4. Do keyword research for July’s sites and hopefully August’s sites as well.
5. Finish cloaking links on any affiliate websites that need it done.
6. Track my websites and continue updating my records of keyword performance.
7. Set up my own blog network for link indexing purposes. I’ll write more on this as well once I have started putting it in motion. But basically I’m developing my own blog network to help make sure my backlinks are found and indexed by Google quickly.

Also, not on this list, is the work my VA and writer will be doing as well as many of my standard daily tasks such as I described in my last weekly update. I am also going to add that I think the decision to hire a VA is really paying off. After several months when my earnings seemed stuck at the $300 level, I’ve seen some nice and consistent movement upwards during the past two months which I attribute primarily to the backlinking she has been doing for me (which has translated into higher SERPs for several of my keywords).

Although these monthly earning and project goals might be a bit ambitious given my time constraints, I’m hoping I will at least get close if not surpass them. Wish me luck!

Related posts:

1. May Earnings Report
2. Mayday and Monthly Goals Updates