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Today is a busy day on this blog! I’ve just posted my one month update for the ClickBank journal project, right now I’m doing my weekly update, and shortly there will be my Monthly Earnings update posted as well. Whew!

Anyway, here are this week’s totals:

AdSense: $101.89
ClickBank: $127.43
Amazon: $20.18
Other Affiliate Sales: $8.28

Total Earned: $257.78

Reflections on Individual Programs:

AdSense: This was the best week I have ever had with AdSense, and also the first time I have earned over $100 in one week from the AdSense program. My daily average was $14.56. Most of the increase was the result of one of my AdSense site’s moving up and taking the #1 spot for a keyword I was targeting. Now, if only I can get another dozen or so sites to do the same! Here is a screenshot of my weekly earnings (click to make larger):

ClickBank: This was a very frustrating week with ClickBank because of their analytics problems (which have now been resolved). Wednesday through Friday, my hop counts were showing as zero and I was unable to track the performance of my sites those day. Saturday morning the tracking issues was resolved and everything has been fine since then, but coincidentally, I did not have any sales for the three days that the tracking system was messed up.

It is probably just a coincidence, but the tracking problems fail to inspire a lot of confidence overall in their recording ability. I might add that I don’t suspect ClickBank of “stealing” any of my sales – but I do sometimes wonder if their recurrent problems with their analytics means a sale or two gets lost in the mess. Anyway, for this week I only had six sales (recorded) and earned only $127.43 – one of my lowest totals for several weeks now. Here is a screenshot:

Amazon: I had one of my strongest weeks ever with Amazon. I got a nice $10+ commission from one of my new sites that I put up last month this week, plus a couple other smaller sales from some of my older sites. I’m seeing a lot more clicks coming in daily as now, although my conversion rate is not great – only just over 1%. I may need to try new layouts to see if I get a better conversion. But overall, the new sites seem to be generating visitors, clicks and now income as well. Total weekly earnings was $20.18 – one of my strongest weeks ever.

My Amazon site building is now progressing at a nice pace as well. The new assistant I hired is great! Between him and I, we were able to get four sites built this past week, and I’m hoping we will be able to continue this pace for the next few weeks in preparation for the upcoming holidays.

Other Affiliate Sales: Got a first sale from Plimus for one of my websites, which was great and also my first Aweber commission (thanks Justin!). Total for other affiliate sales came to $8.28.

In summary, I want to add that this is one of those weeks that shows the importance of diversification. While my ClickBank sales were down, AdSense and Amazon were both stronger than ever. I’ll have my monthly report up shortly, so stayed tuned!

Related posts:

1. Weekly Update #11 (August 11-17)
2. Weekly Update #9 (July 28-August 3)