February Wrap-Up
Wait, is it March already? Jebus. February just sort of slipped away from me. Buh bye, February.
I have to admit that I don’t look forward to these detailed monthly recaps, especially as they get a little more cumbersome as I keep adding sites. It seemed a good idea initially, as far as a proof-of-concept that silly monkeys like ourselves can make money online, but I wonder about the execution, as I end up making broad swipes at it without lots of detailed stats.
Something to ponder, and I may look into a better stats tool that can pull and parse data from all my sites and report it in one central location. I can sort of do that via stats packages on the dedicated server, but it’s a fairly blunt instrument and a bit hard to pull out data solely from my affiliate sites, as there are additional non-affiliate sites on the server.
In very broad brush strokes, I didn’t get as much content out in February as I’d hoped to. Real life sucked up a lot of my time and I got a little more bogged down in a few experimental projects than I’d planned on. I also launched a few more new sites, which always eat up a decent amount of time, as far as fiddling with layouts, getting the initial content up, and all that jazz.
Traffic continues to climb, though, pretty much across all the sites, and the last week or so has been pretty encouraging on the Google front, as the first wave of sites I launched are finally picking up some decent organic search traffic. I’ve also been pretty pleased with the two “meatier” sites I’ve launched recently (Vroomchatter and FlipThyHouse), as they’re both pretty quickly picking up traffic and an audience, and have decent legs for the long-run, as opposed to some of the shillier stuff I do with niche sites devoted solely to certain keywords.
As far as monthly income, here are the raw numbers:
Google Adsense: $94.02
Text-Link-Ads: $43.00
ReviewMe: $100.00
Commission Junction: $105.87
Direct advertising buys: $200.00
Partnerlogic (poker affiliate program): $361.48
Total income: $904.37
That’s down from ~$1,100 in January and, again, skews heavily towards my poker blog. It’s kind of dumb to piss and moan about makingnearly a grand from silly typings on websites, but it’s a little disappointing that I haven’t been able to move the Adsense needle faster. Granted, a lot of that is due to the sites just now making their way into search engine results, so there’s that to keep in mind. Probably 90% of the work I’ve done thus far is geared towards Adsense traffic, which will hopefully bear fruit later down the road.
Plans for March are pretty much the same old boring routine, as far as getting lots of content into the hopper, fleshing out and optimizing exsiting sites, yada yada yada.
February Wrap-Up and related information can be found in Ramblings