Well, December was pretty good overall for me. My Adsense earnings came in at $20.62, which is $.62 over the adjusted $20 goal that I set mid-month. About half of that was from ITxTu.info, and the majority of the rest was from my 6 proxy sites. I did end up with a few dollars from the ads that are on my sites in the Shopping Network, too. A surprise commission from my Coach site brought in an extra $9 on 12/28, which pulled my affiliate account balance up to almost $17. It’s not enough to cash out, but it IS enough to tell me that I’m on the right track with the sites. I’m trying to not set up any more sites right now, and focus instead of the sites that I have. I have worked on optimizing the GucciGallery site in order to pull in more visitors from the search engines. I won’t know how my efforts pay off for a couple more weeks, though, so I have to keep track of everything that I do in order to duplicate on the other sites if needed. I also need to do some promotion on my proxy sites. They are proven earners, but need to get more than my average of 3 or 4 visitors per day in order to really make it.
I also did some programming work in December, which brought in a couple hundred dollars, but that money went for some Christmas gifts, as well as more things to build my business.
My goals for January, 2008? Well, my standing goal is to beat my Adsense earnings from the previous month. This carries over to my affiliate earnings as well. Therefore, I need to earn more than $21 from Adsense, and more than $12 from Affiliate Sites. My affiliate earnings primarily come from Ebay right now, so I’ll break up that goal even further. I want to earn more than $12 from my ebay affiliate sites, and then earn basically anything from the other affiliates. I also plan to do more programming work, but I won’t figure that into my goals. These goals will be an effort to build ongoing income, so my business can keep growing each month.
How do I plan to achieve these? As mentioned before, I’m going to work on optimizing my sites that I currently have. It’s going to be easier and much cheaper to double the amount of visitors that I have now, instead of building more sites. I’ll go through each site and mention my plans.
-http://itxtu.info : I recently converted this to a wordpress site, in order to take advantage of the SEO benefits. I’m going to create a list of long tail keywords and make individual posts targetting every single one. This should bring in more visitors from the search engines. I also plan to add an address book to the sidebar, so it’s easy to send text messages to your friends. This functionality is expected to bring in more repeat visitors.
-http://webportinc.com : I’m just using this site in pretty much the same way as the site that you’re currently on. There isn’t any advertising, it’s mainly there to have an authority site with some pagerank. I don’t know what I’m going to do in order to get it to bring in some money.
-http://proxyforsale.com : I built this as an auction site for buying/selling proxy sites. I need to figure out how to market it effectively, though. It’s built on PHPBB Forum, so I’m thinking about starting the forum up instead, and showcasing the auction part of it after the forum is up and running.
-http://earn10cents.com : This site was built to give me an easy to use Incentive site. It takes a little longer than I had thought it would to make the payments and stuff, but I may be able to program something in there to make things easier. It’s built on Wordpress, and I can customize the hell out of it, so I’m not worried. I’ve already started earning some decent money from here, by paying $.10 for something that earns me $.25. It’s a win-win-win, so we’re all happy. I also have a decent amount of backlinks being placed, as another $.10 incentive, so the traffic should start increasing exponentially soon. I don’t care about getting PR or anything from the backlinks, I’m just after the exposure. My biggest problem with this site is going to be keeping my paypal account funded so I can make the payouts. This isn’t a problem yet, though, and my first payment will be coming in after a couple weeks, so I’m not worried.
-Proxy sites : I’m going to work on promoting my proxies now. I don’t know how, yet, but I’m going to go through some ebooks that I have and see what is recommended. There are people making $150+ per month from a small proxy network, and there’s no reason I can’t get up to that point.
-Ebay Affiliate Sites : These sites are the ones in my sidebar that say “Shopping Sites”. Some of them aren’t going to earn much, but some of them are going to earn a ton. My goal is to get them all to their maximum potential. Through SEO and other various promotions I’m going to start increasing traffic to them. I will focus more on the exact details at webportinc.com .
-http://todays-info-site.com : This site has been a few different things throughout it’s life, and is currently a video site. My tasks with this site are to consistently add GOOD videos to it, which should help the traffic increase on its own. These sites can be great earners, if the care is put into the sites.
I think that pretty much sums up the sites that I have. There may be a couple that I forgot about, but those above are the primary sites in my portfolio. They are very diversified, which is good, but almost present a little too much work for me at times. Anyway, good luck with your own businesses and Happy New Year.
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