How I Make Money Online: CGM Technologies

I thought that now would be a good time to look at my earnings so far for the month, so here it is.

My Goals:

• Over $20 in Adsense
• Over $12 in Affiliate Earnings from Ebay
• Over $1 in other Affiliate Earnings

How am I doing so far?

My newest site, earn10cents.com has really been a great earner for me.  It takes about 20 - 30 minutes each day to run it and make payments.  I have earned $46 from affiliate sites, just from this one website.  I’m not sure how much I have paid out for it, though.  I will have to figure that out real quick, but I’m guessing it’s around $25.  That gives me a net total of around $20 from just one site.  I also earned $3.62 from an ebay sale the other day, but I’m not doing anything at the moment to actively promote those sites.  With the traffic to earn10cents.com and the traffic that I’m getting for ITxTU.info, my Adsense earnings are topping out at $8.47 at the moment.  If I can keep up these earnings, then I’m set to do about $25 - $30 this month in Adsense.  I’m considering selling my best performing site, however, because I’m not sure how much I want to be in the incentive site business.  The only difficulty, though, is that it does perform quite well, and I don’t know if anybody will actually want to pay me what the site is worth.  Oh well, if all else fails I can just ride it out for a couple months, earn some good money, then convert it to something else.  We’ll just have to see.

All in all, my earnings are on track and I’m extremely pleased with how things are going.

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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 http://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.

I was just doing the old daily routine of looking through all my accounts, checking to see what my earnings are for the month and got hit with a surprise that completely shocked me.  I’ve always believed the idea to be profitable, but haven’t received more than roughly $.50 in any one day from it.  You’ll see the shopping sites in my sidebar, those are what I’m talking about.  They are wordpress blogs that pull ebay feeds, gathering all the items neatly into a central shopping location.  I get a commission from ebay when somebody clicks through one of those links and wins an auction.  Well, since I started the sites around the beginning to middle of November, I’ve only earned about $5 total from them, which isn’t enough to declare them profitable.  Keep in mind, though, that they are only receiving 10 - 20 hits per day, so I was actually pretty proud of those earnings.  Yesterday, however, I got hit with a real boost to my account.  Somebody won an auction, generating almost a $9 commission for me.  My account actually doubled!  It’s still not enough for a payout, but I stand by my original feelings of the sites, still.  Once I get more traffic to them, they will really take off.  I am currently working on SEO for the site “Gucci Gallery”.  I plan on taking them one at a time and focusing on each one to get it onto the front page of Google, and really bring in the search engine traffic.  As soon as this happens, I’m really expecting them to do great things.  Now, they all won’t succeed with at the same level, but they should average out to be quite lucrative.

Yesterday’s killer earnings (for me, anyway) of over $2 just brought me shy of my Adsense goal for the month.  I found out that the reason my earnings for the last few days were so low was that my proxy sites were completely down for about 3 days.  They came back up yesterday, though, and started earning again.  They still aren’t bringing in much, though, with the majority of my money coming in from ITxTU.info.  That site had brought in $9.52 so far this month, and if I’m lucky, I’ll break $10 from this one site alone.  It’s hard to believe that it’s actually bringing in half of my Adsense income, just that one site.  I’ve been thinking about how to make that site even better, so it can bring in more money.  I think that putting wordpress up and maybe using it for the site might help with SEO.  Wordpress is very good for SEO, so that’s something that could help out.  If I don’t do that, then I’m going to just switch over to a cleaner, simpler template.  It would be awesome if I can get another $5 - $10 from that single site next month.

Well, it seems like one thing that happens when you own proxy sites at Christmas time is that kids no longer need to use proxies.  This causes a decline in Adsense earnings from proxy sites.  I thought I might be able to actually hit $20 this month, but I don’t believe that’s going to be the case any more.  I should hit $15, though, which still beats my earnings for any month so far.  I think that now I need to start focusing on changing my plans, and trying a different approach to building my business.  I have just a couple more websites that I need to finish making, then I’m going to focus my efforts on doing some articles to promote the sites that I have.  If I can get them to show up well in the search engines, then I know I’ll start getting some really good results.

Well, this is slowly turning into a successful Adsense business.  I’m not making much yet, but it’s a start.  I have passed my highest month’s earnings by at least $1, bringing in a total of $13.52 for this month so far.  I feel that this is decent, considering 56 clickthroughs.  ITxTU.info is still the major earner of the month, bringing in around $6 - $7 so far.  I really need to work on getting some more traffic to this site.  Article marketing might be a good way to do this, as well as some link building tactics.  All but about $2 of the rest of the earnings has come from my new proxy sites that I’ve built this month.  Once I start getting some more traffic to them, I really see them taking off as well.  As you can see, the biggest thing with any site is traffic.  Even the best site is worthless, unless you can get the traffic to it.

Here it is, not even half way through the month and I’ve almost passed my Adsense goal for the month.  Last month I earned just over $10 through Google Adsense, which was my first month of not meeting my goal.  $10 is nothing to complain about though, as it’s still better than $0.  Well, about 3/4 of the day through today and I’ve hit $9.08 in Adsense for this month.  I bought proxy hosting at $1.34 per month, and got my proxy site I-Hide-You.com up again.  This, along with my 3 new proxy sites that I brought up are mostly responsible for the surge of earnings.  I have 2 more sites ready to set up and get running, and also plan to bring more online this month.    I think that now is the time to review my goal and look at different things.  Now, I think it’s time to set a goal for $20 for this month from Adsense.  I’m almost halfway there, so that should be a great goal for this month.  I might be able to get my check from Google by February, if I can keep this up.

I’m not sure what’s causing it, but right now I’m on track to blow November’s earnings out of the water.  In only 7 days of the month, my Adsense account has grown by $4.86.  If it keeps it up, that will be about $17 for the month, getting me about one month away from my $100 Adsense check.  One important thing, is that some of my sites are now starting to get a lot of search engine traffic, which is the main goal.  I talk a little about my SEO tactics in another site, http://webportinc.com.  Something that should be pretty helpful this month too, is that I finally bought some proxy hosting and put my proxy site back online.  This host says that you can have unlimited Add-On Domains, so I have a couple more domains that I’m going to set up as proxies and see if I can’t start pulling in $1+ per day.  If these start growing and earning well, I’ll probably work on building up a decent proxy network to help bring in cash for paying the bills.

Well, as you have read on many other IM sites, the month is over and people are checking to see what worked, what didn’t, and how much they earned.  I depend on much more than just Adsense to make up my Internet Income, which is a great thing.  I’m not heavily promoting my sites with adsense, so the earnings aren’t too great yet.  I’m hoping that after some time, they will just steadily increase.  I’m also going to start pumping out sites using another strategy that I discovered, and might lay some Adsense ads in them too, in order to get a little more exposure out there.  I’ll explain that strategy further, probably in its own page, as I’m going to be selling access to the secrets behind it, and the scripts that I wrote to work it.

As I’ve said before, my goal with Adsense is simply to beat my earnings from the previous month.  I started out in the beginning of August, with only 1 site that I built around the video surveillance niche.  That site earned me a whole $5.29 in the month of August, receiving 20 clicks all month.  I felt that was a great start, and was ready to see how it would do in September.  Well, needless to say, I didn’t work on the site hardly any more and ended up focusing on other things to supplement the income.  In September, that site still had some traffic, but earned almost NO money with Adsense.  This was the month that I learned about a couple more things, though.  I built a proxy site, and a few text messaging sites.  The proxy site made a couple of dollars, but ended up causing errors with my other sites, so I took it down.  My text messaging sites really started strong, though.  I built them to initially sell them off, but ended up only selling one of them.  That month, those sites earned me almost $7, which gave me a grand total of $9.22 for September.

My goal for October, then, was to beat $9.22 in Adsense earnings.  Well, my proxy earned me a little over $2 before I took it down, and my text messaging site brought in a strong $4 on its own.  The surprise, though, was my video surveillance site, which I hadn’t touched for a month, that gave me another $5 this month.  I was ecstatic.  I did some work promoting things in October, and making them better, which showed enough to get me a whole $12.58 for the month.  Goal met.

Now, for November.  Obviously I didn’t meet my goal for the month, but I’m not disappointed.  Here’s how it played out.  I didn’t do hardly anything with those sites during the month.  I don’t think I did any sort of promotion or anything, which is why I’m not surprised that I didn’t meet the goal.  I was surprised, though, at how well they did without the help.  My big earner again, was the text messaging site.  Almost $7 came from that site alone, so I anticipate some real earnings once I can get more people using the site.  The rest of the sites combined to get me a total of $10.03 for the month.  Once again, I’m very happy with those results, as they came from almost no extra work of my own.

It will be interesting to see what happens in December, as I’m not planning a whole lot of Adsense stuff, so I don’t expect to see much going on.  I have an entirely different focus right now, which is starting to really take off.  I’ll explain a little about it later, once I get all the kinks worked out.  All I’ll say now, though, is to check the links at the side of this site.  The whole idea involves automated pulling and maintaining of ebay auctions, dedicated to certain items that the site is focused on.