Month August was quite busy. I published a significant amount of articles. Also, I started earning real money from advertising. Not a lot, but at least something to give me the courage to proceed further with my little internet project. This few bucks made me really happy and confirmed that I have chosen the right way of earning money.
Of course, I learned a lot this month. First, I cannot put my income streams into one bucket. I cannot rely on earning money only from one source like for example Amazon. They are big monsters, if they change their mind and close or suspend their program I will lose my income. So the important thing is to diversify income streams. I got suspended from Google Adsense for a month, and I cannot do anything about that. Suspended – go eat the grass. And I didn’t do anything wrong! So I had to find a solution and I turned to their competitor media.net. Now I think I like the competitor better and I am going to stick with them for a while too provide ads for my sites.
Google Adsense Income
Not much, but they hold also my $39 for the last 5 years because I didn’t surpass the $100 threshold. How they can hold somebody’s money for so long? If it was me, I would be ashamed…
SOVRN Income
I decided to ditch until further notice SOVRN. Why? Low fill rate and low CPM (Cost Per Mile – thousand). Plus, they don’t pay if somebody clicks on the add. That is less than Google pays and they are pretty darn cheap. Or maybe I set up something wrong. Now SOVRN has its brake.
Media.net Income
Once I got suspended from Google Adsense I started looking into alternatives. And I got a recommendation from a friend to check the media.net since they are associated with Yahoo!. I always liked Yahoo! so I gave them a chance to serve me ads. For now, I cannot complain.
I like their word map showing ad impressions around the world live:
But, they update the graph of your income the next day. One day delay – in my opinion, is not a big of the deal.
Amazon Income
This month I got set up a lot of products in the articles linking from my sites to Amazon store. Let’s hope it will bring me some money.
I got one order this month but for some reason, I did not receive a commission on that product. Sh**t happens.
Traffic
Traffic picked up. Finally. I was waiting for this moment entire 9 months!!! It was like waiting for a baby.
Combined traffic on all my websites for this month was 838 Viewers and impressive 1010 Page Views!!! It’s more than I expected! What a surprise!
I think is a time for a first celebration!
- This month:……………..838 visitors & 1010 page views
- Previous month:……..508 visitors & 593 page views
So here is a breakdown page by page:
BestHouseIdeas.com
GoMeasure4Me.com
FloppyTheDachshund.com
MyPianoResources.com
MyIncomeNook.com
PanamaTropic.com
RideshareScams.com
UberScamExposed.com
I started my adventure with Pinterest but I still cannot figure out the entire system. I guess it will be a task for month of September.
YouTube
The channel I started for PanamaTropic.com is picking up some momentum. I have videos linking to the website and they brought few users. I have 50 subscribers and 15 videos posted.
Conclusion
You need to be vigilant all the time and don’t let those big companies screw you. They use some legal tricks to basically do not pay you or pay you less. And you need to approve a contract or they do not show their ads.
And be patient. Do not rush, your work will pay off someday.
