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May was a fantastic month for earnings overall, but the majority of that was the sale of my tattoo network. Here’s a breakdown of the revenue achieved…

>> $12,000 : Sale of Tattoo Network

>> $119.30 : Media Jump (down from $163.22)

>> $37.45 : Value Click Media (down from $50.19)

>> $36.45 : TTZ Media (same)

>> $7.5 : Text Link Ads (same)

>> Grand Total: $12,200.70

An amazing month and I’m very proud, it’s a shame it won’t be like this next month! The revenue from ad networks dropped due to the ad codes being changed on all the tattoo sites in the middle of the month.

>> Daily Average : $393.57

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

April was a good and bad month for me. Good because I managed to sell a site in 15 minutes and make $525, but bad because my network earnings were down with my main publisher partner, Media Jump. Here’s a breakdown of my income…

• Site sale: $525
• Media Jump: $163.22, down from $330.69
• Value Click Media: $50.19, up from $13.37
• TTZ Media: $36.45, up from $35.10
• Text Link Ads: $7.50, same as last month.
• Total: $782.36, up from $385.17

Media Jump was my biggest loss but my overall searches were up from 11,000 to 17,000 - higlighting they are just not paying as much per click. It is disappointing because I would have broken March’s earnings without the site sale if they had maintained the same pay per click.

Value Click was almost triple because I added two more banners and the network provided over 200,000 impressions in the month’s period. TTZ was up slightly, again due to more visitors, but their downtime over April has caused my earnings to be less than expected.

On a plus note, I doubled my income and can smile when I look back on my achievements.

• New daily average: $25.23

How did you do last month?

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

I decided to share a little bit of my success with you to shoe you that making money online, no matter how little, is a worthwhile investment. I’ve just hit the $1000 mark with Media Jump, the UK pay per click ad network that hosts Ask.com ads. A total of 43,579 clicks were made on my ads since 29/10/07, averaging at $0.02 per click.

I’ve worked hard to achieve this amount and it is a fraction of what some webmasters earn online, but $1k is still $1k…except its in my pocket. As my network grows, my earnings will also, and those little trickles of income will become rivers in due course.

Work hard, work harder and keep working - it will become worthwhile eventually.

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

It is nice to see all my hard work finally paying off and a nice trickle of income coming my way. I’ve been working really hard and I’m glad to see some significant progress. In fact, I can report I have succeeded in achieving my first goal of $10 per day!!!

Here is a breakdown of my earnings for March 2008:

>> Media Jump’s Quick Links: $319.20

>> TTZ Media - $35.10

>> Value Click Media - $13.37

>> Text Link Ads - $7.50

>> Review Me - $10.00

** Grand Total: $385.17 = $12.42 per day! **

I still have a long way to go but it’s a start and I’m pleased

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

On January 1st 2008, I blogged about my goals for the year. One of these was to earn a minimum of $10 per day online profit and I thought I’d dedicate this post to discuss how I’m well on my way to that figure.

My father recently told me “saving your first £1,000 is the hardest, but once you manage it you’ll find it easier to save your next £1,000 and you’ll never want your bank balance to go below £1k again“. I believe the same applies to making money online, infact doing anything that involves a challenge. Your first couple of steps are the hardest and you need to learn to walk before you can run.

My earnings with Media Jump’s quick links fluctuate daily and as they don’t have any sort of tracking or statistics, it is a bit of a guessing game finding out what works and what doesn’t. As you can see from the image below, my earnings up until the 23rd of this month are $120.65, which brings my daily average to $5.24.

Two things I’ve realised is that 1) You should never rely on a single source of income, and 2) you should spread your risks. As a result, I’ve implemented TTZ Media across my biggest sites and spread my risks (income wise) over two companies instead of one.

TTZ provide much better stats similar to Google Adsense and pay a whopping $0.15 per click minimum! This is fantastic news to publishers who are looking to get paid a respectable amount for their efforts. Their fill rate is 100%, the ads are relevant to your keyword(s) and the ad formats are easily edited in their control panel.

I’m looking to manage a CTR of 2-4% which is a reasonable target and one that should turn my goal into an achievement.

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

Blogs seem to pay off in the long run. Quite a few successful sites are blogs or some form of content management system (CMS). The immediate benefits are that WordPress is setup in a few clicks, you can add useful plugins to improve your SEO and it is extremely easy to rank in the SERP’s using a blog (if you do it correctly!).

OffBeatInk.com is doing well and my unique, daily content is getting GoogleBot hitting my site close to 4,000 times this month! That’s probably the highest I have ever seen on any site I’ve run…and that can’t be a bad thing! Search engines love unique content that is keyword rich and website relevant (all my posts are about bodyart, nothing else - no paid reviews of anything like that).

As a result of the minor yet profitable success of the site, I’ve decided to continue my trend and make a small blog network with fresh daily content. I have one new site that is online but I still need to add a few more posts before revealing it to you. If I can do one post in 15 minutes and have 4 blogs each generating $5 per day, that’s $20 for one hour of my time…no bad.

Long term I’d want that to be a lot higher and there will be occasions when one site will require more work than another but the beautiful thing about it is that, no matter how big or small the site is, one post per day works. So, if OffBeatInk.com began bringing in 10x the amount of visitors and 5x the amount of revenue…my 15 minutes work would still stand.

I would consider increasing the post length and quality to ensure the traffic and revenue increase remains stable, the theory behind it works though! What do you think?

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

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Apologies for not blogging in a while, my cousin was slagging me saying I promised to blog 1-2 times per day then my next post was after a week! I do apologise, sometimes I am just far too busy to update this blog daily and besides, not everyday something new occurs.

Last week was pretty eventful though! I got a new phone due to my old one being faulty. It is a Sony Ericsson K850i with 5mp camera and partial touch screen. It is amazing what you can achieve when you take the time to complain about bad customer service.

I’m going to try video blogging with it, see how it works out. I’ve got my eye on a webcam but don’t want to purchase one unneccessarily if my phone will do the trick.

On the web front, I’ve been working hard and finished my latest project today! I’ll launch it just after Christmas and perhaps get some reviews completed. I was thinking of using Pay Per Post, has anyone had any success with using them to review a site? If so, leave a comment and let me know, thanks!

Kortaz and Off Beat Ink are both doing well, with featured links on Kortaz completely sold out until January and people waiting to order! I’ve decided to keep a spreadsheet of advertisers and their details to create a mailshot when links will become available.

Similarly, Off Beat Ink is getting between 500 - 1,000 uniques per day, which is a slight drop in traffic but I’ve not spent any money on advertising this month. The site is ranking in SERP’s so I’m hoping more organic traffic will come through soon. The site is averaging $1.5 - $2.0 per day which is money I never had before so I’m happy!

I’ll be posting my goals for 2008 shorlty, watch this space! Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

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I’m really pleased with my progress online recently. I have managed to begin covering my costs and start making some profit, I just hope this success is long term! Running quickly through my sites, Off Beat Ink continues to pull in around 1,000 uniques per day and provides $2 income, Featured Links on Kortaz are sold out with a whopping 12 sales this month and this blog has generated a few dollars through post sponsorship!

So far so good, the next stage is to increase the popularity of my site’s further thus increasing my income. I have began on a third project that I mentioned here, I just need to add content and flood it with traffic. This is another blog but not one I need to update daily. I plan to launch either this week or next.

Taking advice from dedicated commenter Marc, I intend to attempt to sell advertising space on Off Beat Ink to private bodyart companies in the near future. Roll on 2008!

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

p.s. I have decided to blog 1-2 times per day in an attempt to increase my readership! 

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As the week drags along and you look forward to the weekend, most people think of relaxing, take it easy, chilling out. Me…I think of time to work on my sites. I’m sure this view is share by fellow webmasters who also have the unfortunate rat race lifestyle I do.

In a bid to keep myself going, I’ve been reading other blogs, watching inspiration youtube videos and thinking of how nice it would be to actually be out my overdraft for a change!

To make things worse, it started snowing here in Scotland today and I got caught in it…lovely eh?

Tonight I’ve got no plans so after eating dinner and tidying up I’ll continue what I started earlier. That consisted of updating OffBeatInk.com, driving traffic to the site, researching new ideas (I can’t help it!) and trying to sell the last few remaning links on Kortaz.com.

With just over 1k uniques per day and no money spent on advertising, OffBeatInk.com is making around the $2 mark. If I could double it by the end of this month and keep it consistant I’d be really pleased. However, waiting on the SERPS updating is a nightmare! Most of my traffic is from November’s exposure, fingers crossed that’ll continue and I’ll get a good search rank…double the traffic…double the earnings?

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.

…that’s my new target. With OffBeatInk.com making $60 per month, I want to double it - hence the first “x2″ - then creating a second blog with the same earnings…thus bringing in $240 per month ($120 x 2 blogs).

My initial target was $150 per month but with hosting costs, the effort I put into my sites (and because I always want more!), I’ve increased this target to a new level.

I will continue to post 6 times per week (Mon - Sat) on OffBeatInk.com with unique content and videos. Each month I intend to spend some money on promotion and will trial new methods of advertising I haven’t used before. More on that later!

My latest project will focus on a heavily searched keyword - gadgets. I have a cool, brandable domain that is easy to remember. Me being me, I’m not revealing it just yet. I also have a professional but clean wordpress theme to work with too and I am really excited about launching my new site.

I would like my new project to be earning $60 after month two like OffBeatInk.com. By this time - February - I then intend to concentrate on increasing the income from both these streams rather than starting a third project. I don’t want to take on too much at one time as I generally spend around 45 mins per day on OffBeatInk.com.

As time progresses and OffBeatInk.com finds a position in SERP’s, natural traffic will increase the site’ s overall exposure and thus have a positive knock-on effect on my earnings. If my gadget project follows (fingers crossed!), perhaps $240 will follow in the footsteps of my $150 target and become redundant?

Good luck with your persuits,

Khalid.