Although I also have income, (and expenses!), from my web design and maintenance services, I will not be including them here. This income report is specifically for my affiliate endeavors. If you’ve read my About Me page, you’ll know that I’ve had success in my business selling SEO and web design services, but now I’m trying to make a passive income through affiliate marketing. As such, I want to keep all income and expenses as separate as possible to see how well this branch of the business does on its own.
Time Period
This report covers Mar 1st, 2014 to Mar 31st , 2014
Income
Well, the only official affiliate sites I have up right now AND MONETIZED are the EmpireFlippers Pre-Sold sites from the Adsense Case Study #1. The amount of revenue and page views is laughable, it’s not even worth my time to go look at the google analytics, (but I did anyway and they were useless – thank you Gogle for “Not Provided”). This month so far, they’ve made a total of $0.57. That’s pretty pathetic. =(
Total Affiliate Income Earned (this month): $0.57
Total Affiliate Income Earned (this year): $2.55
I do have one other site up at the moment, but it isn’t ready to be monetized yet. You can read all about it under Case Study #2 . I’m also having a third site built on an old domain name I’ve had around for a while. It will be an Amazon only site. It should be ready sometime this week.
Rankings
Here are the rankings for the EFPS sites for March 2014.
|
Current |
Change |
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| Site | KW | KC | Google Rank | Bing Rank | Yahoo Rank | Bing | Yahoo | |
| EFPS #1 | Primary |
30 |
Not In Top 100 |
62 |
62 |
0 |
38 |
38 |
| EFPS #1 | Secondary |
29 |
50 |
5 |
5 |
50 |
3 |
3 |
| EFPS #1 | Secondary |
25 |
26 |
5 |
5 |
46 |
2 |
2 |
| EFPS #1 | Secondary |
24 |
Not In Top 100 |
20 |
20 |
0 |
9 |
8 |
| EFPS #2 | Primary |
28 |
Not In Top 100 |
21 |
24 |
0 |
8 |
5 |
| EFPS #2 | Secondary |
26 |
33 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| EFPS #2 | Secondary |
27 |
70 |
7 |
7 |
10 |
5 |
8 |
| EFPS #2 | Secondary |
25 |
81 |
8 |
7 |
-3 |
9 |
12 |
| EFPS #3 | Primary |
29 |
Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| EFPS #3 | Secondary |
28 |
Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| EFPS #3 | Secondary |
28 |
Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| EFPS #3 | Secondary |
27 |
Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| EFPS #4 | Primary |
26 |
Not In Top 100 |
66 |
66 |
0 |
-18 |
17 |
| EFPS #4 | Secondary |
26 |
Not In Top 100 |
38 |
38 |
0 |
-6 |
-6 |
| EFPS #4 | Secondary |
22 |
Not In Top 100 |
66 |
66 |
0 |
-34 |
-36 |
| EFPS #4 | Secondary |
23 |
Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 | Not In Top 100 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| EFPS #5 | Primary |
27 |
61 |
36 |
78 |
-1 |
4 |
-38 |
| EFPS #5 | Secondary |
27 |
59 |
16 |
16 |
41 |
2 |
1 |
| EFPS #5 | Secondary |
25 |
27 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
| EFPS #5 | Secondary |
27 |
Not In Top 100 |
12 |
26 |
0 |
16 |
0 |
The first two sites are moving up in the serps, while the remaining three are either stagnant or decreasing. So much for ranking on their own without any backlinks. As soon as I get socialadr setup I’ll send some links to all of them.
Expenses
Unfortunately, there’s always expenses….
Hosting: $24.95
Domain Names: $10.16
Pre-built Sites (2): $148
WSO’s (I still buy ‘em lol): $24
Long-tail Pro (monthly fee): $17
Total Expenses: $224.11
Grand Total – this month (Income minus Expenses): -$223.54
Grand Total – this year (Income minus Expenses): -$414.75
Last month’s plan was to add the bonus content to the EFPS sites, write some articles for the misterkeyword sites, and possibly put up two amazon sites using content that I already had written last year. The only part of that which happened was me re-writing the EFPS bonus content and getting that up on 4 of the 5 sites. The 5th one I’ll get up this weekend. This month’s plan is to write a couple of good articles for the new website that uses the FB page, and see if I can monetize it or start collecting emails from it. As always, time is a precious commodity around here and this month is worse than normal. Lots going on!
Talk to ya soon.