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This month’s revenues have taken a small dive. July 2007 was a busy month for me…particularly with the progressive opening of Retox Bar. While I’ve continued to make regular contributions to Derrich.com, I haven’t been able to go out of my way to take advantage of my #1 revenue source: PayPerPost. It is important to stay on top of the list of review opportunities. Failure to do so will surely impact your earning potential…unless you don’t mind doing a number of $5.00 reviews. AdSense remained about the same.
Last month, I mentioned that some bloggers were reporting a notable decline directly following Google’s elimination of arbitrageurs. Mine increased. While many bloggers noticed a significant increase in AdSense revenue for July 2007, my AdSense earnings decreased despite increased traffic.
The PayPerPost reviews I did happen to complete once again brought a steady stream of high-eCPM ads. Some of those posts included topics such as financial responsibility for teens, drug rehab, and traveling to Jamaica.
Here are my blogging revenues for June 2007:
| Google AdSense: | $46.43 |
| Text Link Ads: | $22.40 |
| PayPerPost: | $164.50 |
| AuctionAds: | $1.01 |
| AzoogleAds: | $0.00 |
| Amazon Associates: | $0.68 |
| Advertising on brohans.com: | ($4.00) |
| TOTAL: | $231.02 |
My TLA revenues remained flat. Although I set a goal to improve this source of revenue, I was unable to lure new advertisers to Derrich.com. If you guys have any suggestions on how I can sell my remaining inventory of 9 sidebar ads, I’d greatly appreciate it. Much of the problem is likely from the fact that my content isn’t specialized, which is understandable. But I know a few “general” blogs that have sold more ads than I have, so I know it can be done.
Thank you!
Once again a big thank you to my Top Commentators for July. They included Urbanist, Gregg Hawkins, Matt Propst, Derek Semmler, Brown Baron, and Ed Lau. So don’t forget, U Comment, I Follow…and keep ‘em comin’. Special thanks to sponsor, StockTrak.com for its continued support of Derrich.com.
Please share your blog success with us, and any practices or secrets you have applied to your own blog to increase your monthly revenues.
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August 6th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
bro derrich,
for the TLA, I suggest you reduce your link offering from 10 to maybe 3 or 2. after you manage to sell that spots, increase the number of the spots.
This is to give impression to advertisers that your spots are exclusive (by offering not too many) and they feel they have to grab the chance before others did it.
I’m not sure whether this works or not but I’ve done the same thing for my listing.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:07 am
I may give that a whirl, Irwan. Good idea.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Thanks for sharing your revenue information. I’ve thought about trying to turn my movie blog into a money making machine but then I figure it’d be more trouble than it’s worth.
I still think that’s true, but at least I have some reality-based figures to consider.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:09 am
I think you should try it. Start with one and see what happens. I’d recommend Google AdSense for starters. It’s really easy to use.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:04 am
WOW you made bank with PPP
I wanted to make over 100 this month through PPP. So far, I’ve received a direct PPP review for $25 and was paid and also wrote 3 reviews for $10+. I’m definitely on track, but I also can’t stand those $5 dollar reviews.
Hopefully I can somehow increase my adsense earnings, that seems to be the hardest for me. But I also think that relates directly to traffic and my traffic is just beginning to pick back up.
Text-Link-Ads and selling featured links have been the hardest for me. I posted on 3 forums and got 0 offers. I’m offering them for only $5 dollars each directly and through TLA they’re $15. blah!
I was also looking at signing up for azoogleads, but haven’t got around to it yet. How have you liked that program so far?
P.S. I like Irwan.biz’s idea. I might have to reduce my listing to offering only 3 ads.
-Gregg
August 9th, 2007 at 5:02 am
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