I think that inbetween the emails the sales were not that strong, even though traffic and search engine traffic remained high.

Traffic: 1,550 Unique Visitors

Active Subscribers: 962

PayPal Earnings: $866.737 (after PayPal fees)

AdSense: $10.62 – the Pound is still very weak

Clickbank: $44.37 – good to get another sale again.

Amazon: $0 – yeah…

My per day earnings were higher than last month, but because there is one less day in April, the PayPal earnings was $10 less. The main AdSense earner is still the PLR articles site, but I have set up two new sites to try and balance things out.

I made another sale through Clickbank but I’m very annoyed that I still haven’t reached the Client Distribution Requirement (CDR), even though I now have made 7 sales. I still need to make one more sale with someone using a credit card before my funds will be released – which is about $300.

The Amazon sites are getting a lot of traffic each day, between 5 and 15 unique visitors per day, but it’s still not converting.

I have three aims for May:

• Continue creating new articles each week and emailing to customers
• Redesigning Amazon sites to convert better
• Continue growing AdSense sites

Let’s hope I can improve on my performance this month!

Still, as one online colleague put it, at least you’ve got an online income, so even though this month wasn’t quite as good as February, it’s still not too bad considering the number of hours I commit to it.

Traffic: 1,577 Unique Visitors

Active Subscribers: 924

PayPal Earnings: $876.77 (after PayPal fees)

AdSense: $13.60 – the Pound is still very weak, but doubled up from last month

Clickbank: $0 – got to make sure I get a sale next month.

Amazon: $0 – OK, bummer. Still nothing. What to do?!

All in all, I didn’t quite get to last months income, but this was mostly due to the delay in writing new articles and emailing my customers. If I had sent another email I’m sure I could have added another $150+ to the bottom line.

I also placed some AdSense banners on various sites that I own in an attempt to increase the AdSense income. This has started working and I hope that April brings even more money!

Clickbank, no sales this month, but I’m not going to get worried unless there are no sales next month. The CDR (client distribution requirement) is a real pain, they need 5 different credit card numbers from MasterCard and Visa, but I find that many people pay with PayPal which doesn’t count towards this distribution requirement. Even though I’ve made about 7 sales, I still need another 3 sales before they’ll even think about paying me!

Amazon. Oh Amazon. What do you have to do to earn a commission with these guys?! My niche stores have had hundreds of visitors, I’ve sent loads of referrals to the Amazon website and still nothing. Zip. I’m starting to think I might sack this as a potential income stream. I put less effort in to Clickbank yet make more money from it (if they ever pay me).

So, targets for April:

– Email customers at least 3 times with new article sets
– Increase AdSense income to $25
– Get another clickbank sale
– Continue building niche stores and get one Amazon sale

Traffic: 1,441 Unique Visitors

Active Subscribers: 813

PayPal Earnings: $1126.35 (after PayPal fees)

AdSense: $6.91 – Down about a dollar, but the Pound is very weak!

Clickbank: $44.37 – Thank goodness! Came from a link on plrarticleshop.com

Amazon: $0 – Lots more traffic, I think March might be the one to crack the first Amazon dollar

(Bear in mind that there was only 28 days in February!)

I definitely think we can see the affect of the SEO work I’ve been putting in, that coupled with creating unique PLR articles and sending them out to my list every Sunday has really pushed up my earnings – to around $40 per day. This cash is virtually autopilot, except for the SEO work I do, but most days I don’t really touch it. Oh and a few dollars came from advertising space that I sold on some sites.

I’ve looked at my known expenses for the next 12 months and it looks like I will be spending $100 – $150 per month renewing domains and hosting accounts, something which I need to budget for when withdrawing money.

I know I keep harping on about the Amazon commissions and I know I still haven’t cracked this little cookie yet, but I’m not about to give up just yet, I’ve started on my 30 week Amazon challenge and I intend to see it through to the end. I’ve now got four niche Amazon websites, each is getting a bit of traffic and I saw 84 ‘clicks’ according to Amazon. I think by the end of March, when I’ll have eight Amazon websites, we should see a sale, but I’m not going to give up until I’ve done all thirty. If still no sales I’ll put them up for sale on Flippa.com and call this a learning experience.

Looking Ahead

For March I will be concentrating on trying to build Amazon niche sites and looking to get at least one more sale in Clickbank.

Traffic: 1363

Subscribers: 455

PayPal Earnings: $724 – slightly down on last months earnings

AdSense: $16 (approx, converted from British Pounds, up from last month though)

Clickbank: $0 Boo! Down on last month

Amazon: $0 – just set this up, we’ll see how it goes

Incredibly I managed to spend $377 on new domains, hosting and SEO services. That’s higher than any other month previously.

This month I want to focus on earning some money from the Amazon Associate program, with Christmas coming I’m not sure how easy that will be, but I’ll be laying the ground work for next month at least.

You see, although it hasn’t been cancelled, the Peter Claridge show has been moved to a new site.

But don’t worry, the new site will still contain all my usual helpings of dry humour, observant wit and side spliting sarcasm.

If you are looking to get to know the real Peter Claridge, head on over to my new site:

PeterClaridge.me

It’s all about me!

This site will now become my business site, so unless you want to know how to earn $1,000 by sitting in your underwear at home, I recommend you go where the real party is over on PeterClaridge.me