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: 1,505 Unique Visitors

Subscribers: 804

PayPal Earnings: $894.71

AdSense: $7.98 – Up about a dollar on last month

Clickbank: $0 – Third consecutive month without any affiliate commission and I’ve now got the dreaded penalty which deducts $1 per week till you make another sale.

Amazon: $0 – Still nothing here, but I have a plan which I’ll talk about in my next blog post.

Most of the SEO work is paying off with an increase in traffic and earnings from my PLR articles website. Also, I did three email campaigns in January telling my customers about new articles and updates on the website. I’ve also been investing in exclusive articles written specifically for my site which I can sell at a premium and this has helped quite a lot.

Another reason is I’m promoting a couple of products that pay commission instantly via PayPal and that has added about $150 to my bottom line.

I’m still very keen on the Amazon commission, despite still not managing to generate a single sale, I think the website is setup wrong and it’s not sending buyers but price comparison browsers. I’ve got a plan on how to change all this which I’ll talk about in another blog post.

Traffic: 1,114 Unique visitors

Subscribers: 578

PayPal Earnings: $624.10

AdSense: $6 – wow! AdSense is well down!

Clickbank: $0 – How is it possible to have two consecutive zero months on Clickbank!

Amazon: $0 – despite sending around 150 clicks, earnings are still zero

I think my earnings and traffic are down this month mostly due to the Christmas holidays and the fact that December is usually a slow month anyway.

As with last month I have been investing money in domains and hosting accounts as well as outsourcing some SEO to boost my rankings which have started dipping a bit. Expenses came to $361.97 – more than half my income, ouch!

I meant to try and concentrate on my Amazon earnings, but it seems it’s a whole lot harder than putting up a website and sending a few clicks! I’ll have to think about the strategy for this in the coming month.