It looks like my earnings keep creeping back up little by little, although this month’s Clickbank high is because of the seasonal item I’m promoting. It was quite a shock to see over $400 from Clickbank. Adsense is not performing like I want. One year ago I was making more with Adsense with fewer pages of content than I have out there now so I guess I’m still fighting Google. Forget about Google Farmer update – it was the Mayday update last year that killed me. This last change didn’t really affect me – I guess that means I have pretty good, unique content. I don’t use much regurgitated or PLR info.

I’m disappointed my earnings aren’t climbing higher faster – it’s just extremely difficult with a full time job and kids to concentrate on IM in the evenings. I know I whine about it and probably need to figure out a better plan to be more productive but I’m just plain exhausted. My plan going forward is the same – I am trying to get my top 10 sites all on page one by beefing up the backlinks. I’ve been using SEO Link Robot and I also bought Profile Link Robot. There is only a one-time fee so it won’t kill you like an SENuke monthly subscription. It’s pretty slick software and complements SEO Link Robot (which doesn’t do profile links – yet). I did end up splurging on Scrapebox too in order to get lists of forums to post. The nice thing with SB is that you can put in keywords so you can choose relevant forums to your niche and look for certain footprints, like EDU sites or vBulletin, etc. The list that comes with Profile Link Robot is overused and I didn’t get many profiles out of it. Then I decided I need to get some proxies to run all three of the software packages! I have some through Your Private Proxy.

And so, after running Profile Link Robot and outsourcing some blog commenting, that niche site with high search numbers I’ve been working on has come out of oblivion and teetering on page 1! It’s been #12-14 for a couple of weeks and I saw it at #9 today. I’m hopeful that I can get to #1 and really see my earnings take off.

Here are the March numbers:

Hello? Anybody still here? Sorry I’ve been lazy updating. I really just relaxed over the holidays and that has spilled into January. I’ve been gearing up this week and working on my TNB site that has lots of potential. I’ve outsourced the material and have 40 posts scheduled and another 10 are on the way. I’m still tinkering with the theme/layout too (I can never seem to be satisfied with a theme!).

After that, I will start using a new tool I bought last year called SEO Link Robot. Truthfully, I haven’t gotten going on it yet because it will take some time to learn all the modules and how they work together. It’s like an all in one promotion solution. It spins, posts to article sites, Web 2.0 sites, profile sites, etc. The best part is that it is a one time fee (so far) and not a monthly fee. I tried a couple other tools last year but I had to pay a monthly fee and some months, I didn’t get around to using them so I canceled rather than waste my money. So if you feel inclined, you can check out SEO Link Robot and watch the videos to see what you think.

As far as December, my earnings bumped a little because of Christmas:

As for 2010, I ended up making about $9,500 – I haven’t calculated profit yet but it was probably about $4000-5000. Not exactly tearing it up but I guess that is more money than I had at the beginning of 2010! I do think my husband was surprised I made that much. I think he thinks I’m just messing around LOL I still haven’t paid myself though. The money either went back to expenses or it’s sitting in my bank account.

I really hope I can start paying myself this year. My oldest starts Kindergarten in the fall and we are looking at private school. It won’t cost much more than we already pay for daycare but it would be nice to be able to cover that expense and feel like we have some extra cash.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a prosperous new year! This year’s theme is FOCUS!