OK, I just need to keep telling myself that as soon as I am done with these Halloween sites, I will concentrate on my existing sites and get them back up and making money! August wasn’t much of an improvement from July. In fact, Adsense did even worse 
But, I’m hoping I can turn that around in a few months with some elbow grease.
I just posted a big update on my IM Projects page so please check that out for more details on where I am.
As far as the Halloween sites go, I must have been smoking something to think I could build 30 new sites from scratch within 3 months (working only a couple hours a day!). Oh boy, I am really getting maxed out on the process of setting up the blogs but I am down to my last 8 which I hope I can knock out in the next couple of weeks. I’ve been doing some promotion using my Burn Your To Do List subscription as well as the WPSyndicator plugin I bought (it’s pretty neat – posts directly to Web 2.0 sites right from WordPress).
As of a couple days ago, I have 7 sites on page 1, 9 on page 2 (with 3 in the #11 spot – oh so close!) and the rest on page 3 and beyond. They are all indexed and ranking now. Once I finish the last 8 then I will promote as much as I can to get the stragglers closer to page 1.
Here is the income report. I had to correct my CJ number from July because I realized I was reading the reports wrong. CJ is confusing on how they report it. You have a balance that carries over if you didn’t make the $50 pay cutoff so I was seeing some of that last time.
| Adsense | $287.13 |
| Clickbank | $20.17 |
| Amazon | $2.08 |
| eHow | $23.85 |
| eBay | $16.77 |
| Linkshare | $0.89 |
| CJ | $37.71 |
| Independent Affiliate #1 |
$25.00 |
| Automate Angela’s Links | $5.00 |
| E-product | $11.97 |
| Independent Affiliate #2 | $34.60 |
| Chitika | $0.34 |
| Infolinks | $3.76 |
| CPALead | $0.83 |
| Zazzle | $54.06 |
| Independent Affiliate #3 | $4.70 |
| TOTAL | $528.86 |
Well, there is always next Halloween too, right? LOL
Hi Maria – I’ve been to your site before. Thanks for stopping by! I think the problem was after the Mayday/Caffeine thing earlier this summer. My traffic just dropped in half. I didn’t do anything so I am assuming it’s Google’s fault LOL
Congrats on your earnings, really looking good! I saw some of your older numbers and you were up to $1k some months; what do you think caused the decrease?
Best of luck with those Halloween sites.
I’m right there with you. I have been trying to put up 20 Halloween sites this summer and still have 7 to go. Not sure if I will make it with my other business obligation demanding my attention. Oh well, I’ll eventually finish them all but maybe not til after Halloween is over.LOL
Well, I got my system down so I know what has to be done for each new site. Thank goodness someone else wrote the content or I never would have been able to do it!
I’ve read that parents start buying kids costumes first in August/September and then adults wait til the last minute. Check out Google insights for any costume keyword and you’ll see that last week of October is the peak. Crazy! I can’t wait!
I am imressed with all the Halloween sites you’ve managed to put up given the time issue! Sounds like you should definitely be making some sales in the run up. I have just one Halloween site and bang on September 1 the traffic started to increase – I think people are planning their costumes more now. I have been so behind my own Halloween site, too much time writing my PLR pack instead lol.