I knew it was going to be bad. Really bad. I put off even looking at my total this month because I didn’t want to know! I was on such a high last month with my $1000 and now – CRASH and BURN – $582. OMG. That’s even lower than the beginning of the year. After looking at the statistics, I was REALLY surprised to see that my total impressions in Adsense went UP from May by about 2,500 but the total number of clicks went DOWN by about 300 clicks! I was averaging $15 a day in April and May but it was only $9.50/day in June. I am perplexed – I don’t have numbers broken down by site so it could tell the story could be told in those details.
Not only did Clickbank and Adsense take a hit but the product I sell is now out of season til fall when school starts again (only made a couple of sales).
Well, all I can do is keep working, right? I am madly working on 30 Halloween sites and hope that pans out for me. I was right in grabbing domains before the launch of the Halloween program by Brian Johnson. Lots of the other TLDs from domains I purchased are now gone.
I’ve outsourced the main content to the Burn Your To Do List crew and got the first batch back. I also outsourced some research on getting related links for my blogroll. Brian recommends linking out to other sites to show Google that you aren’t there just to make money. Always cloak your affiliate links and link to other sites. I’ve got my checklist and trying to get these puppies going. Three of them are already ranking on Page 2 with only the Hello World post. Good thing, I hope!
Hopefully I’ll recover a little in July!
| Adsense | $314.15 |
| Clickbank | $100.00 |
| Amazon | $3.46 |
| eHow | $19.05 |
| eBay | $5.20 |
| Linkshare | $0.00 |
| CJ | $17.70 |
| Automate Angela’s Links | $5.00 |
| E product |
$7.98 |
| Independent Affiliate Program | $27.30 |
| WPRobot | $7.00 |
| Infolinks | $3.01 |
| CPALead | $6.16 |
| Zazzle | $44.75 |
| PayDotCom | $22.00 |
| TOTAL | $582.76 |
Actually, I didn’t buy the Halloween program. I have seen a couple of seminars of his plus all the free reports. With what I learned for free and what knowledge I already have, I figured that I could make it work on my own. $500 is pretty steep!
I actually made an error and my impressions went down as well last month.
I’ve noticed an increase in impressions as well but not in clicks. Luckily I haven’t seen a decline in what few clicks I’ve been getting.
So you purchased Brian Johnson’s Halloween program? I wanted to but no way I could afford the going rate on it so I purchased a few domains and have started working on the first one using the little information Brian shared in the initial videos. I haven’t checked how it’s ranking but you have made me curious so I think I will check shortly. I’m hoping adding these type of sites really helps my bottom line since none of my recent challenge sites have even made a dime.
I hear that everyone takes a hit with Summer rolling in. On a few different blogs I have been hearing a lot about the Halloween program-I might look into it! G/L on your earnings they should rebound!
Interesting that impression were up and clicks were down. Less buyers, more browsers? I have to wonder why summer would affect people’s buying habits if true.
Oh well, I’m sure earnings will rebound. Probably alot of people cringing as they posted their June earnings after MayDay
I have roughly 15 sites with Adsense on them. One of them makes about 1/3 of the total though. That site is still at #2. I am planning to stick Adsense on the Halloween sites too so we’ll see how that pans out.
Maybe this has more to do with summer and less with Mayday?
That’s such a shame about your earnings! Although I’m earning much less than you, I also have the same thing with Google. Seems less people are clicking and I just don’t know why?! By the way, how many sites do you have? Great idea with the Halloween sites! You’re bound to make something off those.