October Earnings Update and Year in Review
Well, kids – it’s been a year now since I started on this IM journey with TNB. I have learned SO MUCH not only through TNB but every other program I have picked up or countless blogs I have read. I feel like I have come a long way, which is supported by the $565.76 I made this month! Woot! My best month yet, although I fear this month will not be so great. I owe $100 and change to that great Xfactor site I put up and then it disappeared after a month. My Adsense is back in the crapper where it was before. I am hoping when I get my articles back it will boost the other sites that are drifting around. A fifth Xfactor site took over a week to get indexed that just happened today so it’s not in the SERPs at all. I took a chance on using a misspelled word because the competition was EASY but we will see if Google goes for it. If not, I’m only out the 10 bucks.
My first TNB site has been earning anywhere from $30-50 a month in Adsense although this month I finally got a couple affiliate sales. One for $79! Part of the problem was that I chose a phrase with the word “free” in it LOL!! How dumb was that? Well, live and learn, I guess! The niche is one I know well and I have been intending to do another one sometime. The thing with TNB method is that you have to be patient. Very patient. And I am not patient 
That is why I have been jumping around trying this and that to see what works, what sticks. I’m finally seeing though that when it boils down to it, all of the niche marketing blueprints are really the same – some details are different but basically it boils down to great keyword research, great content, and luck. Yep, luck!
So anyway, onward and upward! I’m gearing up for Christmas now. I bought 5 new domains (crickey) and 3 of them are Christmas related. The other two I will save for later but didn’t want to pass up. These will be Amazon/Ebay instead of Adsense though. I guess I am going with whatever method strikes my fancy at the moment.
I am also working on a TNB blog! I bought the domain last Feb. but never worked on it. One day I saw it ranking on page 1 without any content so I decided to build it up. It will also do well at Christmas I am guessing so I hope to get some Amazon sales out of it.
Well, I have to get my stuff together for my writer to work on now. Best of luck to everyone this month!
This post has 4 comments
November 15th, 2009
Great job! I am amazed by the adsense commission some of these TNB earn. I don’t get that kink of turnover from Google. I do better with commission product sales.
November 6th, 2009
What a great month you had Sara! Congrats to you. I often find a good keyword that I end up using for an xfactor site but I know I can easily turn into a powerful niche blog. So I constantly have this battle in my head “should I niche blog or not?” It drives me absolutely batty. lol But that’s the great thing about being your own boss, you can do WHATEVER you feel like doing with no one to answer to but yourself. We can also only fail ourselves only if we do not put in any effort. Looks like your effort is paying off..pun intended! ha!
November 2nd, 2009
Hey there,
In a previous post, you mention that you use Wordpress for all your blogs. Question: with all your sites/domains, do you use a Wordpress template/blog format (and Wordpress hosting) or do you create your websites with the typical software (Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc)? I’m thinking of purchasing some website creation software (Dreamweaver) that I can get dirt-cheap vs using Wordpress templates, which I’m not necessarliy familiar with. Anyway, just curious…and thanks in advance! Love your page and congrats on your best month yet!
November 3rd, 2009
Hi Kim,
Sorry I didn’t approve your comment sooner! The notification went in my junk mail folder. To answer your question, I use Wordpress on all my blogs. I use Hostgator hosting and you can install Wordpress within there and it’s free (Wordpress, not the hosting
). This blog is Wordpress, in fact. The Wordpress themes are what change up the design of the site. You can find thousands of them for free. You don’t have to buy Wordpress themes.
I wouldn’t buy Dreamweaver if you aren’t familiar with website design. It would work for a site but you would have to work A LOT harder on the technical aspect of web design. You should be spending time writing articles, not designing websites! Wordpress automates a lot, especially if you use extra plugins. SEO, RSS, etc. etc. are easier with blogs rather than static sites.
If you are interested, Amy’s site (Niche Blogger) goes through step by step how to set up Wordpress blogs. Hope that helps!