Looking back on January 2008

It's been an interesting month, not a lot of blogging going on since Google removed PR, but still some earnings to report...
I am considering some changes, but I need to be sure that they will enhance income opportunities and that I can justify the time and effort.
All in all, I made just $30 this month from various activities, but mainly from a couple of $10 creamaid opportunities. Creamaid continues to surprise by occasionally coming up with the goods, and in case you don't know...they pay almost straight away, there's no hanging around for 30 days with creamaid. In order to reach $1000 for my first year of paid blogging, I will need to find just over $200 in February - I honestly don't expect to reach that target, but watch this space... Incidentally, having only earned $30 this month, as you can tell from the spreadsheet, I actually collected just over $58 including previous earnings.

Other earnings (not from blogs) include fixed adverts from and from The Ad Network if you want to earn regular income from a website, try these two schemes. Adsense for me is going from strength to strength , I reached my second payout in December, paid in January and have already over half-way to another $100 payout... I stress that the majority of Adsense earnings are NOT from blogs...

May 2007 earnings

The final results of my first intensive 'paid to blog' one-month experiment. My mitigation for not having vast amounts of earnings are as follows. I am on blogger - a free host, so some opportunities are not open to me. My PR for this blog is just 2, this also closes the door on a large proportion of potential earnings, however it does give me the opportunity to see how many options are open at that level. This is particularly useful if the readers of this blog have blogs with similar ranks.

May 2007 earnings : __________April 2007>

The diagrams are meant to show the following:

Earnings (potential) for May were $187.54 in total - my initial target was just $100, but at mid-month, I was hoping to be able to double that figure. I came fairly close, but found it difficult to take opportunities on PPP in the last week as everything seemed to be taken - possibly due to the new policy of holding opps open once 'accepted' for 6 hours. This means you need to get in at the start of an opp - or be VERY lucky and just catch an opp after it becomes re-available. I have 'simplified' my spreadsheet by taking out the 'payout date' as this is not necessary. I have only included 'accepted' posts, so I do have a couple of 'pending' jobs which would have taken me over the $200 mark, but will go into next months earnings once accepted. My overall earnings (since January) are $241.99, but of that total only $119.09 has actually reached my Paypal account at this point - most schemes pay after around 30 days, though a couple of schemes (Smorty & Creamaid) pay quicker. You can see from the speadsheet on the left that whilst Smorty, Creamaid, Bloggerwave and Blogsvertise have paid everything outstanding, Payperpost has just started to pay out and Ciao surveys have yet to make any payouts. I have included the very small revenue that I get from advertising (bidvertiser and adsense) on my blogs and continue to list the minute earnings from my occassional activity on MyLot.

I have been updating total earnings in my sidebar on an almost daily basis, and will continue this practice - NB this will be total (potential + paid out) earnings on the left in PURPLE, and total paid out in RED on the right - these figures should not be added together...

Drop a comment if anything needs explaining - next month will have to be dedicated to linking to drive up page rank so that I can do this experiment again as a PR3 or 4 next time!!!