Online Income Report – February 2008

March 1, 2008 by
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Every month I make a public blog post about my online earnings for that month. Let me start off by saying that these income posts are not meant to be bragging in anyway. The purpose of them is so that I can be completely transparent and help you make money blogging. My goal is to show you that there is a lot of money to be made indirectly from your blog, whether it is from career offers, consulting jobs, marketing your other websites through your blog, or using your blog as a launch platform for your startup websites. Something I did not learn until I started blogging for awhile (but I wish I had learned far earlier), is that being an authority about a topic that you enjoy will earn you money from sources outside of your blog. Blogging has helped me network with hundreds of webmasters, and has landed me my highest paying jobs. Before I started blogging, I did lots of search engine optimization, link building, and viral marketing for my own sites, but had no idea that I could do that for other people and make a living from it. If I had not started this blog and shared my secret link building strategies with my readers, my current clients would have never known I was an authority at viral marketing/link building. All in all, lets move onto what everyone is waiting for — my online income report!

Blog Statistics
Parenthesis are stats from last month.

Comments

26 Comments on Online Income Report – February 2008

  1. Sudarshan on Sat, 1st Mar 2008 11:58 pm

    2. I am looking forward to the new project….I have very high expectations and I am really sure it wud be really good

  2. Rakesh on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 12:14 am

    3. Thats a nice income for february..i dont even make 1% of that..hehe:)

  3. Jug on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 12:38 am

    4. I agree with what you had to say about AdToll. If you can’t sell your ad spaces, then AdToll isn’t really recommended. I’ve been using AdToll and I’m quite impressed with the results. I was able to sell ad spaces and I hope I’ll be able to do that next month!

  4. Mike Huang on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 1:50 am

    5. I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us :)

    -Mike

  5. berryblitz on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 3:36 am

    6. Hi… Can you please tell me why my blog at *link removed* got a PR 0?

    It’s just not fair…

  6. Ruchir Choudhary on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 7:26 am

    7. Congrats. I’m sure you’ll be reaching $13,000 a month soon ;) For a blog, what matters the most is readership. As you gain more and more readers, your traffic will automatically grow as they do the promotion for you. Traffic from sources like Digg are one-time events…

  7. Futon-Matt on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 10:01 am

    8. I too have been disapointed with adtoll.

  8. Collin LaHay on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 10:13 am

    9. I am not Google… how would I know?

  9. Don on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 11:04 am

    10. over the last month of February i have been building my site and working on SEO about 10 / 20 mins a day at max in an attempt to get some PR before i start dedicating time to content which will be about easter time when uni is over and i only have to worry about a part time job :p.

    My latest report (found here http://rants.thenexus.tk/020308-update/) shows that ‘white hat’ techniques ie Metadata, sitemaps and clean urls work good.

    My next plan is to work further on SEO for the blog part now and experiment with monetization methods.
    your site since finding it has been invaluable and i hope to put it to use on another experiment site that i will start soon. So hopefully post exams etc in july i will have a report such as this showing first months earning.

  10. Max Miroff on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 11:35 am

    11. Excellent job, Collin. Thanks for the review of AdToll – I’ve been trying it out and was experiencing results similar to yours (I removed it a while back). I’m going to be trying out the Rubicon Project – just waiting to get approved.

  11. Yowazzup on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 11:45 am

    12. Great job, Collin. I only made $40 in February.

  12. Kyle James on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 1:46 pm

    13. Collin,

    It’s helpful to see you and some of the other readers here have come to the same conclusion I have with AdToll. It wasn’t doing anything but displaying really obnoxious adds and not bringing in any sort of money. Thanks for the review.

  13. Binh Nguyen on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 2:21 pm

    14. Collin, there is something wrong. How can this article Surprised PageRank Update February 2008 claims MixedMarketArts.com PageRank dropped to 0?</strong

  14. Toby on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 5:05 pm

    15. I too noticed this. Perhaps Google dropped PR because of some black hat tactics in link building cookbook?

  15. Collin LaHay on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 7:17 pm

    16. Might be an update fluctuation. Who knows?

  16. Affiliate Confession on Sun, 2nd Mar 2008 11:21 pm

    17. Interesting to see that you are running Adsense when a lot of bloggers don’t. I’ll keep my eye on your earnings there. Curious to see how it does.

  17. Exposed SEO on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 8:26 am

    18. What do you mean by advertising? Daily income or expenditure? Or may be even monthly income? Anyways, nicely done!

  18. Collin LaHay on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 1:49 pm

    19. That is all income. Advertising just means my income from advertising networks or closely related things.

  19. Morgan on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 2:11 pm

    20. Excellent job,Fantastic article.Online advertising is fast becoming the main marketing medium to increase the awareness for new products or services. With the increase in number of web users, there is a moving trend towards Internet marketing and online advertising.
    Thanks for the valuable info.

  20. Exposed SEO on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 5:46 pm

    21. @ Collin LaHay Oh, its just $39.87 from Adsense/month seems quite bad.

  21. Collin LaHay on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 8:17 pm

    22. I’m pretty happy with it, considering all of last month I had only Adtoll on the blog. I didn’t have any expectations for CPC advertising. My blogging income comes through knowledge and networking. =)

  22. cashmarble.com on Mon, 3rd Mar 2008 8:57 pm

    23. Congrates! at least you still made the money though not even close to…what you got last month.

  23. Stefanie on Tue, 4th Mar 2008 9:55 am

    24. I’ve experimented with Adtoll on several sites over the last month or so and the results have never been what I’d hoped. I came in just shy of five figures on last month, but like you, a good chunk of that income came from consulting and freelance projects.

  24. Johnny on Wed, 5th Mar 2008 2:46 pm

    25. Your link building tips are great. Just wanted to let you know that my Kontera income started slow also but is building each day a bit more.

    After using it for three weeks I’m glad I added it to my site.

  25. Yowazzup on Wed, 5th Mar 2008 3:47 pm

    26. There’s a trick, you know.

  26. Eufora on Sat, 5th Apr 2008 1:22 pm

    27. Thanks for the honest insight into AdToll. I was thinking about signing up and using it on my blog but thank goodness some bloggers like you give honest info and don’t just try to promote anything for a buck !!

    Keep up the good work !!

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