Online Income Report – March 2008

April 1, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: General 

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.

  1. Google Pagerank 2 (Lowered for link selling, will return to 4-5 in a few months)
  2. Seomoz PageStrength 3.5 (4) – It stopped tracking .gov links
  3. Alexa Rank 53,549 (48,496)
  4. Technorati Rank 10,523 (14,061)
  5. Technorati Authority 423 (343)
  6. Total Visitors 5,746 (7,999)
  7. Total Pageviews 13,543 (??)
  8. RSS Subscribers 460 (416)

Total March Online Income – $2657.07
Online Income Per Day – $85.71

Advertising

  • Adsense – $44.78 ($39.87)
  • Adtoll earned a few dollars, but I removed it.
  • Paid Reviews – $80 ($120)
  • Kontera – $12.29 ($5.71)
  • 125×125 Ads – $90

Consulting Clients

  • Link Building – $500
  • Viral Marketing – $1500

Other Sales

My Ventures

I have a few projects “in the works,” but I have had a few different programmers scam me out of my time and money. I had planned on launching one site this month, but now that will be delayed until late April or early May. It will be worth the wait, however. :-)

Conclusion

While I did make more money per day in February, there were fewer days in that month. I made over $85 per day this month and I am very happy with that number. I had a lot of mishaps happen with my sites that are being developed and still being able to pull this amount of money is a good thing. I look forward to expanding my blog this April and potentially breaking that 500 RSS reader milestone.

One thing that I am very proud of, is that I quit my part time jobs this month. I now officially make a living completely off the internet. There are not many 18 year olds that can pull that off, so I am glad to be one of them. Since I enjoy the work I do, I do not consider myself working anymore. I find doing internet marketing, link building, seo, and viral marketing a hobby, not a job. Therefore, I am officially retired at 18! Hopefully I can keep that up and expand my monthly revenue even more. With the way this year has been going, I don’t think that will be a problem at all.

Comments

13 Comments on Online Income Report – March 2008

  1. Stefanie on Tue, 1st Apr 2008 3:27 pm

    2. Congratulations on the early retirement! Hopefully, you’ll have plenty of time to focus on going from $85ish a day to much, much more :)

  2. Luke on Tue, 1st Apr 2008 5:08 pm

    3. Good deal, congrats Collin! It’s important to consider that passive income and work income is still different — but it’s certainly way better doing something you enjoy. :-)

  3. Link Building Bible on Tue, 1st Apr 2008 8:15 pm

    4. Awesome!!! $85/day is fantastic… especially for someone who is about to start college… those marketing classes will be boring since you know everything!

  4. Houston Web Development on Tue, 1st Apr 2008 10:32 pm

    5. Congrats on your success Colin. We still have to talk. I need to share with you what we’re doing to get your input.

  5. Diana Tan on Tue, 1st Apr 2008 10:56 pm

    6. Congratulations for the early retirement ;)
    Working from home is everyone’s dream while earning a comfortable income from it.

  6. Coondog on Tue, 1st Apr 2008 11:25 pm

    7. Congrats!

    any tips for me?

  7. Exposed SEO on Wed, 2nd Apr 2008 9:11 am

    8. Nicely done! Great improvement from your previous month.

  8. Sudarshan on Wed, 2nd Apr 2008 11:07 am

    9. Man you rock!! Hope you will expand All the best :)

  9. Regan Johnson on Wed, 2nd Apr 2008 4:28 pm

    10. Great work this month. I see a bright future in the coming months too.

  10. Futon-Matt on Thu, 3rd Apr 2008 9:01 am

    11. Those numbers are impressive, congrats Collin. Sorry to hear about your being scammed.

  11. Manish Pandey on Fri, 2nd May 2008 12:03 pm

    12. Congratulations Collin. It’s really wonderful to do what you love. Really good to find that people of you age are also use the word ‘retiring’…lol…

    Way to go! All the best!

  12. Norhafidz on Tue, 6th May 2008 6:04 am

    13. Congrats man, that’s a huge money :)

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