December Totals: $176.06

• Sparter – $144.40
• Cashcrate – $7.91
• Clickbank – $16.61
• Adsense – $5.07
• Squidoo – $2.07

November Totals: $19.84

• Clickbank – $16.37
• Adsesnse – $3.47

For 2007 it looks like I made about $1799.32 cents.

Not bad for part time blogging, and most of the time playing games. I couldn’t seem to win any money yet from Moola, but there seems to be people cashing out $10-20 daily. Most I’ve gotten to was about $5 or so before I started losing games. I think I’m just going to spin the daily wheel, and hope for some money that way instead. I’ll add Moola to the list of earnings when I receive payment, and not before though.

Selling gold from World of Warcraft via Sparter seems to be the way to go right now, but I do want to learn other ways of making money online. I wish Sparter had an affiliate referral program of sorts. I noticed I was getting some hits from an ip in China with a small time gold seller’s domain, which clicked on the Sparter exit links alot. I also now see them listing their rates now on Sparter so if I missed out on some major referral monies I’ll be very sad =P.

Cashcrate was a little surprise since I haven’t logged into it for over a month, and then out of the blue I get a notice saying a referral of mine has reached payout. Its nice to know that there’s passive ways of making money online too. Just let the search engines catch your Cashcrate reviews from these blogs to generate revenue. One thing I did notice though, the post that received a lot of attention was the Cashcrate check picture(it had the most referral exit clicks). It seems like more than anything people want to know if you’re actually going to receive a payment rather than the program itself. The previous post I made about Cashcrate didn’t get many referrals, but once the proof was up I got about 5 people who signed up within the week. I need to make a note of that when doing reviews of any site, to also include the payment proofs to convince more people to sign up under me.Clickbank was the result of an Adwords driven sale, and not one of the guide book links I had up on my old blog. I hope to replicate the sale by finding other products among their list. I spent about $3 dollars on Adwords to get the sale selling Valkor’s Gold Guide. However the search demand for it wasn’t as high as I’d hope. I need to learn more about keyword researching to make better Adword ads. The good thing though is that I’m in the black with that campaign.

So what can I do now to increase my monthly take. Lets see, I’ve joined up with Amazon, and planning on reapplying this blog to Azoogle now that its on its own host. I hear great things about Azoogle’s pay per lead programs so I’ll look into those as well. Also since I moved over to this domain, I’ve been able to add some 125×125 slots up on the top right. I plan to sell some of those slots as I get build more traffic and readers. Chris over at MattNutts(No not Matt’s Nuts) created a Blog ad market called Focial.com. Which is kind of like an Ebay style method of selling ads via bids. When I decide to sell another slot on there I’ll post about it here to let you all know. I even saw someone selling Entrecard credits on there. He’s even got a referral program starting up so get in before everyone else signs up. There’s currently a listing for a 125×125 ad space from a PR 4 blog for only $5/month bid last I checked.

In the mean while I’m starting to gett a little addicted to blogging so hopefully that means I’ll write some more posts. The busiest part of the season for my day job just finished up, so I should have a little more time after I get home from work to blog. Also I’ve been thinking about putting up a small arcade on this site, but that’s another day.

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As for the trial domain I put up (http://www.MoneyNe.ws), Google indexed about 20 pages so far, and still needs to index another few thousand articles. I’ll update more once I start getting search traffic.

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• Landing page is everything – You can bring in millions of people via an advertisement, but if the page you bring them to doesn’t sell then all that targeted traffic is wasted.

• You don’t need to be the #1 – My click through rates with the highest % was actually in the #7-8 position. People who are shopping online will browse different choices instead of buying the first thing they see. However your product/page better be pretty convincing since this customer is comparing you to the other 6 people he/she has already seen.

• Use Different Tracking codes – Check out which ad is giving you the best click rates. Test different ads with different codes to get the most efficient sets for each keyword group.

• Product research – If your serious about selling something try and get an evaluation copy or buy the product. Is this something you would use? How about your friends or family? If the answer is no then rethink about marketing it.

• Set a reasonable budget – Test the waters out, and don’t set an excessive budget right off the bat. You’re trying to optimize your ads, and see if the product your marketing is going to be returning some dough. If you don’t see any sales after the first 100-200 clicks then you might want to check out whats up.

There is a lot more I picked up from all of this, but if you are new to affiliate marketing go do some homework first before you get started. A good place to start would be the Digital Point Forums. They have a lot of information that you can read up on before you get started about pay per click advertising, Adwords, Clickbank, etc. If you’re new to forum browsing, find the search button first =). Anyways I’ll be spending the next couple weeks looking through the Clickbank marketplace for products to try and sell.

In the mean time I’ve resorted back to spending about an hour a day on World of Warcraft earning some gold to go and sell on Sparter again. I guess I can’t pass up the $10-20/hr for playing 7 hours a week. At least until I can find a good product on Clickbank to market. One point of advice someone brought up to me is that I should market something that I have some knowledge of, or experience with. I guess I’ll try out a WoW gold making review campaign this week, and report back in with how I did.

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