Hello from the road! I’ve managed to have my best month ever but not by much and definitely not because I’ve been working harder. I had a freakishly good month with Adsense and overall my earnings came in at just over $1900 for January. I’ll write a post shortly once I total up all of my spending for January but it doesn’t bode well. I’ve been on a bit of a spending spree since I arrived in The Philippines but I think I should break even.
Earnings breakdown:
- Google Adsense – $424.55 – Yay! Not only did I finally break that elusive $300 a month mark but I also somehow managed to hit $400. I have absolutely no idea why, either. I haven’t done anything differently so I guess I’ll just chalk it up to January being a good month for travel sites? The same thing happened last year. I had a huge jump from December 2006 to January 2007 and really had no clues as to what caused it. Here’s hoping it’s a trend that continues.
- Affiliate Sales – $1090.35 – I had good months with some affiliate programs that haven’t really done much in the past. Again, I haven’t done anything differently so I can’t really offer an explanation. I migh try to push these a bit more in the coming months to see if I can milk them a bit more.
- Linkworth & Text Link Ads – $135.48 – TLA is still hugely outperforming Linkworth but both are slowly climbing upwards in their earnings. I seem to sell a couple more TLA ads per month while Linkworth seems to be forever stuck at two ads. I’ll be adding TLA to this site shortly as an experiment to see how make money online type blogs do when compared to travel blogs.
- Private Link Sales – $255 – These were all through renewals and then one guy who renewed also wanted an extra couple of links totaling $100. I didn’t pursue any new links but was contacted towards the end but people interested in buying links. These will go onto next month’s earnings though.
So all up I’m really happy. I’ve hit the road and realised that working won’t be as easy as I’d thought and that I tend not to like to work unless I’ve got a wifi connection. I don’t feel like I’ve done much since I left London in mid December but I’ve got a wifi connection for the next week in Manila and will be doing my best to put in a lot of hours and get everything caught up.
I’m due to head to Bangladesh on February 11th and won’t have a net connection for my entire time there, probably five weeks. It’ll be interesting to see what happens but I want to get as much done befor going AWOL. I’ll need to reign in my spending too and being in the boonies in Bangladesh will help with that. Keeping in mind that I’ll be away for most of February I’ll be happy if I can hit the $1800 mark again.
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