Income Stats – December 2009

Grand | Jan 04, 2010 | 0 comments

Hi mates!

I’m working hard now to get my business surviving in this tough enviornment now, according to my 1 month plan that I developed after thorough analysis of my current situation and taking a look at opportunities to generate free income from SEO.

Without free income, it’s worthless to even start doing stuff like ppc, since it requires testing anyway, and each click and impression is going to cost some money. So, in January 2010 I’ve decided to concentrate purely on my SEO side of things, and eliminate any other online activity.

Ok, I’ve been doing PPC on Adwords for just 3 days in December, until that enormous google ban happened. I’ve lost my both profitable campaigns, that were practically feeders for my living and testing new ppc stuff. After that, the income streams simply stopped, and I had to count on the money that will no longer produce new money.

However, due to some sales from adwords traffic (december 1 – december 3 2009) and “accidental” sales from my landing page and some other old SEO properties I had, my income was still positive.

Income: 572.75$

PPC Cost: 196.19$

Net Profit: 475.72$

ROI is no longer applicable here since the sales came from mixed sources. (Just found that I’ve made 2 sales total 99,16$) from affiliate program I worked with in April 2009, again from landing page that has some small se traffic as well).

To be frank, I invested some money into my 4 sites for SEO experiment, and also bought some soft for automating my SEO routines, so my total spend was more than I’ve made in December. Now I’m writing all the content myself, not even outsourcing it, and try to keep every $ I have now. I’ve also cut down my monthly membership expenses, cancelling a couple of now worthless memberships.

My biggest mistake was pursuing the PPC to Clickbank model, that made me stupidly lose hundreds and thousands of dollars every month, instead of concentrating all my efforts on building SEO sites ( that I did in 2007) and working with CPA offers, that convert really well with ppc, ppv, facebook, etc… I’ll probably write a post about it in the future, if I have some free time, since the best thing we can do is learn from other people’s mistakes, to avoid spending lots of time and money doing own mistakes.

OK, some more posts are to come in the future, I’m working differently now, and I’ like to share how I changed my attitude to online business after 2009. So stay tuned mates, and signup to my RSS not to miss some good SEO advice