I am very pleased to say that July 2011 was yet another record month.
In fact, getting to write this income report was especially sweet because this was the first month that I earned what most would consider to be a full-time income from my various online assets.
To be honest, when I achieved last month’s results, I really wasn’t sure how I was going to improve the figure by a whole lot this month. Boy, did I ever underestimate what was possible!
Like in past income reports, in this report, I’m going to share with you the key activities that I undertook this month, what worked and what didn’t. I’m also going to share with you some traffic and list building data for the OIL blog as well. My thinking here is that some of my readers may wish to follow in my blogging footsteps, and as such, they’d probably want to know how this blog is doing.
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If this is your first time reading one of my income reports and you are wondering why I publish them, the reason is that I believe in being super transparent in my business – almost as though I was a public company. A public company has to share everything about their performance and it doesn’t seem to hurt them, so I doubt that it’ll hurt me either.
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Key Activities in July
Just like last month, July was absolutely stuffed full of activities; some of which I’ve been doing for a while, and some of which were brand new experiments. I guess that is one of the reasons why my blog is called the Online Income Lab – I love to experiment and share the results with my readers. By doing so, my goal is to help you avoid wasting time on activities that I’ve already proven fruitless.
HowToCleanAnything.com
This is by far my largest Adsense asset and in the last month, things progressed considerably.
As you can see in the screenshot below, at the beginning of June, traffic was averaging about 1050 uniques a day. By the end of July, that had increased by about 50% to around 1500 uniques a day.
Equally awesome has been the increase in Adsense earnings – they are up 100% from two months ago!
As I explained in this post, I attribute the massive increase in earnings to both the increased traffic and tweaking of the location and blending of the Adsense ads. At this point, I continue to add new content and plan to experiment with some other aspects of the site – all of which I’ll cover in that upcoming post that I promised last month, but have yet to write!
My Link Building Service
Due to a number of requests from my readers, as well as members of Niche Site Mastery, last month I launched an article marketing service that essentially made the services of my team of VA’s available to my readers and members.
In July, I expanded my offering to include, Link Wheels, High PR Blog Links, and Facebook Likes.
I don’t plan to offer this service directly from my blog for too much longer, however, but that is only because my yet-to-be-named backlinking service is half way developed and I’ve just landed a new partner to get the code finished over the next few weeks.
Originally Kane and I were using a VA firm in the Philippines, but due to their missing a few deadlines, we’ve now switched to a computer science graduate from Yale! Assuming he’s as good as we hope, I plan to extend to him an offer to be my partner in the venture on an ongoing basis.
My Adsense Portfolio
Finding the time to research new sites to build was especially challenging in July as I have incredibly busy with some upgrades to Niche Site Mastery.
Despite the fact that I didn’t launch many sites in July (only two, in fact), I am still very pleased with the results. In fact, you can read about that in this recent case study.
The reason for my being such a “slacker” this month was that the number of NSM members when up dramatically and along with that, went a larger than normal drain on my time.
I now have many more emails, comments, and forum threads to respond to than previously, and, at this point, I do this all myself.
As well, I’m extremely committed to making NSM the best possible training portal that I can, and so whenever I get new ideas that I’ve proven to work, I want to include them into NSM right away.
Niche Site Mastery
NSM is rapidly becoming a very valuable asset for me, and as such, it continues to consume a larger and larger portion of my time – which is part of the reason that I only wrote 8 posts in July.
The biggest (and most successful) experiment that I tried in July was using a Warrior Special Offer that offered a discounted rate, plus two weeks of 1-on-1 coaching with me for a lifetime premium membership.
Normally, a lifetime membership costs $197 and via the WSO, you can get it for just $97.
When you consider the value of the time you’ll save by not wasting 3-6 months doing the wrong thing, This seems quite reasonable to me. I hope you agree 
The success of the WSO has been nothing sort of amazing, as my income breakdown will show.
As well as being a financial success, I’ve found that I actually enjoy the 1-on-1 coaching quite a bit because every time I do a call, I get huge thank you’s from my client. Plus, I can tell that the guidance I’m giving them is going to save them from the typical “six-month-newbie-learning-curve” that I had to go through when I first started.
For a lack of knowing what to do and how to do it, I can assure you that I wasted an obscene amount of time and money when I started last fall. Don’t do that!
If you read my income report last month, you will remember that I tried a $7 offering where I gave access to just the Research Module. It was only moderately successful, so in July, I changed it and made the entire Research Module available for free and then created a membership management page within NSM that would encourage users with free accounts to upgrade to paid accounts when they clicked on a module they did not yet have access to.
Over the next month, I will have a chance to see how well (or not) this works.
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The Lotus Experiment
So that I didn’t lose my mind from working too much, I also managed to find some time for getting my much-needed shot of adrenaline.
Readers may recall that last month I posted a video of me racing my dirt bike at Mammoth Mountain’s annual MX race.
Well, this month I thought I would share with you some footage from a track day that I recently attended in my 2007 Lotus Exige S.
If you are a car nut like me, there’s not a lot of things more fun that this!
Traffic Report
So now that you’ve had a look at some traffic on the race track, lets have a look at some of the traffic on my blog (nice segue, huh?)
Visits/Average Time on Site/Bounce Rate
As you might guess, these are among the more important stats. As you can see from the image below, total visits were 5,112 (up 62% from last month), Avg Time on Site was 4:13 (down 14%) and Bounce Rate was 55.79% (up from 8.59% from last month). As you might guess, I was pretty stoked on the huge increase in traffic – especially considering it was from direct visits and Google (yes, I tend to optimize most posts for SEO).
Traffic Sources
As important as the volume of traffic, is where its coming from. Seeing that 40% of my visitors are typing the URL into their browser tells me that I have a lot of repeat visitors. Clearly, they (you) must like my content enough to come back more than once. Thanks, you rock!
Next we have Google at 19.58% of traffic, up just a tick from last month.
And finally, we have significant contributions from Shane Melaugh’s IMImpact blog and the Warrior Forum. Neither of these traffic sources existed last month. Thanks to Shane and my fellow WF members!
Keywords
For me, this report is really just an affirmation that word of my brand is spreading. For example, last month online income lab only netted my 103 visits and this month it was 383! Can’t wait to see what it is in August!
Top Content
This report can be a little misleading for a couple of reasons.
The first is that, as my blog’s traffic grows, more recent content is bound to receive more traffic because its on the front page of the blog.
The second is that as my most popular posts are displayed in the sidebar, they are going to continue to receive a disproportionate share of the overall traffic.
Despite these two flaws, I still like to look at this report to see what people are reading and how long they are spending on each page.
In particular, given that I’m building a link-building service, seeing that my current link building content is as popular as it is, is an affirmation that the product, when launched, will likely be a success
Goals
One of the features of Analytics that I really like is the ability to set and track goals. When compared to last month, here’s how things went:
- Goal #1 – up 57%
- Goal #2 – up 18%
- Goal #4 – up 58%
Given the large increase in time on site over 10 minutes, I’d be willing to bet that my podcasts have something to do with that
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Subscribers, Likes and Followers
A huge part of being a successful blogger is the number of people that read your stuff! (duh!) and for the first time, I’m also going to start including the following stats in my report:
- New subscribers: 626, up 54% from last month
- Facebook Likes: 102, up 29% from last month.
To be honest, I think I pretty much suck at getting people to like me on facebook so I would be grateful if you would help me out :)
Income Breakdown
Ok, ok…so now to the really fun part (hey, wait…did you just skip all the way down here? If you did, you missed some pearls of wisdom up above, so get back there!)
- Adsense
- Total: $859
- Last Month: $582
- Difference: $277
- Up 48%
- Affiliate Earnings
- Amazon: $112
- oDesk: $100
- SECockpit: $584
- Instant eCover Creator: $10
- HostGator: $50
- The Diet Solution: $70
- Virtual Staff Finder: $75
- Total: $1,001
- Last Month: $490
- Difference: $511
- Up 104%
- Niche Site Mastery
- Total: $2,205
- Last Month: $709
- Difference: $1,496
- Up 211%
- Total: $2,205
- Link Building Services
- Total: $366
- Last Month: $185
- Difference: $181
- Up 98%
- Total: $366
- Grand Total in July
- Total: $4,431
- Last Month: $1,965
- Difference: $2,466
- Up 126%
- Total: $4,431
As you might guess, I’m more than a little thankful for the results I’ve been blessed with in July. Considering that back just 5 months ago, my total online income was a measly $222, this is huge progress is a relatively short period of time.
Had it not been for all your my readers, my NSM members, and the help of Pat, Shane, Spencer, and the folks over at the Warrior Forum, I doubt that I would have been able to achieve these results so fast.
Most exciting of all is that I’m still just barely getting going. I could literally work 24 hours a day and still not get everything done that is on my whiteboard at this point in time.
While somewhat overwhelming at times, I can honestly say that, aside from being a professional race car driver, there is nothing else in the world that I’d rather do than this.
I am truly blessed, so thanks to every last one of you for reading my blog, providing me with your comments, and even clicking the occasional affiliate link!
Plans and Goals for August
For the first time in quite a while, in August, I’m actually planning on taking some time off and going on a week-long trip back home to Vancouver, BC to see my friends and family. I’ve not been back to Canada since I left 3 years ago, so I’m pretty stoked to be going!
Like all blogger-addicts, I will be taking my laptop with me and will very likely continue to work after everyone else has gone to bed…but sssshhh…don’t tell anyone!!
Vacation aside, I still do have some goals for August, but before we get to those, lets check in on how I did versus the goals I set in June.
- Total visits to OIL to exceed 5,000 – achieved!
- New Subscribers: 200 – achieved
- New Niche Site Mastery members: 15 – achieved!
- Increase total revenue by at least 30% – blew it out of the water!
In July, I planned to:
- Do a lot more split testing – achieved
- Start testing some Facebook advertising as a means of sending more traffic to this blog – tried it and didn’t get very good results. Warrior Forum was MUCH better.
- Oversee development (coding) of my new backlinking service – ongoing
- Write at least 10 new posts on OIL – did only 8
- Produce 3 new podcasts – only did 1 as I was just too busy. I’m currently learning how to configure all my new podcasting gear and am in search of my next few guests
- Find another VA to add to my niche site launch team – achieved
- Get the four stalled Adsense sites completed with help of new VA(s) – only did 2
Hmmm…I guess I’d better set some bigger goals for August huh? Ok, here we go…
- Total visits to OIL to exceed 6,000
- New Subscribers: 300
- New Niche Site Mastery members: 25
- Increase total revenue by at least 35%
In August, I plan to:
- take a vacation
- get the beta of the backlinking service out the door
- create some new content on NSM
- spend more time looking on Flippa for some more sites to buy
- produce 2 podcasts
- publish 8 blog posts here on OIL
- launch another WSO of some kind
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That is truly amazing progress.. I can’t wait until I finish my step by step plan and actually start doing. I’ve been trapped in information overload for too long… I should watch your training and get myself going.. and thanks for introducing me to sesniper.. because it looks amazing.
Hi Sjors,
Less planning and more doing…that is one really important thing to remember. Glad you are liking the look of SECockpit; it is worth every penny!
Yes I ment SEcockpit, will definitely be investing in that.
Hi trent
A Great month and during the quiet season at that.
It seems to me that the IM game is like a rolling ball gathering speed as it heds down hil (not mos attached) once you can get things to move it becomes easier.
The Niche Mastery is a case in point referals and lessosn learnt from when you started out will be leading to more sign ups. Im sure the WSO would also have helped.
Do you see you business going with more micro sites or more authority sites with time?
My feeling is that authority sites whilst they take longer to build will in th elong run generate a site that will rank better. Your thoughts ?
There is always more to evaluate and test and reports such as this provide a wealth of knoweldge as does your site.
regards
Hi Steve,
I think micro sites are a very effective way to make money because the time-to-ROI is much less. With that said, when one has profits rolling in from mini-sites, it would also be an excellent idea to: a) keep creating new content and growing these sites into bigger sites, and b) look for an established larger site to purchase on Flippa.
Thanks for the comment!
Hi Trent
Thats very true. Some of the domains ive bought in July as micro niche a 3 word longtail targetted at a sub product group.
Other Ive bought which can work as small niche sites and focus on one manufacturer if they dont work to well. But I can easily expand them to cover many manufacturers and brands if they get traction.
The objective with each is to make some money quickly (1-3 months) then to build out to their maximum capacity with time.
I think it would be flawed (at my stage of development) to build a 60-70 page site initally only to see it flop
Its a case of running the numbers but then testing the results.
regards
Steve,
I agree. Keeping investment risk as low as possible in the early days is very important; hence focusing on multiple little sites to see which ones gain traffic. This is precisely what is happening to one of my sites and and I’ve just instructed a developer to figure out how to put some additional special features into the site to see if that helps boost traffic further.
Hello Trent:
Congrats on the HUGE income. The information you are providing is truly the best. I have been following you for a long time. and it is so enjoyable to see someone BLOW UP! I know i will join you and your success in the near future.
Keep to your blog and don’t look to much to the WF. You want the OIL to have it own following and it shows in the numbers. People will find you by word of mouth and that is the best thing that can happen to you.
It will be a honor to join you in the rush of this great thing!
Good Luck
Hey Alex,
Thanks so much for all the kind words, mate. I love getting comments like this!
Cheers,
Trent
It’s great to see you doing so well. You and Pat Flynn inspired me to finally get off my rear and start making sites. It’s been slow going so far, I need to make time instead of just trying to find time for this work.
You mentioned you did a lot of split testing last month, can you write more about that? I read your post on split testing a mailing list, but how is testing a site different? At what point do you have enough traffic to justify doing an A/B test? I assume the results of a test would be invalid if the sample size were too small.
Hey Manny,
Most of the testing I do is on howtocleananything.com and this blog because they both get heaps of traffic. The KEY with split testing is to only test ONE THING at a time. Do more than that, and your data will be useless. I have been keeping all the data and plan to post on it soon.
Trent
Congrats on the great income, Trent! The growth you’ve experienced recently is really inspiring!
I noticed that you mentioned researching flippa to find more sites to buy. Do you think you’ll use this method more to build your site portfolio as opposed to building your own sites?
I plan to use both….its just a question of carving out time. With Flippa, the risk of failure is lower, but the cost of entry is higher. I like the idea of buying a site with PR and traffic and then doing a better job of monetizing it than the previous owner. When I look at existing Adsense sites, it amazes me that people don’t even place the ads in the correct place. Google tells you exactly how to do this for gods sake!.
Excellent report on the increase of over all profit, I enjoy watching the progress which you make monthly using the very system you created. The bounce rate on howtocleananything.com is kind of high though. Are you going to work at having that dropped to a lower percent or have you found that the high bounce rate is contributed to people clicking on the ads than clicking away from the website?
Thats a really hard one to figure out. So long as the time on site is over 30 seconds, I don’t really care about the bounce rate, because it won’t hurt the ranking.
Understandable, I always get edgy when I see a bounce rate increase on my websites. I always look at it as the lower the bounce rate, the greater number of people browsing internally. This being said, I did buy an itunes url about a month and half ago which added 1 page of content less than a thousand words, couple of CPA offers but no backlinking, but for whatever reason Bing and Yahoo seem to love it and it had over 2200 visit last month and the bounce rate is really high….it’s mind boggling trying to understand SEM sometimes when they throw weird cases like that into the works.
Trent, Good stuff. Congrats on the increases across the board. Also, thanks for the including the video of your lap. Was that filmed with a GoPro?
Looking forward to some more podcasts.
yes, it was with my GoPro
Wow, this is inspiring Trent!
It’s very diversified and it all ads up very well.
Diversification among online income sources is a good thing, unlike the blind diversification of investments that’s being touted around.
I am currently developing my sites also. Hopefully I can be banking in steadily soon.
Hey Walter,
Glad to hear you have some irons in the fire. Best of luck!
Wow! Congratulations Trent – fantastic results on their own, but even more impressive when compared to last month.
It’s great that you are sharing so much valuable information, and the income reports act as strong motivators.
I made it on to Page 1, but for a non-money keyword with very low search volumes. It’s not brilliant, but it’s a start.
Thanks again for showing us the way.
-naima
You are very welcome! Glad to hear that you are enjoying my stuff
Hi Trent!
An average time of over 4 minutes and a bounce rate of 55% are extremely good signs that (no surprise) your blog is unique and has good content: you have something to say. So it can only get an increasing amount of traffic. Sometimes I think this is THE strategy to use. Helped by a few good incoming links such as the WF and Shane’s Blog. I think you should write the same way (+ videos) and look for more high quality backlinks (e.g. guest blogging on high PRs sites) and the snowball effect will even be greater. Just a question, I don’t see any Adsense ad in this blog. Why?
Thanks so much for the kind words.
I don’t put Adsense on OIL because I don’t want first-time visitors to be turned off by advertising. None of the major bloggers that I follow use it, so I don’t either (not very scientific, I realize). Plus, I do monetize OIL with affilate links and as my traffic grows, so will the affiliate income.
Nice job, Trent. Great month. You’ve got some excellent momentum behind you now. Quick question – how did you find the Yale grad?
Found him via a local Meetup.com IM networking group last week. Hopefully, he’ll turn out to be my ‘find of the year’!
Great post.. it is very inspiring. VERY. Especially since you just started last November. I’m still struggling and if picked to win, could really use the coaching help. The website above is my first attempt at an adsense website. I am in the process of building links, and need to add more content. thanks for this great site you provide.
HI Lisa,
Thanks for chiming in. The site you have is economically viable (good search volume, cpc, advertiser competition). Your ad placement isn’t yet ideal and you lack images (for cosmetics as much as seo). You should also see if there are youtube videos from credible sources that you could embed. If you are getting traffic and clicks now, i would keep adding content and building links continuously. You should also experiment with various themes to test overall CTR. There is also sufficient weakness on the first page that you should be able to rank quite well. Overall, seems like a very good choice!
Congratulations Lisa, you are the winner of the free membership! Please contact me for details.
Hey Trent! Congrats on your first “full income” month!
I’ve been following your progress since your interview with Spencer, between the two of you, it has given me the motivation to get my own butt in gear! Thanks for all your transparency! It truly helps.
It’s been slow going for me due to the costs, but I AM making progress!
Look forward to future updates!
Don
Thanks Don!
Congrats on the month to month increases, this is what I would consider the true gauge of success.
I appreciate the fact you are methodical and include free ways to do KW research.
Continued great success!!
Thanks Len! Have you signed up for Niche Site Mastery’s free keyword research module yet?
Trent I haven’t been a member of your list for very long. I found out about you through Shane Melaugh. I knew if he mentioned you that you had to be a cool guy to know.
I really like the fact that disclose everything and are being transparent. Rarely if ever is that ever done.
I’ve been in the IM game seriously for about 2 years now. I remember my first month trying to monetize my WordPress websites with Adsense and I made $2.76. I was elated and disappointed at the same time. I had come from a world where I was use to getting paychecks in the amount of $10k on average.
I started building tons of WP sites monetizing them with Adsense and I was only able to get to about $250 -$300 per month consistently. I had ran into 2 problems. First, once the sites were created I really didn’t have a team in place to promote them and to continue to add content to the performing sites so many of them got neglected. Second, like you I didn’t understand keyword research all that well and chose some websites niches that were not the best.
I got up to about 80 websites, most of them worthless and so I deleted about 50 of them. I probably could have flipped some of them on Flippa but just didn’t want to fool with it.
Now my Adsense income is about $90 per month. I know if I had a team in place this income could go up considerably but I don’t do anything to promote the sites to that ends up being about $1,000 of income per year with no work but keeping the domains and hosting current.
My focus is on selling Amazon products now. I have one site that just did $750 per month. I’m getting about 300 visitors a day to this website and climbing. The income would be greater than that but Amazon limits the commission on electronics to 4%. I expect for this one website to be over $1,000 soon. I have started several other websites to hopefully duplicate this process. I now outsource most of my article writing and link building (I’m trying your link building service to see how it works out for me)
I think what people fail to realize is that even if they have a typical 8-5 job that it would be a good idea for them to take some of their “active” income and put into something “passive” like building an online income.
Many people who have money sitting in CD’s earning practically nothing could benefit from have profitable websites built. In fact, my brother is paying me to build a website for his son selling Amazon products.
Anyway, I like with you’re doing and I will remain a subscriber. With this month’s earnings you have definitely achieved a Full-Time Income online. I was told that once you make $1,000 per month online you can make $10,000 and I totally believe that.
Congratulations on your success and I look to forward to seeing even more success from you next month.
Hey Rick,
Wow, that is quite the journey you’ve had, my friend. 80 sites! I thought I was a knucklehead for building 35 too quickly, so it looks like I was in good company
I’m thrilled to hear that you are now having some success and, yes, I agree that once you hit $1000, you can pretty much go as far as you like. I’ll keep an eye out for you on the beach. I’ll be the guy in the lounge chair with the laptop or iPad
By the way…as an extra motivator, my buddy Kane started two years ago. It took him 10 months to get to $1000/mo…then 3 more to get to $5,000/mo and last month he hit $40,000. Not bad, huh?
Trent, can you share what Kane is doing to hit those numbers? They’re very impressive. Thanks.
He runs a site called SocialAdr
Congrats Trent! Nice increases across the board especially the most important stat, Sales!
Thanks Jay!
Trent that’s not bad at all. The first $1,000 online is the key and then it’s mainly about scale. The other pitfall for me is that I didn’t really focus when I first got online. I was very scattered. It’s best to get a few things going well (this creates the drive to keep going) and then begin to branch out.
Keep of the good work as you are an inspiration to all of us.
Thanks
Focus is THE key…I couldn’t agree more! Thanks for sharing your thoughts here on the blog, Rick!
Another quick question. I see that the majority of your income (both in terms of $’s and growth) right now comes from your membership site. Are you considering focussing on just that component of your business?
No, I do not have plans to focus only on one thing. I will admit that I devote a fair amount of my time to it, however, I continue to instruct me team of VAs to continue building niche sites and I have other projects in development (with partners) as well. Some things, like this blog and NSM, just can’t be outsourced a whole lot.
Trent-
I love the blog and you along with Spencer’s blog have really motivated me to get back in the game. About 7-8 months ago I was having a number of high 4 figure months, and I figured I was on easy street. Then a large number of my sites were de-indexed and eBay changed some things in their affiliate program. Admittedly the sites I had were very “thin” and didn’t provide much to the user. I have since learned my lesson and plan to make some very high quality sites. I am always looking forward to your latest posts (and videos!)
Hey Matt,
Sorry to hear of your troubles, but glad to hear you are getting back on the horse. My last few sites are all making small amounts of profit within a month of launch, and most aren’t even on page one yet! There is still plenty of opportunity!
Trent
quick question, what WP theme would you consider to be a good theme for amazon product site. I am having some issue with a site. my traffic is buying only the product on the home page. so i would like drive traffic to more product choice or have more product on the home page.
What are your thought?
Thanks
Really depends on the product. I have used the following themes: 2010, iNove, Simplefolio, Azon, sleek, and vilcom. On this blog, I’m using Pagelines.
Well done Trent! Blew me out of the water this month.
Got any plans to do a guide to buying a site off flippa?
Hey Joe,
I was pleasantly surprised by this month as well! I may do a flippa product at some point, but not definitive plans just yet…
THANK YOU THANK YOU Trent!!! I won the membership!!! I soooo needed this. Thanks again.
You’re welcome
Trent – congratulations on your success. $4k+ is a great achievement. Curious however what you attribute most of the financial success to…? reason for the question is that 5k visitors, or 160 per day on average isn’t exactly mind blowing traffic, yet you are able to generate $4k in profits. would be interested in your thoughts on how you are able to HIGHLY leverage the income to traffic ratio?
If you read the income report, its all broken down into where the income is coming from.
Not meant to be rude (and 4k is a great income), it seems that your main income source is selling to people who wants to make money, rather than directly through the approach that you are using.
Your adsense and amazon income accounts for less than 25% of your total. Should they account for more than the tools and courses that you are selling people on how to make money?
Just a thought.
Hi Aaron,
The income I post here on my blog is not one of the reasons why people buy my training. In fact, the sales page for NSM mentions NOTHING about the income that I make from anything other than Adsense.
For readers of my blog, I share my entire income from my online activities because if they are looking to make money online, do you think they really care where that income comes from? I’m sure that I have readers of my blog who follow me because they also want to become bloggers more than they want to do Adsense. Maybe they even want to build a membership site of their own.
For these readers, they may or may not buy a membership to my course. What I can say for sure is that I have a rapidly growing online income from a diversified set of activities and I would think that’d be desirable for anyone looking to make money online.
At a minimum, the combination of Adsense and affiliate income that I earn is fairly substantial (and growing quickly) compared to a newbie, and earning both are activities that are covered by the lessons in Niche Site Mastery.
Hi Trent!
I am brand-new to IM (as in, just started reading about it yesterday!) I have to admit I don’t understand many of the acronyms and jargon and I have never built a website before, but I came across your site from browsing Warriorforum (don’t ask how I ended up there, couldn’t really tell you). I looked over your homepage, and then went straight to this page. Yes, I admit it, I skipped the “New to this site? Start Here!” link because I wanted to see if your site was worth looking over further.
I have to say, I am blown away by both your results and your honesty in presenting those results! You have definitely inspired this newbie! Keep up the good work, and I will definitely be checking out the rest of the site and following your progress.
Much success,
Neil
Hi Neil,
Welcome to OIL. Glad to hear that you are enjoying my blog. Stay tuned as I have plenty more to share in the months/years ahead.
Cheers,
Trent
hi dude .. how to see pages/ visit for keyword like http://onlineincomelab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Online-Income-Lab-Keyword-Overview.jpg ???
thanks in advance ..
Its found under traffic sources and then under keywords in your analytics account.
Thanks for sharing your numbers. It looks like your information marketing aspect of your business is very lucrative. Kudos to you for building something people value enough to pay for, a lot of people can’t do that.
Hey Andrew,
Thanks mate. Yes, NSM seems to be very popular and I’m quite grateful for that. Its also something that I really enjoyed building and continuing to improve whenever I learn something new and more effective.
Hey Trent -
Been reading your blog for a bit now and it has some really useful information on it! Thanks for sharing in great detail your earnings. It is very impressive that you can be increasing your earnings that quickly! You are a great inspiration to myself to get my sites up and running more quickly. Thanks!
BTW – I listened and enjoyed the podcast!
Hi Michael,
Welcome to NSM and thanks so much for all the kind words. I definitely enjoy creating all the content and getting positive feedback like yours
Your welcome.