My Amazon Associates Earnings – November 2011

November 2011 Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $1,905.28
Last Month Total: $630.22
Difference: $1,275.06



Alhamdulillah, this is a wonderful month for me. November are filled with a yearly online shopping events like black friday and cyber monday. Due to those events the traffic is definitely pickup to my sites, especially to my Site A (my main site).

The traffic increased about 3 times than my normal month. The most high volume traffic was recorded from 24/12/2011 - 28/12/2011 .

• My main site that I called Site A are getting increasing traffic due to holiday shopping in this month of November. As per last month , this site is still not getting much traffic from Google (organic search). However I do see that some of my keywords are climbing in Google page (within page 2 -10). However its maintained to have a significant traffic from Yahoo , Bing and squidoo.

• I did some experiments at my usfreeads.com account. Since early this year I posting more Amazon product ads to my account using my standard template. I believe I have more than 1,000 ads posted. I hope to get good result for this November, but it certainly not materialised. But I'm hoping to get a better result in December. This method is one boring exercise to do actually. I select a product from Amazon, build the ads and finally post the ads to usfreeads.com . When I checked back how much I earned using this method (I track using Tracking ID) until this November, I earned a total of US$796.53 , well not bad at all.

• I'm also getting traffic to my Site A from usfreeads.com. For November, I got a total of 274 visits from usfreeads.com (as per diagram below). Not much but I believe it certainly helps.
  

• As for now, I got most of my traffic from redgage.com (more than 80%). But this scenario is not good for a long term as I over dependent. There are maintenance performed by Redgage team for a few hours on 24th and 25th Nov , and I must say my total traffic in November suffered a little bit from it.

• I'm currently building a new site, I will call this site, Site B. I'm looking to increase my average monthly earning from US$500+ to hopefully US$800+. I'm very much hoping that this new site will help me achieving my targeted earning. I will try to make this new site profitable within the next 6 months.
  

Top Traffic Sources




Above is the main Top 6 traffic sources in November, 2011 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main sources are www.redgage.com followed by bing, yahoo , squidoo and usfreeads.

Distribution of Earning
Disclaimer: many of the links below are affiliate links that will earn me a commission if you purchase through them.
I categorize my sites into 3 :

1. Self Hosted Domain.

• Income Percentage: 82.7% ($1,575.73) from my total earning in November 2011
  
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted by the combination of Hostmonster.com and Hostgator.com

2. Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 5.5% ($104.33) from my total earning in November 2011
• I have currently 2 sites under this category. I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com
  

3. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 11.8% ($225.22) from my total earning in November 2011
• I'm also using third party site to promote amazon products. Among the sites that I'm using are squidoo.com , Hubpages.com, usfreeads.com and redgage.com

Note: Updated 20th Dec, 2011. I just noticed that Amazon has made some minor adjustment November earning (or my my mind just playing tricks on me earlier..) from earlier result. I have made some changes to my earlier post to reflect the changes made by Amazon.

My Amazon Associates Earnings – October 2011

Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $630.22
Last Month Total: $525.29
Difference: $104.93



An increase of almost 20% than last month income.

• My main site that I called Site A are getting increasing traffic from referring site as compared to last month. As per last month , this site is still not getting much traffic from Google (organic search). It maintained to have a significant traffic from Yahoo , Bing and squidoo.
  

Top Traffic Sources




Above is the main sources for the traffic in October, 2011 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main sources are www.redgage.com followed by yahoo , bing and squidoo .

There is an increase of visitors to my Site A of almost 1,000 visitors as compared to last month.

Distribution of Earning
Disclaimer: many of the links below are affiliate links that will earn me a commission if you purchase through them.
I categorize my sites into 3 :

1. Self Hosted Domain.

• Income Percentage: 80.7% ($ 508.53) from my total earning in October
  
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted by the combination of Hostmonster.com and Hostgator.com

2. Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 8.9% ($56.05) from my total earning in October
• I have currently 2 sites under this category. I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com
  

3. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 10.4% ($65.64) from my total earning in October
• I'm also using third party site to promote amazon products. Among the sites that I'm using are squidoo.com , Hubpages.com, usfreeads.com and redgage.com
  

My Amazon Associates Earnings – September 2011

Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $525.29
Last Month Total: $544.18
Difference: -$18.89



Slightly lower than last month income.

• My main site that I called Site A are continuously getting about the same amount of traffic from referring site as compared to last month. As per last month , this site is still not getting much traffic from Google. It maintained to have a significant traffic from Yahoo and Bing .

• There is also a good flow of traffic for my articles and ads at third party site that I'm using. The conversion is quite good too and is comparable to last month.

Top Traffic Sources



Above is the main sources for the traffic in September, 2011 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main sources are www.redgage.com followed by yahoo and bing .

There is an increase of visitors to my Site A as compared to last month. However the traffic I'm getting is not translated to a better Amazon profit unfortunately.

Distribution of Earning
Disclaimer: many of the links below are affiliate links that will earn me a commission if you purchase through them.
I categorize my sites into 3 :

1. Self Hosted Domain.

• Income Percentage: 78.3% ($ 411.21) from my total earning in September
  
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted by the combination of Hostmonster.com and Hostgator.com

2. Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 4.4% ($23.21) from my total earning in September
• I have currently 2 sites under this category. I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com
  

3. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 17.3% ($90.87) from my total earning in September
• I'm also using third party site to promote amazon products. Among the sites that I'm using are squidoo.com , Hubpages.com, usfreeads.com and redgage.com
  

My Amazon Associates Earnings – August 2011

Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $544.18
Last Month Total: $592.15
Difference: -$47.97



Slightly lower than last month income.

• My main site that I called Site A are continuously getting about the same amount of traffic from referring site as compared to last month. As per last month , this site is still not getting much traffic from Google. It maintained to have a significant traffic from Yahoo and Bing .

• One my new niche sites ( I refer it as site W1) that I built using premium ReviewAzon wordpress plugin, are getting traffic from Google and converts well this month.Im getting $51.00 from this site W1 this month. I'm intend to outsource the writing for this blog to build more and better content.

• There is also a good flow of traffic for my articles and ads at third party site that I'm using. And this month conversion is quite good too.

Top Traffic Sources



Above is the main sources for the traffic in August for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main sources are www.redgage.com followed by yahoo, bing and squidoo.com . But my last month 2nd best referring site of www.3stepads.com is dropped in ranking. This is due to falling keywords ranking for my articles at www.3stepads.com.

However my articles in squidoo are getting better keyword ranking from Google. I'm intend to put more articles in squidoo that relate to my performing keywords.

Distribution of Earning
Disclaimer: many of the links below are affiliate links that will earn me a commission if you purchase through them.
I categorize my sites into 3 :

1. Self Hosted Domain.

• Income Percentage: 75% from my total earning in August
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted by the combination of Hostmonster.com and Hostgator.com

2. Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 8% from my total earning in August
• I have currently 1 site under this category. I'm using blogspot.com

3. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 17% from my total earning in August
• I'm also using third party site to promote amazon products. Among the sites that I'm using are squidoo.com , Hubpages.com and usfreeads.com

I'm hoping to share more valuable content and my experience in this blog for the benefit to all of us.

My Amazon Associates Earnings – Jun 2011

Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $1,027.98
Last Month Total: $715.01
Difference: +$312.97



This is the best month for me, for the first time I hit the $1,000 mark. There is a few reasons behind this result:

• My main site that I will refer to as Site A are continuously getting good traffic from referring site. However this site is still not getting much traffic from Google. It increasing to have a significant traffic from Yahoo and Bing though.

• A few of my niche sites that I built using premium ReviewAzon wordpress plugin are getting traffic from Google and the conversion is quite good for this month.

• There is also a good flow of traffic for my articles and ads at third party site that I'm using. And this month conversion is quite good too.
  

Top Traffic Sources



Above is the main sources for the traffic in July for my main - Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main sources are www.3stepads.com . Unfortunately I do not have much luck in getting traffic from Google but I'm intend to address it sooner rather than later.

Distribution of Earning

Disclaimer: many of the links below are affiliate links that will earn me a commission if you purchase through them.

I categorize my sites into 3 :

1. Self Hosted Domain.

• Income Percentage: 67% from my total earning in July
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted by the combination of Hostmonster.com and Hostgator.com .
  
• Contents for my sites are from the combination of my own writing and by using premium wordpress plugin of ReviewAzon to pull contents from Amazon.com website.

2. Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 18% from my total earning in July
  
• I have currently 2 site under this category. I'm using blogspot.com

3. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 15% from my total earning in July
• I'm also using third party site to promote amazon products. Among the sites that I'm using are squidoo.com , Hubpages.com and usfreeads.com

I'm hoping to share more valuable content and my experience in this blog for the benefit to all of us.

My Amazon Associates Earnings – July 2011

Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $592.15
Last Month Total: $1,027.98
Difference: -$434.85



Compared to last month, this is not a good month for me. There is a few reasons behind this result:

• Most of my keywords are dropped in ranking. This is especially true to my 2 most profitable sites in Jun 2011.
• I lost most traffic from an organic search from google.
• For this particular months most of my traffic is only from the referring site.

Top Traffic Sources



Above is the main sources for the traffic in July for my main site. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main sources are www.redgage.com and www.3stepads.com . I have been using this 2 sites to build backlinks to my main sites which these 2 sites also act as a referring site.

Some of my keywords are ranking well when using this 2 sites. However I notice that the keyword ranking keep dropping as well. I'm not sure how long it will stay but hopefully it will stay as long as possible :)

Distribution of Earning

Disclaimer: many of the links below are affiliate links that will earn me a commission if you purchase through them.

I categorize my sites into 3 :

1. Self Hosted Domain.

• Income Percentage: 73% from my total earning in July
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted by the combination of Hostmonster.com and Hostgator.com

2. Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 15% from my total earning in July
• I have currently 1 site under this category. I'm using blogspot.com

3. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 12% from my total earning in July
• I'm also using third party site to promote amazon products. Among the sites that I'm using are squidoo.com , Hubpages.com and usfreeads.com

I'm hoping to share more valuable content and my experience in this blog for the benefit to all of us.

My Income Reports

These reports have been made to track my monthly income. Hopefully with this report it will help me and you in some way to improve further our businesses.

• November 2011 - $1,905.28
• October 2011 - 630.22
• September 2011 - 525.29
  
• August 2011 – $544.18
• July 2011 – $592.15
• June 2011 – $1,027.98
• May 2011 – $715.01
• April 2011 – $731.97
• March 2011 – $819.97
• February 2011 – $270.53
• January 2011 – $352.02
• December 2010 – $595.41
• November 2010 – $679.57
• October 2010 – $134.67
• September 2010 – $230.22
• August 2010 – $300.36
• July 2010 – $202.25
• June 2010 – $138.79
• May 2010 – $227.38
• April 2010 – $145.75
• March 2010 – $149.52
• February 2010 – $120.77
• January 2010 – $149.39
• December 2009 – $197.04
• November 2009 – $166.34
• October 2009 – $28.26
• September 2009 – $32.55
• August 2009 – $11.41
• July 2009 – $0.00
• June 2009 – $66.56
• May 2009 – $1.21
• April 2009 – $21.48
• March 2009 – $33.48
• February 2009 – $26.71
• January 2009 – $5.97