Wednesday, August 17, 2011

My Amazon Associates Earnings – July 2011

Amazon Associates Earning

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

amazon earning july 2011

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

traffic sources july 2011

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.