Amazon Associates Earnings October 2012

October 2012 Amazon Associate Earnings

This Month Total: $1,141.90
Last Month Total: $1,201.93
Difference: -$60.03

Alhamdulillah, I'm happy as my earning is still above 1,000 dollars this month, even though it keep getting down compared to the last few months.

Distribution of Earnings

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 86.9% ($991.92) from my total earning in October 2012
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 13.1% ($149.98) from my total earning in  October 2012
• I'm 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 articles in squidoo.com contribute the largest ( $65.68) in this income.

Conclusion
As I learning more in making money as an Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate in the future. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings September 2012

September 2012 Amazon Associate Earnings

This Month Total: $1,201.93
Last Month Total: $1,477.35
Difference: -$275.42

Alhamdulillah, I consider it, quite a good month , even though it can't match my last 3 month earnings. I'm still feeling happy as my earning still above 1,000 dollars this month.

Distribution of Earnings
 

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 76.4% ($918.66) from my total earning in September 2012
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 23.6% ($283.27) from my total earning in  September 2012
• I'm 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 articles in squidoo.com contribute the largest ( $146.09) in this income.

Conclusion
As I learning more in making money as an Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate in the future. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings August 2012

August 2012 Amazon Associate Earnings

This Month Total: $1,477.35
Last Month Total: $1,651.04
Difference: -$173.65

Alhamdulillah, I consider it, quite a good month , even though it can't match my last 2 month earnings. I'm still feeling happy as my earning still above 1,000 dollars this month.

• As at current I have 3 main site that giving me most of my earnings. I called them Site A,  Site B and  Site C, 

• Most of my earnings are from my main site that I called Site A. As per previous months, my Site A got most traffics from one particular referral site namely redgage.com. Organic search are mostly coming from Yahoo and Bing. And a very minimum organic search from Google. Traffic from redgage.com in this month is still down compared with my other previous month. I still believe it is due to a combination of summer in US and also some of my keywords are down in Google SERP.

• My Site B is getting consistent traffic. And this month the sales conversion is little bit better than last month. I have put more contents to this site, hopefully In shaa'Allah  it can be better over time. I'm still targeting for this Site B to bring good earnings by holiday season in November and December this year, In shaa'Allah. This month of July this Site B managed to earn $182.40 compared to $77.86  in July 2012.

• I created Site C, as a spin off from my Site A. Same theme but with different product models. I created Site C to take advantage by creating a new website with new template, latest plugin and others. Currently this site is a second biggest earner for me after Site A. This month of June this site C managed to earn $212.80 compared to $355.80 in July 2012. 

Top Traffic Sources

Above is the main Top 7 traffic sources in August, 2012 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main source is still www.redgage.com as per previous months

Distribution of Earnings

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 82.1% ($1,212.88) from my total earning in August 2012
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 17.9% ($264.47) from my total earning in  August 2012
• I'm 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 articles in usfreeads.com contribute the largest ( $138.36) in this income.

Be Inspired

• I really like reading Pat's income report from www.smartpassiveincome.com every month, educational and inspiring. Here his Monthly Report – August 2012 which he earned a total of $50,611.38

What I'm Reading

A very educational blog about Amazon and Squidoo Tips and many more at Skefflings Make Money Online.

Conclusion
As I learning more in making money as an Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate in the future. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings July 2012

July 2012 Amazon Associate Earnings

This Month Total: $1,651.04
Last Month Total: $1,921.39
Difference: -$270.35

Alhamdulillah, quite a good month for me, even though it can't match last month earnings.

• As at current I have 3 main site that giving me most of my earnings. I called them Site A,  Site B and  Site C, 

• Most of my earnings are from my main site that I called Site A. As per previous months, my Site A got most traffics from one particular referral site namely redgage.com. Organic search are mostly coming from Yahoo and Bing. And a very minimum organic search from Google. Traffic from redgage.com in this month is slightly down. I believe it is due to a combination of summer in US and also some of my keywords are down in Google SERP.

• My Site B is getting consistent traffic. But this month the sales conversion is less than last month. I have put more contents to this site, hopefully In shaa'Allah  it can be better over time. I'm still targeting for this Site B to bring good earnings by holiday season in November and December this year, In shaa'Allah. This month of July this Site B managed to earn $77.86 compared to  $109.39 in June 2012.

• I created Site C, as a spin off from my Site A. Same theme but with different product models. I created Site C to take advantage by creating a new website with new template, latest plugin and others. Currently this site is a second biggest earner for me after Site A. This month of June this site C managed to earn $355.80 compared to  $345.35  in July 2012. 

Top Traffic Sources

Above is the main Top 6 traffic sources in July, 2012 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main source is still www.redgage.com as per previous months

Distribution of Earnings

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 76.6% ($1,264.98) from my total earning in July 2012
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 23.4% ($386.06) from my total earning in  July 2012
• I'm 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 articles in usfreeads.com contribute the largest ( $281.10) in this income.

Be Inspired

• I really like reading Pat's income report from www.smartpassiveincome.com every month, educational and inspiring. Here his Monthly Report – July 2012 which he earned a total of $53,791.06

As I learning more in making money as an Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate in the future. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings June 2012

May 2012 Amazon Associate Earnings

This Month Total: $1,921.39
Last Month Total: $1,892.62
Difference: $28.77

Alhamdulillah, another good month for me as my earnings almost hit $2,000.

• As at current I have 3 main site that giving me most of my earnings. I called them Site A,  Site B and  Site C, 

• Most of my earnings are from my main site that I called Site A. As per previous months, my Site A consistently getting traffics from one particular referral site namely redgage.com. Organic search are mostly coming from Yahoo and Bing. And a very minimum organic search from Google.

• My Site B is getting better in term of traffic and sales conversion. But there are still many contents to create for this site as I believe this Site B is still under develop. I'm still targeting for this Site B to bring good earnings by holiday season in November and December this year, In shaa'Allah. This month of June this Site B managed to earn $109.39 compared to $40.10 in May 2012.

• I created Site C, as a spin off from my Site A. Same theme but with different product models. I created Site C to take advantage by creating a new website with new template, latest plugin and others. Currently this site is a second biggest earner for me after Site A. This month of June this site C managed to earn $345.35 compared to $98.28 in May 2012. 

Top Traffic Sources

Above is the main Top 6 traffic sources in June, 2012 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main source is still www.redgage.com as per previous months

Distribution of Earnings

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 91.8% ($1,763.89) from my total earning in June 2012
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 8.2% ($157.50) from my total earning in  June 2012
• I'm 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 articles in usfreeads.com contribute the largest ( $72.61) in this income.

Be Inspired

• I really like reading Pat's income report from www.smartpassiveincome.com every month, educational and inspiring. Here his Monthly Report – May 2012 which he earned a total of $58,102.08 

Content Outsourcing

• I tried a site called www.iwriter.com for hiring writer to write contents. Based from my first completed project, I find the site easy to navigate and the quality of the article produced is quite good. And the turnaround is quite fast too.
• The best thing I like about the site is the ability for us to reject the written content if we are not satisfy with the result. And a new content will be written until we really satisfy and approved the article.
• So, you may just want to check out if you need new article for your site and do not have much time to write on your own. 

As I learning more in making money as an Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate in the future. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings May 2012

May 2012 Amazon Associate Earnings

This Month Total: $1,892.62
Last Month Total: $1,364.16
Difference: $528.46

Alhamdulillah, another good month for me as my earnings hits above $1,500 (in non holiday season).

• Most of my earnings are from my main site that I called Site A. As per other months, my Site A consistently getting traffics from one particular referral site namely redgage.com. Organic search are mostly coming from Yahoo and Bing. And a very minimum organic search from Google.

• My Site B which is a newly built is still in developing stage. There are more contents that need to create for this site. As I said last month, I'm still targeting for this Site B to bring good money by holiday season in November and December this year, In shaa'Allah. This month of May this site B managed to earn $40.10 compared to $38.53 in April 2012.

Top Traffic Sources

Above is the main Top 6 traffic sources in May, 2012 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main source is still www.redgage.com as per previous months

Distribution of Earnings

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 90.2% ($1,707.28) from my total earning in May 2012
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 9.8% ($185.34) from my total earning in  May 2012
• I'm 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 articles in usfreeads.com contribute the largest ( $95.66) in this income.

As I learning more in making money as an Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate in the future. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings April 2012

April 2012 Amazon Associate Earning

This Month Total: $1,364.16
Last Month Total: $1,386.54
Difference: -$22.38

Alhamdulillah, another month that I'm able to sustain my earnings above $1,000 .

• Most of my earnings are from my main site that I called Site A. As per other months, my Site A consistently getting traffics from one particular referral site namely redgage.com. Organic search are mostly coming from Yahoo and Bing. And a very minimum organic search from Google.

• My new site which I called Site B that I mentioned last month, is not well developed as I would like it to. I'm not updating it as much as I should. Hopefully this month I'm able to systematically updating it content. I'm still targeting for this Site B to bring good money by holiday season in November and December this year, In shaa'Allah. This month of April this Site B managed to earn $38.53 with 15 items shipped.

Top Traffic Sources

Above is the main Top 6 traffic sources in April, 2012 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main source is still www.redgage.com as per previous months

Distribution of Earnings

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 90.3% ($1,232.16) from my total earning in April 2012
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 9.7% ($132) from my total earning in  April  2012
• I'm 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 articles in usfreeads.com contribute the largest ( $53.91) in this income.

Monetized My United Kingdom, Canada & Germany Traffics


Every month my Site A is getting quite significant amount of traffic from non-USA users. The distribution of traffic per top country in April 2012 is per diagram below.

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To monetized this traffic I'm using Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer Plugin. Basically this plugin will automatically changes any Amazon link on your site to use your affiliate ID, but it also changes the link to point to the user's local Amazon store.

As for me it works great. It is certainly not a perfect plugin but for a free plugin it is worth to use it. I have been using this plugin since holiday season last year (2011). The non-USA traffic that I am getting every months, is not very high in volume but at least it will not be wasted as I am able to monetized it.

Out of the three country, UK is performing better in terms of earnings. For Canada traffic, the earnings rate is rather poor for my site eventhough the traffic is better than UK traffic.

Check out my earnings from UK Amazon Associate.

UK Amazon Associate Earnings

As I learning more in making money as an Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate in the future. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings March 2012

March 2012 Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $1,386.54
Last Month Total: $ 1,215.65
Difference: $170.89

Alhamdulillah, this is three consecutive months my earnings are maintained above $1,000 .

• Most of my earnings are from my main site that I called Site A. As per other months, my Site A consistently getting traffics from one particular referral site namely redgage.com. Organic search are mostly coming from Yahoo and Bing but still no luck from Google.com
  

• I did mentioned last month that I'm working on a new site which I will called Site B from now on. I'm targeted for this Site B to earn some (big!) money by holiday season in November and December this year, In shaa'Allah.

• I roped in my good friend to be part of this project. Hopefully he will bring more momentum to the project and will also able to motivate me harder to achieve success with this site. This site need more content and I hope to be able to give to it big time.

Top Traffic Sources

Above is the main Top 7 traffic sources in March, 2012 for my main Site A. Some other traffic sources are not depicted above.

As can be seen from the snapshot above, the main source are still www.redgage.com .

Distribution of Earning

I categorize my sites into 2 :

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted.

• Income Percentage: 92.1% ($1,276.56) from my total earning in March 2012
  
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 7.9% ($109.98) from my total earning in March 2012
• I'm 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 articles in squidoo.com contribute the largest ( $67.66) in this income.
  

Learning More

• Every month I will not miss reading Pat Flynn's monthly income reports. This man earned huge income per month with various channel from blogging . This month of march his total earning is $52,792.74! Go check out his March 2012 Monthly Report.You may find something good to learn out of it.
  

• 86 Resources That’ll Help You Become a Profitable Amazon Affiliate by Dahlia. This is a very good article, especially on the topic of Improve Your Earnings. A great compilation of various resources to learn from.
  

As I learned more in making money as Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate in the future. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings February 2012

February 2012 Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $1,215.65
Last Month Total: $ 1,196.35
Difference: $19.30

Alhamdulillah, I'm able to maintain my earnings above $1,000 for this month..sweet.

• Most of my earnings are from my main site that I called Site A. As per previous months, it consistently getting traffics from refferral site and organic search especially from Yahoo and Bing.

• I'm not doing any significant works on my Site A for this month. I'm just let it run normally. One of the reason is because I have been focusing my energy to my new site, that I'm very much hope to have a very significant earnings contribution by November and December this year, In shaa'Allah

Top Traffic Sources

Above is the main Top 6 traffic sources in February, 2012 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 .

Distribution of Earning

I categorize my sites into 2 :

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted.

• Income Percentage: 84.4% ($1,025.71) from my total earning in February 2012
  
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 15.6% ($189.94) from my total earning in February 2012
• I'm 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 ads in usfreeads.com contribute the largest ( $95.45) in this income.
  

Get Motivated by Reading This Articles

There are surely many ways to get ourselves motivated in making money as an affiliates. And reading how other people success is definitely one of the ways. I have learned and get the extra motivation by reading the following blogs/articles.

• Reading Pat Flynn's monthly income reports are both fun and educational. This is his February 2012 Monthly Report

• Learned from the experts. Wanda and Paula, very successful in making money from Amazon. They have their own paid ebook called Amazonian Profit Plan, which I still do not own it..yet. But certainly I learned a few things just by reading their blogs at www.affiliateblogonline.com

• Chris Guthrie from Make Money On The Internet is another successful Amazon Associate. Eventhough now he is making money with other sources too. He too has an own paid ebook guide in making money with Amazon called Niche Profit Course, which I still do not own it..yet. Occasionally I read his blog to get ideas an motivation.

As I learned more in making money as Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate. In shaa'Allah.

Amazon Associates Earnings January 2012

January 2012 Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $1,196.35
Last Month Total: $2,804.61
Difference: - $1,608.26

Alhamdulillah, eventhough it is much lower than in December, my earnings in January 2012 is still above $1,000. This is just great. Considering that in January 2011 my earning is only $352.02. Hope to get going with what I'm currently doing and to do it more!

• Much of my earnings comes from My main site that I called Site A. It consistently getting good traffic from refferral site and organic search especially from Yahoo and Bing.

• I must confess here that I just hate doing backlinks. I don't know why, but it is just that I don't have enough energy and interest to do it. And that's why I believe I'm still struggle to get traffic from Google search.

• May be I will outsource it someday. But the truth is I do not very keen in this outsource either. There is elements in this outsourcing that I really do not like. (well, I will talk about this more in my later post..I hope)

• For the meantime I'm trying to do what Pat Flynn's Be Everywhere suggested. That is among other things is to use every medium possible to get the traffic.

Top Traffic Sources

Above is the main Top 9 traffic sources in January, 2012 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 .

Distribution of Earning

I categorize my sites into 2 :

1. My Own Domain. Paid Hosted or Free Hosted.

• Income Percentage: 89.3% ($1,068.51) from my total earning in January 2012
  
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com. This is for paid hosting.
• For free hosting I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com

2. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 10.7% ($127.84) from my total earning in January 2012
• I'm 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 ads in usfreeads.com contribute the largest ( $60.81) in this income.
  

As I learned more in making money as Amazon Associates, I will definitely share it more in this blog. I hope to be able to produce more targeted contents that can benefit more people in their journey as an Amazon Associate. In shaa'Allah.

My Amazon Associates Earnings – December 2011

December 2011 Amazon Associates Earning

This Month Total: $2,804.61
Last Month Total: $1,905.28
Difference: $899.33



Alhamdulillah, this is a another wonderful month for me. This is certainly due to the holiday season in December.

• My main site that I called Site A are getting good traffic due to holiday shopping in this month of December. This December , this site getting a little bit of traffic from Google (organic search). My Site A also maintained to have a significant traffic from Yahoo , Bing and squidoo.

• I wrote about my experiment at my usfreeads.com account last month, where I said I posted more than 1,000 ads. But the results for December is not very encouraging as the ads are not getting good ranking from Google. I decided to stop posting random amazon product ads in my usfreeads.com account but instead just concentrate mainly to selected keywords only.
  

• I may try to promote amazon product using facebook notes though. The method is said to works based from some amazon associates experience. Click here to read their comments on promoting amazon products using facebook notes. However this model may only work for only a short period of time.
  

Top Traffic Sources



Above is the main Top 8 traffic sources in December, 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 . In December I noticed a new referral traffic came from slickdeals.net to my site A . This is a deals site where users can discuss about hot deals. There are a few posts from users in slickdeals.net forum that link back to my site A.

Overall the traffic is almost the same as last month. But due to higher conversion the income from this month is a higher compared to last month.

Distribution of Earning
Disclaimer: some 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: 91.4% ($2,563.83) from my total earning in December 2011
  
• Currently I have a few sites under this category . I'm using wordpress as the platform and hosted at Hostmonster.com
• For December I have canceled my account at hostgator.com as to cut my hosting cost. I decided to maintain just one account and migrate all my site from hostgator.com to hostmonster.com
  

2. Free Hosted

• Income Percentage: 0.3% ($8.58) from my total earning in December 2011
• I have currently 2 sites under this category. I'm using blogspot.com and wordpress.com
• My sites from this free hosted are not performing very well as most of my keywords are dropping in ranking.
  

3. Third Party Site

• Income Percentage: 8.3% ($232.20) from my total earning in December 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
• My articles in squidoo.com contribute the largest ( $115.55) in this income.