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.