The Writers Manifesto Stats for October 2007
Another month has flown by and I am constantly amazed at the speed of which time flies by these days. I guess this is also due to the fact that I am as busy as ever and the purpose of showing you my stats is not to proof something to you, but merely to show that one can indeed make money on the Internet.
At present my aim is to get noticed as a Freelance Writer and I can honestly say that things are working fine for me in this regard. I have several regular clients for which I am blogging for, write niche marketing articles and keyword rich articles for SEO. Most of this work is regular and others were once of who ended up referring me more clients. I am really happy with my progress so far.
I also realize that the biggest threat to my blogging, freelance writing income is the inability to work whilst I’m sick or on holidays, which means no income for me and this is a major concern for me for the future. Whilst I’m very happy with what I do as it allows me to follow my passion, I also realize that I need residual income.
We all know my experience in MLM and how this isn’t for me at all, so MLM is out of the picture for this plan. My focus for residual income at this stage is on product creation strategies and something will need to happen regarding this over the next few month.
As from this month I also started to track my time because I realize that I’m wasting time where I could utilize it to earn even more money. By tracking the time I spend on various tasks every day, it will give a great overall picture of what to be aware of at the end of this month E.G. time wasters.
Where in September 2007 I received just over 400 actual visitors to this blog, in October it was nearly 600. I guess the blog has just taken another leap ahead and so far I’m really happy with my progress.
For me as a blogger the most rewarding experience is to receive regular traffic with readers that feel happy to comment and share. This makes it all worthwhile to me and I just love you guys for contributing. That is why I put in a considerable amount of dollars into my monthly competitions I believe in reciprocating and giving back. Doing this is my way to give back to some of you.
Anyway, I’ve rambled on long enough about me and I realize that some just want to see the cheese, so here it is:
$ 00.00 Affiliate income
$ 600.00 Blogging
$ 637.50 Copy Writing
$ 1237.50 Total Income for October 2007
As you can see, last month’s income was solely from blogging and freelance writing. Those are what I focused on and everything else took a bit of a suffering. I also decided that for the time being I didn’t want to write any reviews with PPP, all though this might change again in the future. Since I got a PR 3 I could probably earn around $ 900 extra with this method but to be honest I am concerned about the outcome of paid reviews for future Google slaps.
If they would allow us to do reviews with “nofollow” links, the story would be different.
Anyway, that’s it for my stats and hopefully I haven’t bored you to dead with them.
Monika
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About the Author: I'm a passionate freelance writer and problogger. To further build my business I'm also in the process of building my own niche empire which pays me residual income.
YC | Nov 5, 2007 | Reply
Monika – firstly, Congrats on those improvements in stats and the income is great! Very motivating to see what can be achieved through honest means and everyone of us can do this.
Secondly, you got 600 visitors in October?? I’m sure it must be more?
maneesh | Nov 6, 2007 | Reply
1000 bucks not too bad !
nice work monika .. wishin u even more visitors this month…
Terry Didcott | Nov 6, 2007 | Reply
They’re great stats Monika, shows your hard work is paying off in more visitors and more earnings. Good on ya!
Maybe you can use me an the experiment for PPP to see if I either get booted out of PPP for changing older links to nofollow, or Google slaps me down in 3 months time.
Either way, I’m going to keep writing paid reviews until other streams of income start flowing better. So let’s wait and see what happens.
It’ll also be interesting to see if Yaro gets his PR back after getting rid of his paid text links. That’ll be a good pointer as to which way to go.
Terry
Monika | Nov 6, 2007 | Reply
YC: that was 600 per day. You can see it in the heading of the stats.
I’d be worried for 600 a month to be honest.
Maneesh: hi there Maneesh, thank you, I can say that I’m very happy with this figure. I’m right on track for what I have in mind so that’s good to see.
Terry: I might just do that (use you as a guinea pig) LOL I really hope for you that you won’t get slapped! And I certainly keep an eye on Yaro too in regards to this.
Monika
Karthik | Nov 9, 2007 | Reply
That’s good news Monika, glad things are working out for you
Could you break down the blogging stats a bit – I didn’t really follow how you earned money out of it – you don’t seem to have any ads on this blog, does that mean you have a truck-load of other blogs?
moneytalks | Nov 9, 2007 | Reply
Hi Monika,
that’s a good number to begin with. it would just increase if you just keep doing it. about those those paid link stuff from what i understand google just would never count those link while calculating page rank that would have effect on your ranking in the serp. if you think you can get enough traffic from other sources and could generate income from text link or pay per post or reviews just go ahead.
i don’t think they would penalize blog for doing it. i believe they penalize directories because they just don’t favor site where you accept low quality sites in one place and you earn money for that. just like link farm but a different version.
anyway keep writing. i hope i could learn something here to better my writing.
Monika | Nov 10, 2007 | Reply
moneytalks: I’m not too sure about what you are saying. From what I understand, Google penalizes those who do paid reviews without “nofollow”.
The whole act of PPP and similar sites is to get advertisers on board so they get paid also. They are kind of the intermediary and they would never allow re”nofollow’ links on these reviews.
Hence in the next update the big G might slap all those bloggers who keep doing this.
I might be wrong, but this is how I feel.
Regardless of my opinion, I might be totally off the bat and I guess we will know sometime.
But thanks for your insights too. I love hearing different views on topics as it does make for interesting comments and we can maybe learn a thing or two as well.
Monika
moneytalks | Nov 11, 2007 | Reply
we want best for all of us. ya you right about that sharing thing. to me by sharing views we can move forward quickly. we might be right and we might be wrong but definitely we only see what we know.
i been listening to people all over the place about this paid link things. IMO google don’t penalize paid link but penalize paid link with nofollow. if you buy paid link and put nofollow tag google won’t count that link for calculating PR and it could save a lot of their resources.
if you put paid link with follow tag you are against their rules and make their spider waste their resources and time and that is the reason they want to penalize that kind of site. they want to save their resources.
calculating PR is not a simple and quick thing to do. thousands of pages come a live on the net everyday. their main concern is the real user of their search engine and majorities of them are not like us which is making money online. and they require a lot of resources to cover all that and make their biz profitable at the same time. so if people are not helping them why should they help others.
Monika | Nov 11, 2007 | Reply
Karthik: sorry,I must have missed your comment above, not my intention. I normally try to reply t everybody. The breaking down isn’t of much value at present as the money I earned with blogging was from paid blogging – (writing for others)
moneytalks: that makes sense what you are saying.
Problem is that those paid links won’t allow us to attach “nofollow” links as of yet.
This might change in the future if they also loose revenue because bloggers step back.
Monika
Mark Dykeman | Nov 23, 2007 | Reply
It’s very cool of you to share this information.