Income Report - February 2008

Time flies! Hard to believe that February has ended and that summer, in Australia at least, is over. Where has all the time gone?

This month has been pretty well a write-off in terms of this website. It’s almost been in a constant state of flux with the design changing dramatically as well as dropping a couple of advertising channels and completely changing the focus of how I monetize this website.

You’ll notice that I’ve dropped Bidvertiser and TTZ Media, basically they were earning nothing for me on this website so I dropped them from the adverts being served and instead have just kept the Bidvertiser referral button as I do have a couple of referrals and they’re basically the only income generators for me on Bidvertiser.

The other big change you’ll notice is that now I’m selling my advertising space through AdToll, and if you’re looking to place some advertisements on this blog I suggest you do so now while it’s so cheap! $0.40 for a 125px button, you cant beat that.

Voice 2 Page, more commonly know as Pay Per Play, went live this month. They had a lot of teething problems, in fact I still think they are having the odd issue with people gaming the system, but have started serving the odd audio advertisement to this website. Apparently they’re only serving a small number of websites at this stage, calling it a ‘controlled release’ but hopefully this website will start to receive a few more adverts this month.

This month I’ve also seen an increase in traffic, page views and even RSS subscribers. This is a big success for me as my subscriber level sat quite low for months and months and to increase around 400% in one month is huge, obviously I’m writing content that people are wanting to read.

Here’s the raw numbers as I didn’t get a chance to do the graphs before we jumped in the car this morning!

 

• Adsense - $8.88
• Bidvertiser - $0.05
• TTZ Media - $0.60
• Voice 2 Page - $0.33
• AdToll - $0.25

Total earnings from advertising - $10.20

Bit of a drop from last month’s income, however considering all the changes around here I’m not suprised.

Anyway, I’ll add the pretty graphs in as soon as I get back from the road trip as I know they’re the only reason you really read this report..hahaha

Cheers, Matt

Gone away, back soon

The wifey and I have gone away for the weekend, it’s her sister’s engagement party this afternoon so we’ve jumped in the car and headed up to Bourke for the weekend. Bourke is a small country town in north west New South Wales, and is about 8-9 hours drive from where we live in Newcastle.

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Mathew Packer Photography

Some of you guys out there would know that I’m a fairly avid photographer and would like to make it a full time job. Some of you may also know that I’ve been designing a new portfolio website
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Tomorrow is EOM!

Here in Australia tomorrow is the end of the month, I’m sure it’s also the end of the month elsewhere in the world it’s just that ours comes a little sooner than say Americas.

Anyway, being the end of the month it’s Income Report time.. cue the marching band!

Today I’ll be starting to compile all the information so that all I need to do is drop in the final figures tomorrow evening to finish up the report. Chances are no one will click on any of my advertising between now and then so I could probably publish my current information,
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Writers & Bloggers needed, Stat!

One of my sister websites, Medical News, Stat! urgently needs some new writers and has asked me to post this out on my blog here.

Medical News, Stat! is a new website aiming to provide information on the latest innovations in medicine and medical science as well as providing independent news and views on newly released medical products, consumer technologies, lifestyle products, financial products, and cool cars and boats (big boys toys.

 

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for articles on the following topics;

• new cars and car related products
• new boats and boat related products
• newly released tech (medical related)
• newly released consumer tech products (televisions, mobile phones, mp3 players, etc.)
• lifestyle articles (holidays, restaurants, etc.)
• financial articles (investing, superannuation, advice, etc.)

If you’re unsure about whether an article would be suitable for publication on Medical News, Stat! then feel free to pitch the article to us first for ‘pre-approval’.

 

What length should the articles be?

Ideally the articles will be around 500 or so words, you can include images with the article or we can source them ourselves. The article should not be published elsewhere, we’re looking for new and unique content. You may put a link back to your website in the byline, but try to leave it at that. We will be setting up an ‘authors’ page shortly with links back to each of our contributors websites.

 

How do I submit an article?

You can email articles to content@medicalnewsstat.com, we will acknowledge the receipt of the article and inform you whether we would like to use the article or not.

 

How much will I get paid?

For each article we will initially be paying a price of $50 AUD. We will raise that price as the traffic and revenue to the website increases. You will be paid via Paypal shortly after the article is published.

 

If you’re interested in getting involved and submitting content to Medical News, Stat! then you can reply directly to this blog post and I’ll pass the information on, or you can email mathew.packer@gmail.com, or reply directly to Medical News, Stat! at admin@medicalnewsstat.com.

 

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