May 2007 earnings

The final results of my first intensive 'paid to blog' one-month experiment. My mitigation for not having vast amounts of earnings are as follows. I am on blogger - a free host, so some opportunities are not open to me. My PR for this blog is just 2, this also closes the door on a large proportion of potential earnings, however it does give me the opportunity to see how many options are open at that level. This is particularly useful if the readers of this blog have blogs with similar ranks.

May 2007 earnings : __________April 2007>

The diagrams are meant to show the following:

Earnings (potential) for May were $187.54 in total - my initial target was just $100, but at mid-month, I was hoping to be able to double that figure. I came fairly close, but found it difficult to take opportunities on PPP in the last week as everything seemed to be taken - possibly due to the new policy of holding opps open once 'accepted' for 6 hours. This means you need to get in at the start of an opp - or be VERY lucky and just catch an opp after it becomes re-available. I have 'simplified' my spreadsheet by taking out the 'payout date' as this is not necessary. I have only included 'accepted' posts, so I do have a couple of 'pending' jobs which would have taken me over the $200 mark, but will go into next months earnings once accepted. My overall earnings (since January) are $241.99, but of that total only $119.09 has actually reached my Paypal account at this point - most schemes pay after around 30 days, though a couple of schemes (Smorty & Creamaid) pay quicker. You can see from the speadsheet on the left that whilst Smorty, Creamaid, Bloggerwave and Blogsvertise have paid everything outstanding, Payperpost has just started to pay out and Ciao surveys have yet to make any payouts. I have included the very small revenue that I get from advertising (bidvertiser and adsense) on my blogs and continue to list the minute earnings from my occassional activity on MyLot.

I have been updating total earnings in my sidebar on an almost daily basis, and will continue this practice - NB this will be total (potential + paid out) earnings on the left in PURPLE, and total paid out in RED on the right - these figures should not be added together...

Drop a comment if anything needs explaining - next month will have to be dedicated to linking to drive up page rank so that I can do this experiment again as a PR3 or 4 next time!!!

Looking towards the end of May

My month of blogging to maximise paid to blog earnings is nearly over. Munny4Hunny currently has a Page rank of 2, so earnings only reflect what is possible with a PR2. I don't have any intention of posting quite as frequently as I have during May (this being my 48th post), on a regular basis until I get a new page rank, and then maybe I should repeat the experiment as a comparison. In a few days time, I will be publishing my earnings (I can tell you that I definitely exceeded my $100 target).

I have learned a number of things this month, mostly about how PPP is the leading paid to blog scheme by a long way, but also about saving posts as 'drafts' for future use (I have even started saving potential adverts...!), and I am picking up hints about running competitions which may be useful over the coming months.

I really have to concentrate on building up links during June, so I will be trawling blog-land for like-minded bloggers to partner with. If this is you, and we are not already linked, please leave me a comment.

April 2007 - earnings

The graphic is getting more difficult to read and I am going to have to come up with a simpler representation...

In short, April has generated $26.41 in opportunities, and a total of $30.55 has been cashed out (a combination of last months earnings and some of this months 'instant' payouts).

Total 'earnings' are now at $54.45, and the amount actually received (paid into paypal) is $32.55.

There has been a period during April during which opportunities dried up, otherwise I am sure earnings would have been substantially better.. I am confident of better earnings in May and have started on the right track already. My first Payperpost entry has been accepted, and I have had much better results with Creamaid recently. I have had an email from Reviewme which I will need to look into, so that will give me a couple more schemes that I can investigate and report on. watch this space for a new updated report on Creamaid, and my first experiences with Payperpost. I will attempt to update the 'earnings' graphic in the sidebar on a more regular basis - this will indicate the Total amount earned and cashed out rather than the earnings for just the current month.