Blog Income Report - January 2008
written by John Chow
Setting The Tone for 2008
It’s a brand new month (and a brand new year) and that means it’s time for the monthly John Chow dot Com blog income report. Way back in September of 2006, I decided to do a little experiment to see if money can really be made by blogging. Before that time, John Chow dot Com was simply a personal blog and didn’t make any money.
Starting with just Google AdSense, the blog made $352.94 in its first month as a monetized site and quickly grew from there. The blog made $25,040.36 last month.
January is one of the most important months because it sets the tone for the rest the year. It’s always better to start off on a high note than a low one. While traffic is normally higher in January, advertising rates are generally lower because the holiday shopping season is over. The result is usually a drop in income. However, I’m happy to report that not only did John Chow dot Com beat the December income, it set a new income record.
Total Blog Income for January 2008: $30,616.35
January 2008 will go down as the month the blog broke the $30,000 mark. It’s amazing to see that only a year ago, the blog income was “only” $3,440.66. Here’s the income break down.
- Private Ad Sales: $15,440.00
- Affiliate Commissions: $6,147.45
- ReviewMe: $5,700.00
- Text Link Ads: $2007.99
- Kontera: $1,000.00
- TTZ Media: $320.91
- Grand Total: $30,616.35
Blog traffic for January was 280,788 page views from 147,278 unique visitors, according to Google Analytics. If you take the blog page views and divide it by the blog income, you get a site wide eCPM of $109.04. What this means is for every 1000 page views, John Chow dot Com made over $100, or 10 cents per view. How much would your blog be making if you made $100 for every 1000 page views?
Blog expenses for the month were $464.29 for contextual advertising and $25 for a private ad. Hosting for John Chow dot Com is sponsored by BlueFur Web Hosting. Use coupon code JohnChowRocks to get 15% off any BlueFur hosting packages.
Want To Be a Six Figure Blogger?
The key to making money online is to drive a lot of traffic and then maximize the income from that traffic. Most bloggers don’t do this. I can’t keep count on the number of blogs I’ve seen running Google AdSense and nothing else. If you’ve been reading John Chow dot Com for even a short time, then you know that Google is not the only game in town. Never put your eggs in one basket. It’s a message I’ve been saying for over a year. Check out my recommended money makers to see what ad networks I used to produce my blog income.
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Insane in the membrane…
WOW, that’s pretty amazing. Great work john!
I could have made 600 bucks if get the CPM rate. My blog’s traffic was really low and was not qualified to sign up for many ad network. I have run it for more than a year now. Sign!
what ad networks require traffic before you can sign up?
Not all of them require traffic although, if you want to make money with them I’d start driving traffic immediatley.
Yea, he is breaking the records month after month. I wonder what I will see for the next 12 months in such posts here.
I too am breaking my own record month after month. Somehow I don’t think that I can compare myself to Joh though! I went from $0.59 in November to $3.03 in December to over $24.00 in January. I only hope I can keep a pace like Mr. Chow. Very impressive John I will continue to take your advice!
Like you, I am also not JOHN CHOW. I am also breaking my own records. But the fact is that at present I am using only Google Adsense to earn earn money online. My November months income was $0.58, for Dec 07, it was $4.18 and for Jan 08, it is $3.46 only. I did not work for a whole month in January but still I made $3.46, it amaed my. Anyway, best of luck for your online venture
I agree I can see the blog rising to aroundthe $40-50,000/month mark by the end of the year.
Nice work again John. Can you buy me lunch?
Excellent job John. Best of luck topping it next month.
ROFL i love that expression and it suits just FINE to those numbers.
What the hell will you be doing will all that cash John?
Congrats mate!!! Maybe you could share with us your financial management skills
“Chow me the money”
You made me laugh XD
Excellent John, if I made a third of that, I would be rich in Argentina
So, January 2009 will be $300000?
Actually, I wouldn’t be all that surprised to see him pulling in $300k a month from TTZMedia in 2009, or who knows, he may find a generous buyer
Alan Johnson
I doubt John will turn his blog from what his yearly earning are from it (reported in Entrepreneur Magazine) to monthly in the space of 12 month however, if you a targetting the $40-50,000/month that more realistic.
However if you take John’s other online entities into consideration and look at the expected growth of the advertising industry by Jan 2009 he could possibly be close to that figure/month.
Unless you’re TC, it’s hard to expect such earnings form the blog in itself. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him raking in over $300k monthly from all of his online activities in 2008 however.
Alan Johnson
John, I both love and hate you. I’m not sure which…
Great job though! It’s been amazing to watch this blog grow…
Lol same here… I doubled my income from my blog last month and I’m still only 1/15th of the way to where John is at!
yeah you doing pretty goood i read your blog all the time you should give yourself another year to get to johns level
2 Large is a great effort Ben, keep it going man.
Thanks Neil, I’ve still got a few months to go for my goal!
Hey Ben,
I contributed to your last month’s income. I got your blogging experiment and I like it a lot. 1/15 way there is only the beginning. You probably double your income next month. You saw John Chow’s annual income report. It doubled, tripled like crazy.
~Terry
This is truly Amazing John! - I hope to be doing this in a years time
(I’m going off to cry now…)
i will definitely download your ebook and sign up for your newsletter!
John, its only a little while till you get acquired by google.
Then it be- watch how google makes money.
Congrats on the great month.
I signed up for the RSS feed, how do I get the eBook?
Thanks!
You need to sign up for the newsletter to get the ebook.
Another month well done and a new record! Will update the graphs this weekend. Congrats!
Wow, John you are truly an inspiration for me. Some people only make this much in a year working full time!
Congrats on breaking $30k a month!
Time to increase my pay, John?
You now get two bowls of Pho instead of one.
What? No iced coffee? No spring roll?
There are people happy with half a bowl of pho so be grateful for what you have
I love spring rolls and would gladly work for them.
“increase my pay”
Are you sure you want that ? Seriously ?
- How about :
*Gift from a friend ( John ) : 4 new Snow tires.
*Increased visibility/advertising here.
*Your own Category and Box —————>>>
Below “John chow dot com sponsors”
You get Category “John Chow dot com contributors” or “John chow dot com slave”
With your own Blog logo and Business Logo leading to your Blog and Business.
* In the Link Category at the bottom be added as Top spot on Friends and familly.
* John could use is clouth or money to get you a deal on a free Design upgrade on your blog to be making more money.
*John could help you get new sponsors and be the first with a paid TTZ sponsoring logo.
Little more pay = more taxes. More visibility and more help = lot more money before and after taxes.
Congratulations. Looks like you’re only going to continue to grow your blog in this new year.
Congratulations. I will be there at the top soon, just keep me a seat.
it’s everybody’s wish to be here lol.
Congratulations John, statistics like this put the doubters back in line. The reason we read this blog is *because* you generate that amount of money. It’s astonishing and you’re an inspiration.
Just goes to show what you can do.
I’m not sure what doubters you’re talking about. There’s no doubting that this blog makes a lot of money. The criticism I’ve leveled at John most often is not providing value often enough. Inspiration is great but there’s a lot of nuts and bolts stuff that would be much more valuable when the rubber meets the road.
Congrats John. Your income ceiling just keeps going up and up.
-Gyutae Park of Winning the Web
very nice, very nice John…
Cool John! I’m going to report over $3,000 this month in affiliate earnings only 1/10th what you are earning. I’m planning on catching you one day though.
Congrats John!
I’ve been a reader for some time now and I can only expect your numbers to grow as the internet continues to grow daily!!
Incredible! Your traffic actually decreased by over 30,000 visitors (from 12/07) and yet you still managed to make over $4000 more. Amazing stats and I can’t wait to see how this month goes for you.
Actually, traffic was up from December.
Oh, maybe I was thinking November.
You did have 180,000 one month recently though
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John,
Do you have a long term goal that you would like to reach with your blog income and traffic stats?
~Debby
I’ve been reading John Chow dot Com for awhile now and I’m astounded at how quickly you’ve been able to turn your blog into a cash machine!
Content is king.
Keep up the great work!