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Blog Income Report – June 2008

written by John Chow on July 6th, 2008

OK. I’m a little late with the blog income report. I completely under estimated the amount time the Top Affiliate Challenge would require. Anyway, I finally got around to adding up all the numbers and they look pretty good.

For those few who don’t know, way back in September of 2006, I started a case study to see if money can be made by blogging. John Chow dot Com made a bit over $350 during its first month as a monetized blog and just continued to grow from there. Last month, the blog set a new income record of $32,529.40. I’m happy to report that I broke that record for June.

Total Blog Income for June 2008: $40,125.99

The month of June goes down as the first time the blog broke the $40K per month mark. This is a significant milestone. It works out to an annual income of nearly half a million dollar. Here’s the income break down.

So far this year, the blog’s lowest income month was $29,569.05 (posted back in April). Since then income has gone up nicely. The biggest boost came from a pay it forward blog post that made me $10,000.

Blog expenses for the month was $242.90 for contextual advertising on Google AdWords and Bidvertiser. The cost of hosting the John Chow dot Com blog is sponsored by BlueFur Web Hosting. I highly recommend them. Use coupon code JohnChowRocks to get 15% off any BlueFur hosting packages.

How 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 two years. Check out my recommended money makers to see what ad networks I used to produce my blog income.

I also recommend you download my free eBook, Make Money Online with John Chow dot Com. The book explains the methods I used to create content, drive traffic and make money. You can get it by signing up for my free newsletter at the top center of the page.

This maybe my last income report for a while. The original goal of the case study was to make full time income with part time blogger. That goal was exceeded a long time ago. I also don’t think the blog income can go much higher without a redesign and addition of new income streams. I will be working on those items over the next few months.

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  1. So far, I’m just earning a few cents a month. Congratulation on your milestone.

    Where do you put the ads of Textlink ads and Kontera?

  2. Frank

    Congratulations!

    It’s amazing what you made and all your thousands of fans are extremely impressed.

    Anyway I hope, that you won’t stop posting your income report for the next time, even if it shouldn’t increase.

  3. Woohoo! I visit your blog for inspiration, keep it up John Chow! You rock!

  4. Yet our team is still getting anihilated revenue wise on the Top Affiliate Challenge. :-D

  5. it is about time john! the evil chow has a super evil plan a head whil in Nebraska

  6. Wow. Here I was getting excited about $2.50 from adsense last week and then I see you’ve made more than that every minute for the last month. Congratulations!

  7. Heh helps when you get $10,000 from someone :) Good luck topping this month!

  8. Nice work John! Thats a pretty awesome milestone to hit and will be interested to see if you can beat it.

  9. Dont you donate any money to charity/org ? Coz 40k+ is a lot of money and donating some to poor people will get you a lot of blessings…

  10. AJ

    excellent! congrats john

  11. Amazing. However, that 10k from the Pay It Forward guy really put you over the mark. More inspiration for us folks that didn’t break the $10k mark yet.

  12. Congrats John for getting bigger and bigger.

  13. So next month, are you going for above 40k? or are you subtracting that in your head, to make the income 30k, which is 2k lower then last month?
    Still impressive..

  14. Great, congrats to you.

  15. Dan

    You actually made 30k, that is lower than the last month.

    Those 10k were not made from this blog.

  16. 40K?! Wow..How I wish, even in at a young age, to be you right now…

  17. mohamm

    I hope I can crack at 12k-30k this month. I don’t use website, and blog to make this 12k-30k. :shock: Its about trusting your self and have confidence.

    Thanks john. I have read your blog for the last 8 months.

  18. Its amazing, you are earning 40K every month. And I know this figure will only increase.

  19. I just re-read this post. Do you really not use adsense at all? Have you ever?

  20. wow! That’s a great number I could imagine to earn! My mission impossible to get that sum of money from my bloggerspeed blog!

  21. Well done John, you set a benchmark for us to surpass. Thanks for the inspiration.

  22. Congrats and well done John. Are u interested to come to our part of the world and share your success. Of cause knowledge is not free…

  23. Well done John! Envy you.

    Do you know any way I could drive traffic to my blog written in simplified chinese?

    • Could you not translate some of John’s more useful articles into chinese?
      I remember reading somewhere that kids, trying to write essays on Topic X, are googling and finding Topic X essays in another language, then using a translator program, converting them to English, change a couple things around and presto – an essay on Topic X. Now is that plagiarism?
      If all things fail, then write about ‘toilets’. :mrgreen:

      • hello Clickusername!

        I was not talking about blog content, I was talking about how to drive traffic to blog written in chinese. What is point to copying someone content even it is in another language?

  24. Why is always the Kontera revenue 1000$ ? I keep on asking this question. Otherwise a great income , anyone would like to be earning $40,125.99 monthly. :) One more question , if you don`t want to keep this private ! How were you able to make $350 during the first month? It`s pretty impossible. :twisted:

    • $1k for Kontera is a deal he has with them regardless of traffic I believe.

      $350 for the first month wasnt the first month of the blog. The blog was maybe a year or more old running without ads. The $350 represents the first month it was monetized.

  25. I still don’t know how you are able to make so much of money from private ads. Can you tell me how you are able to make such a big amount from Private ads?

  26. OMG… I just slipped on my prediction, was expecting it to be at 43K!
    You underperformer John :wink:

    (I would start with my income reports soon… To make things easier, I am planning to make the report in number of cents and not dollars… that way I can still project myself to be a six figure blogger! )

    Cheers,
    Ajith

  27. I’m so freaking jealous already. :twisted: :twisted:

  28. Nice going, John. I’m interested in seeing what other methods you come up with.

  29. fas

    Congratulations JC, thats a fantastic amount.

  30. wow,a lots of money you got.you are my make money online idol. :wink:

  31. I thinks it’s cool that you share your monthly income with us. Most of the bloggers say that they make a lot of money but don’t say exactly how much. This way we can have a better overview of this business. I’m wondering how much visitors do you have each month?

  32. A Great Month John, Well done! :mrgreen:

  33. So without that 10k$ check you are on 30k$ of normal income for blog or that guy payed you 10k$ to be on your blog ???

  34. That’s it, amazing, great; but, a feeling of missing to not expect these reports hereafterwards monthly. :sad:

  35. John do you use/publish trackbacks on your site? I just wanted to make sure that you know that I mentioned this article in my daily money links category:
    http://www.thegreatestinternetsalesman.com/2008-07-money-links-for-july-07-2008.html
    Just wanted to make sure that is fine with you.
    Great job btw! I hope that you’ll break your record soon again.

  36. I think the next logical step would be to begin leveraging the subscribers email list. Email marketing can be a powerful way to make a solid income and will be a pretty good compliment to this blog.

    I was actually just talking about this over at Problogger. Here’s the comment I left there:

    … with blogs, you may get too busy to read them sometimes and eventually you could forget to visit for a period of time.

    Having an email newsletter allows you to easily pull those readers who’ve gotten busy back to your blog again, since people check their emails more frequently than they read blogs. On top of that, it’s just another way to expand your reach and find new channels of communication like how you would with podcasting and videos.

    An email subscribers list to which you regularly send out newsletters and have a good relationship with is a very powerful compliment to a solid blog.

  37. Nice John! Well done again.
    You are a big inspiration! So I started a Norwegian blog last month, its brand new and made me 200$ from June 13. to 30. I’m ok with that, still a long way to go! My host killed the mysql so earnings wont be much better in july :(
    Good luck with further earnings!

  38. Congratulations, man. I really envy you. Wishing you all the best.

    BTW, what do you do with all this money?

    • Invest probably… Save some, Pay his bills, Buy Sally cool stuff, and enjoy his lifestyle.

      • Syed,
        That will still leave him with a lot of money.On the issue of investment, I think the best community for him to invest in is that of his readers. For a blog to be successful, it must have a large number of committed readers. John’s blog has a huge readership and without that it would not have been making all these monies. I therefore would like to suggest that John should be paying a certain percentage (10% or 20%) of his monthly income back to these readers as a token of appreciation to them. This kind of arrangement will not leave him in red simply because he will just be sharing a percentage of what he has earned in a particular month. He has to devise a way of rewarding his readers based on their level of activity(number of visits, comments and their value etc.). If that is not possible, then the cash must be shared equally amongst all the registered readers.

        Rewarding his readers will have a two-fold effect. Firstly, his readers will feel rewarded and therefore they will become more motivated to be coming back to his blog again and again. This will cause new readers to flock to his blog resulting in more traffic and obviously more money.Secondly, he will be making even more money because of the great biblical principle which says…Blessed is the one that giveth than the one that receiveth.

        • John’s blog is not about free hand outs. We live in a capitalist society. Self reliance is the word man!

          Read John’s Ideas and use them to make your own money.

  39. I have posted my income for the month as well, $65, not as much as you, but one day, I hope to make MORE than you :twisted:

    Big Cajun Man’s Income for June 2008

  40. Excellent report! I was wondering when it was going to come out! Wanna make even more? I would suggest that you have a JohnChow seminar and convention in Las Vegas…charge $500 or so for a 2 day learning session. If only 2000 people go…you just made a million dollars! Contact me at my email address if you want me to go into more details about how I can help you make this happen!

  41. the $10,000 dollar post helped you reach a new milestone eh.

    Congrats on the income stats.

  42. Congrats! Definitely am interested in seeing how you further monetize.

  43. Excellent! Just incredible man!…

  44. Ok, ok. Now when CNN is going to interview you :lol:

    • Does CNN even know about John? Someone needs to email them at their news department. Come on guys, lets help out John…this would make a great Saturday morning feel good story!

  45. Congrats.

    John, Can you share a template with us to contact advertisers for private ad sales. Basically want to learn how to sell a site and present it in the best possible ways.

    It can be a good topic to post on

    Keep it up.

  46. Woah! Last time I made a comment to break the $50k mark. Now it is $40k. Next time $50k. Hey John, why not give me a piece of your income? You know, I’d like it. ;)

  47. dcr

    I guess I wasn’t close. My guess was $48,722.07. Please try harder next month. ;-)

  48. Congrats on breaking 40K for the month. I was close…working on breaking $20. But, I continue to tinker with the ads! I hope you do continue to post the income report. I am aware that you proved your original point many, many months ago. But, these income reports are extremely popular! And, I find them to be motivation each month to keep going forward.

    Thanks!

  49. July probably will be a slower month because of TAC and no $10K cheque, so my forecast for your July income is $28,000.

  50. Somebody said earlier something about giving 10 – 20% of the blog`s income out to readers. Of course this is up to John , he decides what to do with his own money , but as long as his affiliate commissions were somewhere around $8,779.52 , a minimum of $1000 should be spent on monthly contests , or just free stuff for the readers. This is what I would be doing if I was him. :twisted:

  51. I think we should all start working harder so we could make money. Not this amount, of course. 40k is too much for me, I’m just a kid yet, but a couple of hundreds per month is just fine. And I think making good content is what it’s all about, so I’ll keep posting on a regular basis. Someday never comes as John said it in one of his articles, so I expect to build a nice income in about a year. Make a time limit guys, it will make you work better…

    BTW, read my blog sometimes: http://www.moneymarsh.com

  52. Awesome earnings Mr John if i had earning like that for just blogging i can sit n relax at my home :grin:

  53. Congrats once again. It’s well deserved I am sure. I just wish somebody would give me $10,000. :P Cheers and keep giving out all the great advices.

    http://www.patientking.blogspot.com :lol:

  54. Wow that is impressive. I am learning a lot about monetizing a blog from you.

    I will say your strategy on Top Affiliate Challenge is counter-intuitive

    Ronda

  55. What an income!!! Mine is about $50-150 a month. Anyway, I’m optimistic I can reach bigger income just like Mr. Chow or any other top income blogger. :D

    Congrats, Mr. Chow.

  56. aweber huh…. I think you missed the first movers advantage on that boat :)

  57. There is more and more income every month :)

  58. Pheak T

    this site by far is one of the most influential that i’ve been on. Congrats on the June income and I’m just starting out but i hope to make those figures one day (shouldnt have said “one day”)

  59. Shawn K. Castille

    Man John your income report is inspiring. Not just on the face value but it shows that someone can really have a meaningful business blog that’s profitable at the same time.

  60. Wow… i’m so amaze with your monthly income. I just start a new blog after compiling lot of tips collection how to drive traffic for blog, may be one day i will become like you earn lot of $$$ :) . If you have time please check my website and give me advise for my website. I really honor if you can spent some time to check my website…

    Thanks

    Fan Forever

  61. Congrats, but…
    What if you take the 10k off?

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  64. Blogging is not the only game in town. 4 of the first 32 thirty day challengers 2 years ago are now millionaires.
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  65. Wow!
    John, this is awesome! 40K Nice….
    Greetz from Germany

  66. Ruben

    This used to be an interesting website. Now the articles are so dull. It seems that JohnCow is going to surpass this blog in the Alexa ranking. It wouldnt surprise me. How sad, the imitator is going to beat the imitated.

  67. Your comments about adsense are interesting. I only use adsense on my two month old blog and so far things are going well. Of course no where near this figure. Anyway after two months I’ve managed to pass the $100 mark (so at least I can get my hands on that google money).

    So it seems to be working for me.

  68. Very impressive indeed. Congrats.

  69. heidi

    who is clicking on his ads? for the love of god.. John Chow is nothing but a spammer! I like thousands of other people use ad blocking software.. I mean please.. who actually LIKES ads?

    Ridiculous….

    Search Engine Optimization just RUINS search engine results for the rest of us so idiots like JOhn CHow can make money.. what the hell.

  70. Congrats John you really earned a lot of money wish i will earn with time half or more than you lol :wink:

  71. Since you reported the Pay It Forward post as income I assume you won’t be giving that away in a contest as us readers had hoped?

  72. Nice Stats John Chow Glad to see the money coming in keep it up :grin:

  73. Congratulation John, TLA is still worth for blogger :grin:

  74. Man, I’d hate to see you not do income reports any longer, but I was kind of thinking the same thing that oyur income wouldn’t go much higher without some major changes in the design and income streams. You can always raise your rates.

  75. AH man, what a shame not to include the Blog Amounts every month. You’re an inspiration for people like me.

  76. Wow!!! That was great! Congratulations for breaking your last month’s income report. You rocks! :grin:

  77. Congrats on reaching the milestone John!

  78. always envy on what u earn… :shock:

  79. Now would be a good time to sell the blog. Maybe for $1,000,000 :cool:

  80. Wow John, good to see a new record for the blog income.

    I was looking back at earlier blog income reports, and i think it was about a year ago you were only making about 7k per month. It’s amazing how much you continue to grow the revenue.

  81. Dan

    @TYCP Entertainment Magazine

    Actually I entered my name, even on this post. But I don’t have a website and it seems there’s a bug here, if you only enter a name without website john chow’s blog doesn’t display it.

    Look for chicken elsewhere.

  82. Amazing income! Keep up the great work.

  83. Congrats John,
    I hit the $30,000 mark for the first time this past February but that was mostly from my website affiliations. I’m now working on doing better about monetizing my blog. I’m still fairly new to the blogging world and I always learn a lot from your blog.

  84. congratz john
    great work i hope i will be making that much some day

  85. ur earning increase again..wow..great !! Dunno when only can same like you.john..

  86. John can I ask you something, What were this blog’s earnings in its first 3-4 months.

  87. John Chow really ROCKS. :razz:
    It’s really cool :lol: to see this 5 figure income in your blog.

  88. Ari

    John Chow,wow thats great to have income like that,I envy you LOL.Btw I am just curious did you make that amount of money on 1 site?or do you have many sites to obtain that kind of figure,please share your story,we really apreciated

  89. It seems 40k per month is great, in fact, it’s not good enough, you can make more. Internet is such a powerful tool that there is no limitation for you to make money, the sky is the limit.

    So I think it is not strange to make 80k per month on internet.

  90. John,

    Have been following your progress for a year now – congratulations on reaching this milestone. My blog is very much for a niche audience, but I should be able to make a few thousand a year out of it by diversifying the range of monetisation techniques as you recommend.

    Thanks,

    Chris
    http://puertoduquesa.blogspot.com/

  91. Good job John!

    I also posted my blog income for June here: http://onlinedividends.blogspot.com/2008/07/passive-income-as-of-06302008.html
    It’s sad to see you will no longer be updating your monthly income.

  92. @ Online Dividends
    What do you mean? Who said he wouldn’t share it anymore?

    • Free Poker, This is what he says in this very post:

      This maybe my last income report for a while. The original goal of the case study was to make full time income with part time blogger. That goal was exceeded a long time ago. I also don’t think the blog income can go much higher without a redesign and addition of new income streams. I will be working on those items over the next few months.

  93. Congratulations John! Recently I started my own blog, and I am using yours as an example to monetize it.

  94. 40k a month and I could buy that quilted, two-ply tp I’ve had my eye on.

  95. Congrats John. You are a serious rocker man. Keep up the good work and my advanced wishes for the 100K mark soon.

    Please take a moment to read my blog
    http://money-making-tools.tipsonclicks.com

    Swamy

  96. Wow this is fantastic. My top earnings were in April and have been going down ever since. I put it down to the credit crunch but as you have had your best month yet, I need to stop using that as an excuse and get my nose to the grindstone!

  97. Blog for 3 years and a half and you will see the results. Try to bring great content, some search engine traffic, build up a community, and there`s your 30K + :twisted:

  98. Good point, Bro Alex….it takes time. As far as building the search engine traffic, I hope this can help you and any others out there: http://natespost.com/index.php/blogging-for-traffic/

  99. Wow! That’s pretty incredible. My jaw actually dropped when I saw that number.

  100. Some nice figures there. It is no wonder why you made that much. You are the biggest blog/online hustler around. 9/10 posts are a ploy to an affiliate link, or a picture of your seafood. I do wonder, how much to you pay for your traffic? Your SERPS are horrible, main keywords are horrible. I can’t imaging you get much free search engine traffic. I bet majority comes from paid advertising, PPC, and direct links. No disrespect though, you do it well and well hidden too.

    Shudogg Dot Com – Make Money Online Blogging

  101. seems kontera doesn’t pay much..my kontera earning like Turtle..don even more than $0.1 :lol:

  102. These kind of posts are nothing but inspiration to me. Keep up the good work !

  103. Why don’t you use google adsense for your earning. Don’t you like them. This month I have earn 800$ from google with a new trick I hope you like it. :mrgreen:

  104. fas

    You dont use google adsense?

  105. Excellent! Xie xie for sharing, John! :-)
    Gong Xi Le!

    Dave :-)

  106. Glad to see that you are still going strong and making money with your blog.

  107. Why dont you use google adsense ?

  108. fas

    John Chow it will be kind enough if you let us know about when you started and how you started, since there are readers who are new and don’t know much about your blog. Thanks.

  109. Congrats John,

    on to the 50,000 per month benchmark!

    Keep the cool content flowing…always a pleasure to be educated on your site.

  110. Good job dude :grin:
    anyway, have u check my site. thanks before :)

  111. Haven’t been here in a few months – amazing how your income has grown so much so quickly! Keep up the great work!

  112. Need a virtual assistant? No, really… I’m being completely serious here.

  113. Really nice to see, how much $ you can make with a blog.
    Are there any statistics about your daily PI/unique Visitors?

    My own Blog is quite small, but i´ll do my best to get some traffic.
    thanks for your great hints.

  114. i dont earn so much money – congratulations

    -> my site Kontaktlinsen

  115. When you think about ebay you think online auctions

    When you think about blogs you think John Chow

    Great work!

    Steve

  116. Nice Number.
    Someday I’ll earn as much as you do. :)
    BTW Jonathan Volk Made $170,000/month. Superb!!

  117. All right the race is on. Will John publish his report for July or not?
    Come on John even I posted mine already :-) I had a big %-age increase in earnings.

    http://onlinedividends.blogspot.com/

  118. The idea is to be unique to the most amount of people. (And yes, creating controversies every once in a while helps too :oops: )

  119. Wow $40,000 that’s crazy! Good job.

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