It’s the start of a new month and that means it’s time once again for the highly anticipated blog income report. I have tell you know, sometimes I need to pinch myself to make sure all this isn’t some kind of dream. Way back in September of last year, I started a little case study to see if it was really possible to make money by blogging. Before that time, John Chow dot Com was simply a personal blog for me to ramble about whatever was on my mind. Luckily, one of those rambling topics was about how to make money online so it seemed logical that I should teach by doing instead of reciting from a text book.
The blog made $352.94 in it first month as a monetized blog. One year later (last month) it pulled in a record $20,512.17. And it shows no sign of slowing down.
Total Blog Income for October 2007: $23,448.59
I have to wonder how long I can maintain this level of growth. In a little over a year, the blog’s monthly income has grew by over 6,600 percent. Here is the income breakdown.
- Private Ad Sales: $11,888.79
- Affiliate Commissions: $5,131.27
- ReviewMe: $3,000
- Text Link Ads: $2,296.74
- Kontera: $1,000
- TTZ Media: $80.58
- Subscription: $40.00
- ShoppingAds: $11.21
- Grand Total: $23,448.59
Blog traffic held steady at 330,339 page views from 180,291 visitors, according to Google Analytics. If you take the blog’s page view and divide that by the income it will give you a site wide eCPM of $70.98. That means for every 1000 page views, this blog makes over $70, or 7 cents per view. Most blogs would kill for this eCPM rate. How much would your blog make if you could get $70 for every 1000 page view?
RSS subscription hit an all time high thanks to the competition between myself and Shoemoney. At the start of October, the FeedBurner chicklet showed 8,585 readers. It now shows 13,517 readers.
Private ad sales continue to be the blog’s biggest money maker, accounting for half of the blog’s monthly income. Commissions from various affiliate programs continue to do well. The best performing affiliate program for October was Text Link Ads, accounting for $1,750 of the $5,131.27 affiliate income. TLA has been a consistent money maker for me and I highly recommend them. Check out my recommended moneymakers to find out more about all the ad networks I use to generate all this cash.
Blog expense for the month include $526.85 for Google Adwords advertising and $25 for a private ad. Hosting for John Chow dot Com is sponsored by BlueFur Web Hosting. Use coupon code JohnChowRocks for 15% off any BlueFur hosting packages.
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As always, congratulations. You truly have done an amazing job with your site.
I am still not getting very good results from Kontera.
Me too. It’s not bad, but it’s not superb either.
i am always thinking about putting kontera back but it annoys the heck out of my readers. so i do what i can where i can.
i didn’t do too shabby this month granted i made a portion of what johnchow made but heck i did well.
Congratulations john on your highest month ever!
Yea I got rid of it a while ago. I would def do better now if i tried it again i think.
Why do you think you would do better now Guitar Hero 3?
I have it and I get a lot of clicks yet it’s only up to a couple bucks!
Pam Hoffman
http://seminarlist.blogspot.com
I hate the kontera pop-up ads. I don’t want to mess up user readership.
I don’t think it will scare readers away like most of the readability guides stated. If your content really is quality, they will comeback with no regards of a small thing.
I am curious how Kontera would perform on my site, I signed up today earlier to see how it will go.
John, props on another job well done. I had my best month yet (only a 4 month old blog) at $600 last month for a eCPM of $20. That’s still quite a ways away from your $23k/$70 eCPM but I’m comin for ya!
I saw your blog (even before) Congrats man, $600 for a 4 months of blogging is not a bad money at all without offering any kind of services. With the last services website I launched I made roughly the same amount within the first month too (and I am just entering the second month)…but yanno I have to work my bum for that instead of doing it by just writing and placing strategical affiliates and ad sales.
Holy mackeral! That is crazy for one month of blogging! I love your header, I make money online by telling people how much money I make online…nice one…
Really impressive
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Hmm John, why is your Kontera income capped at $1000 each month? With all the people who signed up under your name, I would have expected the total to be higher than this…
I noticed the same thing. I figured he’d be making more from TTZ Media as well (seeing as how he owns it).
Nah, TTZ will never perform well on here.. this is a blog about blogging, not a technology one…
He answered this before. He has a agreement with the company, minimum payout is always $1000. If he ends up making more in CTR, then they’ll honor the higher dollar amount but it will never be below $1000. I think you have to have some level of traffic to get in on the same deal but don’t quote me on that.
I was quite surprised by this as well.
Yea i was curious about that also.
John had an agreement of some sort with Kontera so he gets this fixed amount from them a month.
Not quite, he gets this MINIMUM amount from him a month. If he were to make more than that, it would show up.
Still, that’s a pretty nice deal to have! I need to strike a few deals like that
Good job, John.
Ya know, your income report each month isn’t what surprises me. It’s the fact that you’re able to make this amount each month while still maintaining a Web site whose adverts don’t impede the user experience. The very day your adverts get in the way is the very day you’re income will start to head down, IMO. It’s not so much about maintaining the income, as it is about maintaining a Web site which can accommodate the adverts in a manner which work for your visitors.
That’s deep man. Good post
IMO the big one at the top of the posts is obnoxious but really for $23k a month I’d probably do the same thing.
Holy SHIT this guy doesn’t stop make money online One day THEGEEKBOYS.COM will compete with you till then Bye
Thats awesome, another huge money. Why bother with the shopping ads anymore? For $11 Id either replace it with something else or just get rid of it
meant to say month instead of money
That’s great news John. I love the way your income just keeps on rising in the face of various adversity such as the recent PR slap. Rock on
The PR slap and Google ban has not done anything but make publicity and money for John.
Excellent work once again John.
I see that you have less RSS advertisers. Did you put a limit starting this in October based on feedback?
Btw, great job!
Congrats on the money that you’ve made last month, that’s awesome. If I got $70 per 1k pageviews, I would’ve made $3,430.00 off of my music blog and it’s a PR5. I will catch up to ya, John
So how much of that do you have to pay on taxes?
You don’t want to know what my tax bill is!
Well regardless of what it is, I am sure you have a lot to write-off and more than 50% is still going to be net, which is more than most people can say they make in a day job or online.
Well, my day job doesn’t really compete with that! Got to make my own money making machine going.
Jeebus…no signs of slowing down like you said…well done. Quite amazing to see all of this in just a year…I remember when you only had Adsense on your blog
John, this is a very good figure but I think next month your earns will drop. You can’t always maintain growth. There is always a down time and that is normal.
Respect! 23k without adsense! Adsense is my only source of income and i get around 6k out of it every month. Check it out: http://www.adflora.com
Nice income then. 6k is a lot!
Paul,
somehow your tool doesn’t work (error on page - prob the js).
The only thing working is the recommendation to adsense.
Tschuess from a few miles north of you
Adflora.com says congratulations!
Awesome work!
I haven’t been reading your blog for very long and you may have already mentioned this before, but do you do anything for income outside of johnchow.com?
John Chow dot Com is a side project and not my main income source.
This blog is tip money compare to his main income
What’s your main source?
Are you kidding me?, not your main source?. That means you are getting at least twice this income from ttz media…. Im so behind you John.
I need to get some side projects like this. Mine are not quite there yet…
My thoughts exactly.
Truly amazing John… your numbers both astound me and piss me off that I’m so far behind at the same time
…kind of like your RSS
Keep up the good work, sir.
It’s really amazing what you’re doing.
I followed the links to your advertisement solutions and have signed up with a few. Also, I’m subscribing to your newsletter and can’t wait to read your free e-book.
Thank you,
Michael
What is your click through rate on the affliate links you are running? With 180,291 visitors and earning $5,131 it has to be one of the highest. 5% would be 9,014 clicks and of that if 5% (450 people that bought) that would be an average commission of $11.40 per the 450 buyers.
That would be an amazing click through rate.
I was just curious.
Congratulations John. You did it again. If you own TTZ Media, should you be counting TTZ media’s income from this blog?