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Make Money On The Internet – April 2007

written by John Chow on May 1st, 2007

I started John Chow dot Com almost a year and half ago. The intention was never to make money online from it. For the first nine months of the blog’s life, there was not one piece of advertising on it. I used the blog as my personal journal to do miscellaneous ramblings about stuff that I find interesting. One of those interesting topics happens to be making money on the Internet so an idea came to use this blog as a case study to show just how much money one can make by blogging.

Monetized last September, John Chow dot Com made $352.94 from Google AdSense. In October, blog income jumped to $1,361.64 as I added more revenue sources. And it continued to go up: $2,139.93 in November, $2,790.05 in December, $3,440.66 in January, $7,011.05 February and $8,545.25 last month.

April was a hard to gage month. Compared to March, I had one fewer day and I had server problems that added another lost day. However, that did not stop this blog from posting another record-breaking performance.

Total Blog Income For April 2007: $11,702.66

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In just eight month as a moneymaking site, this blog has achieved Dot Com Mogul level income. It is certainly well pass what many people would consider a full time income, which was the original goal of this case study – part time blogging, full time income. Yes, John Chow dot Com is still a part time venture for me (it’s really a hobby). Here is the income breakdown.

I received a $500 gift from a sponsor in April but I did not include it in the total income because it was a gift and not cash. However, I wouldn’t have received the gift if I didn’t have the blog. Adding in the gift would bring the total April income to $12,202.66.

Blog traffic for April was 129,605 unique visitors viewing 266,300 pages. This is down from March because of the one less day and server problems. While it looks like the blog may never beat the 229,853 unique visitors and 360,967 page views posted back in October, this blog does in fact get higher traffic than back then. This is because over 4,000 people read this blog everyday from the full feed RSS. Add that into the equation and unique visitors swell to nearly 10,000 per day.

Blog advertising expenses for the month was $342.34 for SiteMatch Google ads to other bloggers and $223.74 for normal Google ads. SiteMatch ads expense went down because part way through the month, Problogger blocked my ads from showing up on his blog. Hey Darren! Don’t you love me anymore? :cry:

Recommended Money Makers

As you can see from the above, this blog makes money using a bunch of different sources. You should never put all you eggs in one basket (especially Google’s). The more diverse your income streams, the better off you are. To help new bloggers out, I created my recommended moneymakers page. The page lists all the ad sources I use to make money online. I recommend you apply to all the ad networks listed.

May should be a very interesting month. We’re entering summer and that is normally low season when it comes to online advertising. Kids will be getting off school and families will be going on vacations. However, this blog is now a PageRank 6 and I’m about to raise my ReviewMe price to $400. Yes, it should be a very interesting month.

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  1. Amazing.. a whopping 11 grand!! :shock:

    You need to get that smiley with dollar sign as eyes!

  2. Did you decide to stay at $300 for ReviewMe John? Or I guess maybe the banner just isn’t updated yet. Well done on the earnings, wow!

  3. Congrats on hitting the 10K mark and even overshooting it by more than a thousand. You are definitely the #1 blog money maker.
    Keep up the good work!

  4. vik

    wow, congrats to you John!! I’ve been an avid reader of your blog since its inception. I know you worked very hard on this blog and you deserve every penny of that $11+K.

    Vik

  5. Ali

    Congrats John. I didn’t make as much as you. But I’m climbing up as well.

    Though I’ve stopped posting my income on my blog.

  6. Glad I got my review in before you raised the price! Whew! Way to go John … your footsteps are one to follow in the blogging world … Keep up the great work and great information!

    Darin

  7. Wow! congratulations John!

  8. Wow, impresive numbers, both visitors and earnings!!!

  9. John I have a question, i thought you were going to replace your TTZ Media ads with Auction ads? I wonder what happened?

  10. That is some amazing growth; very inspirational!

  11. John, the growth of this blog has been pretty incredible. I’m curious though, do you think any of that has been due to TTZ’s popularity? Granted you started this blog from scratch but how many new bloggers have assistant writers and a very popular forum as a foundation?

    I want to make sure I don’t come across as critical in any way, I’m just trying to learn as much as possible (and hopefully emulate) from this blogs fantastic earning growth.

    • TTZ is well know in tech circles but not in blogging and certainly not for making money online. There is very little overlap. Most readers of TTZ don’t read this blog. The two sites cover completely different topics.

      Your success will largely depend on your ability to create unique content and capturing the attention of your readers. Good luck.

  12. I think I hate you a little bit on the inside. ahahaha

  13. My Jaw is to the ground. Very inspiring John. :shock:

    It really does inspire me that I will be able to achieve my own personal goal to retire in 5 years by earning $1 million through my own blog.

    I have a long ways to go, but I believe with some dedication and hard work My Retirement Project dot com will be as successful as yours.

  14. Jesus christ dude! Are your earnings ever gonna stop rising??

  15. Nice chart. Congrats for that awsome performance.

  16. I bow before the dot com mogul. Its truly amazing how you managed that huge income in these few months.

  17. Congrats John. Wow. Congrats!

  18. Just Incredible! Congrats to you John once again. The growth of this blog in advertisers and users is just outstanding… :smile:

    Jeff

  19. They banned him cause of his cookie stuffing post. :wink:

    It was good info tho :twisted:

    congrats on this!

  20. The rich get richer… and the rest of us are :mrgreen: green with envy, but also :shock: shocked at your hobby taking off. My hobbies just fill my basement with junk!

    Way to go big guy, stick to those Restaurant reviews and pictures of prototype urinals!

    c8j

  21. Good god john!…that is great…I’m on track hopefully I can make that much from my hobby of blogging.

  22. Since when does google adsense pay 1,000 dollars? They usually stop your balance at 99.75 and put the rest in pending for a month. Or is that yahoo publisher?

    I made $2.04 from yahoo publisher last month, I’m catching up. I just gotta learn to work this internet marketing scam a little more effectively.

  23. That is simply amazing! I was wondering about your april’s income while having lunch, now I come here and as I thought you break your own record! great!
    congratulations!

  24. The $4500 from Reviewme is truly astounding. That’s the one I’m most impressed with. I’m also quite surprised by the $1000 from Kontera. Granted that’s with significant pageviews, but the fact that they’re only a smidgen behind Adsense is a big surprise to me. Congrats John.

  25. Anyway, like I’ve said in another post… earning 100$ from a blog needs a lot of hardwork but once you passed that 1000$ mark, it will just keep on increasing.

    That $11k is inevitable already.

  26. Totally jealous. Congrats.

  27. Congratulations! What do you use to measure your unique visitors and page views? How do I prove my traffic levels to potential advertisers?

  28. Wow, Congrats John another milestone smashed.

  29. John, The numbers are just amazing!
    great job and wish you the best of luck in the months to come

  30. Damn you Chow!!!!! :evil:

    Hahahaha, great stuff man. now, go donate 100% of that income.

  31. :shock: wow!, what´s your spectatives to may? 14k ?

  32. All I can say is… crazy!

  33. John you are the biggest evil blogger I have ever known :twisted:

    Honestly you are making a living out of your blog

    By the way if i am not wrong you have a child? a Girl or a boy? is he/she gonna be a blogger too heheh

    Amazing man

  34. John, I was wondering if you could grace us with a chart showing your unique visitors per month, and how that number has grown since the site started! It would be interesting to see!

    I talk money… online, and off.

  35. Hey John
    Congratulations ! Its amazing to see the growth of your blog in 1 1/2 years, keep blogging and good luck !

  36. Very impressive income growth, the evil ways are paying off!

  37. I find it very interesting that Kontra is performing almost as well as Adsense.

  38. Very impressive! You’ll be making $150k per year in no time! :twisted:

    -Sam from MarketMatador.com

  39. mickno

    Well as you can see nearly 50% of the income is from Reviewme. That means John is getting paid to write posts in his blog every day. John is a true marketer as people are coming on his blog to read advertisments haha. Where as probloger is actually helpfull. There is no love John you provide no value but just advertisments on your blog and people are only coming on to see that you have made 10K and just dream it could be them from the same silly idea of “make money”.haha. Anyways congrats you have done a good job marketing paid for posts every day on your blog.

  40. Mickno is one jealous boy.. :lol: John’s posted alot of helpful information about how to make money online, etc.,(Be thankful he’s not charging you money for it.) and to show support I think we can tolerate a few ReviewMe posts from him. It’s a give and take relationship..That’s how the world works.

    • mickno

      I’am not jealous. I think he his excelent at marketing!! Well as long as there are people like you who think they are going to be making money from your blogs its all good. Johns got top spot in the niche “make money” and has got you on his income side haha.

  41. Amazing….this is what I want in my account, $11,000…Boss, you must teach me more, please!

  42. amazing! can u redirect johnchow to my site .hhahaahah

  43. John, congratulations! :grin:

    I have been following your story and I think you really deserve credit for it cause you did it with a big mob of envy geeks trying to sabotage your success! (add Google and Digg to that)

    I am having the same problem with my last project also: ourTVad.com.
    I am hopping your strength and perseverance, a huge inspiration to us all, would serve to me as guide to success.

    Regards

  44. Great performance for April, John! At the rate your income from this blog is climbing you should be hitting 15,000 in May!

  45. Sweet mother of pearl!!! John…congrats on a fabulous month of April. That is just incredible… :shock:

  46. All I can say s WOW :shock: I am so impressed. I never realized you could earn so much with a simple blog site. When is my Online Revenue Methods and Resources blog site going to have income like that? I am so jealous John.

    By the way, congrats on moving from PR4 to PR6 John. Your blog site is just getting better and better everyday.

  47. Wow.. I was speechless for a minute there about the figure for one month. That is just insane for one month income. I think I would be happy with 10% of that per month. Although I think I would be happier with just more visitors actually reading what I have to say…

  48. Congrats on another solid month of revenue gain! At this rate, JohnChow.Com might hit the $20K a month level very soon. Right on, John!

  49. John
    I told you that you have missed something. Making money with AdSense, you cannot miss the AdSense referrals especially AdSense(a conversion of 250USD).

    My blog(http://adsense-tw.com) which has only about 500 unique visitors per day. Guess what!! I just post a post(http://adsense-tw.com/archives/354) to show you my earning from AdSense referrral. Fomr January to March, I earned 1840USD from AdSense referral. It averages about 613USD a month :mrgreen: .

    Compare to JohnChow.com’s traffic, my blog beats JohnChow.com making money with AdSense.

    As I said befere If I can do it, JohnChow can do it better! :evil:

    John don’t miss the most profitable AdSense referral.

  50. Wow, you’re my hero John.

  51. How do you make so much from Kontera??

    I’m made almost $5 from Kontera last month :oops:

  52. Wow, another fantastic month. The ReviewMe stuff has really turned out to be the brunt of your earnings now (around 40%). Do you find your blog more work now that this much of your income comes from paid postings? Would you be writing other stuff if your didn’t have these, or would you just post that many less postings?

    I would love to earn that much for a paid posting myself, but part of me feels that it does become more like “work” as well. Adsense and the other advertising methods are more like passive income because you can earn it from old articles and writing new articles on what you feel like.

    How many hours a day do you think your work on this site now compared to October?

    • It’s not work. Most of the reviews are related to what I talk about. There has been a few time where I started writing about the product (Auction Ads for example) and found a ReviewMe for it after I wrote the post. Also, I don’t do all the reviews. My hours has actually being going down.

  53. Hi John. That’s really an incredible amount. But on the other hand I think you have to show your investment too. That is the amount you spend on advertising your blog. Example I remember you ran a Google ad “Darren loves this blog. Find out why?” .

    Not only advertising but other form of investment too. The time you spend on your blog is also an investment.

    • You need to read the full post. :) I stated my advertising cost in it. The time I spend on this blog works out to about 2 hours per day. The software that powers this blog is free. The theme is free. The blog is hosted for free. Total investment to start the blog was zero.

  54. review me is pretty big for you, it seems..

  55. review me is pretty big for you, it seems.. but most of us can’t command such huge rates for review me :(

  56. Tony

    I think what John does best is trial and error, he isn’t afraid to jump in and try something new. Take the Agloco viewbar he just jumped in and started marketing it. Everyone else was saying but its not out yet why not wait till its out.

    Some people who want John’s income from this blog aren’t willing to push it like John is. If you don’t do it you will never earn from it.

  57. Love someone who posts their earning. It gives me motivation. I know this is small earning for John compare to earning from other his site. Totally agree on diversitify on income.

  58. well John

    I think ur the true online money maker

  59. Hi John,
    You have made a great deal out of a hobby man.I give you all credits for your ever growing graphs of income. :razz: And I am sure lot like me who just have started their toddler’s steps in bloggin world,will learn lot from you.

    I liked your idea of being diverisifed rather being Google AdSense centric..

    Dharm
    My Blog on Java Interview Questions:
    http://interviewjava.blogspot.com/

  60. That’s a hell of an increase. Keep it up!

  61. I dunno how you[thinkingblog] get it first in the comments always. Wow you are a keen follower.

    11K in a month, wow thats simply amazing, how are you making your blog famous, we all would love to know. How did you make it to this heights this month, analyze it and have a post written, that would be cool.

    SwordMouth
    [TechBlo.com]

  62. seo

    You say you will teach people HOW to make money online but all you do is to show how much money YOU made!

  63. Jon

    Congrats John on your earnings! You are now making the same amount I make on a bad day! Haha, sorry man, you know I have to rub it in.. heh

    But seriously, goodluck to you, it’s more than I make off of my blog atm. Kudos to you as usual, but you should really get out of paid posts and get more into affiliate marketing on the side.

  64. Vlad

    I am sorry to say this, but while John’s blog’s income has increased, the quality and spirit has decreased. Just about every post has a financial motivation… it’s not the real deal anymore.

    Good for John, but personally, I have very little interest to read this blog’s contents.

  65. congrats john once again!

    on my desktop is a photo of u! my idol … haha. just kidding

    oh man, your hard work really paying off now

  66. Mat

    John’s blog continues to be an entertaining read

    In fact, today it was the first I went to in my feed reader

    Frankly, the food posts are annoying… especially if you are fasting (I starved myself for a week a little while ago, just for the discipline value)

    Did I hear you right John in that you donate all blog income to charity?

    • $10,000 and below go to charity, if I’m not mistaken (the rest goes to his kid’s trust fund). The mere fact that he gives to these family oriented causes is a huge reason to celebrate John’s blogging efforts. A dot com mogul AND a philanthropist…quite a unique, this guy.

  67. Nice john.

    This is a good encouragement for young marketers like me :)

    -spiker
    http://www.seductioncommunitydb.com

  68. so incredible. you ara a great guy.
    i can’t say anything but congrats.

  69. thats a lot of money for one month. keep up the good stuff man !

  70. You beat my 92 cent profit for April! Maybe I’ll catch up to you in May. Haha.
    The Snarfshop

  71. Very inspiring. I like the fact that your blog is transparent. Best way for us, your readers, to learn your technique.

    With the reviewme price going up to 400$, can we say 15000$ earning for May?

  72. Indeed, John’s transparency is one of the reasons why I keep coming back. He holds nothing back; meanwhile you get your information straight and you know right away what The Man is talking about…pure evil genius, like I always say.

  73. very impressive :twisted:

    11k will be multiply by 10 soon $ :roll:

  74. I never catch the affiliate offers on the blog. I am assuming that this is for prods/services that you’ve written about way back when but I can’t find any. Got any examples for us aspiring AMs?

  75. You say on your Adsense ads that you will learn us how to make those money.So,how are we going to make the same money you are?
    But I think you would never say,right?

  76. It’s a fantastic Job indeed! Very impressive.. :grin:

  77. hi john,

    good to see a dot com mogul AND a philanthropist making huge money.

    still making money from internet that too thru blogs, sech engine, community is a study of alians to me.

    i run a site…can i run a money making factory too. ….tell me john.

    Rgds,
    shanker bakshi

  78. naresh nawale

    i want to earn extra income via internet
    i can spend 2-3 hrs per day

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  81. congrats! may i add this article on our site payok.com ?

    thanks.

  82. well that’s the total i wanna earn in a month from blogging each month

  83. leo

    Im very interested about it…money making.I got a lot of time in doing so; however I dont know where to start can you please e-mail me guys on how to make money through internet or blogs…heres my email address: leoponso.caprio@eudoramail.com

  84. Excellant! I hope to see the same results a few months or a year down the road.

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