Web Revenue Experiment

Read on for proof that you cannot make a living online

Status update

Well... We have not updated this in a while but we have cashed in a few projects and are waiting for about £100 due to be delivered from google, cj and webcams....

This money is going to be invested straight back into a new domain with hosting.

I am moving my attentions away from quick bucks and going back to my roots on developing software. I am thinking I will create something that makes a mash up of twitter, wordpress, ezine, youtube, squidoo and fill it with adsense, cj and clickbank.

I am still finding traffic generation hard but am not really sure that I am moving in the right direction. The mortgage blog is up but the others have not take off at all.... Perhaps I will look into a new .com domain as the co.uk's are not hitting it for me....

New project

We have built a scraper to stick, ezine, clickbank, dictionany and user functionaily. Its only a trial at the moment but here is the page....

Best Video Programs

What works ?

Below is a selection of products that if you actually follow you can start to earn your way to a free ride :P




An amazon store

http://astore.amazon.co.uk/insukmor-21

Check it out, think I am going to try and adwords it.....

Froggy Bank


Look at this site

Earn extra cashback when you shop online with Froggybank.co.uk - sign up now for FREE!

Its well worth it and they pay you direct to paypal.  You can choose to get your money back or passed on to a charity of your choice. Much like squidoo.

Feb update and the first 4 days of March

We had varying success with Reddit and Squiddo over the last few weeks.  We have tinkered with new blogs and sites.  We have had our first order from the ebook site and clicks / visitors are on the increase.

Feb total:  $7.66
4 days in March: $2.52

So the running totals are......... (drum roll please)

2009: $15.73
Expenditure: $6

Leaving a profit of nearly $5

All in all I am starting to come around to the idea that it could be possible to earn a living from this but I think the time needed to be invested up front is is massive.  So we look to different avenues whilst keeping up the core of the project.

We had a little play around with an auto blog for a while but I was not sure on content uniqueness so have parked that for a while.  I have taken to setting up quick wordpress blogs on the wordpress servers.

Throughout March we will increase the conent of these blogs and try to make money through affiliate schemes and not through adsense.  I understand that it is also time to change the theme of the standard blogger templates and combine adsense with products from commission junction.

With 325 visitors and 514 page views on the mortgage blog should be bringing in more cash than it is. So after some reading it could be increased by changing the template and advertising more affiliate products.

Any updates on this I will of course post here

Update

So we are still increasing in visitors and google are sending a steady steam now of at least 10 visitors per day.  The bounce rate has decreased nicely and we are getting around 2 pages per visit.

We also made 1 cent from associated content and this has inspired me to write more articles for them how the next 2 both failed the review. 

I have not had time to update my squidoo lenses lately so we need to get that done this week. 

We have 5 articles published on ezine and this brought nearly 400 views so thats worth waiting for i guess.

Adsense is going ok ish, the value of the clicks has gone down but the click rate has gone up. We are nowhere near giving up the day job thats for sure!!