Well we said that the website would need to earn £1000 between 1st January and 31st December 2011 in order for us to maintain it as a free resource. Well we are now at the end of September 2011 and the website has made £1846 to date this year, it made the £1000 by16th July 2011. As well as that we have had a steady monthly income from our affiliate relationships which has pushed income to date to over £2000 for the year.
In the 3 months from 1st July to 30th September we had 53,400 visits (45,300 unique visits) with 144,500 page views. There were 5432 adsense clicks.
Given we have achieved what we set out to achieve income wise, I now intend to close down this element of the blog. We are extremely pleased and proud of what has been achieved with almost no starting knowledge of internet marketing or search engine optimisation. Given this I’m sure that anyone with a website could fairly readily build up their visitor numbers and income by following the path trodden by us over the last 9 months. Our income has gone from an average per day of £1.36 in January 2011 to a current average (over the last 3 months) of £10.42 per day purely on Google adsense income. Not bad!
So what are you waiting for – you can do it too – go for it!