May month have been little turbulent for me. I was so busy in later part of month that my TO DO list was just increasing day by day. To add to it, I planned my leg surgery at the start of June month and my check up in hospitals and everything started towards end of the month. It was taking lot of my time over the weekend. One more thing is, I focused on getting substantial sponsorship for my colourful blog anniversary contest and I think I did a commendable job in getting sponsorship worth $3000 in cash and prizes along with few thousand EC credits. Do participate in this special colourful contest. Take away some cool prizes and some cash as well.

Break in blogging due to hospitalization at the start of June month and the compulsory bed rest these two weeks certainly gonna take toll on June earnings. Though it looks like I have time in hand, I can’t spend lot of time online due to rest I need to give to my body. I don’t mind seeing a dip in earnings in June month, because health should be on priority than money, specially when it’s an additional amount in your kitty.

Once I was back from hospital, when I sat down and calculated my May earnings, I was almost surprised! It had still crossed $2300 and it was only $300 odd behind the previous month, wow! Looking at the breakup, almost every group performed similar to last month so no major changes.

So here is the May 2008 earning breakup.

• Private Sales like reviews, textlinks: $1154.37 [Marginal increase from last month.]
• Google Adsense Revenue: $508.36 [Marginal decrease in adsense revenue from last month]
• Other CPC programs like YPN, Adbrite, Kontera: $557.30 [downfall again in here since last month]
• Affiliate Sales, Misc checks: $222.62 [Back to normal figures like Feb, March months - affiliate income through Yahoo £50 Credit Voucher is still contributing to the kitty that also helps advertisers to get Free credit for Yahoo search marketing campaign]

Total Earnings of May 2008: $2315.65

My baseline to make money online each month is $2100, and anything above and beyond this is bonus. This is keeping in mind that I want to make at least $25000 in year 2008 from online earnings.

Change in Advertising Options

By the way, just to let you guys know - we have implemented rotating 125 x 125 banners at the top of the blog for as low as $10 per month. This is specially for the advertisers who don’t want to spend $30 per month for that dedicated top ad spot but still want to be part of this blog. You can check out the current ad space offers here. There has been encouraging increase in our traffic stats and that pushes us in first 100K websites ranked in Alexa.

The best buy would be to buy a site wide text link here, that would get you a backlink from one hundred PR3 webpages. Did you hear it correctly, this blog has touched to 100 PR3 blog post, category pages and many PR2 pages.

Growing Finance Blog

The quality finance niche blog we have developed has been doing good and it continued with traffic of 400-600 unique visitors everyday. The finance blog has almost reached to 870+ RSS / email subscribers [Substantial increase of 220 subscribers in a month] that attracts any finance niche advertiser to post his finance service review in there and that’s only for $30 which is too good a deal to grab. If you are one of those finance niche webmaster or advertiser, contact me to know more about the quality finance blog and order a review for only $30.

Thanks to Advertisers

This month, I would like to thank one of our sponsors, affiliate hijacker for keeping faith in us and giving us an opportunity to host their 468×60 banner for last 5 months. I hope they would like to continue with it. Even if I am missing many opportunities to rent that place to other advertisers at higher price, I would prefer to continue with “affiliate hijacker” and build a long term relationship than short term money gains elsewhere. That’s how I think! Feel free to check him out.

There are few more advertisers worth mentioning who has been contributing to success of our money making venture.

Creditcardsclub has contributed a lot as an esteemed advertiser along with Bruno who has been in a long term relationship with this blog.

Money Meter - My Motivation

The money meter, approached $12500 earning this year by now. I am keeping a track of this earning figure and I keep on updating it every few days to motivate myself whenever I feel not to work. So it’s proved to be really good pill of motivation for me! Have one for you too!!