Hoped for at least € 1000,00 in September, unfortunately didn’t make it. It came close though.
Adsense income report for September 2020:
€ 966,75
Income is still declining, I expect € 500 – € 600 for October.
Suitcase affliate site sold
Sold the suitcase affiliate site. It made € 104,00 last month and managed to sell it for € 4.500,00, which is a nice amount. Happy with the sale. Looking to invest this money into another website or great domain. Will keep you updated about that.
I also sold a smaller suitcase site that didn’t earn money really, I bought it a year ago for € 350,00 and sold it for € 900,00 with no work done. So I got a nice amount to invest in something new. If I buy something I will let you guys know!
With 11 hours left in 2019 it is a good time to see how things went in 2019 and decide what way I want to go in 2020. Adsense earnings in December 2019 are now at €2.153,68 and will probably not go over €2.200. A good number to end the year with. Last year december I made €2.134,14 so it is almost the same.
Earnings for 2019 in total on Google Adsense:
€36.525,85
A great amount of Google Adsense income for the year. This is actually enough to live off. On average it is €3.000 a month which is a good salary in the Netherlands. In my biggest month I made a bit over €5.100 (read here). With 5 days in a row earning over €200,00 a day. A great month 🙂
2020
For the upcoming year I will try to focus more on my big earners and make them even better. I feel there is still room for improvement and higher earnings. I need to focus more!
I am also starting a new site with a friend of mine. Very excited about that and it will be an international one.
Like expected the Adsense income dropped in November. The suitcase site did ‘ok’ with €142,00 in revenue. Short post about november, nothing really changed just that the travel traffic is gone 🙂
Google Adsense income for November 2019:
€1.868,57
Plans for december are getting all the sites fixed for the new year. Didn’t found new sites to buy yet, hopefully there will be something to buy before the end of the year. Will keep you updated.
February is over and the month flew by. Just 28 days of collecting revenue but revenue was up slightly compared with last month.
Google Adsense income for February 2019:
€1601,33
A bit up compared with last month but still not where I want it to be. At the moment I am working on new sites and bought some small ones again mainly for link building.
The travel affiliate site I started last month is coming along quite nice. The traffic is still very very low but the site is starting to look good. I will share the site later as it is focussed on affiliate income and not Adsense.
Modula WordPress Gallery
On the new travel site I was looking to get a good gallery plugin. After testing different gallery plugins I ended up with the Modula WordPress Gallery. It really works like a charm and just looks very smooth! They also run a free version without much limitations, which is great. If you are looking for a good gallery plugin, Modula might be the one for you 🙂
January performance so far is not good. If it continues like this I will make around €1000,- this month. Compared with last year January it is still way up, but compared with the average of the last 6 months it is bad… very bad.
January ad revenue
I am not too concerned though. January is normally a slow month. Advertisers are pushing it in December, with January being slow as the follow up month. CPC is really down compared with last month and it started right on the first of January. At the moment I am getting €0,06 – €0,08 on average per click. In good months I am around €0,10 – €0,12. That is a big difference.
Travel niche
Being in the travel niche I know my most busy months are from May till September with my Adsense sites. People don’t book flights or holidays at my site. Well, maybe they do, but not directly through my affiliate offers, they click on Adsense ads. At the moment I am building an affiliate site for the travel niche with a friend of mine. I will do the marketing & SEO, he will do the backend coding. We use a .nl domain for it that I bought for €500,- earlier in 2018. A perfect brandable name that you can easily pronounce.
I talked about starting a site like this before, and I wanted to start it by myself but it just didn’t happen. A few years ago we did another project together and ended up selling it on Flippa for a nice sum, so that was a success. I have confident we can pull this one off as well and our plan is not to sell it, but really build it into a company. I will keep you updated about it once we go live (we plan to go live end of January)
Free AI translation tool
Having one site in French, I hired a translator to translate dutch content into French. Damn, that is expensive for a site that is not really bringing in any revenue (yet). While searching for good translation tools I stumbled upon Deepl.com. This tool is performing really good and uses AI for its translations which means it is constantly improving.
Tech giants Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all applying the lessons of machine learning to translation, but a small company called DeepL has outdone them all and raised the bar for the field. Its translation tool is just as quick as the outsized competition, but more accurate and nuanced than any we’ve tried.
October flew by. I wanted to post about other things as well, but… ah well, maybe later. For now its time for another Google AdSense income report. Last month was good with €2.309,22 and I hoped to get at least €2.000,- this month. I am not disappointed with the income from last month.
Google AdSense income report October 2018;
€2.286,14
Lowest day; €55,97
Highest day; €102,01
Site 1: €1.597,68
Site 2: €324,76
Site 3: €264,30
Site 4: €55,11
Site 5: €26,31
Buying websites
I talked about a website that made €1.200,- a year on AdSense. I bought it for €2.800. That might be a bit more than I wanted to pay for it, but the site looks good and I hope to get it higher in Google to get more traffic. I also bought two other sites that bring in around €600 a year together on AdSense. They cost me €1.000 together and seems like a good deal.
Starting new websites
This month I will also start a couple of new websites based on affiliate marketing. The travel niche is full of good affiliate offers for flights, hotels, total packages, renting cars etc. I was thinking about trying affiliate offers for a long time now and it is time to start it.
August was the best month ever for me with €3.550 for the month. For september I knew I was not going to break this record. I am in the travel niche and July and August are the top months for that. September didn’t go bad though.
Google AdSense income report July 2018;
€2.309,22
That is an average of €76 a day which I am still very happy with. €2.300 is serious money to make and the plan is to invest it all back into my online ventures. A breakdown of my 5 best performing websites in revenue (all with Google AdSense);
Site 1: €1.640,89
Site 2: €381,87
Site 3: €234,30
Site 4: €32,61
Site 5: €12,60
Buying websites
As of typing this I am the high bidder of a website generating €1.200 euro a year on AdSense which has a lot of upside potential. The linkprofile looks good with some strong links from some big news sites. If I win this auction I will work on it and hope to bring it to €2.000 a year. If I win the auction I will tell you more about it and about the plans I have with it.
I also bought a website earlier in September for €400. The site is not impressive and it is not earning any money at all. I bought it because it is an exact match domain and ranks on page 2 for its term. I believe I can bring it to page 1 and monetize it. Will keep you updated on how that goes and if its a good investment.
Traffic and subscribers
The traffic on this blog is not impressive, but on the other hand, I am not promoting it. TheNomar.com had 133 visitors in September and the subscribers grew with 1 to a total of 4! Hi there 😀 and thanks for subscribing.
I promised to do more posts besides the income reports. I will promise you I will start with that this month!
2017 is over. My goal was to make 1000 EUR a month on Google AdSense by the end of 2017, didn’t make it. What did i make in December 2017?
€329,29
I will come up with a more detailed post about 2017 and what my plans are for 2018. The fact that I didn’t make 1000 EUR a month is bothering me, but I know it is 100% my own fault.
2018 will be the year I am going to make 1000 EUR a month on adsense or affiliate marketing (combined). I just bought a new domain as well for 250 EUR, more about that later.
Traffic went down and I barely made 300 EUR this month. This month is the slowest month of 2017. Still a nice passive monthly income stream as I didn’t work on my sites at all.
New travel site
I am working on a new travel site without AdSense. I am working with affiliates to sell trips & flight tickets. So far I made two sales (well, I was part of the funnel) and made €7,70 with that. I didn’t do any promotion / marketing yet, so this has potential. Will do a post about it later.
