Monthly Round-Up: May 2010
May 2010 was my best month in affiliate marketing so far apart from December 2009. I did quite well last month so wasn’t sure if I would be able to top it but was very pleased when I did. Also one of my sites that started the month off well and was on page one in Google got knocked way down the SERPS for some reason at the start of the month and didn’t make any more more sales. But a few of my other sites stepped up and I made a good income for May. Also during this month my Adwords account was suspendde due to non payment until the last few days of May so I only spent about £9 on clicks which was very good.
A fair amount of this traffic was seasonal though so I need to keep working other sites to keep me going all year round.
I’ve also been doing a lot of outsourcing. I’ve been getting someone to write product descriptions for me which keeps me supplied with fresh content for my sites and is something I would definitely recommend to anyone who has trouble motivating themselves to write content.
I have also outsorced the design of a webstie which I am very pleased with. I will be using this design for my PPC financial leads project so I wanted something good and I was happy with what I got. I will be starting work on this in June.
I will be away for six weeks from the start of July so am trying to get as much done before then as probably won’t be able to do much affiliate marketing work whilst on the road.
How was your May 2010?
My May was slightly down on the previous 4 months but not by much. Working on some new sites in slightly different niches as too many of my other sites are based around the same niche, and tend to peak more towards the end of the year.
Also created a few more mini sites and have already had some good commisions from them.
Will be interesting to hear how your financial leads site does. I signed up to the ‘school’ late last year but never got past reading some of the forum posts.
Congrats on the best month yet! I too had a cracking May and, like you, I’d confident it’s down to the season. Also I think it’s a great step forward you’ve taken to bring in some extra help in the form of outsourcers. I believe that when you’re starting to ‘manage’ people to do work for you that you really are on the right road.
I’m in exactly the same boat as you with regards to needing more sites to cover the out of season times and right now, I’m actually trying to avoid seasonal niches (is there such a thing as an all year round niche?) and go for something that will be fairly consistent throughout the year.
I’ve gone for travel – hotels, actually, and I guess it’ll struggle at around Christmas time but due to the location I’m thinking it should be a fairly solid performer all year round. I hope, at least!
Are your earnings coming from the micro niche sites? The sort of oneproduct, keyword domain sites or is it perhaps larger sites that are working for you?
Good to see things turning round for you though and I hope you don’t give up. You have a good lifestyle (or at least you seem to have [when you were in Thailand]) at the moment and I really want to see you pull it off and live the dream…keep us informed!