Over the last few months I’ve been sharing a monthly breakdown of where my income comes from in the hope of illustrating some of the methods bloggers might like to look at when making money from blogging (see previous months linked to below).

The month of July was the second month in a row where eBooks were the largest money maker for me. Here’s a pie chart showing the percentage breakdowns.

Before I say much more let me show you how the different income streams have tracked over the last 4 months (note I’ve expanded ’speaking’ to be ’speaking and events’ to include the ProBlogger Training Day (which wasn’t a massive earner as we kept the price down – but because it’s something I’d like to try again). I have also added a ‘total’ line to this chart to track total income.

A few comments:

• Obviously there was a huge eBook spike in June as we launched a photography eBook that month. July was down on the launch month but still very healthy – partly because of a few specials that I ran in July (I did a ‘Christmas in July’ special as well as offering a few communities a discount on the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook).
• AdSense was also pretty excellent last month – there’s no real explanation for this as traffic was steady. I can only guess that some advertisers were involved in a bit of a bidding war on Digital Photography School which drove prices up a small.
• Affiliate programs were quite down – that can be clarified simply by me not doing as many promotions in July – mainly because there were not too many product launches in my niches (for some reason they always seem to come out at once).
• Direct Ad Sales are on the rise and you’ll see this continue to grow next month as I’ve been working with a direct ad sales rep who is now selling ads for my sites which has already led to some new clients.
• Over all it was a excellent month. While not as spectacular as July it was up on the previous two months significantly.

August is shaping up to be an fascinating month. Later this week I’ll be launching a product here on ProBlogger (at a honestly inexpensive price point) which will be fascinating to track. I’ve also participated in a couple of affiliate launches and have seen some fascinating direct ad sales. I’m not quite sure whether it’ll be as excellent as July but am working toward it.

How was July for you?

If you’re interested in the previous months breakdowns they’re at:

• How I make money blogging: April
• How I make money blogging: May
• How I make money blogging: June

This Post is from: ProBlogger Blog Tips.

How I Make Money Blogging: Income Split for July 2010

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Everyone seems to like twitter
these days which is a really cool way of staying in touch with your
customers, friends & colleagues. Basically twitter has
presented itself as a micro-blogging platform where a user can shout
out anything they want to his ‘followers’ within the limit of 140
characters.

I have just started twittering since last
month (*yes I’m pretty late starter!) because initially by looking at
it for the very first time, I couldn’t find any ‘value’ that it has for
my work & my social life. But after reading a convincing post by Aaron Wall,
I thought of giving twitter a try. Since then onwards I have been using
twitter all day long, just to keep track of some of the leading experts
in the Internet & Search Marketing field as well as to have
some ‘fun’ with my online buddies.

Anyway the whole point of
doing this post is to highlight some of the key monetization elements
that an individual can explore using twitter. I assume you have the
basic knowledge of what twitter is and how it works, so I will directly
deep into some thoughts which can make you earn money from your twitter.

• Direct Advertisement
  – If a lot of people are following you in ‘twitter’ or in other words
  if you have a ‘wide reach’ to a large number of twitter users, you can
  probably look into direct advertisements for monetization.

• Recommendation – You can recommend a particular product or
  service on behalf of your advertisers & peruse your followers
  to take an ‘action’.
• Promotion – You can help your advertiser to promote a new product or service to your twitter followers.

It works pretty much like niche marketing because, say if you
are an Internet Marketer, It is very likely that most of your followers
in Twitter are also from the same area which is why they have
‘followed’ you in the first place.

As all of us know Sponsored Reviews is a paid review providing
website where we can buy or sell reviews for or on our websites and
blogs. In today’s post, I am going to talk about how to make money
online with SponsoredReviews working as a blogger and will also
share my experience I have with them.

Account creation on Sponsored Reviews

You must have an active blog with 3 months as its minimum age when you
sign up as a blogger on SponsoredReviews.com. If
you have a 3 months ancient blog with small traffic or few back-links, may
get rejected here. So it will be in favor for you to submit your best
blog here if you want to earn some real cash from them.

How to work as a blogger

Once you accept your blog into their marketplace, you are one step
closer to making money with them. When we go to Manage Blogs
section in our account on Sponsored Reviews, there is some Suggested

Price range defined like $20 to $100 for every blog that we
submit. This suggested price is calculated based on our website or blog
link popularity, Technorati statistics and Alexa ranking.

So sign-in into your Sponsored Reviews account and start making bids
on all open opportunities by browsing Find Advertisers
section in your account. There are hundreds of opportunities available
when you first logged-in into your account. So you can be selective
about the kind of task you place your bids for. For every opportunity,
there is some bidding amount you can place bids for and please keep your
bidding amount below or equal to the maximum bidding amount allowed for
a particular task. I would suggest you to test different set of bids
and see which one works for you.

There will be certain advertisers who will be contacting you with a
different price bid on some opportunities where you placed your bids
earlier. It’s up to you to choose whether to accept their request,
decline it or suggest some other price for that opportunity. Suppose you
placed your bid as $40 on an opportunity with $60 as maximum bidding
amount. And the advertiser is contacting you with a new price of $20.
It’s up to you to choose whether you want to reject or accept this task
or suggests some different price like $30 as your new bidding price.

Once any or some of your bids get acceptance from the advertisers,
you should start writing about those tasks. You have to end writing
and submitting all accepted tasks within a week time from the date they
were accepted by the advertisers.

Revenue Sharing & Payment System

They have revenue sharing system of 65:35 i.e. bloggers will be
getting the 65 percent of total amount from a completed task and the
test of 35 percent will be kept by Sponsored Reviews. They send payments
to all bloggers into their paypal account. They make payments two times
in a month, on the 15th and 1st of every month.

My experience with Sponsored Reviews.com

I started working as a blogger with them in the month of November
last year. And I have been able to earn more than $1300 with them in
this small period of time. I’m using Sponsored Reviews on two of my
blogs only. So earning of $1300 from one network only in 10 months is
not a small earning at all.

Click here to make a blogger account on SponsoredReviews
If you also want to make money online writing paid reviews for hundreds
of advertisers available on Sponsored Reviews. Please let me know in
the comment section if you face in any problem in making an account on
this paid blogging website or have some doubts or questions about
SponsoredReviews. Here is my earnings summary screenshot with them:
 

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