Another month over. It was fairly quiet this month, but I'm still ploughing through a mountain of work for my business. I'm hoping to start spend the weekends in June, sitting in the garden writing content for my new sites.nnTotals (not all banked yet):nPPC: $99.84nAffiliate:$56.01nProducts: $5.59nnTotal for May: $161.44 = $5.21/daynnAll in all it's not too bad considering it's probably been the highest earning yet.nnNow a couple of weeks ago I set myself some targets. To make £2,500 by the end of the year. This works out to an average of £350 a month which is almost £12 a day / $20 a day. May wasn't included in this, and I can't see me hitting the targets instantly for June, so I'm hoping to up this month's average to $7.50 a day and actually aim for around $30 a day to compensate for the lower earnings at the start.nnWhat's in store for June?nRight now I'm trying to add to and improve my existing sites.nnSite 1 – Tattoos: Improve the PPC income. Right now we're talking an exceptionally low average. If I could raise this to an average of 10 or even 20 cents a click then I'd be a lot closer to my target. The visitors on this site are now averaging around 400-500 a day and the site is making virtually nothing. I found some clickbank products to add to it, and I need to make those a bit more prominent. I've been experimenting on improving the PPC for the past few weeks, it's just frustrating having to wait for Google to recache your site before the ads or payout may improve. More info on what I've tried later.nnWe also have products for sale on the site which we've sold just 3 (out of 29,000 visitors). Yet the owner of the products has sold a fair few over the past few months, so I'm guessing that the shopping page on our site doesn't come across professional enough so less people have trust. So this is going to change, after a chat with the owner, we're going to try splitting the products up into single items and I'll code up a shopping cart over the weekend. Hopefully a fully fledged shopping cart will get more people to trust us, along with hopefully more sales.nnSite 2 – osC Templates: Add more templates to the site and write up some free articles to hopefully push book sales. I've now had dealings with 2 osCommerce sites, one of which I optimised, so I can write up some articles on what's been done, using the site in question as an example. That will possibly pull in more visitors and then direct them to either buying an eBook, template or hiring my business to do the work.nnSite 3 – Skiing: I have time here as it's not really the ski season, despite the few visitors it's already getting (with just 2 posts on!). Here I've just got to keep writing posts and fill the site with content.nnPlus I have one more existing site that I need to seriously update and SEO properly, plus 5 untouched domains, 2 of which should only take 20 minutes each, then a further 3 decent sites. And if I manage all of that in June, plus my fast growing business, I'll be impressed ;)

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  • Sarah Comments:

    Oops I forgot the £13 or so made this month in 123-reg! So that's another $19 on top which brings the total to roughly $170.

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