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This is Rand Wilsonn and this is my March 2013 earning and performance
report out
if you've read my blog for a long time you might remember that a couple years
ago i used to do earnings and performance reports every month
i stop doing it on some time in 2011..
not really sure why uh... i got a lot of good feedback on the back then
but i just didn't think that it was something that was worth doing but now
that uh... i've got more feedback from my google plus
Zero Links Blogging Community
and some people just interested in knowing how other bloggers and
website-owners do, so
i wanted to make it available.. besides my blog is "Success The Easy Way" so it's important
that you know at least that i have some amount of success I'm also going to be talking
about taxes since this is tax month for those of us united states
so hang on to the end of the report out for that
i'm gonna break these report outs down into three sections uh... one is traffic
the second is server uptime because if your server isn't up
you know i think it in a traffic in and third earnings i have a dedicated server
that i lease out of the data center so of that server goes down all of my sites
go down not just my sites but sites that i host for
other people i i do that for a few other bloggers and webmasters
my up time for March 2013 was 99.98%
percent that's only eleven minutes of down time throughout the whole month
i think five or six of those minutes were actually planned by my server host
for they made some changes
so it's not bad that's just a little bit better than february of this year
where I had twelve minutes of down time
and quite a bit better then Feb.. ahh.. than March of 2012 last year were
had thirty one minutes of down time throughout the whole month
okke traffic
uh... i'm going to focus on my main website which is GrownUpGeek.com
like i said i've got a few other websites but
GrownUpGeek.com gets the vast majority of traffic and earnings
when i talk about "earnings" it's gonna be earnings from all of my website still be
added together but i'm only going to give the traffic for
that main website, GrownUpGeek.com
that way you won't be able to calculate my
click through ratio my CTR or my earnings per thousand
visitors uh... Because that would be a violation of the Adsense rules..
So, for March of 2013 out my main website GrownUpGeek.comcom received
290,000 unique visitors
and 356,000 page views.. that's up just a little bit
from february which was 283,000 unique visitors
and 354,000
pageviews. February was a shorter months so it's almost about the
same
it's pretty much unchanged from March of last year, 2012 with two hundred
eighty seven thousand visitors
and three hundred and fifty five thousand pageviews
okay and exciting part that earnings
i like i said this is our earnings for all of my websites vast majority comes
from GrownUpGeek.com
but im lumping all the earnings together from the other websites like i said so
that i'm not in violation of any Adsense terms of service so that you can't
figure out what my CTR or
eCPM or anything like that
so for march twenty thirteen point since earnings were
$5,229
it's not a bad month but it is down
about two hundred dollars from the previous month february
but that is uh... over two thousand dollars higher than march of last year
which was actually pretty bad month and
uh... the whole year was pretty bad
so overall not bad month
I also use the ad network "Kontera"
and that generated a whopping $422 for the month
of march that's down about fifty dollars from the previous month outfit you wear
it
and down almost exactly one hundred dollars from march of twenty twelve
Kontera has been on a uh... just a slight downhill trend
for
months if not years
and uh... everyone's while swapped between Kontera and Chitika or some
other ad network
uh... none of 'em
do anywhere near as well as Adsense
i'll probably try a few others later in this year i want to know how that goes
how my expenses for the month for about nine hundred dollars that's three
hundred dollars for my uh... dedicated server in the data center and six
hundred dollars for a new DSLR camera for
recording these videos that's what you look at me on right now
not sure if it was worth it but
it's a tax write off
and uh... speaking of taxes
this is april so everybody can the united states has the file taxes by
april fifteenth and a lot of people ask me how how i deal with my online
earnings how do i report that income but pay taxes on it
the short answer is you bet your *** i pay taxes on it last year i generated
overall just under eighty thousand dollars
uh... don't think you can get away
with through generate that sort of income without the i_r_s_ or somebody
noticing it i'd do not pay detroit did not file quarterly estimated income
taxes
uh... i still have a day job and so i'm not required to file those quarterly
income taxes because i have taxes withheld
in the past what i've done is just pay all the income taxes at the end of the
year that deal with the additional income taxes for that additional income
on top of what i pay for my
uh... day job income
on that doesn't work out so well because uh... in years past i've had to pay
write checks to the i_r_s_ for upwards of twenty thousand dollars
that's for the tax on the income as well as additional penalties for not paying
enough tax write the year so what i've done the last few years is increase my
additional withholding sfo my day job
up to about fifteen hundred dollars extra per month but they withhold
insanity i_r_s_
that at the end of year i still end up paying
usually around seven to ten thousand dollars extra
for that extra income missiles that is right and checked for twenty thousand
dollars him of having to pay that i threw out the end of year so far there
hasn't been any additional penalties
so you know it's not to write that check at the end of the year it allows me to
hang on the most of the income throughout the year
ice was in my pocket at least in say the aris as pocket
i hope you found this help for encouraging
i'm gonna try to do these reports every month or so
if there's an additional category that you'd like me to report out on that you
think would be helpful please leave a comment and let me know and if you have
any specific questions about anything that i've done over please leave a
comment i try to answer every comment this posted