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Time for a phpbay earnings update. August was my best month yet for phpBay sites. But it was a stressful month too. With all the craziness of EPN deactivating publishers, many were left wondering when they would get the axe. Fortunately, I haven’t gotten it yet. But i have held off on building more sites until things settle down a bit.

Another bit of news: I deactivated phpBay Pro on my Golf Balls site early last month. This site was my worst performing site and the whole EPN stir made me nervous, so i decided to focus on my two best sites. I made about $4.00 from the golf ball site before I shut it down last month. One all the commotion with SPN goes down I will reevaluate the site and consider reactivating it.

Back to my phpBay earnings. I made a total 0f $690 from my phpBay sites in August. $611 was from EPN and another $80 came from CJ links on my Fender Amps site.

Here is a screenshot of my earnings breakdown between my two sites that are up (click it to enlarge):

Also, twice last month my earnings DROPPED $30. Must have been an eBay sale that got retracted. But that could have been another $60

Another also, I’m having ankle surgery this week on Tuesday. I know i’ve been pretty crappy about posting tips, I’ve been crazy busy. But with the surgery I’ll be off work for a week, so i should have some time to post. I’ll write about an amazing new plugin from Alan Lewis that automatically creates new pages of searches people do on your site. It’s really amazing. So that will be cool. I’ll also try to write another post, assuming the Vicodin doesn’t totally impair my typing.

I’m a little behind on updating you guys on my phpBay Pro earnings. I’ve also been pretty about about posting tips. Things have been pretty busy. But i’m going to try and start posting again at least once a week. If anyone has any tips to submit or specific questions, feel free to post a comment or send me an email and I’ll Post them.

Back to my earnings…

The past two months have been great. My revenue has been going up each month. In June $457.99 from EPN and my Fender amps site made another $54 from Commission Junction. So my total June earnings were $511. Just about all that came from my used apple laptop site, and my Fender site. While my golf ball site is still my best looking phpBay site, it is the poorest performing site. My SEO rankings started to drop and the commissions weren’t great so I started to focus all my efforts on the two other sites.

July was even better. In July I made $518 from phpBay pro and my fender site made another $66 from CJ. So my total earnings from phpBay sites was $584.

Here is a screenshot of my payments from the last few months:

Here is a screenshot of the breakdown of my earnings by site over the past three months (not including August. “Default Campaign” is my fender site):

Note that a lot of that revenue from the Golf Ball site came when i was testing PPC. Most of that is not profit. But the other two sites are all from organic traffic.

August is off to a great start, too. I already earned $347 and the months is just half way through. I’ll keep you posten on how it turns out.

Also, if you didn’t get phpBay Pro yet, It’s time to buy, Wade sent me a 20% off phpBay coupon. So buy it already!

So it’s 7 days into June, which means all my cookies from May should be expiring tomorrow. So after tomorrow whatever my dashboard says I made for may isn’t going to change. But I decided to post my earnings now since I doubt they will go up tomorrow.

I had two phpBay sites up in May: my Fender Blues Junior site, which is about 10 months old, and my discount golf ball site, which has only been around since mid April (2008). From those two sites I earned $401.83 from eBay and about another $70 from Adsense. That brings my total May earnings from phpBay sites (let me get my calculator) to about $471.83. That’s not bad considering my golf ball site was only indexed by google the last week of April, and traffic is growing every day.

Here is my eBay screenshot for May:

Not a ton of money, but some nice extra cash that came in from some upfront SEO work, but not much after that.

I’m off to an OK start for June. As of today I made $40 with ebay, $30 from CJ (amp sale on Musician’s Friend), and $10 from adsense.

I also am working on a new phpBay site for used Apple laptops. I’m still tweaking it, but traffic should start coming in a few weeks.

How did everyone else do in May?