Mike's Money Making Mission: Money Making Weekly Report

Saturday

Money Making Weekly Report - Week 12

I'm now at week 12 of my Money Making Mission. The aim being to try and earn money, using only free blogs and without any capital outlay.

It has been another satisfactory week with over $100 added to the pot. The programs shown with a * have shown an increase this week.

I think the figures below are self explanatory. All sums are cumulative for the twelve weeks.

Money
Commission Junction - £72*
AdSense $38.66*
Amazon UK 51p
You Gov £5.75.
Adbrite $0.96
FriendFinderGroup $141.66*
Advertising Revenue £36.40
Convergence Inc = $46.20 (over 18's only)
Sexy Ads - $122.90* (over 18's only)
DIY Dating - £24.23*
Helium - 40c
myLot - $27.25*

As there are two currencies (USA and UK) involved the totals amount to the equivalent of:
UK£348.90 or US$628.03

Moving on now to the blog's visitors.

Referrals From Blog Directories. Cumulative figures.
For my comments on Blog Directories generally please see this post. The figures below may possibly give and indication of Blog Directories (and Blog Hit Exchanges) that may be worth joining.

Top Lists - 150
King Of The Blogs - 27
Today - 20
Blogger Talk - 18
Blog Hub - 16
Blog Show Off - 12
eMarketing Blogs - 6
Blogdup - 7
Brit Blog - 6
2-Review - 5
Blogwise 4
World Top Blogs - 2
Bulletize - 1
Globe Of Blogs - 1
My Blog 2U - 1
Bloglines - 1
My Blog 2U - 1
Finding Blog - 1
Other Directories - 0

Referrals From Hit Exchange Blog Directories. Cumulative figures.
I have given my thoughts on Hit Exchanges in another recent post Is Traffic From Hit Exchanges Worthwhile. Some readers have disgreed with my opinion but that's what makes life interesting - we all reach different conclusions.

Blog Mad - 281
Blog Explosion - 244
Blog Soldiers - 224

Search Engine Referrals
I was hoping that Google would make it to 100 this week, but mustn't grumble at just 3 short.

Google - 353 (+97 on week)
Technorati - 80 (+6)
MSN - 12 (+1)
Live.com - 2 (0)

Other Referrals
My top six referrers (cumulative figures), from exchanging links, are:

My Quest To Make Money On The Internet (145)
The Million Dollar Experiment (80)
Fantasy Football And Stuff (60)
Just Call Me Juice Sports Blog (58)
Life With Kreg (55)
JCM's RPG Art (44)

As well as the above, my thanks as always, to everyone I have exchanged links with - much appreciated. You will see their links listed in the side column under 'Interesting Blogs'. By exchanging links it helps all concerned not just with the referrals but also with search engine rankings.

If anyone else would like to exchange links please send me an email or leave a comment.

As usual I've had all sorts of other referrals from free ads, forums etc. Still going okay is My Lot from whom I have now had 242 referrals and commission of $27.25 See my post for details. I also received my payment from them yesterday by PayPal - on time.

I think that covers my week. I hope that by publishing this information, over the weeks to come, it may be of a help to other readers. To see any back reports please click here.

Best wishes,
Mike.