So here it is, my first review for 2009.  I’m currently not feeling well, I believe it to be food poisoning, so this post is going to be brief.

Traffic

During the month of January this blog received:

471 Visits
336 Absolute Unique Visitors
1,090 Page Views (2.31 Views per Visitor)
Average of 03:38 minutes spent on site
59.87% Bounce Rate

My top five referral sources are:

  Google (organic)
  TweetMyBlog
  Nicusor
  David Risley
  StartXChange

Earnings

I received a King-of-Shaves razor for which I performed a review.  This has a market value of ~$15.25, but as this isn’t specifically income I won’t be including it in the final total.

I completed a paid review for Shop Wiki, which earned just $9.

Net Partner purchased a 125×125 banner advert costing $10 for 30days.  Payment was received by PayPal – who kept $0.69 for themselves.  My income from private advertisements totals $9.31.

I sold one copy of OIO Publisher which earns me 90% of the sale value.  I am currently awaiting a $22.50 payment to ‘mature’ over the next few days and then that should appear in my PayPal account also.

Project Wonderful have paid me $10 straight to PayPal for adverts displayed throughout January and December. 

Kontera has earned me $0.05 this month, but I am beginning to use it on other websites and I hope that my earnings will increase quite a bit over the coming months.

Before fees, my total earnings for January are sitting at $51.55.  My goal for 2009 is to earn £2009 ($2961.75) in which case I need to average $246.73 per month.  I was $195.18 below target during January, so during February and March I want to work harder to pass this target and beyond.

This post has originally been published on Darren Singleton .com. Darren Singleton is a Blogger, Webmaster and Internet Entrepreneur posting about his experiences of making money online on a daily basis.

January 2009 Review

Related posts:

1. Revisiting Goals from 2009
2. Goal Setting for 2009
3. Bloggerwave Payments