I was extremely busy in my day job this month and this greatly affected the amount of time I could devote to blogging. This means I had to reject a higher number of offers than I usually do just because I didn’t have the time to invest for the opportunities.

As a result my earnings were among the lowest in six months on DragonBlogger.com and I was able to only net $192 last month. This is less than half as much as the $426 I was able to command in January 2010.

One thing of note is that my AdSense earnings have dropped by 50%, I started noticing the drop early and tried to change up my AdSense a bit to stave off the decline but it didn’t work. I am going to seriously have to look at placement and ad sizes/types on DragonBlogger.com as I used to get around $30 per month from AdSense and now I have fallen to less than $15 last month.

SocialSpark continues to be one of my top paid blogging revenue programs and netted me $50 by a single paid opp. This month I also had several direct advertisers purchase product reviews or backlinks from DragonBlogger.com and it helped buffer my earnings.

What I really want to do is try to increase my earnings from methods that are more automated and require less manual involvement. I love doing blog reviews, but for my weeks where I am swamped it would be nice to still have a decent earnings from my AssociatedContent and/or AdSense to help buffer out the lack of paid reviews and posts.

I will probably restructure my AdSense at some point this week on DragonBlogger.com to help try and improve the earnings from it. Maybe I should install a heatmap and determine where my clicks are centered around and target ads in those locations.

How did my fellow bloggers fare in February? Write a blog post sharing your earnings and earning sources and I will give you a free backlink here so you can show your readers what blogging really pays like.

-Dragon Blogger

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Every month I share with my readers what I earn from blogging and my sources of income, I do this to both inspire other bloggers and show them what companies you can earn money from, as well as to educate to the real difficulty and time consuming nature blogging is and that when you start out you will make far below minimum wage while blogging for profit.

For October 2009 my total blog related earnings were $284.98, with again the largest portion coming from SocialSpark which is one of the best blogging programs on the web.

I did make $14 from SponsoredTweets and $2.31 from AssociatedContent which isn’t technically related to blogging but is related to advertising in online writing and social media.  This month I had an advertiser purchase an ad slot and a post directly from me which helped my earnings for the month.  Overall October 2009 was just over 1/2 my earnings for September 2009 which shows you how unreliable and unpredictable earning through blogging can be.  My AdSense meanwhile was over $30 again for the 2nd month which is showing that each month my AdSense seems to grow from the previous month.

So SocialSpark, PayU2Blog and SponsoredReviews were my best online programs this month. Let me know how my fellow bloggers did for October 2009 and what programs worked best for you.

-Dragon Blogger

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