I really thought January was going to be an average to low month, but it turned out to be my second highest month on record.
In January 2010, I earned a total of $2,055
$1,927 – Direct advertising (banners, text links, paid reviews)
$67 – Woo Themes affiliate payment
$35 – Linkworth text link ad
$26 – Nomadic Matt affiliate [...]
In 2009, I earned $10,390 from travel blogging:
$7,251 – Direct banner/text link sales
$910 – Linkworth
$840 – TextLinkAds.com
$785 – Freelance work
$362 – Google AdSense
$19 – Miscellaneous affiliate sales
$13 – Amazon.com
As you can tell, selling advertising directly is by far the biggest way that I’ve monetized my travel blogs. In the second half of 2009, after updating [...]
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Happy New Year!
After my record-setting month of November 2009, I expected to see a dip in December. Plus, with the holidays and people traveling, I knew the traffic to Go Backpacking would dip.
In December 2009, I earned a total of $568:
$520 – direct banner/text links
$35 – Linkworth
$13.50 – affiliate sale (money collected)
Go Backpacking received 16,000 [...]
