$1,400 In Monthly Online Income

February 2008 was a record-breaking month. I achieved over $550 in stock and canroy dividends, ~$275 in oil revenue and ~$1400 in online income.

Here's the breakdown:

• Online Income: $$1399.29
  
  
  
  • Adsense: $416.22
  
  
  • Linkworth: $221.99
  
  
  • TLA: $95.87
  
  
  • Kontera: $51.36
  
  
  • Affiliate: $83.85
  
  
  • Prosper Referrals: $100
  
  
  • Direct Ads: $430
  
  
  
  


• Savings Accounts: $138.43
  


• Real Estate Trust Deed: $0


• Direct Oil Drilling Investment: $277


• Dividends from Canroys: $509.11


• Other Dividends: $59.72

I made $100 in referrals fees from Prosper. If you've been thinking of lending or borrowing money on Prosper, now is a good time to do it. They're still offering a $25 incentive to new members.

A majority of the dividend income is from Canroys, and is post-tax income. The Canadian government takes its 15% tax on the dividends from Canroys, so the income is after-tax. You get a tax credit for this amount in the US so there's no double taxation.

I'm also getting affiliate referral income from Linkworth.com. For every person that signs up, they give 5% of the income they earn for life! The $200 that I got in February was actually the income I earned in January. For February, I've actually earned $410.98, of which most of it is referrral income. However, since I won't get paid until March, I'm going to count that next month. Linkworth will probably be the largest income stream next month. Its a great way to boost your site's revenue and I strongly recommend you sign up.

My Kontera income dropped significantly from the prior month. Its down almost 50%. I haven't spent much time analyzing that so I'm not sure what happend. Overall traffic is up so I'd expect the kontera revenue to also increase, but the opposite occurred. I guess it is correlated with the type of posts. I've seen that posts related to gold pay very well for PayPerClick advertising. A lot of clicks are $0.99 and some are even over $1 each. Focusing on investment-related content makes for good income!

As I mentioned last month, my real estate trust deed has defaulted. Luckily, the oil drilling programs have started to kick-in and have almost replaced that income.

Overall, I'm quite pleased with the results. Hopefully, I'll be able to break the $3,000/month barrier pretty soon.