The beginning of the month is always marked by an analysis of my blogging revenue, and this time is the income report December 2016

I had high expectations for December, mostly fueled by Christmas sales. However I knew from my previous experiences that the internet traffic drops sharply on December 23rd, and rarely rebounds before the new year.

Considering this scenario I wasn’t sure I could beat my November earnings, but I was expecting it to be similar.

Income Report December 2016:

Affiliate Marketing:

In this blog income report I am mostly posting my affiliate earnings, but not only. December was good, but slightly less impressive than November. Overall I am satisfied, but I am slightly concerned for January’s results. In January people buy much less things online, therefore CPC also decreases as less companies invest in market.

Adsense and Other Income:

AdSense also showed good improvement in November, namely on the travel website. However overall it had a virtually equal result as November.

Income Report November 2016:

Affiliate Marketing Income (Breakdown by currency):

USD: 954
GBP: 48.61 (59.71)
EUR: 75 (78.61)
BRL: 205 (62)
Asia: 70 USD

Total Affiliate Revenue: 1.223,55 USD

Adsense Income USD: 215

Total Revenue: USD 1438.5

Expenses

Article Writing: USD 50
YouTube Revenue Share: USD 107
Domain and hosting: USD 100

Total costs: USD 213

I had to renew one domain this month.

Total Income: USD 1.181,5

It was slightly less than I expected, but I improved my websites SEO with better content, better writing and CDN, so I hope I can get more users on my network in January. Especially to make up for the lesser amount of sales expected for January.