August Earnings: $5437

I had my best month of 2011 in August with total earnings (with expenses subtracted) of $5437.

Considering I’m working, on average, about two hours per weekday (I always try to take weekends off entirely) I’m very pleased! Especially because things really picked up about halfway through the month and I’m projecting even bigger earnings in September.

I could probably be making ridiculous sums of money if I really focused on it, but for me it’s all about the freedom to be able to do what I want and certainly for where I live (my mortgage is only $800/month) $5437/month is well more than enough to be living quite comfortably (especially considering my wife makes money too.)

That said; I think I could be getting to the $10K/month level this year even working just 10 to 15 hours a week because of the way I’m focused on building rankings for the things that make me money with the link building strategies that I know work. I’m all about working smarter, not harder or longer.

OAInternet was responsible for $2273 of that (and I highly recommend them if you don’t mind working in that niche.)

I won’t share every niche I’m working in (I don’t want any extra competition in some of them…) but I will tell you the biggest key to my success: My Link Building Strategy.