If I did this for a living, I would be seriously upset with the performance of my online earnings the latter half of October. On September 25th, I earned $19.50 from Adsense, on October 25th I earned $4.93. On September 25th, Fight Song Lyrics had 353 impressions and earned $3.26 and on October 25th, Fight Song Lyrics had 508 adsense impressions and only earned $1.88.

The trend is similar for all my sites. Increased traffic and impressions, but decreases in earnings. I have switched most of my earning sites to Yahoo Publisher Network last night, to see if there is a similar trend in that. I have already reached nearly $300 in Adsense for the month of October, so I can go a few days of testing and still get paid next month. If the trend continues, my November earnings will suck and I will hardly earn a check. I thought this time of the year was supposed to be big earnings because its getting close to the holiday shopping season.

Every now and then I get so bummed out when trying to make money. Like I really feel all the work isn’t worth it. Spending hours and hours a day to build up sites and hoping to make a couple dollars from Adsense. That’s not how we’re supposed to live.

I have still yet to come up with an awesome website/business that draws insane traffic. I’ve never had a site get more than 2,000 uniques/day. All my sites combined don’t even touch that. Reading forums like Digitalpoint and Sitepoint, people make it sound so easy to make money online. They slap something up and thousands of people go to it. Maybe they resort to spam?

I guess I’m just pissed and crying over the fact that I was pushing $20/day last month, and now I can hardly get to $5/day. And having a full-time job is not leaving me enough time to do anything about it. I wonder if there ever comes a time when you just pack up and quit the online biz. Maybe try my luck in something else? I’m not going to make that call anytime soon though. I’ve been trying to earn money online for about a year now. A whole YEAR!! And I’m still making peanuts. If I give another year of my life to web publishing, and still can’t come up with at least $50/day I think it’s a sign that this isn’t my calling. Some people have it and some people don’t. This career might not be made for me, no matter how much I like it.