I can see why you would like to see more income. When you consider all the work you have put into composing, uploading, tagging and so on, it does not seem like that much money. But if it was easy I guess every musician would do it. We just have to keep working at it.

Thanks again for keeping us all updated on your progress 😀

By the way I made a total of $149 last month (now 26 tracks online) so at least it’s going in the right direction.

OCTOBER 2013 Total: $208
909 Music: 0
Audiojungle: $53
Film Music Network: 0
BuyStockSound: 0
Luckstock: $13
Million Duck: 0
Musicase: $12
Pond5: $43
Productiontrax: $23
Revostock: $61
Tunefruit: 0
Tunesociety: 0
YouLicense: 0
Zukkio: 0

no sign of life from productiontrax
on musicrevolution i discovered i have 4$ earnings from streaming

Yes it’s very important to spread your investments when it comes to earning money online. Don’t use all your time and money in getting SEO traffic from Google. If you only have traffic from one source you might end up loosing it all, from on day to another.

Getting traffic from more than one source will also lead to mere sales and make you business more robust to change. I try to send targeted traffic to the music libraries from YouTube, Twitter, SoundCloud and of-cause this blog.

By the way, building an e-mail list with your customers is one of the best ways to market you products and make sure you’re not dependant on others when is comes to making money in your business.

The post above is another reason why I don’t plan on going exclusive with one music library. The old saying “don’t put all you eggs in one basket” is still good advice 🙂

it is a copy-paste from a comment on audiojungle forum (http://audiojungle.net/forums/thread/4-days-straight-without-a-sale-/109548?page=3#895829) saying how google research algorhytm could affect royalty free sales…:

actually, i must say that in august/september i saw a sudden decrease of sales in AJ, while my SFX sales on pond5 increase (several sales but few money involved!). no sign of lifes from other websites, beside 1 sale on revostock in september…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Penguin
Basically, Google recently changed and, now, are periodically rolling out updates to their search algorithm, potentially affecting online businesses across the board. Presumably they’ve done this to favour their own advertising, links, platforms, etc.

Just search for ‘Google penguin update’, and you’ll quickly discover the negative impact it’s already had, with many online businesses being completely wiped out by it and reports of lives ruined. The SEO work Envato must commit to, in order to stay on top of this must be tremendous, and personally I think they’re doing a great job of keeping the engine running.

Quite a few other sites I sell on have been hit pretty hard to the point where I’ve been affected personally and sales have almost completely stopped for me and other composers alike. I have my own data charts showing a sudden and steady decline of sales on these other sites, since the Penguin updates started rolling out.
Just goes to show how important it is to keep an eye on these things if depending on selling online as it can all change in an instant.

It would be nice for you to see more money for all the work you have done uploading and tagging, but I’m sure you will hit a $200+ month if you carry on. Are you also seeing some of you tracks getting the most sales on different libraries? Three of my tracks seem rather popular – the rest not so much.