This Websites Story

How This Site Gets Traffic - and Income

I originally created this website as a means of promoting my medical billing business - Advanced Reimbursement Solutions. My thinking is that today most potential clients seeking services will turn to the internet and search Google, Yahoo, or Bing instead of thumbing through a phone book.

I wanted to show up on search results when someone in my area searches for medical billing services, or a similar term.

Below is a screen shot of our traffic statistics through March of 2011:



As you can see we're seeing a consistent increase in traffic - now over 5500 a month.

Update 6/18/2011 - Looks like we'll have over 8000 unique visitors a month!

Update 1/31/2012 - Looks like we've had almost 11,000 visitors in one month.

I thought this site would be a great way to share my experiences and everything I've learned about medical billing, coding, starting a business, working from home, etc. As it turns out it's becoming a source of income itself.

Following the SiteBuildIt guides, I began to notice how much my website traffic was increasing. Then I began to use SiteBuildIt's guide on how to monetize your site - that is generate income from your website traffic.

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The website hosting service I used before was one of the more popular ones and it was easy to create a website. But I got NO traffic. With my SiteBuildIt site, we're on course for over 1700 unique visitors last month!

By following the SiteBuildIt Action Guide and using the SiteBuilder tools, now when I type "medical billing" in the Google search, my business is the FIRST one listed under Local Business Results. And this is for a website that is less than 6 months old!

Traffic increased consistently every month since creating the website! The summer months were a little flat as I would expect given vacations, etc.

The website is about 3 years old and already getting over 10,000 visitors per month. There's no way I could get that type of exposure as cheap as this website costs me.

How This Website Generates Income
I'm just getting started and learning how to generate income from this site. There's several ways you can make money. For my website its ads (like the green double-underlined links you see) and affiliate sales for products and services I recommend.

It's very important to only recommend products and services you are willing to stake your reputation on. For example before recommending the medical billing books I have links to, I purchased and read them first.

Here's a summary of the income sources I'm incorporating on this site. I'm just getting started and will update as I learn more and earnings increase:

Ad Income
Adsense is our largest source of income for the site. It's turning out to be better than I expected. I started implementing Adsense in April 2010. In July of the first year we earned over $50 for the month. In August almost $90! And I just got my first Adsense check for $124!

Update 1/31/2011 - Earned $444 from Adsense for the month of January 2011 - whoopee!

Update 1/31/2012 - Earned over $1200 from Adsense for the month of January 2012 - Yea!

Affiliate Income
e-book sales - every time someone purchases a book via the website, the author pays a percentage. e-books typically have good affiliate agreements due to lower distribution costs. E-book sales generate about $75 to $100 a month now.

Update 1/31/2012 - averaging about $250 a month now in affiliate income.

Here's how E-goods generates income from your website.

Amazon - This is offered more as a service to visitors for recommended medical billing and coding books at the best prices. Their affiliate percentages aren't very high but it's anther source of site income. The site has earned some affiliate income from Amazon to date but only a few dollars. I don't really keep up with it any more.

Training - There's a great online medical billing course - medicalbillingcourse.com that pays a small percentage for referrals. We get an occasional referral from this.

Here's a great explanation from SiteBuildIt of how Affiliate web monetization works.

Indeed Job Search - Indeed has a program for website publishers earn money by including their job search tools on your website. It doesn't generate a lot of income but it's a nice service to offer visitors. In my opinion Indeed is the best job search site. The site only earns about $35 a month from this source - but it helps pay for the site.

As you can see ad revenue from the different sources is starting to add up. I'll update periodically.

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It really works - and this website is proof! It turns out I started building a website - but it quickly became a web Business.

Growing Your Business With a Website
If you are a current business owner or physician looking to grow your practice, click here to see how Dr. John Burch created a website that increased his revenue over $10,000 a month along with other local business examples.

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