It is been sometimes that I have released the AdSense income report. It was two busy month with work and blogging. I have to share AdSense income report plus some exciting news. First I will go through the AdSense income.
April 2011 AdSense Income: AU$160
May 2011 AdSense Income: AU$137
You might have notice that there is sudden drop in May. Daily income was below $2.00 (Average ) from 22 May to 11 June. Luckily the daily income is back to normal. Couple of close reasons that I can think of .....
1. Receiving lots of invalid clicks
2. Changes done to the AdSense Ads Formats
Blogging update
1. iilanka.com was graduated with AdSense. iilanka manage to pass the 100 daily visitors level and I applied some large square ads in popular pages. So, far manged to get more than $20 dollars from it.
2. windows8hacks.com was graduated with AdSense as well. I manage to bring more than 100 visitors to the blog within one month.
Hope to share more behind the sense stories about these blogs in the future posts.
Good Luck with your AdSense and Blogging
Kind Regards
Sjay
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
111 Click Only 172 Page Views
What you thought was right. Someone is trying to make lots of invalid click on one of my blogs that may result my AdSense account cancelled due to invalid clicks. It is really important to protect your Account account from fraud like this.
As soon as you find out something like this in your AdSense report make sure you report it to AdSense. Fill out the AdSense Invalid Clicks Contact Form and submit it. In any case you will at least have proof that it happened without your knowledge.
Stay tune to 100 dollars per day as I will post April AdSense report.
As soon as you find out something like this in your AdSense report make sure you report it to AdSense. Fill out the AdSense Invalid Clicks Contact Form and submit it. In any case you will at least have proof that it happened without your knowledge.
Stay tune to 100 dollars per day as I will post April AdSense report.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
3 things to do before reinvesting the Adsense income
"You must consider your blog as a business".
This is what most of the professional bloggers would advice. Even though it dose not make thousands of dollars or cover your living cost, you have to consider your blog as a proper business. Then, you will have a good picture of the current situation and long term and short terms goals. In another way, you will also understand the strengths and weaknesses of your blog.
Question is how you going to treat your blog as a real business? As I am experimenting with AdSense I already focus on making money out my blogs. How about you? If yes, there is no reason why you should not take you blog as a business.
First thing I did was to calculate the total earnings so far. Only with AdSense manage to make over $2000. Then it adds up the payments I received from domain parking, private ads, affiliate programs and freelance work (which I started recently). However, over the time I have spent some on busing domain names, web servers and various other services. So, I amused that there is $1000 as the opening balance. There is no point that trying to figure out all the expenses and income if you did not document them properly. It is a waste of time. Just get a value that you can afford and more forward with it. Remember to record each and every income and expense, just like a real business.
Secondly, I calculate the average monthly income. If you gone through the previous monthly income reports you will notice that average income is $150.
Lastly, you need to figure out ways to reinvest a certain portion of your monthly income. I don't recommend you to spend all the monthly income. Because, you need to plan for worst months as well. Specially if you commit to monthly plan even your income drops you have to make the payments.
Here is the list of reinvestment ideas currently I am using and planning to use.
1. Outsource writing blog posts -
2. Bought Article Spinning Software -
3. Bought a Bluehost web server account -
4. Bought couple of good domain names for future use -
and I am planning to
1. Buy link building software
2. Hire someone for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
I really appreciate your thoughts and ideas about this.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
March AdSense Earning Report: Quite but Good Month
First of all thank you for all the comments and sharing your thoughts and links with me. I really appreciate it and also, thanks for all the guest posts.
Like I mentioned before March was a bit busy month. Therefore, I could not really do major changes or updates to the blogs. However, it did not effect the AdSense income badly.
What would be the best posting frequency for AdSense? According to my blogs I have noticed that Page RPM increases when I post only couple of good posts per month. In most of the cases it goes over $1.00 per click. Some days end up earning more than $10.00. On the other hand, if I post only couple of post per month, gives me the opportunity to manage more blogs at any given month. As, result of that I manage to start two more blogs plus join one more blog with AdSense. I will update the impact on AdSense earning next month through new blogs.
Again, it manages to pass the AU$150 mark. That is +$31.39 comparing to the last month.
It seems like in next couple of months I need to figure out a way to make $10 average. More than the income it is important to enjoy the challenge and experiment with AdSense.
Good Luck with your AdSense journey.
Cheers
Sjay.
Like I mentioned before March was a bit busy month. Therefore, I could not really do major changes or updates to the blogs. However, it did not effect the AdSense income badly.
What would be the best posting frequency for AdSense? According to my blogs I have noticed that Page RPM increases when I post only couple of good posts per month. In most of the cases it goes over $1.00 per click. Some days end up earning more than $10.00. On the other hand, if I post only couple of post per month, gives me the opportunity to manage more blogs at any given month. As, result of that I manage to start two more blogs plus join one more blog with AdSense. I will update the impact on AdSense earning next month through new blogs.
March 2011 AdSense Income: AU$169.95
Again, it manages to pass the AU$150 mark. That is +$31.39 comparing to the last month.
It seems like in next couple of months I need to figure out a way to make $10 average. More than the income it is important to enjoy the challenge and experiment with AdSense.
Good Luck with your AdSense journey.
Cheers
Sjay.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Intext Advertising Shows How Advertisers Target Your Content
Infolinks will help you understand Adsense Better
Do you know Infolinks its an intext advertising script that you can use on your site. One of the Things about Infolinks is that you can use it alongside Adsense as a second Income source.
Many website owners do not want intext advertising to be displayed inside their content but if you do not mind using such advertising methods you can give infolinks a try.
One of the things I noticed when I started using intext advertisng on my blog was the words that were highlighted. These were words like Get Cheaper Pay Per Click Keywords. Why were words like that being highlighted with Infolinks well the reason is simple words like
Advertising and Payments Attract Attention from Advertisers and Customers.
So what has Infolinks Got to Do with all this well the reason is quite simple if your content is not showing highlighted keywords in infolinks then you are doing something wrong with the Words you are using in your Post and Article content. If these words do not appeal to advertisers then advertisers will not pay large amounts of money for clicks on those advertisments.
This Goes for all contextual Advertising Programs Like Chitika and 7search.
Visit my site for more about Adsense and Affiliate Programs.
Do you know Infolinks its an intext advertising script that you can use on your site. One of the Things about Infolinks is that you can use it alongside Adsense as a second Income source.
Many website owners do not want intext advertising to be displayed inside their content but if you do not mind using such advertising methods you can give infolinks a try.
One of the things I noticed when I started using intext advertisng on my blog was the words that were highlighted. These were words like Get Cheaper Pay Per Click Keywords. Why were words like that being highlighted with Infolinks well the reason is simple words like
Advertising and Payments Attract Attention from Advertisers and Customers.
So what has Infolinks Got to Do with all this well the reason is quite simple if your content is not showing highlighted keywords in infolinks then you are doing something wrong with the Words you are using in your Post and Article content. If these words do not appeal to advertisers then advertisers will not pay large amounts of money for clicks on those advertisments.
This Goes for all contextual Advertising Programs Like Chitika and 7search.
Visit my site for more about Adsense and Affiliate Programs.
Monday, March 21, 2011
January and February 2011 Income Report
As I was busy with work and my three weeks holiday I could not post the monthly income report for February. Therefore I though of posting both income reports together share bit of holiday experience and blogging.
It was great 3 weeks holiday in Sri Lanka and Singapore and had a pretty relaxing time. If you looking for a relaxing getaway I would highly recommend you to visit Sri Lanka. You can enjoy the tropical weather with nice beaches and hotels. Also, Marina Bay Sand (Singapore) is a pretty awesome hotel that you can experience the infinite pool in 57th floor and the Sky-deck. Also, you can spend time shopping and roam around the building complex.
Let's move to the monthly reports.
January - AU$157.30
February - AU$138.56
So, without any major AdSense optimizing change or daily blog post updates the main website generated more than AU$150.00. Then there is a decline in month February. One good reason is that February is missing 2 days and I did not spend much time updating or brining traffic to the blog.
Will be back soon with more updated and AdSense stories.
It was great 3 weeks holiday in Sri Lanka and Singapore and had a pretty relaxing time. If you looking for a relaxing getaway I would highly recommend you to visit Sri Lanka. You can enjoy the tropical weather with nice beaches and hotels. Also, Marina Bay Sand (Singapore) is a pretty awesome hotel that you can experience the infinite pool in 57th floor and the Sky-deck. Also, you can spend time shopping and roam around the building complex.
Let's move to the monthly reports.
January - AU$157.30
February - AU$138.56
So, without any major AdSense optimizing change or daily blog post updates the main website generated more than AU$150.00. Then there is a decline in month February. One good reason is that February is missing 2 days and I did not spend much time updating or brining traffic to the blog.
Will be back soon with more updated and AdSense stories.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Happy New Year and December AdSense Revenue Report
First of all I wish you a happy new year and wish you all the best for a fantastic 2011. Thanks you very much for the support over the past year and I really appreciate it. In terms of AdSense it was a exciting year and I really have some good news to share with you.
AdSense Revenue Report
Let's move to the December AdSense Revenue Report. December was the best month so far. In December total estimated earning recorded as AU$176.48. That was a nice Christmas and New Year present. Finally, I manage to exceed AU$150.00. Comparing to the November it is +AU$53.88.
December - AU$ 176.48
November - AU$ 122.60
Difference - + AU$ 53.88
Comparing the number of visitors and number of clicks received for the ads Page eCPM played the major role. As it was the holiday season, advertisers increase the bid to gain more sales. It will be challenge to continue the same level of income in the next couple of months.
Plans for the Year 2011
Finally, I bought a web server account from one of the best shared web server provider, Bluehost. It only cost me $6.95 per month. I am trying to fully utilized the unlimited bandwidth, storage space, email accounts. Also, they provide you a facility to create any number websites. It is the ideal web hosting for me to start couple of new websites in different niches. Ideally I will be able to experiment AdSense performance with different niches as well as multiply the AdSense revenue. During the year 2010, I was totally concentrating on one blog with AdSense ads. I was able to achieve many goals in terms of traffic and AdSense revenue.
I already started a social network site for Sri Lanka using buddypress and start getting more than 100 hits per day after couple of days and over 1300 facebook fans. However, I am still waiting to monetize the project. Like I mentioned in previous posts first required to maintain healthy traffic to the website. I used facebook advertising to increase the facebook fans. As I am trying to build a network I chose facebook than AdWords.
In Adwords I have to pay for each click and once they left the site, that would be the end.
I am wishing you all the best and once again thank you so much for visiting my blog and your support. If you need any help setting up the web server accounts or wordpress blogs I can definitely help you on that. Do not forget to subscribe for AdSense updates. I will share all the AdSense tricks tips and hacks that I will be using.
AdSense Revenue Report
Let's move to the December AdSense Revenue Report. December was the best month so far. In December total estimated earning recorded as AU$176.48. That was a nice Christmas and New Year present. Finally, I manage to exceed AU$150.00. Comparing to the November it is +AU$53.88.
December - AU$ 176.48
November - AU$ 122.60
Difference - + AU$ 53.88
Comparing the number of visitors and number of clicks received for the ads Page eCPM played the major role. As it was the holiday season, advertisers increase the bid to gain more sales. It will be challenge to continue the same level of income in the next couple of months.
Plans for the Year 2011
Finally, I bought a web server account from one of the best shared web server provider, Bluehost. It only cost me $6.95 per month. I am trying to fully utilized the unlimited bandwidth, storage space, email accounts. Also, they provide you a facility to create any number websites. It is the ideal web hosting for me to start couple of new websites in different niches. Ideally I will be able to experiment AdSense performance with different niches as well as multiply the AdSense revenue. During the year 2010, I was totally concentrating on one blog with AdSense ads. I was able to achieve many goals in terms of traffic and AdSense revenue.
I already started a social network site for Sri Lanka using buddypress and start getting more than 100 hits per day after couple of days and over 1300 facebook fans. However, I am still waiting to monetize the project. Like I mentioned in previous posts first required to maintain healthy traffic to the website. I used facebook advertising to increase the facebook fans. As I am trying to build a network I chose facebook than AdWords.
In Adwords I have to pay for each click and once they left the site, that would be the end.
I am wishing you all the best and once again thank you so much for visiting my blog and your support. If you need any help setting up the web server accounts or wordpress blogs I can definitely help you on that. Do not forget to subscribe for AdSense updates. I will share all the AdSense tricks tips and hacks that I will be using.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
5 AdSense and Blogging Mistakes I have done and You Should Not Do
I am not a AdSense guru who is making millions out of it. I am just like you who is struggling and experimenting with AdSense and blogging to get a better result. I though it would be nice to share some mistakes I have done initially and learnt a lesson. At least you can avoid them.
1. Choose the wrong niche
What is the best blogging niche? Wrong question. It is always effective to choose a better blogging niche as you may not able to find THE best blogging niche. But how can you really know if it is a better blogging niche.
There are list of software and online services that you can use to get an idea about a niche before you choose start blogging. Google Adword Keyword tool and Market Samurai is couple of really good keyword and niche research tools. However, that can only help you to a certain level.
Don't choose a niche that can be covered a wide area. Try to be more specific. Figure out the possible area that you can monetize your niche in future. Also, don't forget to start up with something you are good at.
2. I did not buy a domain name
This is the most stupid and silly mistake I have done initially and still I am suffering. I just start the blog for fun and continue blogging and end up in a stage where it is too late to move it to a domain name. It has already build up number of good inbound links and a reasonable Google page rank that I don't want to lose.
It is important to get the domain name for your blog and start blogging before it is too late. You never know what is going to happened with your blog. Domain name will give a good value to your blog. Remember to get a domain name as soon as you come up with a great idea for blogging. It is less that $15.
3. Why did n't I bought a server and moved to word press
This is similar to the previous point, getting a domain name. However, getting a server is bit expensive than getting the domain. Best deal I have got is from bluehost for $6.95 per month for unlimited band with and unlimited domain names. It took me a while to convince myself to get my own server and have a wordpress blog. It gives me lot of potential and flexibility to improve my blogs and take them to the next level. Blogspot is really good for a start but you should try Wordpress on your own hosting space.
4. I was looking to make money through blogging
Making money from blogging should not be a short term goal. It will be a ultimate goal but you should really concentrate on producing something really useful, crazy, cool or fun. It will give you great potential and you will not disappointed in initial stage by not making enough money through blogging. First you need to build a strong blog that people trust.
5. Target only blogging why not a good website
Start a blogging and Applying AdSense is the easiest and most popular method. But I have noticed that blogging is not the only way to use AdSesnse effectively. Having a good static website or dynamic website (like a forum, website directory) will add more potential. This is something I missed out in the early stages but now I have started couple of new project to cover these areas.
Bonus Tip: You should not be scared to do mistakes as you will learn lot from them and it will be a great help.
You should try doing things and keep on doing it even though you might feel that it is going to fail. It helped me lot.
Bonus
1. Choose the wrong niche
What is the best blogging niche? Wrong question. It is always effective to choose a better blogging niche as you may not able to find THE best blogging niche. But how can you really know if it is a better blogging niche.
There are list of software and online services that you can use to get an idea about a niche before you choose start blogging. Google Adword Keyword tool and Market Samurai is couple of really good keyword and niche research tools. However, that can only help you to a certain level.
Don't choose a niche that can be covered a wide area. Try to be more specific. Figure out the possible area that you can monetize your niche in future. Also, don't forget to start up with something you are good at.
2. I did not buy a domain name
This is the most stupid and silly mistake I have done initially and still I am suffering. I just start the blog for fun and continue blogging and end up in a stage where it is too late to move it to a domain name. It has already build up number of good inbound links and a reasonable Google page rank that I don't want to lose.
It is important to get the domain name for your blog and start blogging before it is too late. You never know what is going to happened with your blog. Domain name will give a good value to your blog. Remember to get a domain name as soon as you come up with a great idea for blogging. It is less that $15.
3. Why did n't I bought a server and moved to word press
This is similar to the previous point, getting a domain name. However, getting a server is bit expensive than getting the domain. Best deal I have got is from bluehost for $6.95 per month for unlimited band with and unlimited domain names. It took me a while to convince myself to get my own server and have a wordpress blog. It gives me lot of potential and flexibility to improve my blogs and take them to the next level. Blogspot is really good for a start but you should try Wordpress on your own hosting space.
4. I was looking to make money through blogging
Making money from blogging should not be a short term goal. It will be a ultimate goal but you should really concentrate on producing something really useful, crazy, cool or fun. It will give you great potential and you will not disappointed in initial stage by not making enough money through blogging. First you need to build a strong blog that people trust.
5. Target only blogging why not a good website
Start a blogging and Applying AdSense is the easiest and most popular method. But I have noticed that blogging is not the only way to use AdSesnse effectively. Having a good static website or dynamic website (like a forum, website directory) will add more potential. This is something I missed out in the early stages but now I have started couple of new project to cover these areas.
Bonus Tip: You should not be scared to do mistakes as you will learn lot from them and it will be a great help.
You should try doing things and keep on doing it even though you might feel that it is going to fail. It helped me lot.
Bonus
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Monthly AdSense Report November 2010
From last month I started to post the monthly AdSense ups and downs. I can keep track of what positive and negative actions I have made and it is results towards the AdSense earnings. November is a been exciting month for me as I manage to get over 1800 hits per day for 4 days. As a result of that I manage to made around twenty dollars extra this month. I have already explain how I managed to get that results using couple of SEO tricks.
- Find out a trendy topic / news that many people will be searching for
- Identify what people really looking to and searching for (Keywords)
- Link your post with some other random websites.
This month I manage to get total of $122.73 from AdSense. Comparing to last months $98.00 it is a +$24.73.
December month challenge is to figure out a way to get over unique 1000 visitors per day average. I will update AdSense experiments and it's results with you. If you struggling and and trying to figure out AdSense secrets (just like me) don't forget to follow my blog or sign up for RSS.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Secret of brining 4300 visitors to a single post
Yes, this is amazing and I am really excited about these numbers. One post manage to attract more than 4000 unique visitors for 4 days. It manage to make extra $20.00. More traffic more AdSense money and that's not a secret any more. It will be interesting to go through what exactly I did to here to get this result.
Remember I told you that I am using Google News Alerts to know the latest trends and latest stories related to my blog. That really works on giving your visitor the latest information and SEO point of view you will able to blog about trendy topics that most of the people will be searching for. This is not the only way to do that. There are many other ways like twitter, facebook (any Social Website) and special tools Google trends.
This time I was luck with Yahoo Answers. Suddenly I have noticed that people start asking "What happed to Limewire?". When I really check the Limewire website it was closed due to a legal issues and that created blog post. More than I was lucky I managed to apply SEO Secrets on that post well. Lets run through the SEO tricks I apply on the post one by one.
1. Keyword Question Blog Titles
Blog Post Title: "What Happened to Limewire?"
Title it self is a Keyword Praise.
That is the best part as I was noticing this in Yahoo Answer, it was easy to know what everyone interested in the story is looking for and the best keywords they use to query in Google. No doubt that title is catchy and get enough attention.
So, It is important to know what exactly people are looking for and what keywords they use to search. What is the point of posting something that no one search for. Yahoo Answers is a better place to figure out trendy questions that most of the people have and understand how they ask the question. Also,I found this free keyword Question tool comes in handy to get keyword question blog titles for particular niche.
2. Answer the Question
By default blog post is going to be the answer for the question. If you get the question correctly then there is no reason why the answer can be wrong. But make sure do enough research and resources quickly as possible. Don't forget to include the keywords you use in the question title. I don't see any reason why someone will miss this but it is quite important.
3. Getting Inbound Links
Your post is ready and lets start finding some incoming links to the post. I know most of us who start blogging really focus on link exchange to get more and more inbound links. However, most of the case we target the home page. This time I manage to focus on the post.
I use my blog post link in Yahoo Answer to answer the questions. At that time I was only thinking about the referral traffic. But it turn out to be a plus point for SEO.
My blogging friend Roezer at Blog HQ gave me a link from his post specially done to support my topic. This was Roezer idea as he use this trick pretty effectively. It is important to have good friends around you and your blog.
Thirdly, I went to couple of blogs that talk about Limewire and commented on the posts. I choose them randomly and did not even check the page rank (I do not really care about Page Rank). I did not just drop my link there but left a relevant thought about the post and drop a link to the post (not to the home page) where they want me to mention my website. That way it will not mark it as spam.
Just by getting these three factors right did the trick. Google index my post instantly and when I check blog stats next day I can see people are visiting the post. There wasn't many referral hits but search engine traffic. It jumped in to 3rd place in Google for "What happened to Limewire?"
SEO tricks I have mentioned here in not new or figure out by me. I know it is not a big secret as well. Everyone read about them, study about them but how many how us using them properly. Biggest secret and challenge is how you can use these SEO tips in the correct way to get results instantly. This is just one such a successful scenario. I have lot to learn about and experiment.
I will make sure I will share all these experiments and its results and don't forget to signup for the 100 dollars per day feed.
Remember I told you that I am using Google News Alerts to know the latest trends and latest stories related to my blog. That really works on giving your visitor the latest information and SEO point of view you will able to blog about trendy topics that most of the people will be searching for. This is not the only way to do that. There are many other ways like twitter, facebook (any Social Website) and special tools Google trends.
This time I was luck with Yahoo Answers. Suddenly I have noticed that people start asking "What happed to Limewire?". When I really check the Limewire website it was closed due to a legal issues and that created blog post. More than I was lucky I managed to apply SEO Secrets on that post well. Lets run through the SEO tricks I apply on the post one by one.
1. Keyword Question Blog Titles
Blog Post Title: "What Happened to Limewire?"
Title it self is a Keyword Praise.
That is the best part as I was noticing this in Yahoo Answer, it was easy to know what everyone interested in the story is looking for and the best keywords they use to query in Google. No doubt that title is catchy and get enough attention.
So, It is important to know what exactly people are looking for and what keywords they use to search. What is the point of posting something that no one search for. Yahoo Answers is a better place to figure out trendy questions that most of the people have and understand how they ask the question. Also,I found this free keyword Question tool comes in handy to get keyword question blog titles for particular niche.
2. Answer the Question
By default blog post is going to be the answer for the question. If you get the question correctly then there is no reason why the answer can be wrong. But make sure do enough research and resources quickly as possible. Don't forget to include the keywords you use in the question title. I don't see any reason why someone will miss this but it is quite important.
3. Getting Inbound Links
Your post is ready and lets start finding some incoming links to the post. I know most of us who start blogging really focus on link exchange to get more and more inbound links. However, most of the case we target the home page. This time I manage to focus on the post.
I use my blog post link in Yahoo Answer to answer the questions. At that time I was only thinking about the referral traffic. But it turn out to be a plus point for SEO.
My blogging friend Roezer at Blog HQ gave me a link from his post specially done to support my topic. This was Roezer idea as he use this trick pretty effectively. It is important to have good friends around you and your blog.
Thirdly, I went to couple of blogs that talk about Limewire and commented on the posts. I choose them randomly and did not even check the page rank (I do not really care about Page Rank). I did not just drop my link there but left a relevant thought about the post and drop a link to the post (not to the home page) where they want me to mention my website. That way it will not mark it as spam.
Just by getting these three factors right did the trick. Google index my post instantly and when I check blog stats next day I can see people are visiting the post. There wasn't many referral hits but search engine traffic. It jumped in to 3rd place in Google for "What happened to Limewire?"
SEO tricks I have mentioned here in not new or figure out by me. I know it is not a big secret as well. Everyone read about them, study about them but how many how us using them properly. Biggest secret and challenge is how you can use these SEO tips in the correct way to get results instantly. This is just one such a successful scenario. I have lot to learn about and experiment.
I will make sure I will share all these experiments and its results and don't forget to signup for the 100 dollars per day feed.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
[OCT 2010] AdSense Progress So far -
I am so relax after the exams and it took a while to finish it. There is another good news,today is a holiday. I thought today is the best time to share my progress so far using Adense. This is something I haven't done before but I think this would be really interesting.
I thought it would be nice to look back how it was started and where I am now. It s been a challenge and interesting hobby to work with AdSense ads.
* First month I made only $0.01
* Second month I manage to made $5.00
* It took 8 months to made the first $100 and received the Google AdSense payment
* Last month I made AU$98.00 :) and that is the highest so far for a given calendar month.
What was my secret so far?
So far my AdSense secret is traffic.It is the key for AdSense earning. Also, you need to play a waiting game with AdSense. You should not worry about the earnings at the beginning, if you are starting from zero visitors.
Without reasonable traffic don't even think about optimizing AdSense ads.
What would be a reasonable traffic needed to start AdSense earning?
You need 500 - 1000 unique visitors per day to get a better click through rate and start making AdSense dollars. Then only you can experiment with AdSense optimization and find the best suitable template for your website / blog.
What Should I do to increase AdSense earning for the next month?
I believe I need to work out and use the traffic increasing methods effectively to get more an more traffic to the blog. Another trick might be to start a new blog and bring it to 500 -1000 visitors per day in short time frame with all the experience I have gained so far.
Good luck with your AdSense earning and hope you enjoy my first income report and if you have any tips and tricks don't forget to share with me.
I thought it would be nice to look back how it was started and where I am now. It s been a challenge and interesting hobby to work with AdSense ads.
* First month I made only $0.01
* Second month I manage to made $5.00
* It took 8 months to made the first $100 and received the Google AdSense payment
* Last month I made AU$98.00 :) and that is the highest so far for a given calendar month.
What was my secret so far?
So far my AdSense secret is traffic.It is the key for AdSense earning. Also, you need to play a waiting game with AdSense. You should not worry about the earnings at the beginning, if you are starting from zero visitors.
Without reasonable traffic don't even think about optimizing AdSense ads.
What would be a reasonable traffic needed to start AdSense earning?
You need 500 - 1000 unique visitors per day to get a better click through rate and start making AdSense dollars. Then only you can experiment with AdSense optimization and find the best suitable template for your website / blog.
What Should I do to increase AdSense earning for the next month?
I believe I need to work out and use the traffic increasing methods effectively to get more an more traffic to the blog. Another trick might be to start a new blog and bring it to 500 -1000 visitors per day in short time frame with all the experience I have gained so far.
Good luck with your AdSense earning and hope you enjoy my first income report and if you have any tips and tricks don't forget to share with me.
Friday, October 22, 2010
How to keep your readers longer
Keeping visitors stick to your blog post is one of the biggest challenge that most of the bloggers face. As a new blogger who is trying to improve my blogging skills, I always find it challenging to keep my visitors long enough. Usually people visit blogs for quick updates or quick references. So, naturally blog readers will not stay on the blog for longer time periods. Even though, there are no direct relationship between the AdSense income and how long a visitor stay on one page, it always helps to have a .
Monitoring Returning Visitor Bounce Rates
Bounce rates are a constantly monitored statistic by every good webmaster. If your visitors are not staying very long on your site you need to know and find out ways to keep your readers longer on your site and increase page views. This can be done with alternative site navigation and better content summaries.Most of us already know that providing original content and well flow of the blog post can attract the readers and make them at least read the whole blog post. However, if you are blogger like me you already know that how hard it is to produce original news or content regularly. There are lot of challenges and perfect answer it is hard but providing quality content frequently is important to increase pageviews from returning visitors by showing them content they might not have read like How to keep your readers longer. Returning Visitor Time on site needs to be monitored just as much as search visitors time spend on your website or blog.
A Simple Hack to Increase Time on Your Site
I choose couple of blog posts that Google already love and sending search engine visitors toward my blog. Check the content and search for interesting Youtube, MetaCafe or any Video relevant to the topic and embedded it to the post. Interesting videos usually able to stick visitors long enough. Content, images and added video will makes a information rich post. Do not forget to write your own opinion of the video content as well.
How dose this impact my AdSense earning?
Monitoring Returning Visitor Bounce Rates
Bounce rates are a constantly monitored statistic by every good webmaster. If your visitors are not staying very long on your site you need to know and find out ways to keep your readers longer on your site and increase page views. This can be done with alternative site navigation and better content summaries.Most of us already know that providing original content and well flow of the blog post can attract the readers and make them at least read the whole blog post. However, if you are blogger like me you already know that how hard it is to produce original news or content regularly. There are lot of challenges and perfect answer it is hard but providing quality content frequently is important to increase pageviews from returning visitors by showing them content they might not have read like How to keep your readers longer. Returning Visitor Time on site needs to be monitored just as much as search visitors time spend on your website or blog.
A Simple Hack to Increase Time on Your Site
I choose couple of blog posts that Google already love and sending search engine visitors toward my blog. Check the content and search for interesting Youtube, MetaCafe or any Video relevant to the topic and embedded it to the post. Interesting videos usually able to stick visitors long enough. Content, images and added video will makes a information rich post. Do not forget to write your own opinion of the video content as well.
How dose this impact my AdSense earning?
It did not improve the click through rate or number of AdSense impressions but value of the Ads. I start getting more out of a single click on AdSense ads. Like I always noticed it is game of balancing everything and improving every single factor to gain a better AdSense earning.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Bring More Traffic Every Day from Google Alert
Traffic is the number one factor to make a good AdSense revenue. More traffic more money. This is boring and not much of a use. Exiting and challenging part is how to bring more and more traffic to your blog every day. These are my latest successful experiment after trying out different AdSense colour pallets which triple the CTR rate.
This time let me tell you how I use Google Alerts to bring more and more traffic to my blog. It is no brainier nor nothing new, but how to use it effectively to achieve what you required. I used Google alerts to get the latest news and changes happening around my niche. You may already know the trick but are you using it?
Why it is working for me? I am not a professional blogger or I don't have a top listed blog. So, I always have to fight with the competition and steal some readers from Google search engine. If you are blogging you know how hard it is to optimise your blog to get in to the top. Google alerts trick has given me couple of more easy methods to achieve it. If you are someone like me I am sure you can utilize this method as well.
I have set up the keywords which I would love to optimise my blog in Google Alerts. Don’t try to Following is the other settings I have selected.
Type: Everything
This will bring you all the news, blogs, updates, videos and discussion to your email or feed. I will explain later why I am not only targeting quality articles only.
How Often: Once a Day
I am not going to spend the whole day reading Google alerts. I do my best to do a one post per day base on the Google alerts.
Volume: All Results
Again I am targeting all the articles that Google Alerts can send my way. Good once bad once, I don't really care.
Delivered to can be your preferred and familiar way to go through information. I preferred emails.
Once you start getting the Google alerts in to your email or feed you can start doing the post and I would like to share how I do that as well.
If you have chosen to receive Google Alerts on your email don't forget to create a rule that will move Google alert emails to a special folder. Pretty much all the email programs support this feature.
Spend five to 10 minutes to go through the Google Alert emails and open up links that catch your attention. Then take some times to go through all the open sites and find out the interesting topic that you can do a reasonably good post. It can be the similar topic to the original post. Do not forget to improve it.
Do a good research base on the topic and the keyword that you have chosen. I will try to find some interesting pictures, more reviews, specifications and good video. Combine everything in to one post.
As the topic is new you don't have much competition. If you have done your research and include most of the interesting facts about it search engines and people will find it useful. Mainly as it is a latest and hot topic it will pick up so easily.
I know you can come up with more tricks to improve this and don't forget to share how you go with it.
This time let me tell you how I use Google Alerts to bring more and more traffic to my blog. It is no brainier nor nothing new, but how to use it effectively to achieve what you required. I used Google alerts to get the latest news and changes happening around my niche. You may already know the trick but are you using it?
Why it is working for me? I am not a professional blogger or I don't have a top listed blog. So, I always have to fight with the competition and steal some readers from Google search engine. If you are blogging you know how hard it is to optimise your blog to get in to the top. Google alerts trick has given me couple of more easy methods to achieve it. If you are someone like me I am sure you can utilize this method as well.
I have set up the keywords which I would love to optimise my blog in Google Alerts. Don’t try to Following is the other settings I have selected.
Type: Everything
This will bring you all the news, blogs, updates, videos and discussion to your email or feed. I will explain later why I am not only targeting quality articles only.
How Often: Once a Day
I am not going to spend the whole day reading Google alerts. I do my best to do a one post per day base on the Google alerts.
Volume: All Results
Again I am targeting all the articles that Google Alerts can send my way. Good once bad once, I don't really care.
Delivered to can be your preferred and familiar way to go through information. I preferred emails.
Once you start getting the Google alerts in to your email or feed you can start doing the post and I would like to share how I do that as well.
If you have chosen to receive Google Alerts on your email don't forget to create a rule that will move Google alert emails to a special folder. Pretty much all the email programs support this feature.
Spend five to 10 minutes to go through the Google Alert emails and open up links that catch your attention. Then take some times to go through all the open sites and find out the interesting topic that you can do a reasonably good post. It can be the similar topic to the original post. Do not forget to improve it.
Do a good research base on the topic and the keyword that you have chosen. I will try to find some interesting pictures, more reviews, specifications and good video. Combine everything in to one post.
As the topic is new you don't have much competition. If you have done your research and include most of the interesting facts about it search engines and people will find it useful. Mainly as it is a latest and hot topic it will pick up so easily.
I know you can come up with more tricks to improve this and don't forget to share how you go with it.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Better AdSense Colour Combination
First of all I should thank Rozer for sending this great trick and also I should congratulate him for his first AdSense check. Lets move to the trick.
Trick is quite simple. User a high contrast colour for the AdSense ad Title.
I found colours between #0033CC to #0000CC works great specially with a light background (white) blog or website. It high lights the links and able to catch the visitors eyes. I have noticed positive results after applying the changes. Border and Background I will always blend with the website template.
You can always experience with colour combination and if you haven't try it make sure use some contrast colours for the title. ( Not too contrast :) )
Trick is quite simple. User a high contrast colour for the AdSense ad Title.
I found colours between #0033CC to #0000CC works great specially with a light background (white) blog or website. It high lights the links and able to catch the visitors eyes. I have noticed positive results after applying the changes. Border and Background I will always blend with the website template.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
How to identify the best performing scenarios
Making money with AdSense is a very tricky game. However more experiments you do will uncover more tricks. If you can figure out under what conditions AdSense perform best and replicate it again and again you can always get better results.
How about AdSense Basic Report?
You can find very basic report from AdSense and if you don’t use the channels properly then the report is only good to check the daily income. I always find it hard to use channels with my blogs and I cannot get an accurate picture of what is happening with AdSense.
May be Combine AdSense Analytics and Excel
Now you can combine AdSense with Google Analytics (This is a bit old trick). It gives a big picture of what is really happening with your AdSense and the content. By looking at the report you can tell when and where they click and how much you earned from those clicks. This is something we need to know. Especially, if it is a blog then I want to know which post is performing well and which post generated maximum earnings per click.
This is how I use my Analytics statistics with Excel to figure that out.
In AdSense if you go to Content > AdSense > Top AdSense Content you can see all the post and AdSense Revenue, AdSense Ads Clicked, AdSense Page Impressions, CTR and eCPM. For this experiment I am only interested in Revenue and the Ads Clicked. Before that make sure you select couple of month’s statistics to get a clear picture.
To find out how much you earn per click divide the Revenue from Ads Clicked. Excel will come handy for this. Select the table and copy it Excel. Right click and do paste special to remove all the decorations . Now insert a column and do the simple calculation to find out the Revenue per click. Now sort it to find out the best posts or pages. That might be the gold so you can jump to the next step. . I am really sorry that I cannot put any screen shots as it may display the actual figures that are against the AdSense terms and conditions.
How about AdSense Basic Report?
You can find very basic report from AdSense and if you don’t use the channels properly then the report is only good to check the daily income. I always find it hard to use channels with my blogs and I cannot get an accurate picture of what is happening with AdSense.
May be Combine AdSense Analytics and Excel
Now you can combine AdSense with Google Analytics (This is a bit old trick). It gives a big picture of what is really happening with your AdSense and the content. By looking at the report you can tell when and where they click and how much you earned from those clicks. This is something we need to know. Especially, if it is a blog then I want to know which post is performing well and which post generated maximum earnings per click.
This is how I use my Analytics statistics with Excel to figure that out.
In AdSense if you go to Content > AdSense > Top AdSense Content you can see all the post and AdSense Revenue, AdSense Ads Clicked, AdSense Page Impressions, CTR and eCPM. For this experiment I am only interested in Revenue and the Ads Clicked. Before that make sure you select couple of month’s statistics to get a clear picture.
To find out how much you earn per click divide the Revenue from Ads Clicked. Excel will come handy for this. Select the table and copy it Excel. Right click and do paste special to remove all the decorations . Now insert a column and do the simple calculation to find out the Revenue per click. Now sort it to find out the best posts or pages. That might be the gold so you can jump to the next step. . I am really sorry that I cannot put any screen shots as it may display the actual figures that are against the AdSense terms and conditions.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Make money from Google Buzz
Did you know that you can add Google AdSense ads to Google Buzz? Yes. If you are really active in Google buzz then this would be a good news as you can earn little bit more from AdSense.
I have given a step by step guide, how to add AdSense ads to your Google buzz. As you might notice this is not a straight forward method to enable this feature but by adding AdSense to blog feed and Blog feed to Buzz will make the ads display in Google buzz.
Hope you enjoy the quick trick and wish you luck.
Hope you enjoy the quick trick and wish you luck.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Promlem: Only Display 3 AdSense Ad + link Units
I was trying to change the AdSense ad placing and noted the Normal Ads that I places is no longer working.
I used to have 2 AdSense link units and 2 AdSense Ad Units. But now it is only displaying 2 AdSense link units and 1 AdSense ad unit. Trying to figure it out what exactly going on but trying some options.
In the blogger blog I set it up to display ads below every post and there is only 3 posts. It should work perfectly with the 2 link units. Then I removed the 2 link unit and notice that Ad units started appear.
So in summery now I can use only 3 AdSense units only not 3 AdSense Ad Units and 3 AdSense link units.
Do you know why it is doing this in blogger or are you experiencing the same.
I used to have 2 AdSense link units and 2 AdSense Ad Units. But now it is only displaying 2 AdSense link units and 1 AdSense ad unit. Trying to figure it out what exactly going on but trying some options.
In the blogger blog I set it up to display ads below every post and there is only 3 posts. It should work perfectly with the 2 link units. Then I removed the 2 link unit and notice that Ad units started appear.
So in summery now I can use only 3 AdSense units only not 3 AdSense Ad Units and 3 AdSense link units.
Do you know why it is doing this in blogger or are you experiencing the same.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
$0.001 per click 1000 clicks to make a $1.00
I was bored with AdSense and thought to explore some other quick ways of making money. I need a quick and easy way to make dollars. Yes. There are so many sites willing to pay me to click on the links and to surf internet or watch youtube videos. For couple of minutes I was thinking how cool is that? Then registered with those websites and gave out the paypal account to receive money. Best thing I found out is that minimum payout is only $1.00. In AdSense, you have to wait until the total reach to US$100.
Let us try it.
After successfully registered with the site I began to watch the youtube video and best part is that I am being paid to watch it. After finishing one, wanted to see more videos but unfortunately, there is nothing left. So even though I am ready there is no more videos. So I had to find another website that will pay me.
Found out a cool site that pay me to click their links. I start clicking on the links and visiting the websites. I am being paid to click. Also, it is fun. I know you would love it as well. After some times I wanted to check the balance and I was surprised.
So far, I have earned only $0.026. What? Not even $0.20. It only pays me $0.001 per click. I did the math and figure it out that it requires 1000 clicks to earn $1.00. It is too bad.
I am back to Google AdSense and even though it requires playing a different type of game, it has more potential. As your website or blog grows with time, you can make more and more without many problems.
I have figure out some nice trends in AdSense that I would love to share it with everyone.
Let us try it.
After successfully registered with the site I began to watch the youtube video and best part is that I am being paid to watch it. After finishing one, wanted to see more videos but unfortunately, there is nothing left. So even though I am ready there is no more videos. So I had to find another website that will pay me.
Found out a cool site that pay me to click their links. I start clicking on the links and visiting the websites. I am being paid to click. Also, it is fun. I know you would love it as well. After some times I wanted to check the balance and I was surprised.
So far, I have earned only $0.026. What? Not even $0.20. It only pays me $0.001 per click. I did the math and figure it out that it requires 1000 clicks to earn $1.00. It is too bad.
I am back to Google AdSense and even though it requires playing a different type of game, it has more potential. As your website or blog grows with time, you can make more and more without many problems.
I have figure out some nice trends in AdSense that I would love to share it with everyone.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
1001 ways to select the Keywords for your next post
What is AdWords? How it related to AdSense? Actually, AdWord is the tool that all the advertisers place their advertisement and setup the bids. It will provide the advertisements to your website or blog through AdSense. If we can figure out the bids advertisers place for each keywords in AdWords we can have a better idea about the amount AdSense will pay you per click. Simply include the high paying keywords in your page title, headers and post text.
Visit the Google Search based keyword tool and take couple of seconds to look around and see what is there. It says if you need an Adword account, you can get customised key word ideas for your web site. You do not need that. What we are doing here is to get AdSense keyword ideas.
Click on the “Or see top keyword across all categories” or Find keyword button to go to the complete list of keywords.
Over there you can either search for a specific keyword or browse by category. Normally I like to browse the category as I might come across new keyword ideas that I can converts to posts.
Click on the most appropriate category for your blog or website. In my case, I will click on “Computers” and it will show me a list of keywords with the monthly searches, competition and Sugg. Bid. As we forcus on AdSense earnings, we only interested in Sugg. Bid.
Now you have to play with this tool to find out the high paying keyword for your blog.
First, click on the Sugg. Bid title to arrange your keywords from high paying keywords to less.
Do not be too excited about the Sugg. Bids you might come cross because there are more facts that you should consider.
Most of the high paying keywords you come across in this too will not have many advertisements. If that is that case, there is not point of adding that keyword to your next post, as there will not be any ad related to the keyword will not display. So go through your list to find out the high paying keyword that has many more ads. You can do a simple test by searching the keyword in Google to see how many ads display on there.
Include that to your cart, use it in the next post, and measure the AdSense revenue.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
God please helps me to get $100 per
AdSense God chuckle and said.
“Are you challenging my powers? Create a website with 1000 page impressions and add my ads to it. Also, remember to get 10% click through rate. Cost per click should be $1. You will see $100 per day income in your AdSense report.” [AdSense Calculator]
“But how can I achieve this? I am lost. “
“Page Impressions, Click through Rate and cost per click. That’s it??”
AdSense God disappears in thick smoke.
Great, we have built an AdSense friendly blog and discussed couple of simple methods to bring instant traffic to your blog and then we add AdSense ads to the blog.
Let us discuss couple of hacks tricks and tweaks we can try. Before we start, I should mention that I am not AdSense god. I am a blogger just like you, struggling achieving the $100 per day goal. I am sharing my AdSense experience in this blog.
Tip 1
Use the blog text and background colours for the AdSense ads. Also, remove the AdSense ad borders by making it same colour as background. In another word, blend the AdSense ads. This method always worked for me. This tip able to gave me better click through rate. However, that dose not means that blending is the one and only method that works. Try complement and contrast ad units as well.
Tip 2
Add a single AdSense ad unit blended with the blog post content. I always add it close to the blog post title. It always increases the click through rate for me. Again, remember that your blog post title should not confuse the reader to click on the AdSense advertisements. That is one of the best positions to place large square ad.
Tip 3
Add a link unit in the header section. Always be creative but remember to stay with AdSense TOS. It is effective to add a link unit before, after the header banner, or close to the menu bar of your blog.
You can also try AdSense link unit in the footer of your blog as well.
I only discuss three simple AdSense tips to increase my AdSense click through rate.
Bonus tip: Always test only couple of (one, two, or three) AdSense tricks at once.
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