Here it is, not even half way through the month and I’ve almost passed my Adsense goal for the month. Last month I earned just over $10 through Google Adsense, which was my first month of not meeting my goal. $10 is nothing to complain about though, as it’s still better than $0. Well, about 3/4 of the day through today and I’ve hit $9.08 in Adsense for this month. I bought proxy hosting at $1.34 per month, and got my proxy site I-Hide-You.com up again. This, along with my 3 new proxy sites that I brought up are mostly responsible for the surge of earnings. I have 2 more sites ready to set up and get running, and also plan to bring more online this month. I think that now is the time to review my goal and look at different things. Now, I think it’s time to set a goal for $20 for this month from Adsense. I’m almost halfway there, so that should be a great goal for this month. I might be able to get my check from Google by February, if I can keep this up.
Archive for the Adsense CategoryI’m not sure what’s causing it, but right now I’m on track to blow November’s earnings out of the water. In only 7 days of the month, my Adsense account has grown by $4.86. If it keeps it up, that will be about $17 for the month, getting me about one month away from my $100 Adsense check. One important thing, is that some of my sites are now starting to get a lot of search engine traffic, which is the main goal. I talk a little about my SEO tactics in another site, http://webportinc.com. Something that should be pretty helpful this month too, is that I finally bought some proxy hosting and put my proxy site back online. This host says that you can have unlimited Add-On Domains, so I have a couple more domains that I’m going to set up as proxies and see if I can’t start pulling in $1+ per day. If these start growing and earning well, I’ll probably work on building up a decent proxy network to help bring in cash for paying the bills. Well, as you have read on many other IM sites, the month is over and people are checking to see what worked, what didn’t, and how much they earned. I depend on much more than just Adsense to make up my Internet Income, which is a great thing. I’m not heavily promoting my sites with adsense, so the earnings aren’t too great yet. I’m hoping that after some time, they will just steadily increase. I’m also going to start pumping out sites using another strategy that I discovered, and might lay some Adsense ads in them too, in order to get a little more exposure out there. I’ll explain that strategy further, probably in its own page, as I’m going to be selling access to the secrets behind it, and the scripts that I wrote to work it. As I’ve said before, my goal with Adsense is simply to beat my earnings from the previous month. I started out in the beginning of August, with only 1 site that I built around the video surveillance niche. That site earned me a whole $5.29 in the month of August, receiving 20 clicks all month. I felt that was a great start, and was ready to see how it would do in September. Well, needless to say, I didn’t work on the site hardly any more and ended up focusing on other things to supplement the income. In September, that site still had some traffic, but earned almost NO money with Adsense. This was the month that I learned about a couple more things, though. I built a proxy site, and a few text messaging sites. The proxy site made a couple of dollars, but ended up causing errors with my other sites, so I took it down. My text messaging sites really started strong, though. I built them to initially sell them off, but ended up only selling one of them. That month, those sites earned me almost $7, which gave me a grand total of $9.22 for September. My goal for October, then, was to beat $9.22 in Adsense earnings. Well, my proxy earned me a little over $2 before I took it down, and my text messaging site brought in a strong $4 on its own. The surprise, though, was my video surveillance site, which I hadn’t touched for a month, that gave me another $5 this month. I was ecstatic. I did some work promoting things in October, and making them better, which showed enough to get me a whole $12.58 for the month. Goal met. Now, for November. Obviously I didn’t meet my goal for the month, but I’m not disappointed. Here’s how it played out. I didn’t do hardly anything with those sites during the month. I don’t think I did any sort of promotion or anything, which is why I’m not surprised that I didn’t meet the goal. I was surprised, though, at how well they did without the help. My big earner again, was the text messaging site. Almost $7 came from that site alone, so I anticipate some real earnings once I can get more people using the site. The rest of the sites combined to get me a total of $10.03 for the month. Once again, I’m very happy with those results, as they came from almost no extra work of my own. It will be interesting to see what happens in December, as I’m not planning a whole lot of Adsense stuff, so I don’t expect to see much going on. I have an entirely different focus right now, which is starting to really take off. I’ll explain a little about it later, once I get all the kinks worked out. All I’ll say now, though, is to check the links at the side of this site. The whole idea involves automated pulling and maintaining of ebay auctions, dedicated to certain items that the site is focused on. I haven’t done anything with most of my sites this month, and I’m just over $8 in Adsense earnings for the month. I know my goal was to earn more each month, but I’m quite happy with the results so far, considering I did almost nothing to earn it. All I need to do is multiply my efforts, and watch the earnings continue to grow. My surveillance site could really use a few more articles, but with just 3 of them it’s still not doing to bad. In fact, that site alone made me a little over $1 this month. It has a lot of potential, and I seem to earn around $.50 per click from it, so some day I need to sit down and work on it. The text messaging site that I have has only averaged about $.30 per click, but at 20 clicks for the month it’s brought in almost $6. This site is going to be the big earner for me, I think. I still need to promote it some more, but I have a total of 158 people that are signed up at the site. Those people are sending an average of 700 - 1000 messages per month from the site, so far. I have 3 things that I’m thinking of doing with the site that will help it grow, and start bringing in more money. For starters, I plan on creating some sort of way for people to use it in their MySpace profiles. This would allow them to let people text them from MySpace, and would be somewhat customizable. It would have a way for them to only allow certain people to text them, or anybody, and would keep their phone number private. I feel that this would attract a lot of people, and really help the site grow. I’m also thinking about selling a little bit of the text message space. I could add a website url (a small one), and add it to the end of each message that gets sent. I figure that this could earn a decent amount of money, but have no idea how much to price it at. The third thing that I’m wanting to do with the site is hold contests for the visitors. I have a way to track referrals, so I’m thinking about offering a cash prize to whoever refers the most people. I haven’t quite worked it all out yet, but I think it will help grow the site as well. I have a few other sites that combined to bring in the other $1 or so this month, and don’t really know what I’m going to do with them. One is a web directory, the other is another small text message site, and also an old page that used to be a proxy site. Overall, I think my Adsense will continue to grow each month as I get more visitors, and add more sites to my portfolio. If I keep up my $10 per month average, I should get my first Adsense payment in another 4 months. Well, I’m up to a whopping 3.19 in Adsense, and the month is halfway over. It’s not real surprising, because I haven’t really done anything to build it up this month. Most of it was earned through my text messaging site. I did a little bit of SEO earlier in the month, or at the end of last month, to try and increase my traffic through search results. When I start getting some more extra money I might start buying some more domain names, in an effort to get some of the traffic that is already out there. I don’t have the money right now to buy too many extra domain names, though. I’m going to go for the .com’s, so it will add up. If it works, though, I will let you know. Well, after 6 days of no earnings from Adsense this month, my luck has turned around. I have absolutely no idea what kicked it off, but I’ve earned $2.50 today already with just 5 clicks. 3 of them, and $2.34 of the money, came from my text messaging site. The best thing that I have done with that site was change the targeted text for Adsense. Before, it was targeting “Free Text Messaging”, which was the basis for the site. I didn’t see any reason to target those keywords, because I want people to use MY site, not somebody else’s. I changed my phrase to say something about ringtones and cell phones, which changed the ads that came up. Now my click-throughs gain me an average of $.70 each, instead of a measly $.05 - $.15. I also did some SEO on the site, but I don’t know if it’s done much. There’s still more to do, and I won’t let it all out yet, but I have some things in mind that should really blow it out of the water. Just watch… Yes, I’ve been a little preoccupied with things and have neglected the blog this week. Sorry about that. This last week has been somewhat profitable, earning $40 by doing 2 PHP programming jobs for people. I also took on another job that is going to be pretty decent, which I really need to work on a little more. I feel that I did pretty well with Adsense this month too, earning a whole $12.50 for the month. I didn’t do a lot of work to earn it, other than getting the sites set up, so I’m pretty proud of it. It’s also more than I earned last month, which is my goal. I want to earn more each month through Adsense than the previous month. Here’s the breakdown of sites/earning: Today is another unproductive day for me. The only thing that I’ve done to earn any money is to look for some stumble exchanges, trying to increase traffic to my sites. They haven’t helped much yet, though. I just checked, however, and noticed 2 Adsense clicks on one of my sites that I haven’t touched for about 6 months. I’m quite surprised, actually. It’s a 2 page website, built around video surveillance. I really need to write some more articles so I can get more traffic to the page, and just make it better for the visitors. The nice part is that I’m finally half way to my first Adsense payout! I’ve been steadily increasing my Adsense income over the past few months, going from about $1 - $3 per month up to $9 in September, and almost $8 already in October. In about 2 months or so I should be able to get up to about $15 - $20 per month in Adsense. I have 3 or 4 more domain names that I can use to build on, so we’ll just have to see what I can do with them. |
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