My first month of $100 revenue through Google Adsense

Hey, check it out :) :)

I'll post when I actually see the money, as right now I'm waiting for the Google PIN number to arrive via mail to give them permission to begin to release the payments.

Cool! This is working!

Alternatives to Google's Adsense ad program

Adsense is where I get most of my income from that blog that's doing well, but I've found a few times when Adsense isn't enough, because the Adsense bot "can't find enough relevant content" on the front page(!) and the ads then really suck-er-oo.

I poked around online and found AlternateURL, which works well in conjunction with Adsense to ensure there's some kind of paying ad on your site where you wish to display ads. I implemented it about a week ago and although I haven't had very many click-thru's yet nor much revenue from it (1000 views, 6 click thru's, $.33 :) ), I'm pleased with its results, because if nothing else it lets me know just how often the Adsense bot is having troubles with my main page. I haven't implemented this across all of my blogs yet, just some, so far.

I was reading a blog about how to make money with your blogs, and learned about Chitika. It's yet another ad program that publishers can subscribe to, but its ads look definitely different than the Google ones so there's absolutely no clash with any terms and conditions with Google Adsense.

Again, I've only been subscribed with Chitika for a week but already I've had 2500 impressions and - yes its measly - 2 click-thru's, which have generated $.58 for me. Considering it can sometimes take 10-15 click-thru's on the Adsense ads that come up for my site to generate $.50, I'm happy with a few click-thru's and a bit more cash.

We'll see, however, if I ever get actual cheques from either of these places. Will I hit their minimum for payout?

Stay tuned and see! And in the mean time, note that the links in this entry have affiliate ID's attached so if you sign up after clicking through to them, I'll be marked as who referred you and I'll get a bit of a commission. I personally signed up to both of these "under" someone, even though I didn't know who the people were at all. I appreciate good information and good advice, and am willing to share a bit of the money I earn with others in the same boat as me. I hope you share this ideal with me and if you're signing up, sign up with me as the referrer :)

Passive Income From Knowledge

Hey cool. I have been keeping moving forward on my Real Estate stuff, but I've also been writing in a few different blogs, and a few weeks into one of my new ones, the traffic started to pick up rather nicely from MSN.

This is not a lame plug for my other site, so I'm not even going to tell you WHAT site it is. Just that I get about 300 unique visitors a day to it from what I can see in the logs, and because the Ads on the site are unobtrusive and relevant to the content and to what the viewers of my website are seeking, I get a decent click-through, although I'm told the 7-10% click-thru rate I get is "low". I'm okay with that for now, it's bringing in a few bucks a day that wasn't being generated before.

I've got about 6 personal blogs going, under different topics that I enjoy. I like to reflect these different parts of me separately because I find all together, they're too confusing.

The blog that is doing well is a helpful information site for a popular online game that's been running for a few years already, and it's attracting a fair amount of traffic because there are so few sites like it out there for this game.

Right now, MSN is the only one really dishing results for this site, but slowly other search engines are indexing the information and sending people through.

As for Google, I'm in their "sandbox" right now, and I'm quite confident that once my site is fully indexed and listed there, I'll have a noticable increase in traffic just from search engine queries from there.

It's fun to log into Google's Adsense site every day and look at the building income, but now I'm looking to improve the amount coming in, by creating informational blogs on topics that are better-paying and by using more of my knowledge on popular topics to attract return visitors.

I'll let you know how it goes!