This is a shortened version because once I again I lost a crapload of writing by mistakenly pressing delete in my fave editor. Although now I no longer have a fave. I’m taking a different approach to these milestones:
- Chitika: More clicks in a single month than since late last Fall. But still not enough to have had another payout since my first one. I have removed Chitika ads from some sites, and given them prominence on others.
- Clients: More and more and more clients, and only 1.5 writers to help me. Actually, more like 2×0.5, because they both have other commitments. I acquired at least one more client, possibly two, this month, as well as started receiving higher paying writing gigs from existing clients. You know you’re busy when not only are you not doing laundry, but you’re also ordering delivery 3 times in the same week instead of going grocery shopping. If things go as planned, I can live comfortably off of my income, though I have no time to enjoy the earnings yet, until I learn to be more efficient with my research time.
- Google ad clicks: CTR has been much better. Back into the early double-digit clicks per day again, and more times in a single month than ever before. I tied my one-day record, and also established a new 2nd place record (for my sites). Then that was followed up by finally cracking the record by one click. As well, on three separate days, including the high-click day, one channel or another received low double digits in clicks by itself. I’m not sure if this has been my highest-click month since adding AdSense, but it’s probably close.
- Google Adsense: Hit more of my previous records for daily highs. Towards the end of the month, I had one day where two channels both had over a dollar or even two. But one channel took one click and the other several. Still, not a lot of money, but proof of how things improve over time. A lot of new territory.
- Google CPC: A lot of high CPC clicks. But some days a few clicks will earn about the same as 5-6 times the clicks the day before. That is, there are are still days when I get just a few cents from some clicks.
- PayPerPost: I’m not even bothering. ReviewMe (see below) is far better.
- Performancing Partners: This bloggers’ ad network is too new for me to report anything just yet.
- ReviewMe: I’m one of the beta testers, but it’s not up live yet, so no payouts just yet.
- Squidoo: I do better on Squidoo, based on overall average, than with Chitika. Though one’s an ad network and the other a high-rank multis-site.
- Text-Link-Ads/ Feedvertising: I lost one sponsor on my first blog, towards the end of the month, but gained my first sponsor on a newly added blog. (Newly added to TLA.) Feedvertiser still only supports WordPress 2.0+, and since my 2.0+ blogs are too new to rank, I have not yet used Feedvertiser. But WP 1.5x support is coming, and I’ll probably add it to 3-4 of my blogs. [Side note: It’s Nov 1st, before I’ve posted this, and I now have four blogs that have TLA sponsors.]
- Traffic (pageviews): No significant increases, but given that I haven’t posted much, I’m still doing okay. Some of my sites are getting more clickthroughs from the RSS feeds. And that’s without full-text.
- Other (affiliate progs): I do have other affiliate programs running on select sites, but for the most part, they have not generated any revenue. Success in affiliate programs can be sweet, but they do take a great deal of effort to promote, as they require more specific content to be posted. And you have to push those links, which I don’t like to do. Amazon has had the best response (clicks) of all, but no sales.
General:
Overall, considering I have not been able to write for my own blogs like I used to (50+ posts per week) for several months, it’s uplifting to see that my average daily revenue is increasing. I also hit a monthly high in Google AdSense revenue as well as total revenue.
In summary, a god month - my best so far in problogging - and a sign of things to come.
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