March marks two years since I first used AdSense. This has been a relatively good month, and if the trends it showed continue, then there’s hope for my own sites

Traffic: Traffic was at least higher than February. That is, the average pageviews per day is probably the highest it’s ever been, despite that [...]

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These posts are way overdue, due to being so busy with blogging projects. So I’ve combined them into a single post with two summary sections.
January
Wow, is it February already? I was so busy catching up all the work I couldn’t finish in December and January that I’ve not being staying on top of my own [...]

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Once again, I’ve been so busy that this “milestones” post is an afterthought. As with 2005, December 2006 was a weaker month for pretty much everything, compared to October and especially November. Here is a brief summary of my blogging milestones, mostly in the area of revenue/ monetization.

Traffic. Traffic was up and down in December, [...]

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This is a summary of my personal and professional blogging activities, published with the intent of encouraging newbies to stick with it.

Content: My own content has had a dramatic decrease. I’ve been trying new writers, and they’re just getting up to speed with regular posting.

Chitika: Not enough revenue to warrant payout.

Clients: One new client (small [...]

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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 [...]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Aug 2006:

Tue Aug 1: I bought my first blog, and with no money down. I can’t reveal all the details, but I already write for the blog. My cost is a certain amount of future cash, as well as a bit of webmastering/ organic SEO/ copywriting  work. [...]

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[Beginners] Are you a blogger running Google Adsense on your website(s)? If you haven’t already done so, you should seriously consider linking your Adsense account to your bank chequing (checking for Americans) account. It means you get your money nearly immediately after Google “pays” out, instead of waiting weeks.
For example, I just checked my bank [...]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Jul 2006:

Sat July 15: I cracked 50+ posts in a single week for the first time. This includes the 29-30 posts I get paid to write weekly, as well as posts for my own sites and those I’ve been invited to write. Not all of these posts [...]

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Here are some of my blogging milestones for Jun 2006:
Jun 1: Yet another writing opportunity cropped up, but nothing definite yet.
Jun 3: Thanks to a couple of recent posts on a high-traffic site that I was invited to blog for, I cracked 850 pg views today. Most of it was on that site. My own [...]

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Here are some milestones for May 2006, for my collection of weblogs and Squidoo lenses:

May 4: Squidoo reports that I have earnings of US$0.52, minus my fixed-percentage donations to charity, resulting in a total of US$0.44 into my pocket, paid via Paypal. Actually, that’s not bad considering that it took me far longer to make [...]

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