The ADsense Challenge Final Stretch
Posted on December 29th, 2008 in The Adsense Challenge | 4 Comments »
Well, the month of December is coming to a close and I am sad to report that I have made only $7.47. That is very very far away from my goal of $100.
So it’s time to recap and learn from our mistakes and our journey. Let’s start by asking ourselves a few questions.
- Where did most of your traffic come from
- What is the ratio to visitors and income earned (just to see)
Right off the bat we could put those two together and realize what went wrong. Just to point out what I did, most of my traffic came from Twitter. I did get a good following through Twitter but I was told that Twitter followers do not convert well through ADsense. I was getting traffic and impressions but no one was clicking. Now I have to ask
-Are Twitter Followers too web savvy? Is that why they don’t click ADsense ads, because most of them have blogs?
That’s a strong two part question with what I’ve been seeing am going to assume that they are too savvy. I have to live with the fact that Twitterers do not click ADsense Ads. Although I have heard that Google searches do (of course).
I will go as far as saying that I did everything I could in one month to boost traffic to my site and try to make that $100. I have learned from my tribulations. I wouldn’t say I learned from mistakes because while trying to challenge myself, I have gained a plethora of new readers, visitors and Twitter followers. I worked hard at achieving that.
Now I know I will have to put way more effort into these areas of my blog to double my income in the month of January
1. I need to build links to my website by linking up to new bloggers and commenting more on other blogs
2. I need to access my keywords and really start spreading around and linking using those keywords
3. Keep using Twitter to make contacts with other bloggers to promote my posts and get my link out there.
Maybe January will be our month. Till next time.