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.
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Hey, Gio:
You’re off to a fantastic start my man. Good on you. If the $8 came from Twitter folks, wow, that is impressive, as i don’t believe Twitter folks are Adsense clickers. If it is from search, just increase your post schedule and or drive traffic other ways, and you will see that number double (if not quadruple) by next month.
And this is in reference to your Arrested Development blog, right?
It is nice to follow your progress and let me add that in reference to Adsense, i think niche also plays a very very very very big part in how well a blog will do with it.
Everyday (non techie) stuff is where it’s at. Look forward to following you in 2009.
Congrats on making the $8 at least! You picked up some good lessons along the way too that I am sure will be helpful to making Jan. much better then December. Good luck!
Hi,
I too use twitter for a traffic source, and to break down my adsense results, I find that women type blogs get more clicks from twitter. IE, fashion, dating, weddings… Blogs I target to women.
My male blogs, stock trading, cars, tech… do not get clicks.
So look at your sites and see if they are niches that in general get a lot of clicks
I make about $5 a day from my twitter traffic. Not bad, not good, but hey its free advertising
I’ve never given this a try, but I think it’s about time I do.