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Congratulations Everton. This can easily quit your day job now for sure! ;)
If you're working.. then P.I.M.P that job.
As for quitting my day job, I can't as I have a lot of bills to pay including a very big mortgage!
This month I managed to grab some pretty significant increases myself but nothing near as good as yours.
Congratulations again!!
Wow, congratulations, I'm very happy for you! Very cool.
Thanks for all the excruciating detail, that is all extremely helpful.
Glad to see you you mention the very issue with AdSense that we saw this month - for no explainable reason we basically made half the money per click compared with previous months. Really hoping to see this fixed asap.
On AdSense BTW - regardless of this issue above, I would really expect to see a higher CPM when our pagerank goes up in the next week or two. Does anyone have specific knowledge/experience of this one way or another?
I'm already seeings signs of the pagerank change - daily direct search traffic went up a bunch in the last week, and as of the same rough date, the number of "backward links" is up by a factor of 20 - yes, twenty.
Our earnings in March were roughly $1,650 USD - less than I'd hoped, but higher than February.
Here's the breakdown of the notable sources:
- ClickBank and other affiliate sales ($646)
- followed by AdSense ($637)
- then ReviewMe and Text Link Ads ($165)
- and our own Online Dating Secrets eBook sales ($162)
Our overall traffic in March was up only marginally from February, but the great thing is that natural direct traffic made up a much larger portion of the total traffic - much less direct promotion on our part to drive one-time traffic.
Feb - 68k pageviews - 37k uniques
Mar - 74k pageviews - 43k uniques
And now a new month begins.
Great luck all around and let's all learn from what we're each doing right. :-)
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Good question. I hope the answer is yes, but I don't think it will be guaranteed. I'm convinced that Google's system is optimised to serve the best ads on the sites with the best CTR. Hence, I don't think that sites with more traffic automatically get the best ads as they might have poorly positioned ads.
Hope we get back on track with Adsense in April though. Pagerank btw has nothing to do with Adsense..
I knew I forgot to do something, forgot to put my guess in - however I would have been way off your actual figure anyway!
I've managed about a whole $15 in my first blogging month, which is nothing really, but it's been a big learning month for me!
Well done and here's to an even better April!
Thanks. Our CTR is pretty darn good, so I don't think that will be a problem. It's improved this month if anything. we split test and optimize that regularly. we've removed any non-performing units.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Great work!
Ok, here's an update on earnings. I sat down with Jennifer and got our firm traffic and revenue numbers for the past few months.
Interesting trend... check out the really cool increase in traffic and revenue - a very good thing. :-)
Dec - 8,219 pageviews -- $232 --> eCPM $28.00
Jan - 17,889 pageviews -- $468 --> eCPM $26.00
Feb - 68,670 pageviews -- $1,365 --> eCPM $20.00
Mar - 74,434 pageviews -- $1,611 --> eCPM $22.00
Have an awesome day!
Dan
I really should look at the eCPM per page for my site as well as this is a good way of comparing sites. $20+ for a site I think is very good and it will only get higher for you guys.
I need to calculate my eCPM as well.
Everyday Weekender
But we had to turn FAN ads off since we're syndicated in Blogburst and they don't allow FAN ads in the feed.
Looking at your revenues with FAN thought I think I'll see if it's possible to add it to the site but not the RSS feed. There didn't seem to be a checkbox to turn off feed ads in Feedburner. Does anyone know off hand how to do this?
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Are you sure blogburst don't allow feed advertising? I haven't had any traffic from them, which could be why, but I would have thought they would have told me if that's the case
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Thank you again!
PS: I will certainly come back here.
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A few questions on CPM earnings... I notice you're using some different Tribal Fusion banners now than a few weeks ago.
1. Are these performing better for you? I guess I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to get over $5 CPM with them.
2. I saw that you made twice as much with FAN as you did with Tribal Fusion. We signed up with FAN also, but were only getting a few impressions a day... how long did it take you to get enough impressions to get a decent CPM?
3. Also, do you know of any good alternatives to Tribal Fusion that may pay better?
Thanks!
Dan
2. I messed up a bit on FAN last month (see latest post) where I made around $100 from sites using my theme where I'd forgotten to remove the code. I also didn't have TF ads running for the whole month (forgot to say in post). This month I'm making nearly a bit more on TF than on FAN.
3. None that I've come across. If you can get onto a bigger network like federated media then maybe. Intelllitxt have an ad network that I keep meaning to ask them about that might pay more
Is it a feedburner problem?. For the past couple of days traffic is very low to me. Maybe because I have not posted frequently for those period.
My feedcount is down because I had to create a new feed to fix the ad problem. It had only been live for 1/2 a day when FB updated their stats so (hopefully) tomorrow it'll be up to the normal count, although FB are having a problem moving my email subs.
Yes, I'll be posting my earnings every month until people tell me to stop
And I dig the new shopping section on the site. Very clever way to make some more cash!
i forgot to tell people that I was trying that out. Quick post coming up