Let's start with general evaluation. This has been the second best month ever. The best blog income month was July due to huge one time commission from referral sales through INO.
This time I see at both major money makers, Google Adsense and INO.
In January I have no new direct ads sales and one of 12 months paid subscriber has expired. Therefore if no new customer in February there will be decline in direct ads sales amount.
With results for January I am very pleased and surprised. Because I am actually out of office and posting very rarely compare to the average.
Let's make at least $500 in next month. This is a target for February.
Here are detailed statistics:
Google Adsense $238.59 ($189.12)
INO $210.53 ($152.85)
Forbes Blogs Network $2.13 ($3.47)
Direct sales $154.7 ($154.7)
Amazon Associates $1.49 ($1.62)
Total $607.44 ($501.76)
Friday, February 6, 2009
Blog Income report - January.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Add Meta Tags to Blogger/Blogspot blogs.
For one of my blog I make an experiment. I want to see difference in SEO and SERP with and without meta tags. There are many discussion all over the web but mostly people say "adding meta tags can even hurt your web site". But on the other hand mostly web sites at first page of Google seaches come with meta tags. At least I made right now quick test.
If you want to generate meta tags automatically you can use Meta Tags generator. It has one bug. After it generates meta tags for your keywords, title, description you have to add slash ( / ) at the end of each meta code. See example below.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>testing meta tags</TITLE>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="this is for the test of meta tags">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL">
</HEAD>
And after your manual correction should look like this
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>testing meta tags</TITLE>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="this is for the test of meta tags"/>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL"/>
</HEAD>
Now you should not have any problem to copy and paste your HTML code with meta tags into your blogspot / blogger blog in LAYOUT - EDIT HTML. Please remember that meta tags must be in HEAD section. It means between <HEAD> and </HEAD>
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Blog Income report - December.
Last month of 2009 is over and here are my blog income results. The good thing is that earnings are still growing. Even in December which is generally considered as a bad for blogging. Especially when you are blogging about finance, stock markets where is really poor activity during this month.
Total earnings closed above magical level of $500. Google Adsense is number one of my earnings. The leading position is either Adsense or INO. The biggest decline is with Forbes Blog Network. This month Forbes brought $3.47 down from $12.01.
I am more that happy with the results for December. Especially when my posting was on the downside. My expected earnings range had been somewhere between $400 - $450. For the new year I have one target. I want to stay regularly above $500.
Here are detailed statistics:
Google Adsense $189.12 ($141.50)
INO $152.85 ($248.25)
Forbes Blogs Network $3.47 ($12.01)
Direct sales $154.7 ($96.4)
Amazon Associates $1.62 ($1.59)
Total $501.76 ($499.75)
Monday, December 29, 2008
Ebay Partner Network vs. Amazon Associates.
As I posted once I had small business idea for promotion through Ebay Partner Network. But unfortunately EPN is still keeping me automatically rejected after submission of my application to the program. As I mentioned already in my previous post I have browsed the issue around the web and found there is not problem for US or North America based applicants or most of European countries. But seems like Czech Republic or Bulgaria are not on the list.
Some years ago I signed up for Amazon Associates affiliate program. I never put attention to this program. I always wonder if there is anybody making some good money from it. I have found couple of post in forums.
You can check some discussion right here...
Generally there are not so many folks doing money from Amazon Associates. But I just once posted about newly released book, Warren Buffett Biography - The Snowball, and it returned quite nice number of ordered books. My conversion rate is 7,7%. It would hardly bring such a conversion and earnings with Google Adsense and other CPC program. In addition to that Amazon Associates gives reader really related content as it is pointed directly by writer. For me, Amazon Associates is very good as secondary income source whenever you want to highlight some interesting book.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Blog income report - November.
During November I have not been posting articles like for previous month. In fact I posted only 18 short posts. But from the blog income point of view this was very successful month. I have reached $500 in total.
Except of Adsense I see increase on all sources. Especially earnings from Forbes Bloggers Network rise rapidly but eCPM is still very low. Income has risen mainly due to decrease in unsold inventories. Now almost 50% of impressions are filled in with Forbes ads.
I have to again mention my satisfaction with INO. It is the biggest earners this month and the best complementary ads program which I have tried up to now.
Here are detailed statistics:
Google Adsense $141.50 ($196.43)
INO $248.25 ($146.35)
Forbes Blogs Network $12.01 ($5.15)
Direct sales $96.4 ($96.4)
Amazon Associates $1.59 ($1.25)
Total $499.75 ($445.58)
