Blog income report - October 09

Again end-month earnings statistics with my blogging activities. As you can see below not so good month at all. In total it is around $450 vs. $600 month ago. What is the reason of such a decline? Main reasons are less posting. As I stated last time that in future I want to increase posting, exactly the opposite happened. I didn't have enough time for my blogging and regular posting. And the second reason is visible in INO results. I stopped to promote INO so heavily as I did before. No promotions in posts and so on.

I am setting one main target for following months. REGULAR POSTING AND MORE POSTING.

Detailed statistics:

Google Adsense $230.75 ($225.79)
INO $165.29 ($275.49)
Forbes Blogs Network $6.17 ($3.81)
Direct sales $57 ($100)


Total $459.21 ($605.09)

Blog Income report - September 09

After two months gap I am publishing again statistics with blogging earnings. I had summer break from posting this regular income statistics. Usually during July and August are earnings on lower side and this happened also this year. Earnings ranged somewhere between $400-$500 per month.
September results shows nice rebound even vs. June. On total $605. It is one of the best results ever. Mainly due to strong CTR improvement in Adsense (I have posted in previous post about new beta blogger template and increase in CTR).
INO shows also strong numbers but it is not so good like one year ago when INO earnings reached even $700 per month due to several affiliate sales. I have decided not to use INO so aggressively as I did last year.

Generally targets for following months are quite simple. No radical changes to templates or ads programs. Just continue with regular posting more frequently than last months.

Detailed statistics:

Google Adsense $225.79 ($100.82)
INO $275.49 ($312.82)
Forbes Blogs Network $3.81 ($2.98)
Direct sales $100 ($135.7)


Total $605.09 ($552.32)

New beta blogger template and CTR

Around one month ago I have changed blogger template at my flagship blog StockWeb. I have also doubled CTR. It is amazing. And that's not all. Also bouncing rate and average time at blog have improved significantly.

Well, the previous layout had not been very friendly. But this shows how important is to think about blog design in addition to regular writing posts. Finally I have found the template which is very well Adsense adjusted of customized for other types of ads. And at the same time good sized for fast upload and easy navigation.

Tags cloud for Beta New Blogger.

Today I have decided to make small face lift to one of my blog. I really don't like tags cloud which is default in New Beta Blogger. It is really boring.

"Come on Blogger team, you should something with this! "

I have searched some hints and tips. There are clouds from 3rd party sides delivered as HTML code which you simply copy / paste as a new widget in your blogger template. But in these I don't like small labels where it comes from like Technorati or others.

Finally I found very naturally looking tags cloud for beta blogger. I repeat Beta because it doesn't work with old classic blogger templates. Here is the guide how to set up tags cloud for new blogger. And additionally tool how to determine RGB color format from HEX. This you will need for playing with colors in you tags cloud.

Blog Income Report - June 09

In total it was good month and we can see again month to month increase. But this time it had been mainly because of big affiliate sale in INO. Google Adsense was very disappointing this time. I can see two reasons for that. First, low number of visitors. Traffic went down as a reflection of less published posts. Ans second is redesign of my blogger template. It went wider and can see lower CTR in my Adsense account. I will follow this and perhaps switch to previous blogger template design.
Another point which I would like to mention is that I can finally see results from other websites which were launched 2 or 3 months ago. Now it is only few dollars but the good point is that there are now more money making websites.

Detailed statistics:

Google Adsense $100.82 ($207.62)
INO $312.82 ($169,82)
Forbes Blogs Network $2.98 ($5.88)
Direct sales $135.7 ($135)
Amazon Associates $0 ($0)
Commisson Junction $0 (12)


Total $552.32 ($530.32)