The article was written 2 days ago on February 28, but I have known only about it just this day. Thanks to Internet marketing guru Jomar Hilario who posted it to my Hakuna Matata! Facebook page wall.
(No, we’re not related. I have not even met the man.)
Anyway, the article I was referring to is the one written by pinoymoneytalk titled “The 50 Top-Ranked Blogs in the Philippines“.
The big deal? This site is ranked #19 on that list. Yippee!
Ever notice why some Adsense clicks will only net you $0.01?
Isn’t it annoying that at the end of the day, even if you got 100 clicks, you only made $1? Yes, one f*cking dollar!
Not all Adsense ads are created equal. The Adsense publishers that give you that low are usually those that have Adsense on their site too. They purchase ads through Adwords, have it published at other sites and when somebody clicks on it, they are brought to their own site that contains nothing but high-paying Adsense ads. In other words, they pay 1 cent in order to make 10 cents or higher.
As Google is King of the Internet, its Adsense is the best advertising application nowadays especially on the CPC (cost-per-click) model.
There have been countless success stories about bloggers who made money online because of Adsense.
I count myself as among them. But not anymore.
They say some good things never last. I now believe it.
My love affair with Google Adsense began in August of last year when I first tasted Google juice in the amount of $159.58. Every month thereafter, I managed to reach the monthly threshold of $100 and was earning more than my day job income. I am even earning in 4-digits already!
Then, the inevitable happened. The ban hammer struck this site. What’s funny is I have been expecting it.
Seven months after my 500th blog post last March 30, I have reached another site milestone today: this is my 1,000th blog post.
While it has taken me 410 days to write the first 500 articles, it only took me 212 days for the next 500. That’s 2.36 per day.
Since my niche is about sports and entertainment which are pretty much loaded with tons of daily news, I can say that I seldom lack topics to write about. However, I usually only select those that generate the highest amount of public buzz. Trust me, even if you don’t make the first page of a search engine results page (SERP) and as long as your article is already indexed, you will still gain significant amount of traffic to your site with the sheer amount of people looking for information on that day’s hot keyword.
Last August 4, 2009, I changed this site’s header to a smaller one since the old one pretty much occupied around a third of my site’s space.
Almost a year later today, I decided to make a new one for the second time.
The old one is consuming a great amount of my bandwidth and contributes to my site’s slow loading due to its large file size.
