Earned USD$200 for Selling Ad Space

Managed to earn USD$200 today when an existing client decided to renew the ads on my blogs that were due for expiry.  While it was a drop from the last year's USD$250, it is still significant enough to make me happy to know that it is actually possible to monetize my blogs when I am using a completely free blogging tool and domain.

Have also been wondering whether I should start to put more focus on selling ad space which I have not been bothered to at all in the past.

If interested to put ads on my site, please contact me at sgfinancialfreedom@gmail.com
Pagerank 1-3 sites available with little outbound links.  Price and package is negotiable.

How to Get PageRank 1

In a little experiment that I am carrying out in showmethecrazy.blogspot.com, I have showed users that is possible to get pagerank 1 in one single month. I started the blog completely new in just mid Oct 2011 and without doing much literally, have managed to propel it to a pagerank of 1.

This little experiment just shows that it is possible to get a pagerank of 1 in just a single month.  In fact, if you type in "Show Me The Crazy" in Google, the blog is already listed in the 1st page of search results.  Not bad for a starter blog.

New Project Started - PageRank 0 to PageRank 3 in 3 Months

I have started a brand new project. What I am attempting to do is to start a new site and attempt to bring it from pagerank 0 to pagerank 3 in like 3 months. It is a totally new and crazy idea that I just had. And that is why I had named it Show Me The Crazy.

Now just a small favor to all my fellow bloggers or site owners out there. If you could just do me a kind favour, do link your site/blog/postings to the site that I have just listed above. When you have done so, kindly drop a comment either in this site or the Show Me The Crazy site so that I can thank you personally.

This is just an experiment and I really hope it works. So show me the crazy!!

Adsense Earnings and Targeted Traffic

After being on the adsense programme for many years, I have made one simple conclusion: Targeted traffic is the key to driving up your adsense earnings.

The difference between traffic and targeted traffic

When I talk about targeted traffic, I am not just talking about mere traffic or number of visitors to your site alone. I really mean targeted traffic. Normal traffic is akin to your usual or loyal readers who visit your site and are just about willing to read whatever trash or gems you post on any particular day. They land on your site because they are probably bored at work, or are just surfing the internet. There is nothing that they are looking for in particular.

Targeted traffic on the other hand refers to the visitors to your site who are LOOKING for something. They might have stumbled upon your site through certain search engines or a friend might have shared your site with them because they found certain information that was really useful and just wanted to pass it on.

Based on my analysis of my ad performance, I was surprised that some of the rather random posts that I have written were actually the ones where the ads did particularly well. And I realised that it also happened to rank highly in the search engines for particular keywords. This means one thing: the people were looking for something and that drove them to my site. That is targeted traffic. And if one needs to write content, make sure that you write it for a particular group of people. Who is your targeted audience? How old are they? What are they looking for?

Another Adsense Cheque

Have received yet another adsense cheque payment. The amount is around US$120 which is quite reasonable considering the amount of work that I have put in. Or should I say that I have hardly put in any effort.

The earnings have still be unpredictable and though there are days when my adsense earnings can reach as high as $7, there are days it also falters for no apparent reason. New blog posts and stuff just don't seem to work. Sometimes, it almost makes more sense for me to just stop posting new articles and stuff and the adsense earnings actually still come in!

Amazing if you think about it. It is really the Parato principle where 20% of the work drives 80% of the results. Problem is I have yet to identified what I am doing right or wrong. And that will probably take me a longer time to figure out.