Earnings Update May 2011
I can’t remember the last time I updated this blog on my online earnings so here goes.
Adsense – My adsense earnings has been at the highest level for the month of May breaking all previous records– not that the threshold before was that high. This month’s high earnings is brought about by an event that I optimized which brought me in around 200K pageviews in two days. Yep servers were crashing everywhere. lol. You don’t get 25K visitors in an hour and not have consequences. But since I anticipated the onslaught, I have redirected my site to a blogger account so I still was able to take advantage of the huge amount of traffic.
So here’s a tip that some of new newbies at guerilla SEO may not have explored yet. When you’re expecting huge amounts of traffic in any given time, have a blogger account ready and do a 301 redirect. Yes, there’s a plugin for that. Blogger is owned by google so their servers are able to take the kind of server stress that I experienced. Otherwise, your hosting provider will temporarily ban your account.
Adbeans – Adbeans is a dud. After all the email exchanges I had with their representatives on those permalinks and widgets, they couldn’t back it up so yes, I’ve removed them from my blogging network. Twas fun while it lasted folks but yeah, if you want to retain subscribers you gotta deliver. I did earn a little bit from their site before so I guess I’m grateful for that. But it’s time to move on.
Infolinks – What can I say about infolinks? Well it’s no adsense. I’m getting more clicks per day on infolinks than adsense but I’m receiving a fraction of adsense earnings. So it’s not really an adsense alternative, more like a supplement.
Smowtion – Now this is a more compelling argument. Their creatives are really great so I’m seeing some decent conversion from this ad network. This one beats infolinks hands down. I’m excited to see if they’re going to venture into text links. I’d switch to them in a heartbeat.
Kontera – Well just like infolinks. Nothing much there.
Private ad sales – some guy wanted to put in poker links in some of my sites. Poker = gambling. Usually those who have approached me before were willing to pay top dollar (minimum of $300/link) for these gambling type links but I guess those guys aren’t around anymore. I was offered less than $200 for a one year link. Too little money, not worth the risk. So I passed.
Socrates Theme – this is not working for me AT ALL. If you want a great theme for SEO, go with Thesis. At least that one lives up to its promises.
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