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Trying To Make Money Online

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 | Our Journey with

We all read posts where bloggers make enough money per month that would last most people a year. This post i would like to let you know whats going on at AdsenseAddict and show you our monthly revenue and statistics for February.

Don’t worry, you can continue reading, there will be no pictures of checks shown thats for sure.

This blog is only about 7 weeks old, so there is still a lot of changes going on, trying to find what works and what does not.

In February i joined the affiliate marketing scene with Neverblueads. I decided on Neverblueads because of the wide range of affiliate marketing campaigns they have available and i like to try and stay loyal to one company if i can.

Another change made was i have scrapped the Scratchback widget and have
gone with ShowYourAdHere.com. The cost is the minimum price of only $5 per week,
which i think is reasonable. I might put a few more ad spaces up soon depending on the response. I did try and register with ProjectWonderful but was declined due to the age of the site, so i will give it another month and reapply.

With our other website Zipposuperstore.com we finally gave in and put up a few extra ads besides Adsense. We stayed away from flashy ads so the customer could concentrate on purchasing zippo lighters, so we will have to see how this affects sales. I have gone with just 2 gaming adverts which should hopefully go well on the zippo tricks pages.

So without further ado here is the stats for February

Zippo Sales Profit: $72.82AU

Adsense: $13.57

Shopping Ads: $16.51

Less hosting fess for 2 sites: - say $12AU

February i had a total profit of say $90.00AU.

Site Stats

Zipposuperstore.com

1682 Visits
54 Visits/Day
9926 Page Views
5.90 Pages/Visit
27.05% Bounce Rate
5:17 Avg Time on Site
82.7% New Visits

Top Traffic Source
Google Search: 1132 VIsits (67.3%)

Top Keyword
zippo tricks: 264 Visits (19.44%)

Adsenseaddict.com

3609 Visits
116 Visits/Day
5027 Page Views
1.39 Pages/Visit
82.07% Bounce Rate
1:22 Avg Time on Site
74.48% New Visits

Top Traffic Source
Entrecard: 1360 Visits (37.68%)

Top Keyword
Seo H1: 13 Visits (20.63%)

Admittingly the bounce rate and time on site is high for adsenseaddict.com, but in March i will be trying a few different tricks to try and improve this, so make sure you sign up for our fortnightly newsletter

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Comments

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Andrew // March 2nd, 2008 at 10:27 am

Entrecard sends the bounce rate through the roof. I found the same happened to my blog as well.

Nice to see some stats that don’t just make you feel insignficant. Something that people can compare and use to judge their earnings. Nice niche with the Zippo store btw. I seriously would recommend purchasing the .com.au for that site - there doesn’t appear to be any decent Australian sites for it and you’d rank so much better in local Google results.

Andrew’s last blog post..A picture paints a thousand words. A website –a million

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45n5 // March 3rd, 2008 at 5:29 am

Thanks for trying out showyouradhere.

Don’t forget, you don’t have to keep the default ad there, you can go to your adzone and create an ad and that will show until an adspace is sold

Then when your ad sells it automatically removes your “house ads” and puts your advertiser ads there.

Basically it’s like your own ad server that also helps you sell ads.

Let me know if you have any questions @ showyouradhere.net

Thanks Again,
Mark

45n5’s last blog post..Find A New Niche - Leave The House

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Walk Through Money Online Journal // March 9th, 2008 at 9:50 am

wow, how do you do all these things.. Thanks for sharing

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Living on Adsense // March 29th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

As Andrew said, the high bounce rate should be due to Entrecard. the interesting thing I have found is that my bounce rate specifically for Entrecard users (according to Google Analytics) used to be a whopping 92% and is now sitting at 83%.

This leads me to believe that the Entre Traffic is getting better. Well at least on my blog. I would be curious to know if anyone else has seen a decrease in bounce rate from Entre Traffic.

Living on Adsense’s last blog post..If I Had As Much Time As Bill Murray I Could Launch Epic Blogs

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