Shoot!

It seems someone plays dirty and throw me from the first 10 results.

Whatever it is, I hope my virilization technique which I have made is able to sustain as well as bring more traffic.

My traffic is brought by the virilization technique as well as searches. Now one gone, I will know which actually bring the traffic the most.

It's time to say good bye to first 10 results and 2009. I hope my website can walk by its own feet.

*Few days before, my views returned back to its normal amount. But today, dropped down again. Is it because of new year holiday this friday? Hurm...

Christmas : Expect Traffic And Adsense Drop

Today I am getting a little bit worried regarding my Adsense because I expect the earning as well as the traffic to become normal on 26th December. My earning and traffic are too low until the point that I decided to make a research... and I found that I am not the only one. :D

Many have written that the worst Adsense earnings are from the 23rd of December until the 2nd of January

Taken from : http://www.clickfornick.com/2009/12/christmas-website-traffic-is-low.html

And you know what? My traffic start to drop on 23rd december! So it is a fact for me!

Reason? It is obvious. It is Christmas, time to make preparations and gather around with your family members. Then extend the holidays until 1 January. So no computer, no internet. Only geeks stay in front of the computer even at these days.

Conclusion : If you are experiencing low adsense and traffic on Christmas, don't worry. Most of adsense publishers and webmasters are experiencing the same thing. Expect your traffic and earnings to return back to normal on 2nd January.

All problems fixed - Americans Balik Kampung?

Yup, all 7 main core problems have been fixed. Now I do not need to worry about errors and can let it run on itself.

BTW, it seems my traffic is slowing down. Since my traffic 80 - 90% are americans, are they balik kampung to celebrate christmas? Hurm... Need to analyze the graph for this Christmas week. Quite interesting.

Now where's my pillow. I want to sleep.

Adsense Western Union Withdrawal Limit

Today I found 'old' news regarding how much you can withdraw from Adsense using Western Union.

So what's the limit to withdraw money from you adsense?
The answer is : no limit at all

Read here : http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/12/western-union-payment-updates.html
And here : https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=63513

Note that if your payment exceeds this amount, you will receive multiple Western Union payments up to your total payment amount. When this happens, you'll see multiple 'Payment issued' lines, up to the number of payments you received. Each line will have the corresponding MTCN associated with it.

The funny thing is, for the past 1 year, I believe that if I exceed USD2200, I cannot withdraw from Adsense using western union and need to use check (not to mention the fees). Lolz. Need to subscribe to google Adsense blog starting today.

:p

2 problems solved, 5 more to go

During this period (fixing the codes), I think I lost a couple of bucks. Nevermind.

It is better to solve the coding problem and lose some money now than waiting for things to get worst in the future when the number of visitors is higher than today (hopefully).

More visitors = more money. So if I fix later = I lose more money

Even though it just a couple of bucks, still feeling stress and sad. Lol.

Upgrading my website

Currently upgrading my website and it takes more time that what I expect. Need to close down the website for a moment. I really hate this cause no $$$ will come in. Whatever it is, once I upgrade the website, it will ensure better visitors experience. :)

Btw, today facebook reunite me with my old primary school friends. I am really shocked how puberty changed us all. It seems the hawt people (during adolescent) period, can turn to shockingly different (not hawt anymore) person. Some of them turned fat and if I meet them at streets, I definitely will not recognize them.

My advice to school boys and girls... don't take love seriously because you don't know what hormone will do to your lover. Hehe. Better wait until you are 20 something. Lolz.

Christmas in 5 days

No, I am not a christian but 25 december reminds me something important which is on Christmas week last year, I found this great idea of getting money passively from the internet using Adsense. It has been a year now! Hope for the best in 2010!

Thank you God for giving me the idea.

And thank Adsense for your great system. You really change my life.

I ditched the CPM program

Yesterday I decided to ditch the program until they solved all the codes. It is a funny thing they do not make the codes easy to implement in the first place. Now going back to adsense. Until they resolved all the codes, I will use the codes.

*This december seems a good month for me. Expecting higher adsense earnings compared to last month :D

n00bs?

I still remember the tmnet streamyx ads which is shows a guy with a sport car but the guy only got P and can't drive it. Then the catchy phrase "why trust the beginners?" or something like that.

This happens to me. It seems that the company does has copy and paste approach like adsense does. Results? Chaos. The Ads is still appearing but the problem is, they said I need to do this and that to make it more targeted.

They gave me bunch of javascripts which I don't understand. I asked them to 'teach' me how to install this code and it take a long time to reply (now currently waiting for their reply).

The support system is good it just that they lack experience. But never mind, I am still waiting for their reply and see how it goes after this.

Received Invitation For a CPM Program

Last Friday, I got invitation to join a not so famous CPM program. First I was sceptic and ignore it but after the representative told me yesterday that I can earn xxx which is more than Adsense, I give it a try. Moreover, they said one of their clients manage to rip USD1000 in two days (of course the publisher get a very huge amoung of traffic per day), so maybe my luck is there.

They told me that I can put their ads on the same page as Adsense and Adsense allows that too (link), so why not give it a shot.

I haven't hit 1000 yet. Hope they will keep their promises. Whatever it is, not going to abandon Adsense coz Adsense rawks!

Sad. But. So.

Sad :
The new project which I spent around 200 hours to develop it do not receive good respond.

But :
The cpc is quite okay.

So :
It is the waiting game. Sometimes, some websites become gold in a few months (or even years). So I am just waiting and hope that will happen to this project somewhere in the future.

Reduced my website page size by 50%

Since my project finish earlier than I expected, there is something I really wanted to do and I have accomplished it today which is redesign my webpage. Previously, it was very old dull and boring looking, not to mention the size which quite big.

Google.com, gmail.com, facebook and adsense webpages give me inspiration for this latest design which are: fast, smooth, small size, simple, white and blue.

I removed all the craps and managed to get 50% reduction in my webpage size.

With this size, the bandwidth should cut by 50% which means my maximum potential earning with the webhosting package that I use is doubled. But what's more important are my visitors don't have to wait long for the page to load and the adsense blends well with the page.

That's all. Need to concentrate on my studies after this.

'Today's Earnings' to 'Today's Estimated Earnings'

Just checking my Adsense and I found the interface to be a little bit crowded than usual. Upon looking closely, found that Adsense changed 'Today's Earnings' to 'Today's Estimated Earnings', which I think is more accurate coz sometimes, I noticed that my earnings decreased.

Example : at 1pm $1. But when I open back $0.97.

I heard this phenomenon is caused by multiple clicks etc. Google Adsense will detect such click to prevent advertisers from losing and getting poor quality traffic.

With the change, I think there should be no more complain of earning vanished etc. Actually, google has told about this on the TOS but some people don't fancy reading the TOS and complain.

Till then.

Progress : 97%

I have finally completed the project (am I efficient?) although I predict I need one more or two more week. Now just want to do some preparation for launching plus promotion. After that will hit the the 'launch' button.

This is my most ambitious project yet, hope it will be a success and bring lots of money.

Since I have 'wasted' a lot of time with this project, I think for the next few years there would not be any new projects because I want to concentrate on my studies.

200 hours is not a small amount of time but I believe in users satisfaction. If you don't deliver something good, they wont come back. I really gamble a lot my time for studies for $$$. Lol.

Will the wheel stop? I pray it will keep on moving and provide me with cool passive income.

Wish me good luck ;D

Daymn!

Daymn!

I thought I can finish and launch my project in this week but now it seems it will not happen. I can if I want but that will put too much pressure on me.

Maybe next week or after a few weeks.

Although it will take a lot of time, I think it is worth it because I belive people will always revisit quality websites.

I believe in visitors satisfaction.

200 Hours

200 hours.

That's roughly how much time I have spent for this project. This is my most ambitious project so far.

If it works, I think my Adsense earnings will increase drastically :D

However, that is just my expectations. Hope it will work. If not, those 200 hours will be just a waste. But it is good to try coz I will not feel satisfied until I turn my idea into reality. Work or not is a different story.

Now just want to finalize things and prepare for promotions.

Wish me luck. Lot's of it!

November 2009 Post Mortem

Here's my Adsense earnings for November 2009. $113.27 ($45.94 decreased compared to previous month earnings!)


And here's my earning pattern which looks stable after 5th November 2009.


Lastly, this is my unique visitors and page loads graph. Around 1000 increase for both when compared to last month. Interesting is, after 17th November 2009, my visitors and page loads started to climb.


Conclusion :
1. My expectations for this month was wrong. (Refer here)
2. Adsense earnings is not necessaryly in direct proportion with number of visitors and page loads.