The 'wheel' rotates by itself

Do you still remember this? (link)

To make it short : I have stop promoting and updating my website. I want to test my theory which is 'a useful website will always draw visitors, even if you don't update your website'.

Main question : Will the number of visitors of my website increase and survive without any updates?

The answer is : YES! Check out my weekly stats for the past 12 weeks!


Analysis :
1. W35 - W38 : The effect of promotion begins to wear off
2. W39 - W45 : Equilibrium. Don't know why this happened.
3. W46 - W48 : Finally the number of visitors begin to rise and last week (W48) beats the last 12 weeks performance! But still can't catch up with W35, but by willing of good, something it may happen!

However, despite the increase of visitors and pageloads, my Adsense for this month can't beat last month earnings. Due to not very relevant ads I guess. Whatever it is, nothing beats free money. :)

November ends tomorrow. So stay tune.

Adsense and statcounter: From 3pm to 4pm

Just wondering... previously at 3pm (Malaysia time), Adsense and statcounter will start a new day (12am). Now, a new day starts at 4pm (Malaysia time). What happened? Anybody knows?

*Rest in peace mininova.org

Innocent Moves

Just watched Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) movie and it is really an eye opener. It teaches me not to push myself too hard. For the past 1 month, I have been 'wasting' hours my time developing and experimenting new technique to increase my earnings.

When I watched this movie, I realized how obsessed I am with Adsense and how obsessed I want to beat my old record. Maybe I should concentrate on my studies and take Adsense lightly. Besides, the amount of money I got per month not enough to live on, why channel a lot of energy to Adsense? lolz.

No doubt I really want prove and 'beat' other masters in Adsense with my 'don't work to get money with Adsense' technique, but nevertheless, maybe I should stop for a while, take a deep breath and go outside like I used to be.

My first intention when I joined adsense was to support my food and drinks. I have achieve that. But it seems now I got drifted away and push my self too hard... I need a reset. Whatever it is, here a memorable quote from the movie.

Maybe it's better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it's OK.

November 2009 Expactations

1. A small decrease in unique visitors
2. A big decrease in adsense earnings

Poor earning per click to be blamed.

October 2009 Post-Mortem

Page views less 1500 compared to previous month.
Earnings less by $8.14


Here's my earnings pattern for October 2009


Strategy to increase traffic : no any new ideas.
Strategy to increase earnings : currently on new project

Wish me luck!