Ok, not really much to shout about, but I’m pleased that I’m now back to an average of a dollar a day from adsense earnings after the dip I had over the last few months.
A large amount of this is due to a mini site I made. A one page site with information about a particular niche, keyword rich, but still reads well, and some adsense ads. My forum and other few sites are still pulling in a little too, but the noticeable gain has been via the mini site.
When I set the site up, I linked to it from this site and posted one comment on a popular blog on a similar niche and google didn’t take long to find it and start sending people my way.
OK, so what next?
Well, more one pagers I expect for now with my next target being $5 a day average which is a big jump. I’ve also got an idea for a larger site on the same theme as my current mini site, so that may help a little too when I can get round to building it.
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Domaining is basically buying and selling domains, a bit like stocks and shares. Sometimes you might make a site on the domain to get some traffic to further increase it’s value, other times you might just sell the domain for a profit.
With porn.com recently selling for $9million, domaining can be a lucrative thing to get into, but obviously getting your hands on a domain like that is not an easy thing to do. So is it worth it, well yeah. There are plenty of niches left to target, think a bit laterally, think about what’s happening in the future that may be worth a domain or two and don’t ignore domains like .org or .org.uk for instance. With all the popular .com and .net domains being bought up, it can be profitable to snap up the other domains too. Maybe not as profitable as a .com but hey, even if you make a small profit it’s worth it.
Sites like SEDO allow you to buy and sell domains, but it’s worth watching what sells and what doesn’t for a while to get an idea what words to go for.
I must add that I am no way near a proper domainer. I don’t buy and sell…. just buy at the moment, and I have a small collection of domains with not much happening on them, but maybe they will prove worth it later down the line.
Have a look at some of the domains I own at randomdomains.co.uk. I’m open to offers if you fancy any of them!
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A while ago I wrote about how I was looking at was to make some money from my forum and other web sites. I had made a few changes and said I would report back on it. Well, here is the report…
In my last report I said I had been using the google adsense heat map for forums to position my adsense ads to try and get maximum benefit from them. I positioned them on several of my pages on my Dynax Digital forum and used different adsense channels for each ad so I could track their progress.
After doing this I noticed an increase in earnings, but I only got back to the level I was at before I reskinned the site. Most noticeable was that the adsense ads positioned at the top of the first post in a thread performed the best, earning nearly 4 times as much as the second place position which was the ad placed at the top of the list of forum boards.
Unfortunately the amounts aren’t anything to write home about (but maybe enough to blog about) but I got back to a level where my monthly hosting was covered…… but….. recently these amounts have dropped again. Why this is, I don’t know, but it’s annoying.
I have pulled in a little bit from my other sites too, but the forum forms the major (if you can call it major) source of adsense income.
As a bonus though, I got a ad deal with shopzilla which is part of bizrate.co.uk, a price comparison site. This deal gives me income for a year, paid quarterly and is enough to cover my hosting. So again, not loads, but it all starts to add up doesn’t it.
I am now expanding the forum site a little which should provide more opportunities for affiliate schemes which may prove a better source of income. I read a post on selfmademinds about using one big site (I know I keep going on about that site, but it is good!) which confirmed, for me, that this would be a good way forward.
I’ve still got a long way to go before I can retire on web site earnings alone, but with a few small steps in the right direction I might start making some inroads into that dream.
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I have set up another mini site, this time all about zoetropes, as a site to test a few thing on. If you don’t know what a zoetrope is then you’ll just have to check out my site.
I do have bigger plans for this site but they will not be happening for a while so I thought I’d get the site indexed and see what traffic arrives. I am using no ads, so obviously it’s not going to make any money. It is just a one page website with a page of relevant and original content and one image.
I’ll be using google analytics to track the traffic on the site and will report it’s progress.
I have been running a forum for owners of Konica Minolta or Sony DSLR cameras for a while now. The membership continues to grow, but slowly. So far there are nearly 600 members, although like most forums, not all of them are active.
Initially I ran the forum with phpBB, which although was good, seemed to be updated every other day which got to be a problem. So I made the switch to SMF or Simple Machines Forum which was opensource but much much better than phpBB in my opinion. The look of it and the operation and administration was a major improvement over phpBB, so all was good.
I ran adsense ads on the forum, a banner at the top and a long tower ad down the right hand side. This was bringing in a small amount, on average about $2 per day. $2 a day doesn’t seem like much, but that’s $60 a month which is enough to pay for my hosting so it was good for me.
When SMF updated their forum, I changed the forum theme to a nice looking new one, with a few modifications made by me. I dropped the adsense ads for a while as I needed to make sure the forum was running properly. I made the decision to keep the forum ad free for registered users, an incentive to register. So I am now trying to monetize the forum again, but for guest visitors only, and see if I can bring back the earnings to pay for my hosting, that’s my first aim at least.
Using the adsense ‘heat map’ for forums, which gives advice to where ads perform best on forums, I have now placed adsense ads before the first post on the thread display page and before the first board/category on the homepage, but only for guests. I’ll be monitoring this over the next week or two to see if it makes a big difference and I’ll report back here.
My first ‘mini site’ is a site I have had up for a little while now but haven’t really done a lot with. It is a site about the Sony Alpha 100 DSLR. It is a basic information site with some affiliate links to amazon on it and adsense.
While it doesn’t get a lot of traffic at the moment, the payout from the ads seem to be quite high. There are new Sony Alpha models coming out later this year, so some expansion of the site, maybe a different page for each mode, may happen.
I’m not expecting big things from this site in money terms as the content is not really written the best way for that purpose. I might go back to that at a later date. I also need to play about with the adsense colours a little.
After discovering and reading another useful blog called Self Made Minds and in particular this post about mini sites, it made me sit up and think why I haven’t tried it. As the article says, all you need are:
- domain names, or to be able to register domain names.
- a hosting account, preferably a reseller account so you can set up as many sites as you want.
- templates for html sites, or the ability to design and make your own sites, well I’ve been making websites for the last 7 years so I think I’ve got that one covered.
- a way to monetise the page e.g. an adsense account.
- content for the site written well and taking into consideration the user, search engines and how things like adsense generate the context sensitive ads.
Well, I have 4 out of the 5 things, with content being the only thing left to find/create. So I thought to myself “Garry, get off your arse and do it!”
So, over the next few weeks I will be building a few mini sites to try and generate some regular income from adsense. It won’t be loads (at first!) but if it starts to bring in enough to pay for my hosting account then I’ll be very happy. Any more than that and I’ll be even happier!
I was just starting some database work on a client’s site, so started up SQL Server 2005 Express and got this rather useful error message.
I can only assume the error was so serious that it left the program speechless and unable to express in words just how serious the error was!
Daniel at Daily Blogs Tips posted about a great plugin for web developers, bloggers and anyone who does some form of work to do with the web.
I won’t steal his thunder by going into detail, but it’s well worth getting the Search Status plugin if you can.
Over the last few years I’ve been using the google services more and more, as they are very very good. So far I have a google account for the following:
For some of these I have more than one login/account. I really must consolidate them to a more manageable amount….. I’ll get round to it sooner or later.
It does show that not only is google a great and dominant search engine but it also supplies some great web services to web developers especially. If you haven’t tried any of the services available from google, I suggest you give them a go.
Can’t wait until google buys out microsoft!!
