Work

Having bagged $73 in February (shortest month of the year), i was hoping the extra 3 days in march would see me hit the $80 mark.

Not the case. In fact, i’ve gone backwards. Total revenue for March was $69

But looking at the statistics, it’s easy to see why and although my revenue has dropped, i’m continuing to raise click through rate through testing new ad formats.

The above are my adsense earnings for march – $58.59, plus i’ve earned just over $10 from text-link-ads. So in total, $69.

Quite simply, the impressions aren’t there. Last month, i had almost 25,000 impressions, this month it’s at just over 14,000. So a HUGE dip in traffic. There’s a number of reasons for this.

Firstly, one of my big 4 – roykeane.net has been delisted and de-indexed by google. Massive blow for me as about 80% of the traffic was from google. It was listed no.2 on google frontpage for ‘roy keane’ (which gets about 8,000 searches a month). Needless to say, that’s where a large chunk of traffic has gone.

Secondly, JPEGr was recovering after collapsing under it’s own weight. It was out of action for a few days and hasn’t really been the same since. But i’m determined to keep working on it and get it back bigger and better than ever before.

Thirdly, I have to admit i was pretty lazy in March for some reason. I’ve been working more at my day job than normal, plus i’ve been taking days off here and there to go to football matches and shopping etc with the girlfriend… So i’ve probably been neglecting my sites a bit too much.

But with 5 weeks left until i become a full time blogger, things can only get better. Quitting my day job will make or break me. If i can’t put in the work then, i never will. So a disappointing month last month, but i reckon i can top it easily in April. Things have started well with $15 in text link ads already. Add in the $5 in adsense so far (yesterday and today), i’m at $20 already for April (two days in).