Yay, $1/day reached!!

[AlwaysLearning]

My blog has generated enough money this month to make a >$1/day average for the month, and there are still a few days to go! I know that doesn't sound like much, but I'm quite happy about it. All the webmaster forums say it's a very important milestone. Next goal $100/day

Also, same day, I got my first surprise review copy of a book. (I also reviewed Steve's book, but that of course wasn't a surprise copy) Not certain how soon I'll have time to read it but it's great to have people send you valuable stuff while you sleep

To infinity and beyond!

[Oleg]

Next goal $100/day

You will

[Curtis2011]

That is great. Not only is it paying for your hosting but it now has a tangible profit !

Although I have to ask.. How does it make money? I don't see Adsense or other revenue streams anywhere on your website.

[CoolBee]

Excellent! I think I'm up to 50cents a month (OBC not CBP)

But yes, I can't see any advertising on your site - do you have article-specific links in some of your posts? Or do you maybe have a different blog site than the one in your siggie?

[Tristan Bull]

Awesome stuff! Congratulations on reaching a very important milestone, you have proven to yourself that it's possible now all you need to do is scale it up.

Well done

[AlwaysLearning]

Hey Curtis and CoolBee,

Glowing Face Man has conditional ads, there's an adsense banner if and only if the referrer is a search engine. If a searcher decides to explore deeper into the site, the banner disappears. It only appears on the page directly entered through search engines.

Thanks everyone, I'm definitely gonna scale it up

[CoolBee]

Conditional ads - never heard of that before! Nice idea!

[mikethedrummer44]

I've heard of those. Apparently wordpress has a plug-in where you can decide who see's ads and who doesn't. Pretty neat. On topic, congrats man! That's my first goal right now. Getting one of my blogs to make $1 a day. Hey, if you can do $1, you can do $10, or $100, or $1000. Thanks for the inspiration, I'm gonna go write some content. :P

[wakeshine]

Congratulations! It takes a lot to get that first $1/day.

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by AlwaysLearning

Hey Curtis and CoolBee,

Glowing Face Man has conditional ads, there's an adsense banner if and only if the referrer is a search engine. If a searcher decides to explore deeper into the site, the banner disappears. It only appears on the page directly entered through search engines.

Thanks everyone, I'm definitely gonna scale it up

That sounds really cool, and I can see why you'd want to do that. To get the ads out of the way for your real "readers" I suppose?

That is very thoughtful, but my guesstimate is that if you have the ads always appear, you could increase your revenue quite a bit. Maybe test it out for 30 days and see what the results are?

[debbi24]

How many visitors per day are you getting? I only put adsense on my blog is it is from search engines or someone looks at an older post, but not on current post. I also have a dog agility blog that is more aggressive with ads and affiliate content, but still not making much - need to post more. Thanks.

[Boldnut]

Originally Posted by AlwaysLearning

My blog has generated enough money this month to make a >$1/day average for the month, and there are still a few days to go! I know that doesn't sound like much, but I'm quite happy about it. All the webmaster forums say it's a very important milestone. Next goal $100/day

Also, same day, I got my first surprise review copy of a book. (I also reviewed Steve's book, but that of course wasn't a surprise copy) Not certain how soon I'll have time to read it but it's great to have people send you valuable stuff while you sleep

To infinity and beyond!

How much time/work did it took you ?

[runningbird]

You sure have a lot of content! I guess I have gotten discouraged way too easily in the past. Where do most of your visitors come from: do you have subscribers, search engine traffic, social bookmarking, or what?

[KenBWM]

Congrats on a $1 a day, you have come farther than most!

[JAX]

Congrats, it's a great feeling. I'm pretty new to making money online, but I'm reaching for my next goal of $5/day.

[Gene]

Congratulations on making one dollar per day this month. I hope you hit one hundred dollars a day soo. How time much time the new goal will require?

[David Turnbull]

Ah, the memories of reaching those milestones. I loved when I was like 14, I'd brag to my parents how I'd made 30c from an Adsense click. Was rollin' in the cash.

[robcartoons]

Hi Alwayslearning,

Thanks for posting your success story, always very motivating to hear such stories. Let us know how it continues to grow.

Cheers,

Rob

[Marko500]

Congratulations AlwaysLearning!

It is a large archive, you have good site and articles...

I wish you success in your next goal ...

[findinginspiration]

Congrats on your site. That truly is awesome!! I hope to hear more in the future about your goals and success!

[SatvikBeri]

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

That sounds really cool, and I can see why you'd want to do that. To get the ads out of the way for your real "readers" I suppose?

That is very thoughtful, but my guesstimate is that if you have the ads always appear, you could increase your revenue quite a bit. Maybe test it out for 30 days and see what the results are?

One other reason to do it is avoid getting "Smart Priced." Statistically, people who come in from search engines are far, far more likely to click on ads, and then actually buy from the ads they click on. If you show a lot of ads that no one clicks on, your ad revenue per click drops. So if you show ads to everyone, you get more impressions but probably less revenue.

[AlwaysLearning]

(Forgive me if I make typos in this reply, I'm on my second glass of wine this evening)

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

That sounds really cool, and I can see why you'd want to do that. To get the ads out of the way for your real "readers" I suppose?

That is very thoughtful, but my guesstimate is that if you have the ads always appear, you could increase your revenue quite a bit. Maybe test it out for 30 days and see what the results are?

I had the ads displaying for all users for a long time. Originally, I was a blogspot user, so there were no plugins. Eventually, I manually programmed conditional ads from scratch using javascript. Nowadays after switching to wordpress I still do a lot of my programming manually instead of using plugins...

Here's the thing, and I think this will make sense to StevePavlina readers. I seem to be "used" to a certain number of adsense impressions per day. I use adsense as one of the primary ways of measuring traffic, and I check it about 3 or so times per day. When I made the switch from universal ads to conditional ads, my daily page impressions went down for a short while but quickly returned to where it was previously. In a LoA sort of way, I think this is because I was used to a certain number of impressions per day, and subconsciously altered reality or whatever to realize that number of impressions. But of course, after the switch to conditional ads, suddenly only ~50% of my readers were registering as adsense page impressions, so my traffic increased significantly to keep up with the page impression count I was used to.

I suppose by that logic, if I make ads only appear with 10% probability, I should see search traffic increase by about 900%... hmm.. maybe I should try that

Originally Posted by debbi24

How many visitors per day are you getting? I only put adsense on my blog is it is from search engines or someone looks at an older post, but not on current post. I also have a dog agility blog that is more aggressive with ads and affiliate content, but still not making much - need to post more. Thanks.

I'm getting around 600-700 visitors a day.

Originally Posted by Boldnut

How much time/work did it took you ?

Quite a while/quite a lot :P The blog's been going since late 2007... I didn't get a single adsense payout (=$100) until 2009

Originally Posted by runningbird

Where do most of your visitors come from: do you have subscribers, search engine traffic, social bookmarking, or what?

Most traffic comes from Google; I get occasional spikes from social bookmarks, on average about 1 per month for a total a few thousand visits. The benefit of social bookmark traffic spikes isn't so much the traffic itself, but having people link to you based on seeing you there. For that purpose, stumbleupon is the most useless. Social bookmarking services like reddit, metacafe, and ycombinator are a lot more useful..

Originally Posted by KenBWM

Congrats on a $1 a day, you have come farther than most!

Thanks

Originally Posted by JAX

Congrats, it's a great feeling. I'm pretty new to making money online, but I'm reaching for my next goal of $5/day.

Yeah, thats my current goal too

Originally Posted by Gene

Congratulations on making one dollar per day this month. I hope you hit one hundred dollars a day soo. How time much time the new goal will require?

It would be great so see $100/day by 2011...

Originally Posted by David Turnbull

Ah, the memories of reaching those milestones. I loved when I was like 14, I'd brag to my parents how I'd made 30c from an Adsense click. Was rollin' in the cash.

Heh, I remember once when I was 14 (which was in the mid 90s), I had this brief idea about making a website where I'd post philosophical reflections about life and the universe and stuff... but I never followed through with it. If only I had... a website like that, started in the mid 90's and maintained until today... it would have Alexa traffic rank in the 3 digits

Originally Posted by SatvikBeri

One other reason to do it is avoid getting "Smart Priced." Statistically, people who come in from search engines are far, far more likely to click on ads, and then actually buy from the ads they click on. If you show a lot of ads that no one clicks on, your ad revenue per click drops. So if you show ads to everyone, you get more impressions but probably less revenue.

Yeah... and I think a lot of people will look more "kindly" on the page if there aren't ads everywhere... for example, say I add a link to my blog at Wikipedia, the edit nazis come look where the link leads.. if there are no ads staring back at them, that means my link only has, say, 95% chance of being deleted instead of 99.9%

[Ekb]

Awesome, congrats!