Blogging Way of Life

I am using StumbleUpon for a while now and I found it a reliable source for traffic especially a boost up traffic at the first times of the page. Although StumbleUpon provides a long term traffic I never managed to get a high volume of traffic, the peak traffic I received for a page was near 400-500. The story has changed last month. I’ve published a hub 10 Science Fiction Movies Every Sci-Fi Fan Should Watch. I was getting nearly 80-90 visitors each day (which is considered as a decent traffic among my Hubs.) Most of my traffic was from StumbleUpon and I was only hoping to keep the traffic steady. One day when I checked my stats I couldn’t believe my eyes. I received 4,200 visitors in a single day. The next day was even more surprising with over 10,000 visitors. The traffic decreased to 1,000 visitors in a couple of week and kept that way for several days.

When I checked for the causes of this high traffic from StumbleUpon, I saw that it was stumbled by a Power User (A user that has thousands of stumbles) has liked my page and his vote has drawn a major traffic to my Hub and the incoming traffic voted (there were many thumb downs). Despite of lot of bad feedback the traffic kept high for a week. The major effect on achieving the high traffic was creating a page which people will react. My page was a list of top 10 sci-fi movies and it’s not a surprise to see people react when their likes and dis-likes are in discussion.

The lessons to be learned from this experience:

• Being a good stumbler brings good traffic. If you use votes to express your impressions, you are more likely to attract more visitors to your Stumbled page.
• Writing on topics which people are more likely to react will attract more people. The more your topics are open to discussion the more visitors you will get.

So be a good Stumbler and give a Stumble if you favor this post

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After 5 months of BloggerDollar’s birth Google Gods have awarded BloggerDollar with a PageRank of two. This blog has been built from scratch and I don’t have any previous blogging or online money making experience and seeing that this blog has been given a PageRank in such a short time is great inspiration. The Pagerank doesn’t stand for any value itself because it doesn’t just boost up the traffic. It’s just a rating of your blog in terms of number but people believe in numbers so high PR usually returns as more traffic and more ads.

I am making the most of my money from Hubpages and this blog stands for logging and sharing the ways of making money from Internet. The PageRank increase is a good award and I hope the good effort converts as more online bucks.

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February has been a good month (I still don’t earn any reasonable money but I am getting a good curve so there’s no reason to be pessimistic). At last I’ve passed the 15$ mark with Adsense earnings and I’ve passed 50$ on Grand Total. Google team have sent me my PIN code after 40$ so I’m ready to receive my payment when I hit 100$. I’ve also managed to sell some Amazon stuff from my Hubs. To my surprise I haven’t sold any of the items that I’ve been listing. I guess people are clicking my Amazon links and buying other items while surfing in related items in Amazon. In total I’ve passed 20$ this month.

The rise in my earnings are actually related to huge traffic I’ve received from StumbleUpon this month. I will write a detailed post about how I got a big traffic from StumbleUpon after analyzing the effects and stability of the traffic. As a result of the huge StumbleUpon traffic to one of my Hubs I received most of my earnings from Hubpages (without any effort).

Earnings for February: 20,05$

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My favorite writing platform Hubpages is running a contest starting from Feb 14 and will last until Mar 15. The prizes for the contest is worth nearly 5000$ and winner gets all.

For those of you who don’t know what Hubpages is; Hubpages is a writing platform where you can publish your own articles and thanks to Hubpages high Google ranks you can get organic traffic without any effort. Hubpages will give a clue on a topic for each day during the contest and you have to solve the clue and publish an article at least 300 words. The quality of the articles and the first one who solves the clue will be awarded points. At the end of the month the winner with highest point will get all the prizes.

The Hublove Contest

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For maximizing your earnings you shouldn’t just go on and write whats on your head. You should go for the keywords inside people’s minds. The keywords you choose determines the traffic. You don’t need to sign-up for high cost SEO services for finding your path. The best tools you need are already at your service for free.

•  Google Trends

Google Trends is a free Google service for looking up Google search statistics. You can compare similar keywords and choose which one to go on with. For example you want to write an article on “PlayStation 3″. You can choose between writing PlayStation3, PlayStation 3, PS3, PS 3. By comparing those keywords you can find out which term has been searched the most. In this case as you can see PS3 has been the most searched term.

• Google ADWORDS Tool

After determining your keyword (In this case let’s go on with PS3), you can find out which combination gives the best CPC. When we check the PS3 keyword with the Adwords tool Google Adwords gives us keyword ideas with search volumes. From the menu we can choose to display the average CPC of the keyword combinations. For PS3 example; “PS3 forums” gives average of 2,02$ while “PS3 forum” gives out 0,76$. So if you are going to publish a post about PS3 forums you should choose “PS3 forums” instead of “PS3 forum”.

• Adsense Top Paying Keywords

If you want to go out to the big league and compete for the highest paying keywords, you can look for that list. However the competition for those keywords is too much and it’s not a piece of cake to get those earnings. For example “Domain Name Yahoo pays out maximum CPC of 520$ and average of 97$. If you can get good rankings for some of those keywords it’s sure that you can earn big money.

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This month I’ve focused my attention to Hubpages. (You can check my review of Hubpages) Regarding that I don’t have so much time from my day work I choose Hubpages because it offers good organic traffic without any effort at all. It also gives me the freedom to write on any topic. This month I created two new Hubs:

Solar Power - Ways of Producing Electricty from Sun

PES 2008 TRICKS & MOVES

Both of them started generating Google traffic immediately. My Hub traffic is rising constantly and I expect double income in 2 months. Let’s cut the talk and come to the facts:

Earnings for January: 9,57$

My adsense earnings slightly increased from last month but my Amazon affiliates not producing any income somehow. Although I created a Hub about science fiction movies which seemed perfect for Amazon ads, I couldn’t get any orders.

I expect to find some time from my work this month and put some effort on my blog at the same time with my Hubs and at least earn more than 15$ in February.

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December has been an awful month in terms of earning money. At the first half of December I couldn’t actually deal with my blog or write on Hubpages because of my day job. Anyways I couldn’t create much content but I surely learn a lot of stuff in terms keyword targeting and SEO. I focused much more to my Hubs this month which creates me organic traffic without much effort and will propably convert better in future. I’ve written Hubs on higher paying keywords so there is an increase in my eCPM. December has been a bad month for CTR and I am taking this on Christmas spirit Last month I earned a few bucks from Amazon even though I didn’t intend to. This month I intend some Amazon earnings but couldn’t make any sales so I guess this is my bad luck this month. Please note that most of my adsense income is generated from Hubpages, and I expect a linear increase in my Hubpages earnings as the number of my Hubs go up.

Earnings for December: 8,74$

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I’ve been working at my day job which requires many travelling and I haven’t been able to find time for blogging lately. I was thinking of buying a laptop for using those times I spend on roads. I am spending at least 3 hours a day from my house to job and job to house and instead of sleeping all the time I got this laptop to create something. Actually I didn’t buy the laptop (don’t worry I didn’t steal it), my boss gave me one so I didn’t have to spend any money for my blogging actions. My boss is funding my blogging from now on. (Although he doesn’t know it:) Yes, Day jobs can be good sometimes.

If you are living in a crowded city like I do, most of your time is spent for nothing. I have a writing passion and I’m happy that I will turn that time into something I like doing. My first road project is a Hub about the top ten science-fiction movies, which was a topic I was craving to write for but I couldn’t find the time. If you spend so much time in traffic or travelling like I do look out for being a mobile blogger like I do. I will publish my hub soon (If I spend some more time at traffic it will be finished). If you are a science fiction fan like I am, keep an eye on my Hubpages.

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I don’t like to say “I knew it was coming” but I knew. I’ve written a post weeks before Agloco - Dead Already??? I was questioning how people could fall into the idea of getting rich by doing nothing. The real question to be asked was how did the big guys like John Chow got into this.

John Chowpublished Agloco’s mail to him telling that they can’t fund the operations anymore. It wasn’t a big surprise after-all. I was expecting better from them at least in admitting that they have failed. Agloco home page doesn’t show any signs of this catastrophe. An internet user can look at the page and still get the feeling that Agloco can make them rich. The ship has already sunk and captain (I guess we can consider John Chow as the captain of the ship regarding 29.668 people in his network)

I wonder when will the new super pyramid scheme idea emerge after this disaster and how many of those who believed Agloco will also believe in that brand new pyramid scheme?

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This is the first month my blog is published and I have started monetizing my blog. In the first month of the blog I wasn’t expecting any income actually because of the low content and no regular visitors at all. I have started this blog with 100$ spending (for my hosting and domain name) and the worst case scenario for me is losing that money. Looking at my earnings I won’t lose that money even if my earnings stays same. (which isn’t likely because as the content increases and I gain regular visitors the traffic is more likely to increase in an exponential graph)

Earnings for November: 15,76$

• Google Adsense Earnings : 13,12$
• Amazon Affiliate Earnings: 2,64$

 As you can see I don’t use Amazon Ads in my blog because it’s not an item/product related blog. I am publishing my Amazon ads at my Hubs. I have sold 4 items and this is a good amount as a beginner at Hubpages. I have earned from Adsense from my blog and my hubpages account. I have accomplished my first amount with a decent amount for the first month of a blog and I am expecting the 100$ limit in a few months.

My blog has been visited 1,813 times with 3,034 page visits. The best traffic source is StumbleUpon for now. Referring Sites has %86 percentage in my traffic while search engines are %4,5. (Which is normal for a new blog) For a new blog social networking sources seems the best way to start driving traffic.

Regarding all the effort I am spending on my my Hubs created 1,620 visits in November with %60 of the traffic is from search engines. So you can use Hubpages if you want to benefit from free organic traffic without any effort.

Thanks to all supporters and followers.

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