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In June I have learned some SEO techniques and tried to apply them for a couple of new articles but I didn’t have the time to examine the results yet. The AdSense income is nearly same with the same month. At least I will get to the AdSense payment treshold next month. I received my firt AdSense payment in 6 months time and if I get to 100$ barrier next month I can consider new goals like getting payment every month.

I couldn’t write so many articles at Hubpages because I’ve put most of my time to my new Amazon affiliate shop this month. I’ve finished the most of the technical background of the Amazon shop and there are some design issues left. Considering I got no Amazon earnings for this month it will be a good step to set up an Amazon shop and build a consistent Amazon affiliate income.

So here are the numbers:

Earnings for June: 32,74$

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This month has been a inspirational month cause I’ve received my first AdSense payment. You get the feeling of earning money online when you start spending it. I’ve received my first AdSense payment after six months so now I have to set up my goals to receive AdSense payment each month.

My main source of income is Hubpages again. I’ve created a few more Hubs this month and I’m experimenting with different niches. I’ve created AdSense channel for each of my Hubs and I’ll develop more Hubs in high paying niches. I’ve got some Amazon sales also but my Amazon earnings are just depending on pure luck. I have to find some time from my day job for creating some time for my Amazon Associates Store. Here are the numbers for May:

Earnings for May: 42,83$

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Google AdSense Team sent an e-mail yesterday informing the publishers that AdSense have enabled third-party ads from now on which means that we won’t only publish Google AdSense Ads but also ads from other Google approved ad networks. The third-party ads will be in English and only in image format for now. The official announcment from Google AdSense Blog : http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/introducing-third-party-ads-on-google.html

You have to set you ads to image format from AdSense Control Panel : Manage Ads section. If you don’t want to display the third-party ads you can change the ad settings to text only and go on with the AdSense Ads. I have set up the ads at my main page to image only to see the performance of the new third-party ads. The bloggers aren’t sure about the outcomes of introducing other ad networks to Google AdSense because now they will be in control of CPC.

I think that Google knows the best and they have probably taken their precautions to protect their publishers. They are now offering limited number of third-party networks only from America. Here is a list of approved third-party publishers:

North America: Ad servers

• DoubleClick DFA (www.doubleclick.com)
• Mediaplex (www.mediaplex.com)

North America: Rich media

• DoubleClick Rich Media (www.doubleclick.com)
• Eyeblaster (www.eyeblaster.com)
• EyeWonder (www.eyewonder.com)
• Interpolls (www.interpolls.com)
• Pointroll (www.pointroll.com)
• Unicast (www.unicast.com)

North America: Research

• Dynamic Logic/Safecount (www.safecount.net)
• Factor TG (www.factortg.com)
• IAG (www.iagr.com)
• InsightExpress (www.insightexpress.com)

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Amazon Affiliate Program announced a new service which can be considered as a revolution in their services. Now Amazon is offering MP3 sales and let their affiliate partners to sell MP3 products through widgets. The new service will be a good income for music blogs for sure. Amazon offers you a variety of options with their MP3 widget. You can select bestsellers from different genres or you can just create your own album. This new step in Amazon services will heat the blogosphere for sure. The coming days will show us the user experience and how well the system works. For now I will only put a small widget of my beloved Classic Rock Mp3’s as a demo and I will wait to see if some of my readers share my music taste.

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Once more beginning of a new month and time for monthly earnings report. After a boost up at earnings in March, I was a little a fraid to see the earnings go down and lose my excitement. Actually my earnings are nearly the same when compared to March. Last month I had very good eCPM results from Adsense. Smartpricing is a serious issue in Adsense and I got smartpriced as expected. I have to admit that my Hubpages traffic is less when compared to last month but the Adsense earnings are nearly the half. Surely I have to increase the number of my Hubs and increase traffic. What came to my surprise is it’s been a great month for Amazon Associates program. I’ve sold 10 products this month and I can see some of my Amazon capsules at Hubpages is working good.

The important thing is I finally made the 100$ milestone at Google Adsense and I will hopefully receive my first paycheck from online business. This month I’ve also seen the importance of Amazon Associates and I am working on an Amazon Store Project right now. (I will give the information about the on going project but my main purpose is to build an Amazon Store with it’s own shopping cart.)

Here are the numbers :

Earnings for April: 49,72$

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This month I’m writing my monthly report with a smile on my face (at last). Thanks to major design & ad placement changes at Hubpages the CTR’s for adsense has gone up dramatically and I’ve managed to earn some reasonable amount from Adsense. I’ve just missed the 100$ in total with a buck and I have to wait next month for the money.

While earning money from Adsense, I was desperate about my Amazon affiliate earnings. I couldn’t make any sales until the end of month an just as I was losing hope I managed to sell a Sony CyberShot Camera (Although I don’t have any related Hubs about cameras). I am now thinking of whether receiving a Amazon Gift certificate or waiting to hit the cheque limit. I still don’t get how to focus for products at Amazon because every item I sell is unrelated to my Hubs. I am planning to publish a Amazon Store this month so I hope that things will get better with Amazon.

So end of story here are the numbers :

Earnings for March: 58,53$

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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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Do you still remember the name Agloco? They tried to gain success using the same old story, “Get rich by doing nothing”. I am turning my spider senses on if someone proposes me getting rich by doing nothing. In my opinion Agloco was another pyramid scheme and I didn’t think of signing up before I see a cheque signed by them. I don’t know how an expert like John Chow got into this (money tastes sweet) but I think that he lost his hopes also. John Chow’s Agloco Page have been updated at the beginning and mid of each month until July and no more updates since then. I don’t think that even he has the toolbar installed but he was relying on 21.000 referrals in his network.

 You have to study some human behaviours before getting in a project at this scale. Agloco managed to get huge number of users following their announcement. (1.000.000 sign ups as last statistics) The idea of earning money from referrals attends people. While each individual signs up and make other people sign up as referrals, those new users will also see that the way of earning money depends on earnings from referrals so they look out for referrals too, but there comes a time when the community is saturated and no more users are signing up as referrals. No more chains added. What happens next? The last ring of chain breaks-up because they aren’t making any money actually and the links get broken from bottom to top. What you get actually is the reverse chain reaction. Agloco could prevent that by distributing cash immediately and keeping the chains connected but they are promising income in a very far away future. You can’t expect people to be patient in such a system.

Everybody knows that systems based on pyramid schemes don’t last long. It only makes the links at the top rich. I guess that John Chow knew that and he tried his luck. If Agloco ever pays out money, John Chow will be the one getting it.

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Not so fast.. Here is the deal; you start advertising other websites or help them promote their products from your blog. The most reliable and the perfect start for advertising is Google Adsense (as you probably already know). After opening your account in Google Adsense, you create your personal Ad Code by entering Adsense setup menu and following the instructions.

Adsense offers several types of ads to match your blog. You can check them here. I used Banner and vertical banner in my blog (As we change our blog design we can try different options). While choosing the banner color you can try to find suitable combinations to match your blogs theme. Most bloggers claim that their incomes remarkably raised when they optimized the ad colors to their blogs.

When you generate the adcode, you have to implement the code to your blog. You can try out several plug-ins to implement the code automatically (I will review a few of them in the following days). For start you can try to implement code yourself (Nothing so hard, i tried and failed several times and success at last). For implementing codes yourself go to the theme editor in your wordpress admin menu. You see the files at right. I added my codes to top of main index and bottom of sidebar. In the main index I added the code right after second line “div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn” and in the side bar I added the code right before last line “/div”. You can try out different type of ads with different positioning.

Now we have the ads placed so does the cash start to flow? No! You can stare at your own ads forever and this one will not make you earn a dollar you can be sure. So we have to start building some traffic.

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