Well probably the most noticeable has been the drop in traffic. While dropping my 300 a day, I was getting between 100-200 unique visitors a day. Not bad considering my blog was and is still very new. Now I’m getting between 30-60 unique visits a day, I have no other form of advertising going on apart from a couple of link exchanges, so I’m very happy with my 30-60. The number of comments I receive has dropped slightly, but nothing to drastic. This proves the point that the majority of EC’ers are only on your blog to drop. Nothing else. It’s nice to know my traffic is here to read my blog, not drop their cards. A stat I rarely keep track of but noticed an increase in is my RSS subscription. I logged into my feedburner account on Saturday to find I have 31 subscribers. I can’t really put that down to pulling out of Entrecard dropping though. The two stats I’m most happy with though, are my ”Bounce Rate” and my ” Avg. Time on Site”. for the first time in months they seem to be heading in the rite direction.

What have I been doing then?
As Entrecard isn’t eating up all of the time I have to spend on the internet, I’ve actually had to time to concentrate on ”Make money online” and ”Make money blogging. I recently registered a whole lot of Domain Names. One domain name now has a fully developed site which more or less runs itself. And no, it isn’t a spam blog or a blog that uses other peoples posts. I’ve also set up a couple of Niche blogs, one focuses on iPod accessories and the other is an educational resource. I intend to use these two to make money using Google Adsense. People say Google Adsense is dead, I can assure you it isn’t.

With the domains I can’t find a use for just yet, I’ve discovered domain parking. You change the name servers of your domains to which ever parking service you use, then you receive a percentage of the revenue generated from the ads placed upon your domain names. So far in April, I’ve earned $25 from domain parking. I’m currently using Sedo to park my domains, as far as I’m aware we split the ad revenue 50/50, so really I’ve earned $50. I’ve heard there are better companies out there offering a better revenue split. I really need to start looking in to it.

I’ve also started working on referrals. If you don’t no what this is? Where have you been? Basically, I receive x-amount of $ if somebody signs up for a service or purchases something via a link I’ve placed on one of my blogs. The 125×125 orange FlashDen ad banner you see in my sidebar is starting to finally generate some revenue. By placing it on my CMSNerd site, I’ve improved my click through rate and people are starting to actually purchase credits to spend on FlashDen. This means I earn a commission fee. The obvious reason why the FlashDen referral scheme is working so well on CMSNerd is because it’s targeting the rite audience, CMSNerd is a site aimed at web designers. Flashden is a web designers paradise. Now I need to find some referral schemes that I think will work well with Funk13.

I’ve discovered there are endless ways to make money online, I love reading about them and trying them out. Now I’m actually starting to make money online myself, I can afford to try bigger and better schemes. I just have to try and stay within my limits, but still have the balls to experiment. As I’ve learned with most things I’ve tried, practice makes perfect. If something fails the first time, pick yourself and try again.

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It looks like google are promoting Adwords to local businesses in my area. I’m pretty sure they’ll be targeting other towns and cities in the U.K too. I haven’t used Adwords yet, so this is the perfect opportunity to do some testing and experimenting. I could use the voucher to start a small ad campaign for funk13. I might also use the free voucher to try and promote some kind of affiliate product.

Adwords???

Adwords is Google’s flagship advertising product and main source of revenue. Adwords lets you create ads and choose keywords, which are words or phrases related to your business, blog, product, website and so on.

When people search on Google using one of your keywords, your ad may appear next to the search results. Now you are advertising to an audience that is already interested in you.

You can grab your voucher by clicking this link. I think the offer is only open to people from the U.K. I’m pretty sure non U.K residents will be able to find a way around this.

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In internet money land, Adsense seems to be getting a bit of a mixed response. Some people say it’s old, boring, ruins the look of you pages and hardly ever gets clicks. Then you see pictures of people holding up cheques for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I guess it’s all down to personal preference. Ha, I even read one post where a blogger thinks you should scrap advertisements all together. He basically says your blog will never make you money. I hope I can prove him wrong.

Anyway, I’ve placed quite a big 300×250 adsense banner on the right side of my site. I’m going to give it a run for a few months. If it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. I’ll just switch from adsense to something else. I’m in no rush.

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