So yesterday was twice as busy as the 25th was, and my guess is that most Americans that were planning a trip home from TG were on the road traveling on the 25th. Traffic doubled from the 25th to the 26th, and Adsense seemed to be paying better yesterday. Our Adsense income was $123.54 – much better than the day before.

So I my old friend from Victoria B.C. went home yesterday morning with his blog all built, Adsense approved and his Adsense code place perfectly on his blog for the maximum CTR. He had 4 post published when he left. We’ll see if he really goes for it and builds up his blog over time. Sure hope so.

Gotta go computer shopping now…..later.

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So yesterday was one of the slowest days of the year, and this week will be too. Christmas and Thanksgiving are the lowest for our niche blogs. Adsense income – Adsense earning were very light coming in at $71.74. Very happy with that for numbers knowing that the “hot season” for most of our niche blogs is between March and August.

Every year is a raise too, because another full year of content has been written and posted on all of the blogs. This is the simple fact that makes profit made from Internet traffic arguable THE BEST kind of profit. We don’t need to invest in any more overhead, employees, or equipment to give yourself a raise. Just sweat equity – as long as you consider sitting in a comfortable chair in front of the fire typing on your computer hard work.

Took a break from blogging today because I had a friend in town and I’ve been helping him set up a blog that WILL be very profitable for him if he takes is seriously and starts posting one blog post a week for the first 6 months.

So another day of light blogging. This may be the only post I do today. Maybe tweaking my shopping blog a little bit cause it’s the only domain that is really performing during Black Friday or Cyber Monday. If you have a quality blog that was based on products and services, you will be making your biggest profit RIGHT NOW! My hat goes off to all those product bloggers this weekend – enjoy it because you have worked really hard, and you deserve it.

When the holidays are over and January rolls around again, the hang-overs are mending, our business will be in full swing again.

Have a great day out there profit bloggers. Drive safe if you’re driving. Oh yeah – here is a good post about driving conditions in Canada during the winter months.

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So yesterday was November 24th on a Wed and so many people are already on the road or in the air on their way to visit family and friends for the United States thanksgiving holiday, so overall Internet traffic was down about 25-30% as compared to a normal Wed during November. Of course our traffic is three times higher between March and August, but whatever….not applicable NOW.

So the total Adsense income was $94.77 and we feel very fortunate to have made that. I would have been grateful to make 50 bucks considering the TG holiday is starting up.

Some niche blogs made more because they talk about road conditions in Canada and such. Understanding the seasonal aspect of Internet traffic is very important to capitalize on profit through the different seasons of the year.

I use a free traffic estimator by Google to anticipate traffic for different keywords – try it yourself!

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So buddy of mine I used to live with in Victoria, B.C back in my twenties is visiting home here for thenext few days and we’re starting a photo blog for him. He’s a nature photographer? .

His blog is starting out on Blogspot, and the URL is http://vanislandguy.blogspot.com/ - first couple of photos are up and going tonight, but I’m sure he will be uploading more right quick.

So enjoy, and Van Island Guy is now indexed in Google.

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So now that we are only getting pure natural/organic search traffic on our network of niche blogs, we can see our daily Adsense income. I’m going to try and post every day or two here at Zulit to show the every slow trickle upward of Adsense earnings – this will be for myself to look back on, and for my readers to see a real world example of Adsense income.

I will venture to create some tables and graphs as well to see the monthly traffic stats and Adsense earning stats as well. I never did this before because our Adsense income was coming from so many different sources – PPC mixed with organic search traffic, and honestly….I never took much pride in traffic that came via PPC. I ALWAYS believed that true success online is based on the hits you get from real content from the two biggest search engines – Yahoo! and Google (note: Bing not included ;p)

Yesterday’s Adsense Earnings Total From Our Niche Blog Network

$126.35 USD

That is generated from 8 different niche blogs that are all over 3 years old. The highest PR (page rank) that any of these sites has is 2. Here is a breakdown of the page ranks on each blog just to show you how page rank doesn’t really mean diddly when it comes to earning money. If you are new niche blogger you need to completely FORGET about page rank and simply write more content.

1. Niche Blog #1 – Page Rank 1 (general shopping)
2. Niche Blog #2 – Page Rank 1 (heavy duty machinery)
3. Niche Blog #3 – Page Rank 2 (women’s clothing)
4. Niche Blog #4 – Page Rank 2 (aircraft leasing)
5. Niche Blog #5 – Page Rank 0 (jewerly)
6. Niche Blog #6 – Page Rank 0 (travel)
7. Niche Blog #7 – Page Rank 2 (online income – Zulit)
8. Niche Blog #8 – Page Rank 0 (hearing aids)

So we are small potatoes in the blogging world and certainly nothing to write home about, but we make a decent living so far. I will never ever assume that this will be our way of making a full time living, and I’m always telling myself that I HAVE to be ready take on a JOB in the future. However, I would first sell the house and the RV and get rid of our mortgage and see if we have enough money coming in from the Internet.

When you have a job you’re paycheck can be taken from you at any time and it’s 100% beyond your control. With an Internet income you are much more secure financially, AS LONG AS YOU; Write 100% original content, don’t do any artificial linking or paid linking. JUST WRITE.

Every new post is another raise.

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Well for of our niche blogs late November and December is the slow season. The traffic is much later than March-September, the CTR drops, and on top of that Google starts paying less. Seen this pattern for over half a decade now, and it doesn’t look like that is going to change.

Of course, if you own some blog that gets over 5,000,000 page loads a month, then you are not having to worry about paying the bills. For us it’s getting to be just that. We’re still making it right now, but if so much as one blog gets “hurt” on an algorithm change a Google, then well….I’m either getting a new job, or we’re selling the big house and the RV. Boo-hoo-hoo…..rough life.

Today being Monday is usually a pretty big day for Adsense earnings, with a total of $180 – $250 day, but as of right now at 9:14 Pm our total is $105.78. Used to be that was still great Money in Canadian dollars after the currency exchange between the USD Google bucks, but currently there is not a big difference in the dollar (thanks to the crooks on Wall Street). Used to be great living up here in Canada. Our dollar was as low as $64 cents to the USA dollar, and when we got a $6500 USD check from Google it was a big yippee!.

So we’re not selling the house yet. We’re gonna see what happens in January first to see if we’re making enough Adsense money from all our blogs.

Of course MSN Adcenter is still dicking around with one of our sites making their “judgement” on whether it will be accepted into their list of Advertisors. Love to tell them to just go fuck themselves, but we still need the PPC action a little longer before we go totally organic.

PPC is like a drug – a false sense of security. You’re at the mercy of their system and their ever changing policies and they can wipe out half your business overnight. That is what happened to us with the Adcenter Transition, and I’ve been scrambling to keep the Internet income coming ever since. Sometimes I wish I had never used PPC at all – it would have forced me to really pull it together and get allot more natural traffic to my blogs.

Oh well – it was a really good ride, and I know that most blog publishers are making allot less than $3700 or so dollars each month. Tomorrow I’ll get back into the swing of writing some posts. I was so pissed with today’s numbers and Adsense CTR that I only did one 700 word post.

Later.

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I know that all the experts tell you that you need to promote your blog, but I have a different view on the subject. I always hated promoting any of my blogs because I don’t like the “boys club” gig. Not one little bit. I don’t want to suck up to other bloggers, and I don’t intend to ever spend my time begging to be in some club. Maybe you hate that too.

No-one is going to have control over whether I get traffic and whether or not I succeed at making a full time living online. Besides, I make my money from niche blogs, and good luck finding some great blog and the corresponding blog owner that is willing to link to your new blog that is ALL ABOUT widget 842?! Ain’t gonna happen. So what do you do.

Simple – write.

All my most successful niche blogs make all of our online income each month with Adsense only, and NONE of them are promoted to in any way. I just write on them once a day. Fairly quickly the search engines come spidering and botting, and alas — search engine traffic comes, and keeps growing as long as I add new content.

Just make sure you go LONG TAIL on that baby – OK.

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