After the First Month Check-up, here I am again, writing about the progress of the $100 Challenge. This time, I decided to do a monthly reporting practice to make the case study easier to track. So, here’s the breakdown of the first two months –
February 2007:
Adsense – $1.07
PayPerPost: $5.50 (paid)
Chitika: $0.12
TextLinkAds: $4.89 (paid)
ReviewMe: $0
Blogsvertise: $10.00 (paid)
Amazon.com: $0
CafePress Affiliates:$0
FEB TOTAL: $21.58
Paid Total: $20.39
March 2007:
Adsense – $4.31
PayPerPost: $20.00 (paid)
Chitika: $0
TextLinkAds: $9.78 (paid)
ReviewMe: $0
Blogsvertise: $0
Amazon.com: $0
CafePress Affiliates:$0
AuctionAds: $0
MAR TOTAL: $34.09
Paid Total: $29.78
FULL TOTALS: $55.67
Full Paid Totals: $50.17
Yes, it looks like I’m half-way through.
Some of the things that I did for the month of March include:
- Re-ordered the ad template lay-outs. The AdSense shuffle seem to have worked well, as I saw a decent increase in click throughs and revenue.
- Focused on higher-paying “Sponsored Posts”. I made the decision that anything less than $10 per post is just not worth it – unless I’m really, really excited the link/product/service that is being offered for review that I would’ve written about it anyway even for free.
- Removed the “Get Paid to review this post” catch-all referral link (from PayPerPost). I realised that posting that in every single blog entry distorted the context of my blog. Hence, AdSense stopped serving topic-related ads.
- A new advertiser bought a text link via TLA.
Now, let’s find out what April brought…
What about you? How’re you doing with the challenge?
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