January 2008 Earnings
Last month’s earnings totaled $6.71 with 1740 pageviews. $6.67 was from Google AdSense. $0.04 was from AdBrite. I’ll continue to run AdSense exclusively in most spots until I have more data to input accurate eCPMs into AdBrite, so I can use those spots for more than one advertising network.
I also had a handful of referrals for sites like Blingo and Prosper, but I can’t necessarily attribute any of those directly to this site, as there’s no way to track from where those referrals come. I do post these things to more than just this blog.
Anyway, it should be rather clear as to why there are so many young, abandoned blogs out there. Results take a while and certainly aren’t guaranteed, but you have to put in a large amount of work writing, editing, designing, promoting, etc. in order to get there. Plus, you usually have to reach a minimum threshold before you can receive any of these earnings. For example, Google AdSense requires you to hit $100 first. If you’re earning $6.67/month, then you won’t see any payments for 16 months! (Yup, not 15 months, as it takes about a month for you to get the payment!) Tack on expenses like the domain name and hosting, and most people quickly realize they won’t be able to quit their day jobs anytime soon.
As usual, I’ll add this to the earnings table for all time.
