May 15 2009

Holy Cow RSS Readers

So my Adsense data has been showing a declining readership directly, but an exploding RSS readership, but this seems a little fishy to me.

Page impressions
Clicks
Page CTR
Page eCPM [?]
Earnings

AdSense for Content top channels
164
1
0.61%
$6.70
$1.10

 

 
Queries
Clicks
CTR
eCPM [?]
Earnings

AdSense for Search top channels
1
0
0.00%
$0.00
$0.00

 

 
 

 
Ad Impressions
Clicks
Ad CTR
Ad eCPM [?]
Earnings

AdSense for Feeds top channels
895
1
0.11%
$1.00
$0.89

 

Total Earnings
 
$1.99

Yes, I am not making much, but that is not the point, right [...]

Jan 8 2009

December 2008 Income

An update on  my attempt to carve out a meager income with my blogging so here is an update for December from Canadian Personal Finance Opinions :

Adsense income $51.54 with about 5000 impressions
Kontera income $7.84  on 4400 page impressions
Text Link Ads income $38.09 earn with 5 ads running out of a possible 8 (text link [...]

Nov 27 2008

Dead RSS Feeds

More strangeness with the Financial Site with my RSS feed from feedburner dieing off.  It is not just feedburner but the feed check utility also times out on my server, so I have sent yet another support request to my friends at Dreamhost. Meanwhile my Feedburner subscriber count drops like a stone thanks to my [...]

Aug 24 2008

RSS Moved to Google

So for both sites the RSS Feeds have now both been moved, and I will be deleting the interim feed set up for this site.
Working Hard on The Internet RSS Feed is now on this link. Canadian Personal Finance Opinions RSS feed is over here.
Feedburner is now gone, but still here and my readership drops [...]

Aug 15 2008

New Wordpress 2.6.1, but not yet

After living through the last upgrade of Wordpress and having it break this site and the advertising on my financial site, I figured I would wait a little while until I am sure all of my plug ins and themes are ok’ed on this “dot release” from our friends at Wordpress.
Income this week has been [...]

May 23 2007

Feedburner and Google Now One

How much would you pay for Feedburner? Well, the answer is $100M if your name is Google, as the deal is now confirmed. The guys at Feedburner should be taking home some nice folding money out of this deal, so good on them, now could you please monetize my blog?
After a nasty morning [...]