tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41895629164960021992009-11-25T13:56:37.825-05:00Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-57620774729122834912009-04-21T10:25:00.003-04:002009-04-21T10:29:47.778-04:00

Well, that was fast! I mean really fast. Just a few hours after I submitted my request, Alex from Akismet contacted me, and after several checks and emails back and forth by today's morning I am free! Feels really good, thank you Alex, and kudos to Akismet overall, it's nice to have business with you guys! :)

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-19091086716795225752009-04-20T10:09:00.007-04:002009-04-21T10:31:12.732-04:00

LOL I was banned by akismet. Well, not me personally, but my brand new URL that I created for my main money making page just a couple of months ago and made a redirect - which several previous posts were about.Funny how I figured this. I did not comment on blogs with this URL yet at all. Never till yesterday. And yesterday I went to investigate my main competitor links - which was prompted by my

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-57429137974607468252009-03-04T14:12:00.006-05:002009-03-04T14:26:02.587-05:00

No changes on BigG. All is exactly as it used to be before the redirect. Now I realize I was hoping changing the url will have enough power to move me up a position or two. Well, no luck, looks like it is not enough with such a fierce competition. Yet every small bit counts, so I don't think this was the wrong move. It definitely proved beneficial in just a bit less competitive area - like a page

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-60559697811550803392009-02-28T20:30:00.002-05:002009-02-28T20:45:29.612-05:00

So far so good, on both accounts!My main page stays at the upper boundary of its range for the main keywords, and even shortly went to position #3 today for one of them. Funny, it was listed with the old address at that time :) I figured where extra traffic is coming from - I got a rise on Yahoo for a secondary keyword, and now hold position #3 for it. Good result! Main keywords came back to the

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-14670630306954851212009-02-26T22:39:00.003-05:002009-02-26T23:27:35.400-05:00

I don't know what will be down the road, but I like how I feel today! I am already having the second most profitable day of all time, and it seriously threatens the previous record, that was set almost a year ago. Right now it is showing $170.63 for the day, with the record being $185.35, and it still has more than 4 hours to go!So yesterday night YieldBuild finally picked up the right

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Well, it took BigG about five days to do the job. Right now page address is updated for every keyword I bothered to check. No changes in ranking in BigG, no significant changes on Y and Live either. Wonder if it was the good idea to implement at all. Yet on other pages I saw a definite improvement. Either improvement did not come yet and will come a bit later, or this change was not enough to

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-34814231409964980852009-02-24T22:17:00.002-05:002009-02-24T22:30:16.398-05:00

The whole day was agonizing over relatively low eCPM. Not really really low, it was around $10, which is not that bad at all - yet I got used to twice as much lately. I know what ad tabs configuration Yieldbuild should arrive at to get this eCPM, so watching it wondering around without any purpose finally became unbearable.So I went in and edited out two ad tabs, so only one is left and what that

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-29502619847339779642009-02-23T10:27:00.003-05:002009-02-23T10:52:30.028-05:00

Search engines wise - nothing to report home so far. New page got indexed in Google and Yahoo, Live lags as usual. However, there are no changes in search results just yet. They still show the old address, and position remains the same - hovering about 20 on MSN, 80 on Yahoo, and the bottom half of the first page on Google.Yet there is one thing I did not think about that hit me in the back - my

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It is scary, really...Despite of the tests that proved positive and very encouraging, it is still very scary to start the redirect on the main money-maker. Right now I am up $96 and change for a day. Will I see such numbers ever again? I don't know...Yet I decided it's time to do this, and there is no reason to roll back but fear. Have to do this, right?OK, so right now for quite some time this

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10 days after I started this experiment I am positive it works, and works even better than I expected. Out of two redirected pages one had very short lived drop of traffic - for a couple of days literally - and it came back to the pre-redirect levels and stays there. From being nowhere for the main keywords page moved to the second page of Google and stays there, even managed for a short while to

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-87799355511121367632009-02-17T19:51:00.002-05:002009-02-17T20:33:29.715-05:00

So I don't forget. I noticed the day before yesterday that one of my high-traffic hubs have a very low CTR, especially comparing to another traffic champion. Some quick analysis revealed that the layout of the above the fold portions of those hubs is different. Yesterday I made a change to make lower CTR hub layout the same as on higher CTR hub. Up to the moment of change (Feb 15 inclusive) the

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It's been a while. Quite a while I would say. I really lost interest in posting here when it seemed that I achieved the intermediate goal. Boy how wrong I was assuming I made it!Well, I did achieve it, for a short while. And since then it was down and down and down. The last drop was the fall of the average click cost from 10c to 2c, that practically eliminated my income altogether, and forced me

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-23707445495189431102008-03-07T20:17:00.002-05:002008-03-07T20:27:40.104-05:00

I don't know. There was a moment already when I declared victory on this blog, and it was kinda premature... After several days I was dropped from the first page of SERPS, traffic went, and so were earnings. I had several spikes of traffic since then, but neither stayed more than a handfull of days.My earnings were more or less stable in the are of $30 a day, and climbed steadily - but slowly...

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-42813896636023288432008-02-22T12:49:00.002-05:002008-02-22T12:52:29.098-05:00

Today I changed right skyscraper colors in DDs to FF blue background, all D title, and all A text and link. We'll see how it goes :)

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-87603519629639896962007-11-07T14:46:00.001-05:002007-11-07T14:50:39.468-05:00

There are not many changes with my Adsense for the last month - since I last posted here. I did not perform to expectations, and Adsense revenue for October was even lower than in September. Still, it was more than $1000, which gives me a hope I can finally make it in the nearest future.For some reason I lost interest to posting my "adventures" here, so this blog will just hang around until I

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-68160431870004766162007-10-12T16:15:00.000-04:002007-10-12T16:16:44.365-04:00

Things are gradually getting better. After quite some time down the page I'm back to the third place with my former main search term, and I'm slowly creeping up with my now main and second search terms. Currently I'm holding 16th and fifth places respectively. After serious dip well below 1000 traffic is back to around 2000 level, and adsense shows some more or less respectable figures. Nothing

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-47797446649997950292007-10-07T18:57:00.000-04:002007-10-07T18:59:44.671-04:00

Here is an update on my risky traffic building experiement. Currently Halfdeck's tool found about 340,000 pages and crawled 91,000 of them. Search engines found some, too, but the results are mixed so far. I definitely got a serious boost on MSN across the board. And I got a serious slap on Yahoo across the board, too. Google seems to be indifferent so far, with just a few noticeable changes both

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-30644534260095731502007-10-03T23:03:00.000-04:002007-10-03T23:04:23.262-04:00

OK, here we go again - one month is over and another month begins. Time to access how plans were fulfilled, and to make new plans. September was really controversial. I did manage to close $1119 in Adsense total - noticeably higher than the maximum planned. At the same time, it did not leave the feeling of satisfaction. There were three teaser days with revenues well above $100 each that showed

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-23922658394778500882007-10-01T01:45:00.000-04:002007-10-01T01:53:15.887-04:00

There was no progress in traffic and Adsense since my last post. Worse, my SERP for the current main keyword went down even more, and currently I'm on the seventh place. Fifth place for the second one does not bring much traffic, too. All this coupled with the usual Sunday drop in traffic translated into the lowest traffic figures I've seen since the mid September. Here is the chart from Google

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-2136242315902738332007-09-26T09:46:00.000-04:002007-09-26T10:07:55.505-04:00

Oh, well, it's not always that rosy, you know... Yesterday I went down to the fourth place with my now main keyword for ddir, and today I'm even more down, currently on the sixth place. Accordingly, my traffic dried out (relatively), and my Adsense earnings took a nosedive, too. While three days of the third place on SERPs turned over $151, $137, and $157, yesterday I was not able to hit even

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-42274995245628057572007-09-23T22:44:00.000-04:002007-09-23T22:45:42.627-04:00

I thought it might be a one-day miracle but it is not. As I write this, I'm still on the third place for that keyword, I'm still getting tons of traffic albeit slightly less than yesterday, and my Adsense is still showing me daily numbers well in excess of $100.Well, I now believe it is sustainable, and I plan on increasing this level of earnings at least two times. I'm having two good rankings

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-65474639344705361232007-09-23T00:12:00.000-04:002007-09-23T00:18:46.519-04:00

The day before I was hoping to get to the immediate monetary goal in a couple of months. You know what? I'm there. Tonight. As I write this, my adsense counter for today is showing a number just a tad below $150. I did not make a typo. Not $50 (which was an uncharted territory for me just before yesterday), but $150. Now, let's do a little math: $150 x 365 days a year = $54,750 yearly. While one

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-89845876661825173032007-09-20T23:25:00.000-04:002007-09-20T23:28:34.470-04:00

I love it. Seriously. For the last several days Adsense shows me at least $30 a day, most of them around $35. Right now at 11pm I have $38.74 on the counter, and a good possibility to tap $40 for the first time in my life tonight. :D This is nothing to talk about for some people like Joel, but for me this is a personal record. I checked this blog - just a bit more than a month ago my normal

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-51028951991954152162007-09-19T23:02:00.000-04:002007-09-19T23:03:48.620-04:00

Looks like my internal link reorganization really helped. I see a definite increase in rankings for most of the search terms related to the pages I aimed link love at. Google loves me, and I'm enjoying the fourth day of fifth place for the very active keyword. Traffic jumped about 50% and now hovers around 1500-1600. I like it!Can't really tell if current adsense layout is better or worse than

Joshua Nestorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268818928840082234noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189562916496002199.post-27335315985416345882007-09-17T20:51:00.000-04:002007-09-19T21:43:23.284-04:00

You probably noticed I joined BlogRush (this fancy box at the bottom of the right column). It's a completely free brand new service (still beta) from John Reese, and it seems to work nicely for me. It's here for a couple of days, and it brings me several unique visitors every day. Considering I give it just a very few impressions, it's really good. Give it a try, it probably will work for you,

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