Long quiet period
There has been a long quiet period on this blog and I appologise for that.
As I mentioned a while ago Google stopped serving adsense ads on one of my sites which has meant I have lost around $1000/month income. I have been looking at other ways to monetize the site and to be honest it hasn’t worked to well so I have had to turn to cutting costs of my sites. So as we speak I am transfering sites from one server to another so I can shut a server down and save some $$ by reducing hosting costs.
This has delayed everything else I had planned to do but it does not mean I will be shelving the projects.
7 Responses to “Long quiet period”
Comment from PJ
Time July 13, 2009 at 10:15 pm
thanks for the update. wow, that is quite a big chunk to have to adjust too. maybe you should just take some time and relax and enjoy your motor home.
Comment from Greg
Time July 14, 2009 at 10:28 am
Jan
This site made money from adsense basically because of high traffic, the site gets a low cpm but currently gets around 20,000 impressions a day. Google dropped the site from it’s search engine a while back but before then the site was getting upto 250,000 impressions a day. I did have to pay a lot in hosting though to cope with the traffic.
The motor home is going good, found a club that does ‘rally’ weekends each week at different sites (fields) locally for a mere $15 for 2 nights. SO we did our first one of those this weekend. We have a few other commitments over the next month so wont be using it but then after that I think we will make the most of these weekends whenever possible.
Greg
Comment from Greg
Time July 14, 2009 at 10:31 am
That is the plan, I try not too worry too much. Adsense has helped me more than most can even imagine over the past 4 years so although it’s sad to see the earnings disappear I think I have had a good run.
We are trying to make the most of the motor home, have a short break to scotland planned in near future.
Comment from Staci
Time July 16, 2009 at 3:07 am
I have never understood how people make that kind of money with Adsense. I’ve been blogging since May 2008, and I still haven’t even made enough for Google to pay me yet. Sorry you lost that income. That big of a cut would be devastating.
Comment from Greg
Time July 17, 2009 at 9:08 am
Staci
To be honest I don’t believe that blogging is the best method for earning from adsense, I don’t recall earning more than probably $10 from adsense on my blog. To earn from adsense you need lots of traffic, I mean 1000′s of impressions a day rather than 100′s and there are really only a few blogs that consistently hit this.
Greg
Comment from Sandy
Time July 19, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I too am amazed by anyone getting that much money from adsense, but envy the fact that you did. Sorry it changed. Hope things improve for you. I make a few cents here and there and thoughts about it.
Comment from Jan from BetterSpines
Time July 13, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Welcome back Greg. You were making $1000 per month on Google!!! How???
How’s the motor home going?
Glad to see you’re still smoke free. (Me too).