Adsense: Good news thread

June 25, 2006

There has been much negative energy in the forum for the past few months. I have seen many threads about falling earnings, made for adsense sites, bad quality advertisers, (fear of) being banned, etcetera. And now there is the Little Devil (algo) update and we don’t know what that will bring upon us.

Although all these problems are real, and should be discussed in order to deal with them, we also need good news to inspire us. Therefore I ask you folks to bring in some good stuff to inspire the rest of us. Did your earnings climb for the past few months? Did you start a new website that generates good cash? Did you use your Adsense money to buy something great lately? Were you able to help out someone else with your Adsense money? Please bring in the good news!

My good news is that my earnings have recovered after a complete downfall starting in january. After the Christmas season, nobody was interested in my winter widgets anymore. To anticipate on the seasons I started building a site about summer widgets in february. After going online in may my earnings went up again!

I am now working on 2 new websites:

- one about blue widgets that are very popular among the filthy rich;

- the other about how to make these blue widgets yourself when you are on a low budget.

The idea is to make two entirely different websites, targeting 2 different audiences, while writing about the same blue widgets.
Since I love these blue widgets myself it is so much fun to write about them, take pictures of them and interview people about them…

Even if this idea inspired you for one second you made my day;-)

Good news?

Some people had been running behind me on a fair.

2 people running after me pulled me to their booth on a fair pleasing me to write further articles about their widgets.

I visited the same fair last year and wrote about them already last year.

My good news is that I treat AdSense as a bonus. If I make some money from it, all well and good. If not, then I move on to something else.

Pushing panic buttons when AS is not available, or seeing CTR or eCPM rise or drop, and then having heart failure, is not a solution to well being

Apart from running websites, I have two other businesses, and AS is such a minor part of total income that I treat it with respect, but it doesn’t rule my life!

My good news is: I have stopped worrying as I have more than adequate income (for me), I am much too old to really care and what I plan to do….not build websites now but wait for the delivery van to bring my shiny new 3 wheel trike and start peddeling around the neighborhood to get some much needed exercise.

Ann

The good news is…

My grass is turning green again with all this east cost rain.

And, I don’t have to go out and work because adsense allows me to lay in bed, warm and cozy.

Time for a cup of coffee.

AdSense earnings so far this year have increased over last year YTD. For the second year in a row I have a good surplus of cash and am currently shopping for a significant asset in order to expand the depth and breadth of my on line business. This should not only increase revenues but make facets of my “work” much more enjoyable. I am 6 years from retirement wishing it was 16 or 60 away. I love my “job”…