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Google Adsense
Google Adsense

The free money machine!

When I started thinking of applying for Google AdSense, this blog was receiving 10,000 unique visitors per month, who visited 30,000 times and read 250,000 pages. Google AdSense’s online earnings calculator suggested that those statistics should earn me about $1,000 a month.

That is not to be sniffed at, so I applied, and was granted a license to show Google Ads for AdSense.

However, it was a steep learning curve for me, and there was Covid, and I was getting into commissioning audiobooks from Dad’s novels. The audiobooks were going really well, and so Google’s AdSense took a back seat, along with the blog in general.

Looking back on it, that was a silly, naive move, since it had taken Dad more than ten years to build up the blog, and I threw away a lot of that effort chasing money.

Anyway, this year I have been concentrating on AdSense, but I have problems. To make Adsense work, you need an active website. The more active the better!

Google Tools

I use Awestats in cPanel for my statistics, as Dad did before for the figures above. It is depressing. I now receive 5,000 uniques (unique visitors), who make 15,000 visits and read 130,000 pages. So, about half of what used to happen.

Right?

Google Adsense

So, why does Google AdSense and Google Analytics report only 300 pageviews a month? Fifty times less?

Last year, the blog earned $2.10 all year. With all my extra work this year, I have earned 30c a month!

How can that be?

If 5,000 visitors are reading 130,000 pages, how can they only be clicking two or three times a month?

I can think of only two possible reasons.

  1. Google AdSense is not being displayed on all the visible pages
  2. Awestats is reporting falsely.

What do you think?

I blame Google AdSense 🙂 (not really).

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MPS Blog Reaches New Heights!

Published by Owen Jones on 21 June 2018

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MPS Blog Reaches New Heights!

MPS Blog Reaches New Heights!

MPS Blog Reaches New Heights!

May 2018 was a record-breaking month for my MPS blog in terms of readership figures. The blog, which strives to inform readers and writers about the easiest and or best ways of doing things, continues to go from strength to strength. We almost reached 10,000 pagereads last month!

The record-breaking statistics are: unique visitors up by a whopping 83% from 5,365 to 9,818; total visits up by 39% from 29,618 to 41,397 and total pageviews up by 34% from 164,208 to 221,315. Visitors are spending an average of 7 mins 22 seconds per visit.

This means that there has never been a better time to book advertising on the MPS blog. There is a range of advertising opportunities designed to fit most needs. They range from interviews and reviews to banner advertisements in most of the common dimensions, and links.

Our blog is primarily for SWAMP people (sculptors, writers, artists, musicians and painters), and people who appreciate them, but there is nothing to stop firms that service them promoting themselves on the blog as well.

However, the leading advertising package is the Set and Forget 365-day Ultimate Promo Pack, which has just been enhanced with two extra posts and the resultant podcasts!

Check the deals out on the title bar at the top of this page or click this link:

Megan Publishing Services Blog Advertising Index

All the deals on the MPS blog are implemented by me alone, so there could be a slight delay. If you want to co-ordinate a promotional package with a special event – like, say, the release of a novel, please book as early as possible and I will try to fit you in.

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Owen

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August Site Stats

Published by Owen Jones on 3 September 2015

August Site Stats

August Site Stats

August Site Stats

As usual at about this time of the month, I will give a brief analysis of the visitors to this site for the benefit of anyone who’s remotely interested. Hopefully, that will include current and prospective advertisers and other bloggers who are wondering how they are doing in the scheme of things. I have put some August Site Stats on the page titled ‘Banner Advertising’ in the header above, where they will be easier to find for future reference.

So, the August Site Stats are:

We had: 5,503 unique visitors come back 30,314 times to view 128,745 pages which created 247,679 hits

which makes August our site’s most visited and most read month ever. In fact, May had 800 more unique visitors, but August had 25% more visits (up from 24k to 30k).

The top five page-readers were logged in as from:

USA: 95.8k  Thailand: 15.8k  Slovak Republic: 4.8k France: 1.5k Russia: 1.4k

(I think the ‘Thai’ readers are expats living over here, including my own visits).

In comparison, the UK population only read 983 pages, which I find disconcerting. However, the UK used the third highest amount of bandwidth, 33% more than the Slovak Republic. The Slovaks read five times more pages than the Brits, but used 75% of the bandwidth doing it. I have to admit that I don’t understand this, unless Slovaks are reading the site on mobile devices which compresses images or even leaves them out, whereas Brits read the pages on ‘real’ computers with large screens which download the whole page.

Anyway, no matter what the reason, according to August Site Stats from other sources, I didn’t sell a book in the Slovak Republic all month, whereas Brits were my best customers by over 50%. Still, I have been choosing the times I post more carefully to coincide with hours that Brits are most likely to be available to use their Internet connections.

This is paying off, because as of today, the number of pageviews from pople living in the UK is up 42%, but it is still in fourth place behind the USA, Thailand and the Slovak Republic, the visitors from where have read three times more pages than the Brits.

So, it time to say, ‘Greetings, citizens of the Slovak Republic, you are very welcome on this blog!”

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Owen

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