Week Two of MMO Efforts

I guess technically it's been more like two weeks and some change since I started this blog, but whatever...here are the stats.

Adsense

Here are the MMO (make money online) Adsense stats.I've made a total of $1.96 from ad revenue on this blog. Considering my traffic, that puts me at the average CTR, so I'm cool with those numbers for the moment. I mentioned back in a previous post that I would research and find out if I can post my earnings on this blog. The answer is yes, I can, but it's a TOS violation if I post specifics regarding my eCPM (effective cost-per-thousand impressions) and my CTR (click-thru rate). You may not care, but it was worrying me - I'd hate for Google to strip me of this sweet dime-a-day operation I've have.

eHow

I'm still stuck at $.49, but in fairness to eHow, I've only posted two articles. In my previous post, eHow vs Squidoo How-tos, I mentioned that I would be monitoring the traffic and revenue, and comparing the two. I had the same article on Squidoo for three months and received 54 views and $0. It's been on eHow for eight days, and has already reached 60 views. Of course, it hasn't made any money on eHow either. I'll keep you updated down the road.

The other article I posted to eHow this month was one written by my wife on music therapy. I mentioned that a couple days later, she wrote a more comprehensive article on the same subject, which I posted to EZine, linking back to the eHow article. Unfortunately, EZine has been behind on their reviewing process this month, so nearly two weeks later, it's only half way through the review process.

So in regards to eHow, I'm still looking at $.49. That leaves me with a total of $2.45 from my monthly MMO efforts. That's only 10% of my first month goal...the month isn't over though.

Blog Traffic

I've had 141 unique visitors to the blog so far this month, with an average of two page views, and three minutes and 45 seconds on the site. I've received the majority of my traffic from Blogger referrals, Digital Point forums (link in my signature), and Facebook. The good news is, my search engine traffic has grown from 0% to 5%. I'm finally indexed! Granted some of the queries have been a little off-topic; "make money off a dumbass" and "ways to make money if you're retarded", but I've also received more relevant search results like, "online cash" and "how does facebook suggest a friend". I know these stats are weak, but they're moving in the right direction...I can work with this.

I regret to inform you that over the next few weeks, maybe even months, I won't be posting quite as often. Don't worry though - it's for a noble cause. As I mentioned in a previous post, Make Money Online by Optimizing Keywords, I'm currently working on another site addressing a particular niche topic. I've written a few articles for it already, but I plan on writing many more. In addition, I'm going to prepare a lengthy guide/experiment for this blog to help increase traffic and sharpen my SEO strategy. Considering the combined effort the aforementioned projects will require, I won't have enough time to be posting my usual jibberish to this blog. Please accept my apologies. I hope you still love me.