Setting a new Adsense Record.

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 Adsense revenue was $3. I increased it tenfold. In less than a month and a half. If I manage to keep this improvement pace at least for a couple of months more, my immediate monetary goal is reached.

Internal links do wonders. Hold on Adsense tests.

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 the previous one. Traffic nature did change significantly during the test. My usual problem. I can't figure out the solution so far, so I stop experimenting with Adsense layout until I reach my traffic goals I think. Or until I figure out the solution.

I wanted to find the post about forum topics not getting targeted Adsense, and just could not do this. Well, I decided it's time to go ahead and categorize this blog. It took me probably a half an hour, but now I can find needed posts much easier. Did slight re-arrangement of other blocks to accommodate the change.

Talking about forums Adsense, I went back and compared stats from before and after. Well, it definitely helped. I'm now receiving 40% better CTR, and 25% better CPM. Since traffic on my forums are extremely low, it does not translate into big figures yet. But it definitely shows there was a problem that is fixed now. When I get enough traffic to my forums, I enjoy the difference.

BlogRush works. Record Adsense CTR, CPM, and earnings. New keywords.

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, too. There are no catches, and it looks like a no-brainer for me.

I showed record earning of a tad more than $30 yesterday. Today follows the suit with $28 currently. Adsense CTR is shooting thorugh the roof, as well as traffic and CPM. Most of it is due to the new keyword that I even did not consider before. Accidentally I got to the first page of Google for it (number eight currently), but now I want to keep it there. It became the key keyword for ddir page for now.

I even went back to keyword research, and did a very broad scope of related search terms. Now I have four key terms to target for this Adsense page. Two of them were in my list before, and two much more powerful I just added. Since they all are interconnected, I did target all of them in my campaigns, but I did not track results for those two that are new. I just did not realize I have two more way better search terms there. Why I did not pay attention to this is a mystery to me.

Transferring all available link love to Adsense pages.

After some serious consideration decided to cut off all the internal links to the homepage using nofollow. It's kinda scary, but I figured out I should survive :). The reasoning under this decision is pretty simple. After internal links reorganizing I have three pages receiving almost all link love from the whole site: homepage and two money-making Adsense pages. If I cut off the homepage, these two pages should receive one and a half times more link juice.

Will it improve Adsense pages rankings? This is the goal. Will it hurt homepage ranking? I bet it will. How much? I have no idea. Since 95% of money are currently made on one Adsense page, and I'm currently promoting the second one that should become better money-maker, I guess homepage ranking is not that important from the income point of view.

Information sharing is a different story. At the first glance it should suffer if I get less traffic to the homepage. Well, consider this: if I manage to double the traffic on my Adsense pages (what moving from 5th to 3rd place on Google for a couple of key keywords can easily do), how many people will wander to explore the rest of the site? My guesstimate is much more than I lose on homepage. I'm going for it.

Record Adsense CPM again. Peel away ads don't work. First page ranking.

Coming back to Adsense, I had a record CPM yesterday. I want to brag about it so much - but I really can't cause I can't disclose the number according to Google Adsense TOS. Trust me, this is the number everyone in the industry would be happy to have.

Peel away is not that good as expected. 0.26% CTR and zero conversions hardly qualify for shooting through the roof :(. Text ads for the same advertiser on the same page have CTR up to 1.18%, and conversion rate up to 6.25% currently. Since I already bought the stuff, and it uses the place otherwise not used, I leave it there for now. I might play with other advertisers and see if it gets any better. Anyway, my main income on that site comes from Adsense, not affiliates.

First page position for the very competitive keyword I was mentioning before. At that time it showed 90,000,000 competitors, this time it is showing 57,000,000. Still very impressive. Well, since I'm already ranking for it (for some reason I did not include it in my initial keyword strategy), I might as well take several steps to rank better. I'm changing the title to include it, and going to target it in my next article submission. This might or might not knock my current main keyword down.