SERPs down, traffic down, Adsense down.

Oh, well, it's not always that rosy, you know... Yesterday I went down to the fourth place with my now main keyword for ddir, and today I'm even more down, currently on the sixth place. Accordingly, my traffic dried out (relatively), and my Adsense earnings took a nosedive, too.

While three days of the third place on SERPs turned over $151, $137, and $157, yesterday I was not able to hit even $100 and closed at $93.62. Today's forecast is even grimmer, and I frankly do not expect much more than $50, if at all. Currently (10am) I have 8.37 on the Adsense counter.

While just a week ago $50 on Adsense would have made me happy, today it's no longer the truth. However, there is not really much I can do. I'm already spending all that I can in terms of time and money on the marketing campaign. I should have several articles spun by the end of this week, and I'll start submitting them immediately. All the spare time I devote to stumbling, bookmarking, and otherwise promoting sites that link to ddir.

The good news though is that I'm back to the third place on Google with my former main keyword. Now it is forth in my priorities, and I did not pay much attention to it, but it manages to creep back. And, It got to the first page of Yahoo, too. Ninth position so far, but I did not finish my campaign yet. I just need to keep doing what I do, and eventually things should take care of themselves :).

Adsense miracle lasts longer than one day. Traffic assessment and plans.

I thought it might be a one-day miracle but it is not. As I write this, I'm still on the third place for that keyword, I'm still getting tons of traffic albeit slightly less than yesterday, and my Adsense is still showing me daily numbers well in excess of $100.

Well, I now believe it is sustainable, and I plan on increasing this level of earnings at least two times. I'm having two good rankings now, and I can improve the second one. It will not double the overall traffic, but it will increase it probably 20%.

Now, I have three more related keywords I'm running marketing campaigns on currently. Two of them are approaching first page rankings, and one of these keywords is way better than all of them taken together in terms of traffic.

My raw estimate would be I can get a total of three times the current traffic = three times the current Adsense. Two times to be conservative. All on that one page :D. And I have more than one page on this site, way more. Granted, 99% of those pages cannot be ranked for such an amazing set of keywords, but one percent that left is more than enough to make a good living.

I just went back several pages and looked up what I planned to achieve for September. The plan was minimum of $450 and maximum of $1000. With monthly counter showing $650, minimum is already out of the question. Now I'm eager to see if I can break the maximum :).

Finally making a living with Adsense; a bit earlier than expected.

The day before I was hoping to get to the immediate monetary goal in a couple of months. You know what? I'm there. Tonight. As I write this, my adsense counter for today is showing a number just a tad below $150. I did not make a typo. Not $50 (which was an uncharted territory for me just before yesterday), but $150. Now, let's do a little math: $150 x 365 days a year = $54,750 yearly. While one can't have caviar for breakfast with that kind of money, bread and a fair slice of butter are more than affordable.

How did I get there? This same keyword I was mentioning several times in this blog already. I'm now on the third position in Google for that keyword. When I turned on my computer in the morning and checked my adsense stats, I immediately knew something happened - it was showing $30 and change. During last week I saw such a number close to the end of the day, and before that I did not even know such numbers exist :). Traffic shoot through the roof - here is the chart:



All that means today is the day to remember and celebrate in the years to come as the day when I proved I can make a living working for myself, not for my boss. I'm sure I'll have enough difficulties ahead, but now I know this is doable. I don't have to second-guess myself anymore whether I'm doing the right thing. It is possible to make a living with Adsense, and I'm doing it!