Thursday the 7th of August, 2008
Money. I wantz it.
Checking my account balance online today did sort of make me a little worried, especially given current circumstances and upcoming things to pay for. As such, finding more money will be a tough job…
My current source of income, and some of you may already know from some previous rant, comes from the State. It’s good and all, but I would like to have a decent job to earn more (well technically I’d still earn the same amount because the DA goes down as my salary goes up). Of course, it doesn’t help when there is a lack of jobs and unemployment is on the up. Still, I think I do work hard enough trying to find a job to earn my handout…
Although, with half of my weekly income going straight into a savings account, so that I can pay the huge lump sums for on-campus accommodation, and the monthly credit card payments (I pay it off in full every month), on top of daily expenses, doesn’t leave much for much else…
Finding more money is harder and harder. With rising web hosting costs (up from $4.20 a month for just my blog, to $6.99 a month for blog and RPWS, since basic package only allowed one domain…), that means more expenses. Adding the Google ads to the RPWS site is a start, but it’s a very slow earner. Plus they don’t pay out until $100, which means that after about two years total of ads, I’m still only 40% of the way there…
Plus, I still want to buy that monster gaming computer at some point. I’m trying to keep the cost down, and although at times it seems to be dropping in price, it actually turns out they’ve just discontinued one of the parts and haven’t told me… Main problems are the fact they only take credit cards, which stems to my low credit limit, and the fact I pay off all at once. A bank loan has been considered, but would I get one, and also how much more of my cash has to be put aside to pay for it each month?
Which brings me to the conclusion, and really the whole point of this. I know I’ve said before I didn’t really want to advertise on my site, but do you really think I should? I could replace Baby Bear’s little peeking spot with a small Adsense thingy… Might not be as noticeable or as big, but it might get a bit of income from pageviews and clicks… ~200 pageviews a day would earn something, right?
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Go for it I say. As a fellow student I know exactly as you feel, do what you gotta do.
I was getting a few thousand for about a week over one of my posts and google image search… was driving me mad with feedburner so I deleted it all.
Normally I get next to nothing, like 50-60 a day average(with an average amount of time on site of 5 min plus though)
It looks as if you’ve already replaced Baby Bear…
@B’dum B’dum B’dum: Taking yesterday as an example - 80 unique visitors, 190 pageviews, 310 spiders, and 9 feed hits. All stats do not include myself
Really don’t know or care about how long they spent 
EDIT: OK, checking Google AdSense shows 75 impressions, and 2 clicks
Earning me a total of… $2.85?!?!?! SWEET 
@AdjustantReflex: Baby Bear’s right here with me, and he’s not happy with you…
I must be really sh!t with feedburner I cant get any more stats than those. I know they don’t include me though.
The main thing for me is the amount of time people spend on site cos the longer it is, the more likely it is that they read a full post of mine without getting bored… which lets me know I’m not as crap as I think and boosts my confidence, etc.
That’s over 1000euro a year!
If I become popular by some bizarre reason, I’m definitely gonna consider doing that for college! Could fund my holidays next year.
@B’dum B’dum B’dum: If I had been getting ad income like that every day since I first started using them on other sites of mine a year or two ago - I’d be a very rich man.
But alas, I haven’t. Hence the balance is only $42.40…
42.40 in one day?!
No, $42.40 since August 2006…
Have you thought of using something more than just Google ad sense?
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/06/04/how-i-make-money-blogging-top-income-streams-update/
Holy shit. Even with all of yesterday’s DNS resolving and downtime, I still made $4.16…
I wish I could make money from Blogging…but I’m under age so I can’t sign up for Google adsense.
make much yesterday?
Nada. 42 impressions and that was it. Not sure about Saturday, though, since it’s now mixed into the “Last 7 days”…
and what’s an impression?
Kinda like a pageview, only not as much. Doesn’t include spiders or people who block flash or other stuff like that.
so it’s how many people seen the ad?
Pretty much. The more clicks per thousand impressions, the more money