Living on Adsense Blog Earning Stats for Jan 11th and 18th
Well it seems that Google officially hates me. My earnings over the last few weeks has severely dwindled, no one has contacted me about my request to reinstate my page rank.
I feel a breakup coming on.
There is only so much I can write about Adsense, without going stale. I prefer to chronical my journey, and share my thoughts and ideas along the way. That’s the kind of blog Living on Adsense has been. Yet I made one grave mistake: I named my blog: Living on Adsense. When people head to my site they expect to find a bunch of advice on how to make money with Adsense. They read for a bit and then realize I dispense Adsense once in a while, and then leave. I realize that I have created a blog where people have a preconceived idea as to what I am blogging about. Everyone expects Adsense advice, and that is not what I want to be all about.
So in order to outwardly project what my blog is about, I am going to rebrand my blog. You will find that I will still be churning out the same style of posts and writing. Well actually it will probably get much better as I will feel liberated from this Adsense prison. Over the next few weeks I will be cooking up a new blog template, transfer all my old posts to the new domain, and will be:
No longer Living on Adsense.
I think from here on in I may lose some people, but that’s alright. If people want to go, then let them. I think my honest style of blogging will keep people coming back, and I think more people will be able to share in my journey after I rebrand my blog into something that more appropriately conveys what my blog is all about.
Well I think I have rambled on enough about my future plans, I mean this is just an earnings post! Anyways please share your thoughts and ideas, and whether you are for or against this new direction I am going in.
Here are my stats for the week of Jan 5th to 11th
Here are my stats for the week of Jan 12th to 18th
How to Combat the Oompa Loompa Sploggers
Lately there has been a lot of jibber jabber in the comments about sploggers stealing content. I think we can all agree that these sploggers can be very annoying. Personally, every time I think of the people that make Splogs, I think of Oompa Loompas. I think that some cracker jack has kidnapped a bunch of these guys much like Willy Wonka and instead of forcing them to make candy, they are forced to make splogs.
So try not to think of fighting against sploggers, really you are battling Oompa Loompas. First off I would like to dispense some advice to these Oompa Loompas in a method the will understand: An Oompa Loompa song…
Oompa Loompa doo-pa-dee-do
I have perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doo-pa-dee-dee
If you are wise, you’ll listen to me
What do you get when you steal content?
Trying to monetize a little Adsense
Google won’t even look at you twice
When your a splog and you do not play nice
Slapped for duplicate content.
Oompa, Loompa, doo-pa-dee-da
If you’re not greedy, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
So many people have devised methods to combat these Oompa Loompa sploggers. Most people have chosen to include links back to there blog so that there is a chance that someone reading the slpog will click on the link and find your blog. Or people include the link so that they can get a bit of link juice to increase their page rank.
This method is fine and dandy, but I think there may be a better technique. What if instead of adding a link back to your blog, you add a link to an affiliate product? This way when your content gets stolen, the splogger will end up having a link to an affiliate product where you get the commissions for any sales. Seems like a good idea to me.
Another idea which you can use, provided you do not have adsense on your site, and you are confident that your post will get picked up by a splog, is to write a post asking people to click on your adsense ads. That way when the splogger steals your content there will be prominent calls to action to click on the adsense ads, which I am sure the splog has. There is a rare chance, but still a chance that Google may notice this blog and shut them down for violation of the Adsense TOS.
If you have a great idea of how to take advantage of the Oompa Loompa Sploggers please feel free to share below
The TrackBack Traffic Bitch Slap Technique
You know I have always wondered what the major purpose of Trackbacks were. When I first started blogging it took some real explaining as to what they were and what there real purpose was. Any time someone would try to explain how they work I would always have the same response after words:
Huh?
To me they have always seemed like just another thing that I need to moderate. Which I don’t have time for. And most of the time the trackbacks I get are from spam blogs that have stolen my content. It just goes to show how important my posts really are. Real people don’t’ post about my content only the spammers do. It’s like having junkies vouch for me.
So despite my anger towards trackbacks I decided to try and make them somewhat useful for me. Even though every trackback I get is usually some junk splog, I still go and check it out. Of course whenever I go check my (snail) mail I still get excited over junk mail. I guess it is some kind of cry for attention.
So magic of these craptastic trackbacks is that I always end up checking out the blog that has given me the trackback (even though I know that nobody cool would post about one of my articles). This gave me an idea.
If David Letterman on his Late Show were to say something nasty about Oprah, there is a pretty good chance that it would get back to Oprah. Even if he just mentioned her name, she would probably end up knowing about it. Upon hearing this Oprah would probably watch the part of the Late Show that mentioned her, and then possibly contact David Letterman. This is pretty much like a trackback. Although an unlikely scenario it gives an idea as to how trackbacks could work in your favour to get attention to your blog.
In the blogging world this method should work well to attract a bit of attention to your blog. Now this method may not work on really big bloggers that get trackbacks all the time. You should focus on blogs that are at the same level as yours, or a little bit higher. Most likely if you follow this method the blogger you trackback should come to your blog and at least make a comment. They may even become a subscriber or even mention your blog in one of their posts.
Here are the steps to use this method:
- Choose a blog that is near the same level of success or a bit higher than your blog.
- Write something attention getting about this blog or blogger.
- Link your comment about this blog or blogger to a post that this person has made. Do not link to the blog home page though otherwise there will be no trackback, you need to link to a post, and preferably a new one.
- Publish your post.
I am going to test this one out by targeting one of my favourite blogs: Bloggernoob. I should be able to attract some attention when I mention that sometimes I think about hunting down The Noob and slapping him right the face, the only reason I don’t do it is because I cannot figure out whether I want to slap him with the front of back of my hand.
You don’t have to be mean like I was. I just figure The Noob has a pretty good sense of humour. That’s pretty much it. Go ahead and test it out yourself and see if the person you mention comes to your blog and makes a comment. Who knows, it may lead to them posting about you and giving you a bit of exposure.
