Adsense Threshold Reached!

As the subject of this entry indicates, I have reached the threshold for withdrawing from my google adsense account. Actually I made it to the $100 mark just a day after making my last entry, so this is somewhat old news. Anyway, this means I should receive my first pay cheque from google either this month or next month. They should be sending it this month, but I'm not sure how long it will take to arrive.

So that's the good news. The bad news is that I failed to stick to my plan. I had intended to find 240 keywords to write about by the end of the first week in February. Alas, that did not materialise. I did find some new keywords, but nowhere near the targeted 240. On the positive side however, I did manage to get some articles posted for a few of these keywords I found. I didn't actually write the articles myself; I got a friend to help out. I still need to do the research and find a lot more keywords to tackle, and I still plan to outsource about 18 articles this month, using the money I'm getting from my first google pay check.

I notice that my search engine rankings for certain articles have been falling. I need to try to boost them up with a couple backlinks so that I can continue to profit from them. So my focus now is to try to get certain articles/sites ranking better, by means of building backlinks, as well as to try to produce content for certain keywords I already found. At the same time, I need to still add to my keyword list. I fully intend to reach my target of $100 per day sometime this year, and hopefully months before the year is over.