Received First Adsense Check, Expecting another soon

It has been a while since I last gave an update. I am very sorry about this. I have been making progress though. The last time I reported that I finally broke the adsense threshold, which is $100. Since the time I started with adsense, it took some years to achieve this milestone. However, if I start counting from the time that I really started learning how to do this properly, it would be more like 5 months.

I am pleased to report that I did get my first adsense check, which was for a little over $100. And it is with great pleasure that I can say I have surpassed the threshold again, and am now expecting another pay cheque from google, for a little over $130, all this within two months since I first reached the minimum cash-out of $100. So I am gaining some ground, though I'm still not at the point where I am making enough to expect a cashout each month.

I did report previously that I planned to use some of the money I've earned from adsense to outsource some of the work, so that I can progress faster. Well I have so far outsourced a few articles to help with my backlinking. I hope to outsource more to help boost my rankings in the search engines.

It was my estimation that I would need to write about 240 money articles to reach my target of 100 per day. I was therefore supposed to find 240 keywords that have a certain potential. Unfortunately I cannot say that I have completed this work. I did do some research, and I found a few other keywords. So I still have a lot to do in this aspect of the business.

My daily income has been varying. I have had days where I did over $6 and $5. But this has not been a consistent result. I still have days where I make less than $1. I am positive though that with persistence, and sticking to the plan of writing the 240 articles, that my daily earnings will increase, and become more consistent.

Ok, that's all for now. I do expect that the time that elapses between now and my next update will be much shorter than the time elapsed between now and my last update.

Adsense Progress and Frustrations

I am somewhat frustrated right now when it comes to adsense. But before I explain, let me quickly relate my earnings progress for the last week. Essentially for the last week I averaged $1 per day. This is pretty much in line with my average for the month so far, so I can't really say I've made progress. In fact, things look like they might be slowing down, and this is where my frustration comes in.

I am trying to grow my adsense income. Currently averaging $1 per day (which I must say is far better than where I was just a couple months ago), but hoping to soon reach $5 a day, then $10, and even $100 per day. Basically my niche site has been the more consistent money earner. For the page that I've made the most money from on that site, it was making money even when it showed up on page 3 of the search results. Then it went close to the top of page 2 and I thought it wouldn't be long before I reach page 1 where I should start to see some real growth in income. But for some reason, google decided to move my page near the bottom of page 5 in the search results. That's page 5! I get zero traffic from being on page 5. So for the last couple days, my earnings have been very poor.

I am looking to recover and surpass my average $1 per day. I hope to get my pages ranking much better soon, which I will try to achieve by getting more backlinks to them. Also, I plan to create some new content on both my sites, which hopefully should rank high soon after publishing.

So it's a lot of work to do for this week. I want to soon create a plan including a timeline to get to $100 a day. I'll talk more about that when I've gathered my thoughts sufficiently.