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Poor converting sites can hurt you

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Ken
on 21 October, 2006
in learning process, take note and the dark truth
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I am taking down Adsense on a few sites as a test after reading how one poorly converting site can “smart price” an entire AdSense account.

This was pretty old news (posted Oct 2005, a year ago) and it is a surprise that I had not ran across it all these while.

How much truth this piece of information still holds? Maybe my test and some research will show some results.

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Performancing introduces new revenue source

Published
by
Ken
on 18 October, 2006
in revenue source and review
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Performancing introduces Performancing Publisher Partners, offering bloggers yet another revenue source.

On the first look, the payout also look much more generous than others such as Text Link Ads or LinkWorth.

  • Publisher take 70% of advertising revenue your blog generates.
  • Performancing takes 30%
  • Publisher take 5% of income generated by any publisher or advertiser referred

On the other hand, the Performancing Publisher program is not a text link program but advertising, so it should be comparable with Text Link Ads terms.

The Performancing Publisher is also be comparable with Adsense since it is not contextual. Advertiser select blogs from the Partner network to advertise on them.

The Partner payouts for referrals is an attractive feature because it generates residual income over time. Residual income really helps when trying to create income over time by decoupling the revenue stream from your action.

Performancing publishers

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Review of week 37 - 38

Published
by
Ken
on 3 October, 2006
in review
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review

Review of week 33 - 34 (14 Jul - 27 Jul),
Review of week 35 - 36 (28 Aug - 10 Sep),
Review of week 37 - 38 (11 Sep - 24 Sep)

In the face of success one can get overjoyed and did nothing, much to the detriment of the bigger success.

This was exactly what’s happening to me.

I’ thrilled to announce another month of beating target. Yet at the same time, this is a month that I had done the least. Personal work not withstanding, I had actually slacked in terms of updating my blogs, such as this.

Over the last 2 months I had stopped launching new sites as initally planned. (The original plan was to launch a new site every 2 weeks.)

Plans to build upon the existing sites were developed but never executed.

Just to recap, my goal was to achieve $1000 online revenue by end of 2006. This months revenue was $375. Based on extrapolation, the target ahead of me are

  • Oct: $520
  • Nov: $721
  • Dec: $1000

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