Just checked my stats and yesterday I passed $100 of earnings for this month ! I'm so happy ! This the goal I had set to myself, next goal is to be able to reach $100 each month.. My earnings in the past usually were around $1/day. A few months ago I made a totally new layout for my site, since then earnings increased all the time. September was $75 and now I passed $100 !
Thats awesome, I remember when I finally hit that hurdle! Now is the hard part, hitting it every month
Congrats! My next goal is 2 Dollars a day. It isn't much, but I have ads for only a couple of days. next goals after that - 5,10,15,20...
Congratulations. Im happy for you. It is really helpful if you are setting earning goals. In this way you can see your progress. I have already reached the $1 a day mark and so its about time to earn $100 a month. Its my next goal.
Thanks all ! What did the trick for me were 3 things: backlinks, a site redesign and some new articles. When I check my stats, in a year time the number of daily visitors doubled (was around 100 a day, now over 200). Since I joined this forum, I learned about directories.. before I was only listed at dmoz. After reading here about them, in june/july I submitted to about 50 free directories. While the directories don't bring any traffic, I notice google started to send me more traffic. I gave my site a new layout, don't know if that helped much.. number of bounces hasn't decreased a lot, I can't measure it in my stats, but probably it helped my earnings overall. My site is about pinball machines, but I also added a few pages about other topics and optimized for those keywords. For example I added free wallpapers to download at http://www.flippers.be/wallpapers.html Only have a few online (haven't had time yet to make more pictures and there are millions of other wallpaper sites, however I do get some visitors by these keywords. Not a lot, but whats most important: most visitors who look for wallpapers are not interested in pinball and click on the ads to go to another wallpaper site ! Sometimes I have a week where up to 80% of entrances on the wallpaper page result in a click !! My next step (if I have time) is to do directory submissions for my wallpaper page.. I want more traffic for this keyword One tip: don't set daily goals. Set them 'on average' and check weekly. I still have days that I just make over $1, and the next day I make $4 or $8. A goal like $2/day is difficult to reach as you'll have ups and downs, better change it in $15/week.. one you get that a few weeks in a row then aim for $100/month.