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Chitika shows false impression number?
We’ve successfully registered on Chitika about six days ago and I was very happy that we would finally start making more money from our project villageofjoy.com. I was playing around with all the possible Chitika settings and was quite confident that this system will work. Just before adding the necessary ad code into the website I checked online forums for more info about this system. What I found was many complains about low payouts and other problems, nevertheless I thought I’ll give it a try.
After five days of using Chitika on villageofjoy.com I got 0 clicks and google analytics shows 1827 unique visitors. What is really strange that chitika actually shows only 297 impressions from supported countries. Well, O.K. you may say that only 297 of my visitors were from supported countries, but how come google analytics shows that ~70% of my visitors are from USA, and that’s 1245. So it basically means that at least 1000 impressions are missing. Our Adsense impressions are quite accurate with the google analytics data.
Maybe I got something wrong, maybe It’s due to some smart Chitika calculations that I’m not aware of? I don’t want to mislead you so I’m asking you to share your stories and correct me if I’m wrong.
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Report #2: June 2008
It’s a long time since the last post, so we are under obligation to our readers (1 or 2 real readers actually) to tell what’s going on and what we have been doing all this month.
In order to be neat and tidy let’s go step by step according to the Plan #2:
1. Tweak our selected logo - not done
2. Write a new “about” page - not done
3. Implement motivational system - implemented, but it worked only for 2 weeks and failed, because.. well the fines were too small, and actually it was stupid to force ourselves to write about making money, when we make none yet. Oh wait.. Thats not truth! I’ll tell you later why..
4. Traffic size 1500 - done (it was 9.293 uniques this month as seen in the picture). The interesting thing about this huge amount of visitors (of course huge to us) is that 76% of it was made by google office photos post and that shows that writing about popular things makes your site popular.
So it seems that we are super lazy guys just dreaming of making millions dollars and actually doing nothing in order to make it. And that’s just not truth! Instead of spending time on themilliondollarplan.net blog writing about things we do not know yet, we were spending our time working on our new project - http://villageofjoy.com . Check it out and let us know what do you think about it.
It has only 17 posts and had 835 unique visitors after one month since it was born, about 700 came on the last week of June. Well not that bad for the first month I think, and it’s much more fun to write about all kind of amazing things than about making money that we don’t make. Oh no no wait! I almost forgot to tell the most important thing! It made 0.43$ ! That’s so awesome! We are actually making money online!
The bottom line is.. don’t try to deceive yourself and your readers pretending that you know how to make money, because if you don’t - it won’t take long for others to find out and for yourself to lose motivation, instead do projects that make money, and then write about it and make even more money. (Well it’s sometimes the other way.. write a book how to make 1 million dollar, find some 50 000 stupid people and you are a millionaire).
Asides
- Be timeless! Write timeless posts or posts that are less time-sensitive. They will generate you traffic years and years after posting them and also make money when you sleep. Perfect topic - motivation. Motivational truths are the most universal truths you can think of and are not likely to change very fast or to change at all. more
- We just purchased bloggerschool.net domain. more
- Google holds 58.4 percent share of U.S searches, Yahoo 22.4, MSN 9.8. Seach engine November December Change Google sites 58.6 58.4 -0.2 Yahoo sites 22.4 22.9 0.5 Microsoft sites 9.8 9.8 0.0 Time Warner network 4.5 4.6 0.1 Source: http://searchenginewatch.com more
- You can earn 10$ right away! Just don't ever start blogging, and you'll instantly earn 10$, plus 7$ every month because you won't have to pay for domain name and hosting services. more
- Didier Stevens bought a Google ad six months ago that said, “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!” 409 people clicked on the ad. more
Plan: to make one million dollars at home
Who: Tomas and Gintaras
When: at most 2 years
How: combining all possible ways to earn money online into one big money stream
What else: writing about internet millionaires and ways to make money in the internet
Project launch date: 1st of June 2008
Status: $5.73
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