Dragon Bloggers Success and Google Adsense Earning A Few Peanuts
I started this blog on August 23rd 2008, which is less than two months ago. I also started 3 other blogs (Rock Along Productions, Wanderer Thoughts and Justin Germino) in September. Each of these blogs has a target audience, Dragon Blogger still crosses a few categories and isn’t in a niche category yet. This is because I write about so much different content and categories, I would have to run 10 blogs in order to properly silo out each one to be its own set category.
Dragon Blogger is by far my most famous and heavily promoted blog so far, in less than two months my RealRank is consistently under 350, my Alexa rank is under 200k (3 month average), but higher because my blog hasn’t existed for 3 months so you have to look at my weekly average to see that is is actually much better than the 3 month average list.  My Page Rank was 2, but dropped to 0 due to paid posts.
Part of my success has been my varied content, I have people who visit my blogs just for the internet and blogging posts, some who visit for my Heroes posts, others for my Movie Reviews. But I have also lost readers, people who have seen my paid posts and split, or people who only wanted Internet & Blogging content and ditched readership when they saw my content vary. I can’t please everyone, I try to make every post I write a quality post. Even my paid posts I don’t just cheaply sell, I write as I would use the product and if I can’t buy into it, I won’t even bother to ask my readers to.
I started using Google Adsense in August right away, I was told that some people have massive success, and others just rake in some chump change. So far I see a steady increase in earnings, you can see from this screenshot below that I earned $2.23 cents in August and $5.70 cents in September. Yesterday was a big day for me, I earned a whopping $1.15 cents in a single day.
I find it funny that Google owns PayPal, yet you cannot setup Adsense to directly transfer into your paypal account, instead it can direct deposit into one of your bank accounts or you can get a check. This seems kind of odd when almost every payment service supports Paypal which Google owns.
One thing I did do is link all 4 of my blogs to use the same adsense account, this way one account grew faster than having 4 separate accounts. So as each of my blogs get more popular it may increase my earnings faster. Hey, Google only pays out when it reaches $100, but even if it takes 4 or 6 months to get that $100 payout, that was $100 just for leaving some ads up on my blog?  Not too bad in my opinion, especially since I am at a current balance of $11 so far.
Let me know what my fellow readers and bloggers think of Adsense and if they use it. Also, I want to know your opinions on blog specialization, and if you feel my blog is too varied in content and topic?
-Dragon Blogger
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