And the money rolls in

$1.29

Yep. That's how much I've earned in the four days since I started this blog. So between the initial blogging learning curb, signing up for AdSense and Google Analytics, trouble shooting problems, actually writing the posts and obsessively checking to see if I've had any new visitors, I would say that I've earned an average of approximately $.06 - $.08 cents an hour.

I'm just raking it in.

Once again, AdSense provides all sorts of information to help optimize your income. You can generate reports according to type of ad and date or range of dates. You can check out specific ads or compare different "channels", although I haven't fully explored what those are yet. Here are a couple of examples from today. You can see them full size if you click on them.


And this.
So I can compare which posts either draw people in for a first time or get people to come back and revisit, which is the ultimate holy grail of making money off of a blog.

I'm just scratching the surface of how to use AdSense, let alone the various other methods people use to generate income from their blog. Who knows, maybe I'll break $.10/hour sometime soon. The possibilities are so exciting.

I won't be posting on Saturday because I'll be out of town without internet access.

See you Sunday,

ML