Over the Christmas holidays I took this blog writing thing up again. For about 2 years I wrote one on MySpace, got sick of the spam and pulled it. I worked on getting a new site and design and then decided to try my hat at monetizing.

John Chow made nearly $200 000 last year just by running little ads on his website, I thought it would be fun to try.

Month 1 is done and here is the Google AdSense earnings report for the cyberbuzz media network (including The Blog According to Buzz and cyberbuzz):

Google doesnt like me to give too much traffic detail from AdSense, so really all I can tell you is I made $18.81.

Using Google Analytics, here’s a better look at the traffic on this site:

I had over 4000 visits to the blog last month, more than 100 a day - not bad. Most of my traffic is from referrers. I’m working with my pal Meg on boosting my Google Juice, but for now it’s word of mouth getting the people to the page.

Because of the way the blog is structured, with the latest posts fully written on the front page, there’s not a lot of drill down traffic - people get what they need up front without having to check out other pages.

The most popular pages are:

The Front Page - 36% of traffic
Have You Accepted Tom Cruise as Your Personal Saviour - 3.1%
Pages Tagged “Britney” - (and y’all thought nobody really cared?) - 1.7%

I do have other monetization on the network, including Kontera, TTZ Media, aLinks and others, but revenue from them was negligible.

The Blog According to Buzz. Spread the word, ya heard?

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