my april 2006 adsense results
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| Channel Description | Page impressions | Clicks | Page CTR | Page eCPM | Earnings |
| MARKSHIELDS.COM | 79,578 | 747 | 0.94% | $1.25 | $99.39 |
| THEREALWORLDAUSTIN.COM | 45,115 | 61 | 0.14% | $0.27 | $12.21 |
| MARKWAHLBERG.COM (Forum) | 83,406 | 72 | 0.09% | $0.10 | $8.61 |
| THEREALWORLDPHILLY.COM (Forum) | 1,947 | 7 | 0.36% | $0.84 | $1.64 |
| QUARK.NAME | 576 | 11 | 1.91% | $2.14 | $1.23 |
| MARKWAHLBERG.COM (Old Forum) | 2,908 | 8 | 0.28% | $0.36 | $1.03 |
| ASTROWORLD.CC (Blog) | 2,644 | 8 | 0.30% | $0.37 | $0.98 |
| THEREALWORLDPHILLY.COM (Gallery) | 4,556 | 4 | 0.09% | $0.18 | $0.81 |
| ASTROWORLD.CC (General Header/Footer) | 2,068 | 2 | 0.10% | $0.36 | $0.73 |
| ASTROWORLD.CC (Homepage Header/Footer) | 807 | 7 | 0.87% | $0.61 | $0.49 |
| QUERYLETTERS.NET | 9 | 3 | 33.33% | $52.67 | $0.47 |
Above are my April 2006 Google adsense earning results. I'm a bit shocked that my personal dinky blog is able to generate this kind of income. I only use one banner ''channel'' for all of MarkShields.com. As such, I have no clue if someone clicks on a banner at the top or the bottom of my site, or for that matter, what page were they on. You can create as many channels as you want to accomplish this. The trick is that you have to Not Be Lazy. I did break up the ASTROWORLD.CC banners into three channels. First for the homepage's header and footer, second for a blog entry page's header and footer, and third for the the little banner that appears just below a blog entry. A new separate web page is created everytime I add a blog entry to MarkShields.com, QueryLetters.net, or Astroworld.cc. People posting messages on the forums create a new page when the number of posts to a topic exceed a certain length or when someone starts a new topic altogether. The forum is the easiest to generate pages because visitors create the content. The blog is harder since I have to do it myself. However, you can see from the chart above that the blog is kicking the forum's butt all over the parking lot. Still, this doesn't mean that every blog entry I write results in more golden chances for my Google ads. You have to keep things interesting. There are thousands of blogs that merely detail one's daily thoughts. Some are good. Some suck. The Super Genius blog, however, is always chock full of weirdo goodness!
In other geeky MarkShields.com news, I recently updated the templates that MovableType 2.661 (my blog software) produces to include RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 files along with turning on the ''pinging'' option to alert web blog indexing sites that The Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz Has Spoken. I didn't realize I could do this until I set up my ASTROWORLD.CC site. I'm slow. I'm thinking about possibly upgrading to MT 3.2 but I'm holding off for as long as possible in order to properly acclimate my Discover card to the front row Madonna tickets.
