August Financial Goals

Instead of updating once a week on my financial goals, for now I have decided to update once a month. If I have more time I might try to update twice a month, but I'm way behind on work due to this bug that I cannot seem to shake, so I need to spend time trying to get well and also concentrate on getting my income back up.

I do have the rest of August's financial goal, so I will share it with you. I want to thank those who have been visiting google ads and kontera ads. They not only help the companies who use my page, they help me in increasing my income as well. So, thank you!

Google Adsense: $0.29
Kontera Ads: $0.00
Private Sales: $56.00
PepperJam: $10.00
Payu2blog: $5.00
SocialSpark: $11.00

So for the rest of August, my profit was a total of $82.29. This is only a quarter of what I should be making a month in order to pay bills. Looks like I'm going to be looking for extra freelancing work this month if I want to catch back up and then some!

Rearranging My Blog

I decided to do some rearranging on my blog. The reason for this is because I am working towards better income since I have been working at home. Lately the problem with working at home has been lack of jobs and loss of work due to my personal life. Now that everything is back on track I am hoping to increase my income goal.

One big problem I have however, is that I've noticed my Google PR has dropped. As a matter of fact it went from a PR of a 3 to a 0 in just a few days. Around the same time I also went from about 50,000 backlinks to over a million backlinks in a few days.

The first thing I checked was to see if I am banned from google. I'm not. So then I checked bad backlinks and links who have been banned from google. There were no banned links and only a few bad backlinks that I removed. So now I am stumped. I am wondering if I was spammed. I guess I need to check and see if I was, somehow.

Now some may say to not worry so much about Page Rank with google. In the past it wouldn't have been so much of a worry. But lately, every company is basing money and whether or not a blog gets an opportunity by page ranks. So no page rank means no income for many sites in payperpost, payu2blog and even private sales.

So right now it's been a struggle and I'm trying to figure out how to work through it.

In the meantime, I have rearranged google adsense ads which seems to be doing a little better. Kontera ads are still doing badly, but I have learned that their site is down. Also, I am not thrilled with PepperJam Ads. So far even with all of the clicks I have had from visitors, the companies are not allowing me to profit from them when they are based on traffic not sales.

So as Scrooge says, "Bah Humbug!"

An Update On My Goal

I haven't had much time to really update my blog or do any work online, due to a tragic death in the family and my birthday being yesterday. Unfortunately this put me behind, so I may be working a lot of hours in the near future unless I get some outstanding paying jobs.

Here is an update on what I have been making. Obviously my goal has not been made for the credit card payment this month and I won't be making an extra payment towards it. I will have to try again for next month.


August 11th
Google Adsense: $1.60
Kontera Ads: $0.00
PepperJam Ads: $0.00

August 12th
Google Adsense: $2.22
Kontera Ads: $0.00
PepperJam Ads: $0.00

August 13th
Associated Content: $4.00
Payperpost: $10.00
Google Adsense: $0.00
Kontera Ads: $0.00
PepperJam Ads: $0.00

August 14th
Google Adsense: $0.78
Kontera Ads: $0.00
PepperJam Ads: $0.00

August 19th
Google Adsense: $0.08
Payperpost: $8.00
Kontera Ads: $0.00
PepperJam Ads: $0.00

Update on my Goals

Its been a busy past few days since the kids start school tomorrow. There is a meet the teachers at school, so we're headed to that today and then after that, there is a back to school event going on at the park.

Before I head out, however. I wanted to share an update on my goals. I had about $40 saved for an extra payment towards the credit cards, but I had to use it for today's school events, bathroom pvc pipes to repair the kids bathroom and pvc thread tape to repair the pipe in our own bathroom. Then my husband needed money for drinks at work. The good news is I still have about $15 left, so it's going directly to the savings account I recently opened.

Here's a quick update of my income lately:

August 6th
Private Sales: $50.00
Google Adsense: $3.98
SocialSparks: $10.91
Kontera Ads: $0.00

August 7th
Google Adsense: $3.03
Kontera Ads: $0.00

August 8th
Associated Content: $4.00
Payperpost: $5.00
Kontera Ads: $0.00
Google Adsense: $0.00

August 9th
Associated Content: $4.00
Kontera Ads: $0.00
Google Adsense: $0.00

August 10th
Payu2blog: $5.00
Payperpost: $5.00
Kontera Ads: $0.00
Google Adsense: $0.00

It's been an impressive week, especially for Google adsense! I hope that it continues to be!

An Update on my Goals

I managed to make an extra payment towards one of the credit cards I am paying off. Because of the extra payment, That will bring the credit card to exactly $800. I am hoping to be able to pay more towards that credit card, next month.

Also, I was able to put $25 back to a new savings account for emergency funds. I might also have enough to buy a lawn mower for the yard, this Friday.

We finished all of the school supply shopping today for my husband's children. So that takes care of all of the kids. It's been a great day!

Here are the latest break downs of what I am making online to help pay the bills and make my goals. As always, thank you to those who have been visiting ads from google adsense. Every little bit makes me one step closer to paying off the debt and buying a car.

July 31st
Payu2blog $15.00
Google Adsense $0.00
Kontera Ads $0.00

August 1st
Payu2blog $5.00
Google Adsense $0.00
Kontera Ads $0.00

August 3rd
Cashcrate $3.00
LoudLaunch $4.00
Google Adsense $0.00
Kontera Ads $0.00

August 4th
Associated Content $4.00
Google Adsense $0.67
Kontera Ads $0.00

Update on My Goal

Well, I am behind again, but at least I have been working towards my goals. If you're not familiar with what I am doing, I want to pay off the credit card debt I have and buy a car. Those are my main goals. I have other financial goals as well, but those are the first on the list. Unfortunately there were days I wasn't able to work at enough money to put towards my goals. However, there were other days where I made more than enough to put towards my goals. So in the end, it all equaled out. I would like to put more towards the goals to get them paid off faster, but that's another story, another day.

In the mean time, to solve the problem of my hubby not wanting to budget, I am just paying the bills as I get them. So far he's doing good with putting the amount needed for the house in the savings account. :)

July 28th
Socialspark: $25.99
Google Adsense: $1.26
Kontera: $0.00

July 29th
Associated Content: $4.00
Google Adsense: $0.03
Kontera: $0.00
July 30th
Associated Content: $4.00
Google Adsense: $0.00
Kontera: $0.00

An Update on My Goal

I am a bit behind on updating my goal. I actually have about 3 days worth of online work. I worked for an hour on the weekends just to catch up for last Thursday. I am no longer in need of help with my kids. I want to thank everyone who contributed with helping my kids. As of now I am working towards two goals. One is to pay off two credit cards and the other is to save for a car. I'm not even sure which one to start with first. I'll need a car since I am headed back to Oklahoma in September/October for a court date for my kids.

But the credit card I used for emergencies is still claiming an over the limit fee. This means I will have to make a $125 payment this month instead of the usual $40. I had used the card to put the car rental on because they wanted to hold way too much money back from our checking account. This was still an enterprise thing from when I picked up my son. What enterprise did not bother to tell me is that they hold the same amount on my credit card and didn't return it in time, so the credit card charged an over the limit fee. So, after I pay the card's balance back up, I am officially closing that account. I can live without the credit card. Emergency or not.

July 24th
Payu2blog: $10.00

July 25th
Private Sales: $50.00
Kontera Ads: $0.06

July 26th
Payperpost: $30.00
Kontera Ads: $0.05

July 27th
Payperpost: $5.00
Google Adsense: $1.93

An Update on My Kids

Generally I don't work over the weekend, but I had some free time and I knew I needed the extra money for my kids, so I am giving an update for Just 19th. It isn't much, but every little bit helps. I am hoping things will really pick up this week since I am not out of the clear. We'll see I guess.

Thursday we are headed back to Oklahoma to take my oldest son home. I am really not looking forward to him leaving. The bad news is, I was told my other two children would be able to come down to visit, but due to my middle aged son being grounded for calling an adult a name, he and his younger brother are not allowed to come and visit me before school starts. Sigh.

Google Adsense: $0.00
Kontera: $0.00
Cashcrate: $3.00

Google Adsense VS. Kontera and What John Chow Said

Google Adsense in total has made me $54.54 and I have been with them since last August. The downside to this is, I'll need a minimum of $100 before I can cash it out. Kontera in total has made me $2.01. I started working with them about a month ago.

It's not a good as google adsense, but in the long run I wonder if they'll both do equally good. I know that keywords are a big money maker when it comes to google adsense and I am now wondering if Kontera is the same way. Keywords haven't really been my strong point, but then again, I haven't really sat down and researched it either. I mean what do you come up with as far as good keywords? There are really no good Kontera tutorials that I know of at the moment that can help increase revenue.

John Chow said not to put all of your eggs in one basket and he makes a really great point. Which is exactly why I have both Google Adsense and Kontera on my blog.

Eventually I'd like to expand, but until my blog is up there with the big dogs, there's not much I can do at this point.

Kontera VS. Google Adsense

Since they are both up for an update, I thought I would share my earnings with Kontera and Google Adsense. In reality I love them both, but lately google adsense has been earning me more money than kontera. While I can't show it this week because I was behind on posting this, I made around $1.13 with google adsense last week. With Kontera I made a whopping $0.01.

I really doubt the low amount from Kontera has anything to do with them. I just need to sit down and learn how to increase ads for better revenue with Kontera. I must admit, Google Adsense isn't doing too shabby at all. This week alone I've had over 300 visitors and I am showing a revenue of $0.43. Hey, I know it's chump change for a lot of you out there, but that chump change all adds up for those of us who are looking to get out of debt and could really use the money!!

Google Adsense Update

It's been another week since google adsense has shown profit for me and last week's $1.61 wasn't too bad at all. To be honest, I don't expect an insane amount of income using google adsense at the moment. The reason I don't is because I don't have millions of readers like John Chow or Shoemoney does. Yet, it's still great that I am getting some income from google adsense. What do you think? Do you use google adsense? If so, how much are you seeing a week?

An Update on My Google Adsense Earnings

Another week has gone by and I'm happy to report that I've managed to get 6 clicks and make $1.73 using google adsense. Now most of you may wonder why I bother since $1.73 isn't much. I bother because $1.73 is better than nothing at all and its not costing me anything to make that $1.73. Besides, $1.73 can buy lunch for the day, dinner for the night, etc. For most people, $1.73 can go along ways, especially with the outrageous gas prices that are and have been officially upon us.

Here's the proof that google adsense does work! I might not be as rich as John Chow, but it's something at least! So, thank you to my readers who clicked on the google ads!

This Week's Google Adsense Update

As I noted in a prior post, I have decided to give a weekly update on google adesense. I've had 1 click since my last google adsense post. While that's not what I was hoping for, it's better than nothing at all.

I will continue to give a google adsense update every week, no matter how good or bad those clicks may be!

Another Google Adsense Update

First of all, I want to say thank you to my readers who read my google adsense update post from yesterday. I made $2.40 yesterday, so that's not bad at all! And yes, $2.40 is something to get excited about. Every little bit counts.

I think what I will start doing is posting a google adsense update once a week. That way my readers and anyone interested in google adsense can see just how well it works. You might not see immediate results, but with a little patience and a lot of hard work (yes it takes work) you will see results.

A Google Adsense Update

When I first started google adsense, there wasn't much to report, since clicks were far and in between. Lately however, my blog has picked up and readers have been clicking on my google ads, allowing me to make a little bit of money.

To give you an idea of how much you can make with google adsense, I've had a total of 62 clicks, making me $17.14. Not too shabby I don't think. What it boils down to, if every person that viewed my page, clicked on an ad once a day, I'd make $20 a day with google alone. Now times that by 5 days a week and that's $100 a week. So I would be making $400 a month with google. That's pretty good, especially since that's half of what I make through my job at work.

Soooo, here's the proof:

Do you use google adsense? If so, have you seen any progress?