This might not be gigantic news to all you dot-com early birds who jumped on the train in the early to mid 90’s – especially those of you who are making $4000/month off 372 crappy looking websites with really bad formatting and brutally scaled background images that haven’t been updated in 7 years. I’m not hating, I’m just saying…
I got my first Adsense payment today!
It was totally by surprise as I was under the impression that I would be getting a cheque (Canadian spelling) in the mail. Not that I was disappointed to see a direct depost, but I was kind of hoping for the cheque so I could take a picture ($130) and make it famous like Shoemoney.
Wanna see?
Anyways… I just wanted to share this moment with you guys, and also permanently place it on the Internet so I can always go back and revisit the sense of accomplishment I’m feeling at this exact moment.
The funniest thing about my Adsense earnings is that they only took off once I started flipping websites. What does website flipping have to do with making money from Google Adsense? Well, a nice chunk (almost all) of the people who buy websites online seem to overlook changing the affiliate links over to their own – despite instructional emails, documentation and follow-up reminders. And because most of my niche sites involve heavy keyword research, and targeted domains – the traffic usually comes knocking within a week after the first article is published.
Pretty interesting, right?
All in all – my first Adsense payment is really motivating me to grow my Adsense portfolio and spend more time studying different techniques for optimal CTR. I’m actually quite excited!
Cheers,
Elijah