Got quite a surprise this morning

I made over $100 yesterday!

[YesMom]

For the first time EVER I hit $112 yesterday! My highest days before that were in the $80's, with my average being about $50.

It was quite a shock to wake up and check Google to see I had graduated to my very first 3-digit day.

Almost spit my coffee at the monitor. :-)

Here's hoping for more of the same!

[YesMom]

How long did it take you to get there?

LinuxGuy --

I started in January... the big site I had was pretty well established so I was making $10 a day immediately. Then when I found out how to optimize the look, feel and placement of ads I went up to about $30 a day right away.

I've been tweaking slowly ever since, but so many variables are out of my hands.

I work hard to maintain and/or increase traffic. I'm just (thankfully) getting more EPC right now.

So about 6 months to my first "over the top" day. :-)

[YesMom]

That's a pretty happy post YesMom and I have to say that I'm happy for you as well. I like happy posts...
Congrats again and I suppose drinks are on you eh?

Sure! (YesMom passes around the ice cold lemonade...)

[YesMom]

Moneyraker wrote:

I also broke 100 this very minute! No, not my earnings, but the number of posts I've made in this forum. (LOL)

And what thoughtful and profound posts they have been! Keep it up! :-)

By the way... I *almost* broke $100 again yesterday... $99.**

I feel your grief, Bill. ;-)

[aff_dan]

YesMom,

What page CTR do you have?

Regards,
Danni

[YesMom]

What page CTR do you have?

Boy... that is a tough one. On over 2,000 pages it can vary to as little as .1% and go as high as that funny 300%! Probably majority of pages are in the 1 - 2% range (that I can't bring myself to cut, because it is still a good chunk of revenue!) up to the 25% - 30% range on main landing page where I direct AdWords. This landing page is where I optimize most carefully with the "hot spot" and making the ads look blended, attractive, and asthetically pleasing. But they do stand out from my content.

BTW -- looks like my EPC is settling down a bit. Maybe I had that big day because a few top advertisers were in a bidding war? Probably. But I'm still very happy... I should have more and more $100+ days. It is 10 pm and I'm over $60 anyway. I am not complaining! June will finish up nicely. Pays the rent on my physical storefront... and I can send hubby to Home Depot to purchase some hardwood flooring to finish the upstairs of our home. He's quite happy about my endeavors. I rarely hear him complain about me "sitting on the computer" these days. ;-)