December Earnings
The month of December ended with mixed results in terms of AdSense earnings.
JeffreyFetting.com
Surprisingly, this site brought in nearly as much money as my other site even though I’ve never actually considered this site to have much earning potential. Alone, this site brought in 31.5% of hosting fees.
As I said, this is surprising. I’ll assume this is an anomaly, but hope for similar results this month.
My Other Site
My other site suffered some dissappointing results in December. The earnings fell from 39.8% to 37.2%. Part of this drop can be tied to the holiday. With my other site not being a product related blog, I didn’t expect the holiday to help.
Perhaps more importantly, the earnings suffered from displaying PSAs instead of paying ads for the first 10 days of the month. It appears I was temporarily dropped in Google rankings due to one of their updates. Once the problem resolved itself, earnings went at a quicker pace than previous months. In other words, I was earning more per day than I have in the past.
On a positive, traffic meet my goal and increased by slightly more than my 50% goal. Even with the drop-off I experienced during Christmas, I was happy with the progress, but not satisfied.