Mocking mania
As soon as I logged into My Blog’s Dashboard today I got an incoming link from a Blog named as Cant get Rich who was written by Jason from TUK or should I say guest posted by Jason on Cant get rich. He just started addressing that there are many blogs out there who are going into great deal with many sort of blah blah and blah. With this he named my blog and someone who is parody blog of another famous blog. Well if you do not know Mr Jason the first uniques whatsoever who went to John Cow’s blog were from some referrals sites including blogs where he commented. At that time it was a hit formula and he succeeded in making mockery of John Chow dot com the so called dot com mogul or whatever.
Well who am I to justify one of those lazy arsed university student who tries to be successful at Money Making Online. Sharing your Digitalpoint Forums Experience would get you some visitors for sometime but what then , you will get yourself pretty much fu**ed off. You would have nothing. Lets talk some business here. If some one called this blog as parody then he/she might be mistaken because of simple reason this domain may be similar or little bit near about parody but still content is unique till date.
And now for a simple fact that TUK aka Mr Jason mentioned in his last paragraph mentioned
“I hope I’ve already drilled it into you, but make sure you be unique if you want to succeed as a blogger online. If you don’t want to succeed, by all means – copy one of the big boys and go full steam ahead; don’t be surprised if you receive only a few visitors and comments.”
Really what do you want to say Mr Jason how much comments do you receive , 5,10,12,30,50, or 90. I don’t think that you get so much of comments and readers as well. Oh Yes your RSS subscriber numbers are stuck at 99 …. No problemo you got that as well. Just start a crap contest and get some cheeky visitors between do not forget to have some contests going on like your last one where you got some pretty cheap banner ads for your website (No Link to that 
). Now for a simple reason writing lengthy posts is not the winning formula , its pretty simple to get the posts to topic.
I just forgot to mention, the latest contest you won on Winning the Web , how many comments that site gets (leave the contest posts) just 3-4 -5 or 10 something like that , Check that dude, getting your blog reviewed from Bigger blog is not necessary if you do not have content. There will be a temporary increase in readers / subscribers and then it will drop and believe me I do not have a problem with dropped readership and comments , even Mr Chow took 2 years to reach this stage and Mr Cow took 7 months to reach this stage of earning money and my friend some day I would even get there but I do not want to.
Last but a sincere apology to all of those who dropped their entrecards and comments on my post and I was not able to give them their credits but I will do that tomorrow. So those who commented , are you sure that you guys entered your Entrecard Email Id , I will send credits on those emails only. Thank You.
Short Lived Entrecard
After dropping some whooping number of entrecards to many other websites, I have decided to act as my counterpart did to part with Entrecard, not only because the bounce rates are high but also because in first week I dropped as many cards as I could so as to bring in some traffic and then readers to my blog but with the experiment I have done I think that letting off Entrecards is best thing to do with your blog .
What I did with entrecards was dropping a huge number of cards and in return I was getting some amount of visits from Entrecard’s but as of today I have removed them. Check these stats , as of today I am not left with any credits in entrecard as I have to send E-Card credits to those who won in the contest this 13th January.
Just like many other bloggers I was getting around 60-80 card drops per day but as you know the “new things attract the kids” the same was case with me as well. I was well attracted and lost much of my valuable bandwidth in order to get some traffic and visitor but as soon as I left dropping cards I am now placed at a position way below many sites.
Check the Entrecard Stats
Many or I should say most of the bloggers who want to get noticed in this blog sphere are entering this E-Card business and dropping enough cards on the blogs so that they might earn enough credits with which they would get advertised on many highly read blogs just like John Chow’s or Problogger. Now as Cow mentioned who would like to go to this blog and advertise on his blog which has only 21 Rss subscribers.
Some how I came into whole of this blogging part because of Mr Chow, reading that online income could be very much easy if you can easily get it into right direction. He did the things into right direction and this is what am I doing now. I am focussing now a days to get noticed but not because of this E-Cards which have no value and visitors do come to your site just in order to waste your precious bandwidth.
Looking at the Quick stats for my blog,Initially I was visiting many blogs read some articles and then dropped my cards on them and used the right top red button in Firefox ( ) I made up list of many blogs with a target=_blank attribute so that I do not have to visit that blog again that day without clearing my cookies , Once I dropped the card I closed the blog and then visted othe blog. This was a real headache for me because to increase visitors to your site you have to drop cars which is justified but not for me. I have to wake up in the morning go through normal routine of freshning up and then eating breakfast and then moving to office to do usual work. As of now I do not have any time to visit any blog and then drop the e-card to their blog so now I am also in a mood to quit E-Card or should I say after this blog post I will quit E-card. Nah Nah E-card Gone.
Sorry Entrecard As of now I have to dump you.
2nd Contest Update
Like my first contest I ran second contest for Entrecard credits as well and as of now the contest stands closed. All the entries i.e. comments will receive 50 entrecards and one of those will get a 300 E-Cards as a gift which will be announced tomorrow.
Today I have burned my Hand so I am unable to post but have used my left hand to write all this.
Well Se you all 2moro with more to come.
What is Urchin ?
In the last post I mentioned that I would be writing some shit on Google Analytics and the Urchin Code and so called urchin. You must have used Google Analytics code in some way or the other,or sometimes you might have seen this image in the status bar when the page loads slowly or your internet is dying.
This is the initial thing in Google Analytics. When you open up a website, to count the pageviews, unique visitors,traffic etc, you need to have a tracking program which gives you detailed information about your site visitors, their computers, location and more details. There are many sites doing the same thing then why Google Analytics only.
Actually Google Analytics is free to use program and it gives you approximately accurate details about the statistics of the site visits and statistics,with which you can estimate the traffic and other details about a website.
So coming back to the topic what is urchin ?
Urchin is a small javascript code written by Google so that you might be able to get detailed statistics about your website.
A Google Analytics code starts like this
<script src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js” type=”text/javascript”>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
_uacct = “UA-XXXXXX-XX”;
urchinTracker();
</script>
Where symbols have their usual meaning 
Actually here
_uacct is the user account of urchin for which data has to be collected.
Now we look at the urchin.js file.
As you can see here in the urchin.js file there are many settings which can be configured in the user area of Analytics. Now as you see here that the Google analytics code starts with the urchin.js file and as soon as the page loads before the execution of any javascript its parent file has to be loaded and as the javascript function urchinTracker(); is called it begins to search in the above mentioned urchin.js the mentioned data and then collects the timestamped data and then by the function named as _uGT the data is sent to https://www.google.com/analytics/reporting/overlay_js/gaso . As soon as the javascript is loaded then the data is sent back to the reporting url as mentioned above.If you want to see the actual data which is in function urchinTracker(); you can open up the urchin.js from this link.
Q: Why urchin is using simple Javascripts not complex php scripts or asp scripts ?
Well answer to this question can only be given by Google but it is sure that what you are seeing is not all truth, the background work of millions of websites is done in some sort of database and some sort of language other than simple html.This is what I really do not know.If any one of you really know about this please do tell me.
Other than this answer the simple answer to this question can be javascripts can work on any front end type i.e. a simple html page,a php page or any pages and can be placed anywhere in your page. As you are reading this page , it is sure that you might have arrived at this post from any website and your details have been saved in your cookies and what urchin.js does is it tracks cookies and checks the referrer headers in the cookies and as you visit any page it stores and sends all the data to Google Analytics Reporting cell. One more thing to notice here is that Google Analytics does not collect any personal data , it collects only the data which has to be gathered by code like
- Visitor Header information (Referrer Headers Not your Website header or header with logo.)
- Which page you are watching or reading.
- Size of the screen or Screen Size(Screen Resolution).
- IP address of the visitor.
- How many times you have visited the page/s.
and many things like this mentioned in the analytics code. As soon as you put this code i.e. Analytics code on to your page , a Google bot checks your page then it verifies that you have successfully installed analytics code. The first reports start usually within the first 24 hours.
More about urchin in the next post.
Monetizing your Blog Carefully
This one is one of the simplest posts that I have made till now just because you need to tell whether the add-on thing you are going to perform in your website/blog will increase your performance or not. This is why I wrote this post about monetization of your blog properly. Big Bloggers like John Chow, Shoemoney and others do have their custom themes which supports their advertisements placing. It is them to decide which advertisement they need to run and how much they will earn per advertisements. They also earn through the affiliate links provided in the posts and sidebar or Banners.
Just looking into likes of John Chow, he got a theme designed from UBD and made full use of the particular theme. He is using each and every bit of the theme in order to get full available monetization from his blog. Just look at the blog of John Chow what will you get ?
Answer is this
- Stripes Advertisement ($250 Each month 5 links)
- 468 X60 Banner @ $1000 Each month 3 Available
- 7 Affiliate Links (Providing at least $200 Each month)
- 8 125 Premium Banners ($500 Each Banner 8 Available)
- 300X250 Banners ($500 Each month 10 Available)
- Featured Links ($240 Each month 15 or so Available)
- Post level text Ads and Feed Ads ($200 Each month 5 Available)
- Blog Reviews @ $450 Each at least 10 available.
This is just the private Sales and this comes out to be more than $18,000 and for the likes of John Chow it is very much important to get this much of advertisement Income as he has to support his blog from so much visitors that comment and come to him daily. According to his December Income Report the original John Chow’s words are “Blog traffic for December was 244,164 page views from 130,587 unique visitors according to Google Analytics” and this page views earned him a whooping $25,040.36.
My Point here is just to tell you that when you want to earn a 5 Figure income from you blog or website you need to take note of the following things which I will call as a earner tips.
- A Brand Image (John Chow is a Brand Remember this)
- Nice Looking Header and a theme (For Wordpress Blogs and other blogs, for websites get it done according to the style)
- Full utilization of Ad Space (Do not fill in your website with banner Ads or any advertisements.)
- Make sure you submit to some Social Networking websites.
- Do ping all the blog pinging services( Be Careful, as excessive Pinging might ban your from those sites).
- Advertise your blog/ website using Contextual Ads , Banner Ads and as of now you can also advertise on Entrecard (Remember I am running a Contest for Entrecards Each Week).
The above details are only from one Blog who has made his earnings public but there are many other blogs who are making their earnings each month public. The above was only a single case study and now take note of a Not-So-Popular blog who has made itself just opposite to JohnChow.com and the blog’s Name is NotJohnChow.com .
Really I am not mocking or making fun of that person running NotJohnChow.com but a fact is a fact.He is not following my 6 earner tips. Looking at his blog what makes me sick is his desire to earn quickly.He is using each and every network available on his blog and the blog itself looks as cluttered (Really My blog is also the same but still decent than his.)Just have a look at his December Earnings report and he earned a Whooping $3.03 for the month of December which he tells that is earned from 2268 page views from 849 visitors according to Google Analytics, his ECPM is $1.3 while of John Chow is $102 for December.
Totally he is using all his blog to advertise on his blog but he does not know that the blogger’s today are smart and they do not click on affiliate links unless it is given by John Chow to them. Same way when I began my Blogging career sometime back I used to fill in my pages with Adsense and many other networks and used to rotate the advertisements using the PHPAds (Open Ads Now) but the result was no-one seemed to be interested in my blogs and then as I began blogging I got some traffic and then all traffic was gone.As of now that particular blog is doing nothing sitting idle.
The biggest mistakes which bloggers do when they begin their Internet Marketing Career are like this
- Blog on Various Niches (Totally Irrelevant)
- As soon as three initial months are over they get involved in PPP type of things(Still to come a post on that) .
- They do not advertise their blogs.
- Social Media Submission is very much important to new bloggers.(My Last two topics were stumbled and it resulted in 394 unique visits from Stumble upon itself and other social media networks resulted in around 200 Uniques ).
- Posting irregularly (Posting irregularly makes the visitor go away).
- Fill in total Space with Irrelevant Advertisements which results in total loss.
- Do not optimize their blog for SEO, which is vital for search Engines.
These are some of the important facts that make your Income irregular on your blog but from the first month if you want to earn like a Three or Four figure blogger then you will have to stick to the above mentioned earner tips.
Last but not the least I do not know how I wrote so much about this topic but still those who want to share their thoughts can post their views and remember to drop your Entrecard here so that you are eligible for 50 Entrecards on January 14th 00:00 hours.
