Day 9 - Sitting back and relaxing.

So my day 9 came to an end. I decided to leave my website alone today just to see how much natural hits/visitors I could get. I've been posting on forums and stuff like crazy since the first day this website was up and decided to see how many people actually got to know my website and visited on their own with out me encouraging them. I got a pretty decent number. I got around 30,000 hits total which was around 15,000 less than yesterday. I'm trying to get my website to settle so that I can have a steady base of viewers without me having to have to reach out to them as much.

I'm glad that my website is still going well and also glad that I now have people visiting willingly without me having to post to massive amounts of forums. Some people may think this is a cheap way to get visitors but I think its smart to go around and get the name out as much as possible. I just need to upload and maintain the website throughout and I think I will be able to hit the 50,000 hit mark average by the end of 30 days into the website.

Well I made a little less that what I made previous days but it is still looking promising. I am not going to reveal my exact earnings anymore however without telling you readers exactly what I have made I will still try to give the best insight on how my website is doing with google adsense and if it is treating me as well as it has been.

Well I will keep you posted again and until then wish me good luck and I wish whoever reads this, good luck on their website or blog and don't get discouraged since it seems to me that there is a way if there is a will.

check out my website and see how its doing !!

Day 7

So.. not much to say today. Actually lived a life today and sort of neglected my website haha. I got a total of 40,160 hits today on my website which I think is a lot for the first week of being up. glad to see that my website is actually functioning and that I'm able to do something fun and at the same time make a little bit of money for college expenses. My opinion of adsense in the first week has been good. I've been getting good CPC's and CTR's and the way this website is going I think I might just make another one when I have the time maybe in like ... 3 months or so :P

I'm still in the beginning  stages of my website and I'm still looking forward to improving and excelling my website to wherever it takes me. I've always been dreaming of a .com millionaire future haha but I know this isnt the website that's going to get me there however this is a pretty nice first step that I took and I'm just gonna keep on steppin!

Day 6 - good but not amazing day

So, my girlfriend wakes me up this morning and I see that it's 10am-ish. I realize I'm pretty late on updating my website so I decide to go online right away and I just start posting new videos that came up that day. I link videos from various different websites so it usually takes me a good 30 minutes to an hour to make these individual html files and then edit the old html files that link to the new ones. I then go on forums and post my new updates and just wait for people to get on. We decide the hookah lounge we went to a few days ago was too good to pass by and decide to leave for there later on.

I'm at the hookah bar Malik's Kabab and it's about 6pm (eastern-time just fyi) and I whip out my iphone to check on my adsense earnings and the hit counter on the front page. I forgot what the number was the day before but I see that it went up a decent amount. I wasn't expecting much revenue today since it is a monday and most people have lives to live during the weekdays, so with little hope I go on my Google account. I'm surprised to see that I already made $22.20 that day doing nothing at all and on a Monday. I'm pretty excited and I put my phone away.

Now, its 2:00AM and slowly ending my day so this is my daily update. Bluehost shows that I had about 11,136 page views today. This is less than what I had yesterday but overall my earnings turn out to be $46.39. This is still a good amount considering I've never heard anybody earn more than this on the 6th day... 




Well! that's my wrap up of the day and I'm still really excited that my adsense has been showing me profits. 


Farewell till tomorrow ! 


-Lance-

Forgot to add my first template for the website !

Here it is !

So my first website launches !

Before I start rambling about my first experience, lets introduce myself. I am a college student at Virginia Tech pursuing a BS in Computer Science. I'm involved in a lot of things here and there such as a dance crew called Bamboom, I am actively involved in Amnesty International at Virginia tech, member of the Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity (Pre-Law Frat), and since I'm asian I felt it was right for me to join an asian organization to keep in touch with my culture. I am currently 20 (turned 20 in Oct.31.2010).

So....
First of all, I started a website just for kicks. I basically wanted some cash for expenses at college like food and clothes, etc the small stuff. I'm still in the early stages and I don't really expect what to expect from this website but I'm sticking on to it since it is my first website ever...

I have had little experience with html, css and javascript so I decided to teach myself watching Youtube video's. This was actually a great idea. I didn't have to pay for anything and it was really easy to understand. After that 2 week period where I learned all the basics of those three languages I decided to go on to make a layout design for my website. Since I'm a computer science major and all, I decided to go from scratch. This was pretty smooth sailing and with the help of google I finished my layout within 2 weeks. looked okay, didn't really think it was the greatest thing ever but I decided it was good enough for a trial. Winter break came around and once I got up home we had to move, so I spent my first week packing and moving in to the new house. Now, the second weekish comes around and now that I have down time I was able to start working on the website again. At this point the design was set up and good to go so I decided to ask my mom to cash out a little bit of money to buy a membership to Bluehost.com in order to host my website. I signed up without knowing scrap... this was a bad idea. I spent the first five days trying to figure out where the hell I was suppose to post my .html files into...

Dec23. I finally figure out what to do with my .html files and the website is up and running. Now, how stupid of me.. I forgot to mention the website name. My website's called www.OhMyDrama.net and its for viewing Korean drama, Korean movies, game shows, and movies from the states. Yes, I know some of you may think this is illegal but no I'm not hosting or uploading any of the media that is on my website I'm simply just linking the websites that have this content on to my website.

Dec.29th My website finally gets Google Adsense approved and I'm not able to make the cash I was hoping for. I post my website on to several Yahoo Answers and other Korean Portal sites. Since I'm home from break, all I did was find links to put on my website, THE WHOLE DAY ... pretty sad but yes my girlfriend was over and also didn't feel like going out to party or anything that day. I go out to eat and hang out with my girlfriend at night and come back around 2AM to check on the website. Since I put a hit counter on my website on the first page I figured "hmm let me see how many people I got today, if Any." I go to my website and Woah! I actually had a decent amount. Now I don't remember the exact count or the exact reaction I had but I remember I was pretty excited. I then got ready to go to sleep and remembered OH YEAH, Adsense. I took a look at my adsense account and this is where it gets, well.. Kinda exciting for me. I had $33.35 estimated earnings! I was skeptical and Googled all the possibilities of this being wrong and all I got was that it was pretty accurate. Well, I just earned $33.35 dollars that day and I have no idea how but it's been 5 days now and I have made a total $299.54.

I am just . . really amazed right now and yes, I've been posting on Yahoo Answers and the other Korean portal websites every chance I get since my first day.

I'm excited that my website is taking off and I will keep you guys posted on my experience of making my first website and also with Google Adsense. So far So good. :)

Here's my chart to prove my first five days.

Wish me luck!