▷▷▷▷▷▷▷Correction: Examiner.com paid me $1,212.76 for February 2010 writing online earnings - Renegade ways to get traffic hits online | PAULA NEAL MOONEY
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Turns out the month of February 2010 brought in a combined $993.76 across my three Examiner.com pages:
The National Christian TV Examiner.com page...
The National Christian Music Examiner.com page...
The Cleveland Pop Culture Examiner.com page...
What's even more interesting it the break-down of the Top 10 most-viewed articles across my Examiner.com pages, as copied below from my Google Analytics info.
As you can see, Super Bowl was a boon to me and plenty of other online writers, no doubt.
Though I've pulled back from writing like a madwoman this year, Super Bowl Sunday did find me putting up a lot of articles and taking advantage of the fact that people just love watching commercials on TV. Thusly, my Christian TV Examiner.com page brought in around $500 of the monthly Examiner.com income, and the Cleveland Pop Culture was responsible for bringing in the other approximately $500 to make up the total. (The music page only brought in 8 bucks for the month.)
So the $993.76 from Examiner is still a great addition to the $756 that Google Adsense brought in across the personal websites that I have Adsense loaded on -- though I haven't written a ton of stuff on those either, save for tracking scams and warning folks on PaulaNealMooney.com.
With Examiner, it seems like it's not necessarily as easy to get those sweet Google News spots that were easy to gain back in September 2009 when I first joined, but hitting a good topic (with a nice long video for folks to watch) and good timing and favor from the Lord can find some great pageviews sometimes.
You never know what's going to really hit with readers. Who knew that writing an article about a Doritos commercial would end up being my most-viewed post last month?
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congratulation..I can learn from you.
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I hope to earn that kind of income from my sites one day.
Is there a way to do key word searches within a state? In other words is there a way to see what key words people are interested in within the state of Arizona?
Thanks for all your help. Gil
Perhaps you are basing this on your stat counter for the "last month." Whatever the case it seems only fair to let people know the facts about how Examiner.com pays.
It is somewhat unusual for a person to make almost $1,000 a month and as a fellow Christian it seems misleading to make it appear to be the norm.
That would require getting nearly 100,000 hits or something close to that with the algorithm they use. By anyone's standards that is a lot of readers.
While I am sure it is possible to make more money then I am currently earning the "average" person writing for Examiner.com will not see this kind of revenue.
My two columns are well read but if I earn the $25 cap required to receive payment I've had a good month.
Perhaps you could write a post that further explains how you are doing this. Many of us are struggling there and would like to earn more.
Yes, we just got paid our February 2010 monies from Examiner.com on Saturday, March 20, 2010.
And thank the Most High God, I actually received more than I anticipated. (Writing a post on that soon to correct this one.)
But before the money came in, I just went to all of my channels and selected the "Current Month" drop down tab to figure out how much to expect.
Plus, I'm about to write a post about the "renegade" ways I get traffic, so hope it helps.
I don't really know of a way to find keyword searches within a state.
When I'm looking for what's going on in Cleveland or just Ohio in general, I'll type in the city name or state name in Google News and sort by latest date.
I don't think SEOBook.com's keyword tool nor Google Adwords Keyword Tool has this capability, but I could be wrong.
It really looks like a great platform for writers ;)
Take care,
Ricardo
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