Blog Archive: February 2014
Overpopulated
| Documentaries | 9 seen
<p>One of the best documentaries I have recently seen - a humble scientist from Sweden explains many interesting facts, like how many child are born for woman in average, does Asia and Africa is overpopulated? Scientist explains how medicine and education have provided longer life expectancy in countries like Bangladesh.</p><p>In this documentary is shown a beautiful story about African family living with less than $1 day and dreaming to buy a bicycle. And how bicycle literally drives them out of extreme poverty.</p><p>About energy consumption. About the Riches and Poor. </p>
Making Money Online with AdSense: My Journey to a $40 Monthly Income
| Blogging | 10 seen
I've been blogging for a while now and recently, I published my first online income report, showing a grand total of eight dollars earned from Google AdSense. This might not seem like much, but it's actually an improvement from the previous years. I've been using Google AdSense on low-traffic websites since 2009, and over that period, I've earned just a little over $100. That's about $20 a year, or about $1.66 per month, or just $0.05 a day.
The reason my AdSense earnings have been so low is due to two reasons: first, I haven't used Google AdSense for all the 5 years, and second, my websites have had low traffic, barely reaching 1,000 visitors per month. I haven't paid much attention to CTR, CPC, and other metrics that could have improved my earnings.
That's why I decided to set my first goal for Google AdSense - to earn enough to cover my Linode VPS hosting bills, which I set at $40 per month. This may seem like a modest amount, but it's not about the amount, it's about being worth it. To achieve this goal, I need to optimize my CTR and CPC values.
To give you an example, if my CTR is 4% and my CPC is 0.20, I would need 200 clicks and 5000 visitors to earn $40. On the other hand, if my CTR is 2% and my CPC is $1.00, I would need 40 clicks and 2000 visitors to earn $40. As you can see, the number of visitors doesn't matter as much as optimizing your CPC and CTR values. The CPC rates will vary depending on the region and niche you're targeting, so it's important to keep that in mind.
And so, my journey to achieve my first Google AdSense goal of $40 per month begins.
Mr Selfridge
| Worth to Watch | 15 seen
<p>Another great TV series from British islands. I wouldn't call myself a huge fan of British movies or series, but there are few really good one. And Mr Selfridge is one of it.</p><p>The story is about an American entrepreneur who founded Selfridges store in London, United Kingdom back in 1909. </p><p><strong>Here is more from Wikipedia:</strong></p><blockquote><p>Mr Selfridge is a British period television drama series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his London department store Selfridge & Co, co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece/WGBH for broadcast on ITV and PBS. The series began airing on 6 January 2013 in the United Kingdom (10 episodes), and on 31 March 2013 in the United States (8 episodes, the first and last being double-length).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Selfridge"> http://en.wikipedia.or… far - have seen just first series, and all of them was worth watching.</p>
The Following
| Worth to Watch | 9 seen
<p>Started to watch tv series - The Following</p><p><strong>About The Following:</strong></p><blockquote><p><span>A brilliant and charismatic, yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial killers and activates a cult of believers following his every command. </span></p></blockquote><p><strong>My thoughts after watching first season:</strong></p><p><span>If honest, I'm surprised for <strong>imdb</strong>'s rating 7.7 for this TV-series - Or let's say in other words - I watched first season, but I didn't have this breathtaking feeling that it's mine. It's more appropriate for those who like movie <strong>The Twilight - </strong> for teenagers.</span></p><p>Plot line<span> what's concentrated of stories of Edgar Allan Poe - doesn't make a sense for me. Well, I have red some novels by Poe, but still I wouldn't rate this serial too high. I would give it average 5, not 7.7</span></p><p><span>What is your thoughts?</span></p>
How many beers you can buy in Europe for minimum wage?
| Macroeconomics | 12 seen
I like charts and graphics, who doesn't? Well Reddit user Adilu, has created a map of how many beers you can buy in Europe for a minimum wage:
According to map - most beers you will get in Belgium = 1028, and less in Georgia = 36. Rest of Europe averages in 300-400 beers.
Please visit Adilu to find out more
How to register your site with Bing Webmaster Tools
| Blogging | 31 seen
There is a great alternative to Google Webmaster tools - Bing Webmaster tools - might help a little if you are looking for ways to improve Bing SEO
Signup or login. Once you are logged in Bing Webmasters click on Add site left top sidebar
- Enter your details. As you can see mandatory field is just one: URL - enter your site URL. I highly suggest that you submit a sitemap file also.
- Leave default All day (Default) in select menu where Bing asks how often it should visit your site. If you have highly trafficked site, you can change values to other.
- Then click Add.
In next window Bing will ask you to verify your domain. You have 3 options:
- Option 1: Place an XML file on your web server
- Option 2: Copy and paste a <meta> tag in your default webpage
- Option 3: Add CNAME record to DNS
- Once done, click Verify button.
More winter for Tbilisi
| Living in Georgia | 3 seen
<p>End of this Janaury and start of this February has brought back to Tbilisi some winter. Here are few shots I made on 02.02.2014. </p><p><a href="http://www.tourgeorgia.eu/photos_stream/winter-continues">More pictures watch here.</a></p>
Blog statistics Januray 2014
| Blogging | 6 seen
4th month since I started blogging thing has passed away. This time I got my first traffic spike, and overall I get out of modest less than 100 visitors month.
Speaking of February plans - 300 visitors would be nice, if no traffic spike happens!