Wednesday 24 February 2010

TitanClicks Gone

Well, it looks like TitanClicks is yet another Paid to Click website that has fallen by the wayside. So far, only NeoBux has actually paid.

Wednesday 17 February 2010

MochiAds Payment Threshold Passed

I've just passed the $100 MochiAds payment threshold, which means I should receive a payment from them around the end of March. It took about 2 1/2 months since the last payment to reach payout this time, although earnings have decreased quite a bit since December.

Monday 15 February 2010

Initial Facebook Ad Update

Well, my first Facebook ad only generated five clicks and no sales. Given that I made an ad with only about a day or so left of useful time, with no picture, I can't really say I'm surprised by the level of response.

Next time, I'll need to take a bit longer creating it, and make sure I don't release a holiday related ad only about a day before the actual holiday.

Saturday 13 February 2010

Article Directory Twitter Feed

I've added a Twitter account for my article directory. This is tweeting from the directory's RSS feed, although I admit I'm not sure what logic it's using. Supposedly, it should be posting the most recent feed every hour but, so far, only one tweet has been published, and that isn't the most recent. Decidedly odd.

Friday 12 February 2010

Facebook Advertising

I've been registered at Facebook for some time, and recently started using it more - I've posted about a couple of very basic apps I made (Quiz Me and Picture Find) - but until now I've never considered using the advertising available on it. After receiving an email I decided to check it out, because I haven't been very happy with performance from AdWords.

I'm going to try and run a brief campaign for Valentine's Day Recipes if it's approved; however, it's already apparent that the targeting here is vastly more specific than is available from AdWords.

Areas you can target are:
Country
Age - from a specific year to an age range to all
Birthday - only promote to people on their birthdays
Gender
Relationship status
Language - even broken up into different dialects
Keywords
Education
Interested in
Connections - what Facebook connections they have, either targeted for having those connections, or not having them
Friends of connections

Once these are entered, you will see how many possible people the ad could be shown to. This campaign targets an estimated 10,840 people.

You can then either have CPC or CPM ads, with or without an image, set a maximum bid and a maximum daily spend. Plus you can have it running for a specific period of time, down to the hour.

All in all, this looks like it could be a vastly more accurate method of promotion than AdWords.

Tuesday 2 February 2010

Kongregate Earnings for January


Kongregate earnings for January are now in. Total earned was $0.80, the majority of this coming from Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss which was released at the end of the month. Unfortunately, it did not rate as highly as hoped.

Monday 1 February 2010

MochiAds Earnings for January



Total earned from MochiAds from January was $33.70 as a developer, down again from last month. Picture Find is still doing reasonably well on MindJolt, and Pyramid Solitaire was the next biggest earner again. The recently released Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss has had one of the better (for me) initial launches. I'm trying the Inter-level Ads in this game - they appear after a score has been submitted, but have can only appear once in a specified amount of time, I believe 5 minutes, which should stop them from becoming too annoying.

Publisher earnings were down substantially, to $0.17, with impressions down as well.