Beginner’s Blog

Oh how a time flies by. It’s been 22 days since my last update. Not much to report though.

Main focus is still on www.coreduonews.com and it is growing nicely. Now it has about 1800 hits on a weekdays and about 1100 on weekends. AdSense earnings also seem to increase, although CPC is rather low and seems getting lower. Right now it’s about $.20-25 per click. Still during last 7 days got 3 with earnings of above $10. Also started working on better navigation on the side. Adeed new categories and will try to expand them.

Unwired View is doing rather slow. Last week still had about 50 hits a day mainly from referrals to two articles  and miniscule google traffic. But last Friday I got afirst real break with this blog. Was browsing through patent database and found Samsung’s patent for cellphones with perfumes. Published it and submitted to digg and reddit. Seems that people liked it, got 5 comments and about 10 links from some lowtraffic blogs and some foreign  high traffic blogs and forums.  Seeng an intersted  submitted  my story to some mobile dedicated forums myself and also tipped Engadget, Gizmodo and Ubergizmos. Engadget picked up my story on their mobile blog - Engadget mobile andSpanish version. Others ignored it. Although Gizmodo ran a story about the same patent but refernced another blog. Darn!

After thinking over the weekend of how to proceed with Unwired view, I came up with a decision. There will be two types of posts:

1. for Search engine traffic generation, where I will cite and point to the stories, news and reviews about cellphones written by others. These won’t appear on the front page and in main feed and will be accesible through the categories.
2. My own content for the front page. But it won’t be updated daily.

I already started working on it. Finally found a good theme - Liquid Summer. Installed it, added opt infrontpage plugin and tried some referencing posts. Looks doable.
I also started a new blog - www.umpcnews.com. It is dedicated for the new UMPC/Origami devices, released during Cebit and I hope to grow this blog together with the UMPC category. Not much content to write about now but I hope it will increase. Today also got my first break for this blog. One of todays posts was picked up by Gizmodo - on their front page! I was not expecting it at all. A number of other blogs have written  about new UMPC  from Daewoo before my post. And I didn’t even reference original source - I cited Korean website post (written in English). Still, I submitted the post to digg and it seems that that’s where Gizmodo writes saw it and picked it up.

I didn’t even have any ads on this blog yet, so I rushed toput some adsense on it as soon asI saw spike in traffic. So far, in 3 hours Igot about 350 hits on umpcnews.com. We’ll see how it develops later.

Looks like I really abandoned my diary. And I just realized that it’s no good. It seems that I tend forget a lot and udjust my expectations upwards as time goes by. I started a new blog www.unwiredview.com. It’s about everything wireless. Felt really frustrated with the slow start. Not as many promotion opportunities, so not as many vistors. Still I can get about 150 clicks if I try to promote thisblog. If not, I now get between 20 ans 50 cliks a day.  Today was first click from google. That reminded me to check the diary  and that  helped a lot.  Seems that  Unwired View progresses in similar manner to Core Duo, adjusted to less promotion efforts. Just have to keep working on content and fix the design.

Been using ProBlogger Clean WP theme, but really didn’t like the ad layout. And then it stopped working, so Iswitched now to default WP theme for a whileuntil I find replacement.

Core Duo News blog is doing very nicely so far. At the end of the month made a post about Apple mac mini just after it’s announcement. Managed to get out within half hour from announcement (just watched real time coverage from some blogs and made an article with mac mini specs and prices). Submitted to Digg and Reddit and the post made first page on Reddit. That made me about 3500 pageviews in a couple of days. Pretty nice way to end the month.

Core Duo News  total tally for the first moth of operation: 19 423 pageloads, 11 075 unique visitors  and  $88.75 in adSense earnings. Quite an improvement from January. CDN now has PR2 and averages about 1000 pageviews on a working day and about 700 on weekends, without any promotions. Traffic is mainly from google, although I get somelinks to some of the articles. Mostly linked are the ones from confidential Dell file. Also dug up some unnounced Lenovo ThinkPad tablet and it got some links from other blogs. Computer reviews or other similar articles do not get linked at all. I guess I should look harder for these original tidbit.

Just checked Google sitemaps and it seems that CDN has about 20 diffrent queries mostly related tocore duo notebooks on the first page of search. For queries “inspirion 6400″ and “dell inspirion 6400″ CDN is even No.1 on google.  Guess that also comes from these incoming links.Google shows 79 incoming links total and 12 unique links on result pages for CDN.

Some of them are from articles I submitted e.g from TailRank and Gabbr, but others are real links from some external sites.