StillMa

Spare change is the handful of coins that weigh down your pockets or add a few pounds to the bottom of your purse.  Spare is usually an undetermined amount and since you don't know how much it is, you don't usually mind giving it away or spending it without a lot of thought. Spare change can accumulate to the point that it is no longer change, and then becomes savings.  Some times you save up so much spare change that you could pay for a nice vacation ... thar is if you can spare the time.

Spare time on the other hand doesn't accumulate. In fact it is apt to dwindle away unnoticed. You can lose time without ever really knowing that you had some in the first place.

If you are anything like me, you never have any time that could honestly be referred to as "spare" or extra.  My to-do list and "want to-do" lists are so long that my reincarnated lives will be kept busy. Still ... this weekend, I will use some of that stuff so foolishly referred to as spare time to make some progress on my passive income sites AND on the new site I'm creating for Tarboro and the people of Tarboro. www.gotarboro.com  .

As I stated a few days ago, I've been working on breaking up my blog into several different topic specific blogs.  This project, when completed, should benefit my production of web-based passive income.

Last Friday, the daily newspaper posted the URL to this blog as a place to read my posts about our town, Tarboro NC.  That will be true for a few more days, but I'm already working on setting up a new blog specifically for the topics 1) Tarboro and 2) Small Town Revitalization.  When I'm certain of the new URL I'll post it here and make it easy to find from my other websites.

Speaking of other websites . . . I have several. Each one serves a purpose of its own and is necessary for my "Master Plan" .

This site, www.stillma.com will eventually be limited to the topic for which it was created, Creating a Fabulous Life through Personal Growth.  That topic in itself is large enough to offer an interesting mix of subtopics from the Laws of the Universe, to Eating Healthy Foods, to ideas for creating income.

My business websites, www.wholesalenc.com and www.barnonline.com will have an interconnected blog where I can post all of my helpful and pseudo-helpful business advice. These two sites have many static pages optimized for the search engines and are already the core of my passice income through Google Adsense. The Unusual Shoppe's website will promote the store with future improvements added for topics involving collectibles and links to Tarboro websites (mine and others). 

All of my Tarboro projects will each have a website and they will link together enhancing each other's web presence and strength in the rankings. 

My old stand-by website, named for a mail-order catalog business I had in the early 1980s, www.GoodMorningFarm.com will be the "umbrella" site that will link these and any future offspring sites together.  There is still a lot of creating and linking to do, but the finished product should be terrific, easily manageable and very profitable. 

I just checked my Google Adsense stats for yesterday and I'm so excited I had to share.  Yesterday's passive income earnings is $14.96.   I think that's so cool!  I start calculating $14.96 x 365 days and that's an additional $5400+ per year. 

It's not that reliable as yet.  It seems that the daily income totals are still fluctuating greatly so yesterday's windfall may simply be the highlight of the month, but it IS very promising.

I've got quite a bit more work I can do to my websites that I know will improve the income, but I have a tendency to run out of hours in my day.

Today I need to finish addressing envelopes for a Second Saturdays mailing.  I really want to get the whole community involved and I need to get the word out about what we (Tarboro citizens) would like to see happen.

The response from folks that I talk with is very positive and I'm hoping a few of them will actually pitch in and help with the organizing.  If we break it down into little sub-sections, nobody would have too much to do and we can pull together a pretty good event on a shoestring budget. 

When I'm not obsessing about everything else, I obsess about creating passive income on the web. 

My Google Adsense provides random inspiration mixed with curiosity and concern as the income it produces fluctuates from $3.23 one day to $10.85 the next.  There does not yet seem to be a level of consistency for me to learn  and reproduce.   Even the number of page views varies drastically from day to day.  Yesterday, the popular page by far was my static page for the keywords "wholesale fleamarket",  today that page is way down the list for views and has ZERO clicks.

Curt kids me about checking the stats as often as I do, but I'm learning from them.  I don't just check to see how much money the ads are bringing in, I'm checking to see which pages are being viewed and which pages are getting the most click-throughs.  I'm a bit frustrated that a true hypothesis can't be made. An important information factor is not available to me. I have no way of knowing which specific ads are getting the actual clicks.  Google places the ads randomly on my pages. They are matched by subject matter, but different ads are randomly displayed each time the page is viewed. Some ads inspire click-throughs more than others and I haven't determined if there is a way to track which ones are being displayed.

Once I have that figured out I'll be better prepared to calculate potential clicks and income from any given page.

The page tweaking that I've been doing is actually just the initial phase of a major web overhaul.  Although I have a variety of topics that I like to blog about, I believe, for passive income's sake, that it would be best if my blog (s) is more topic specific.  So, I plan to split up the blog into two (or more) blogs.

My plan is to devote this blog entirely to matters of personal growth and The Law of Attraction, which of course also includes the sub-topics of health, wealth, happiness, etc. .   I believe that it's much better for web placement and for Google ads if the topics discussed within the blog have some continuity. 

My other existing sites will have blogs of their own, with their own topics of discussion.  For example, I will move my discussing of Tarboro issues to a blog on The Unusual Shoppe's website.  There I will also discuss collectibles and selling stuff on Ebay. Shared between BARNonline and WholesaleNC will be a blog for discussing wholesale, retail and small business advice. 

My mind often tangles two or more subjects together and on the occasion when that occurs, I'll just copy the blog entry into more that one blog OR link back and forth between them.

None of this blog separation work has begun yet as I am still in tweak-mode and it appears that I have enough web tweaking to do to keep me busy for a few days.  I may be imagining it, but I think I can already see improvement as a result of the pages completed.   Here's why I'm thinking this ... yesterday, ALL day, there were 463 page impressions (from all of my pages with ads) and 22 click throughs (that earned me money).  Today, and it's only 7:30pm , the page impressions are at 361 (update: by end of day 488) and the click throughs are at 21 (update: 29) . So we've had about 100 less visits to the pages, so far, but almost the same number of click throughs.  With 4 1/2 hours left of today, the 21 clicks have already paid me $5.88 (update: $7.58) . 

I realize that I'm putting quite a few hours into this "passive income" project,  but it's like gardening using the Bio-dynamic French Intensive method in raised beds with successive plantings.  At the beginning there is a LOT of work to be done, but after the beds are made and the plants established, maintenance is minimal and you reap the harvest in ABUNDANCE!!