Pathik Shah

Today, I received my first Google Adsense Check via Bluedart. The earnings are for the ads published on PathikShah.Com from December 2008 – March 2009. It isn’t much, but does make ends meet.

When I first started this blog, it was mainly because of 3 reasons -

1. I wanted to be the top search result when anyone googled my name
2. Everyone I knew had a blog
3. I was bored

Unlike most other bloggers, I wasn’t trying to satisfy my creative urge to write, nor did I want to make the world a better place by writing the best tech blog around. . I was just plain bored (I still am), and wanted to do something to keep me occupied (which this blog failed at).

I wasn’t hoping to earn much from it (I wasn’t even thinking about it, though I did write about it in the About Me page. ), I didn’t even publish any ads in the first 1-2 months of the blog. And anyways, technology / personal blogs never earn much because techies – your target audience – rarely click on ads, and you don’t get much traffic on the personal posts when no one is interested in reading about your rather boring life (like mine). I was even contemplating removing ads totally, but my ad placement was mostly unobtrusive so I decided to let them remain. Besides, I wanted to recover atleast the initial capital involved – the hosting and domain costs.

I started getting decent traffic on some posts (which was a bit surprising as I never tried any serious SEO, just the basic organic stuff), and clicks followed. I never was one to check my Adsense earnings every day and fret over low earnings, I am trying hard to resist that urge. My CTR and CPM are still abysmally low though. I don’t think my blog earnings are going to improve much as I hardly blog these days – its too boring. I must be the first blogger to have stumbled upon the famed writer’s block so fast. I’ll try to post as frequently as I can. Keep visiting the best blog of all times.

BTW, I accomplished my first objective way back in 2008, in case you were wondering. – Me@Google

In the words of the great Borat Sagdiyev, Great Success!!!