Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is caused by exposure to asbestos particles. It causes malignant cells to develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body’s internal organs. Companies are liable to pay their employees a fair amount compensation if the workers are exposed to asbestos. Many lawsuits pertaining to Mesothelioma are filed every year around the world.

Mesothelioma, Asbestos and Adsense

Google Adsense is the biggest online advertising network in the world. It offers context sensitive advertising in which ads are published across the publisher network based on the content and certain keywords.

Mesothelioma has been the highest paying keyword since around 2005. It’s rumored that the CPC (cost per click) on Mesothelioma based keywords like mesothelioma, mesothelioma asbestos, mesothelioma lawyers, peritoneal mesothelioma, mesothelioma attorney ranges anywhere between $90 to $40. This is the amount paid to the publisher each time anyone clicks on any mesothelioma related ad. To compare this with other keywords, an average keyword pays you only about $0.06 – $0.20 per click.

There are many MFA (Made for Adsense) sites focusing specifically on the Mesothelioma keyword; many of them have reportedly made a killing on it. However, it seems very doubtful that someone would pay that much just for a visit to their website. What’s even more surprising is that despite openly being the top paying keyword for about 4 years and being exploited by many, it is still very much in fashion; publishers still report about $40 – $50 per mesothelioma click.

The checks now arrive faster than earlier, in about 40 days from the month when your earnings reach $100.

To track the status of your check, you can use the Bluedart tracking number provided by Google once they issue the checks – normally 25 days after the earnings reach $100.

Get your Tracking Number

- Log in to your Google Adsense account.
- Go to the My Account tab > Payment History
- Click on the Payment Issued – Details link (in the month after your earnings reach $100.)
- Get the Tracking number alongwith the name of the Courier service used to dispatch the check. (In this case, Bluedart).

Track your Check Status

- Go to the Bluedart website.
- Enter your Tracking Number in the Tracking tool
- The current status of your check will be displayed with the expected date of delivery.

If you are not an Indian Adsense publisher, you can still follow the same procedure, just get the tracking number and visit the website of the courier service to track it.

Track: 1. Bluedart 2. DHL

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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!!!

These are my Adsense earnings for the month of December 2008.

Not bad, huh?

Note: The screenshot above was faked using http://googleadsensegenerator.com

No, I haven’t earned anything yet. Hopefully, I will. Soon.