I published lot of advertisements on my blogs in order to make more money. The more the merrier. However, most of the advertisements are in JavaScript format. And JavaScript will slow down your blog because it block parallel downloads. Browser need to finish process it before continue to the next one. If that particular JavaScript ‘hang’ somehow, same apply to your blog. Therefore, I promised to myself to reduce advertisements on my blogs once I reached certain amount of revenue. I reached it and it’s time to delete those non-performing advertisements that slow down blog.

I tried Malaysia advertising companies like Advertlets, Admax Network, Innity Performance Network and Nuffnang. Only Nuffnang performs well compare to the others. However, Nuffnang has a serious slow loading issue on its ads. My blogs can’t even load when Nuffnang leaderboard ad on header ‘hang’. It needs to wait for several minutes until it is timed out then my blog can continue loading. Therefore, I removed both leaderboard and rectangle ad. Left only 1 skyscraper ad on sidebar. Why? My blog right sidebar is the second last component to be loaded (the last one is footer). So readers don’t have issue to read the article even when Nuffnang ads ‘hang’. Nuffnang ad will be gone from JayceOoi.com if it is still slow from loading. Besides, its revenue cannot catch up with JayceOoi.com traffic like Google AdSense and Vibrant. Does it worth to continue publish?

During lot of testing and optimizing blog with WebPagetest, Nuffnang ad is not the only one that slows down my blogs. ContextWeb ads slow down too. Therefore, lot of ContextWeb ads had been axed too. I published 7 ContextWeb ads in 1 page last time (yes, I know that’s a lot. What to do? I want more money. ). And reduced to 3 main types of ads (rectangle, leaderboard and skyscraper) now. Will further reduce it if ContextWeb revenue does not meet my target (now still don’t). Cut cut cut…

Reduce advertisements on blog == decrease in revenue. But I am willing to take it as readers like you and me don’t like to wait for long for 1 page to load, right? By removing those non-performing ads, it might increase other ad companies’ revenue due to faster loading time. Why? Vibrant In-Text Ads will only be loaded after everything is loaded (Ad script at footer). If Nuffnang ads ‘hang’, Vibrant ads will not be able to see the day light anymore. Do you get the point?

Is your blog filled with lot of advertisements? If yes, it’s time for your blog to keep fit.

Well done Vibrant, Google AdSense, ContextWeb and BlogAds. All of them hit record high on December. Once again, Vibrant is the big boss. It is really the king of in-text ads. I published Infolinks and Kontera ads previously. They could not even come near to Google AdSense earning, not to mention overtake it like Vibrant did.

Internet income report for December 2010

Vibrant – US$ 976.25 (RM 2945.15)
Google AdSense – US$ 901.01 (RM 2718.16)
ContextWeb – US$ 540.10 (RM 1629.37)
BlogAds – US$ 146.46 (RM 441.84)
Nuffnang – US$ 78.99 (RM 238.31)

Grand Total: US$ 2642.81 (RM 7972.83)

1 USD == 3.0168 RM. Err… USD is getting weaker each day. Look like this dropping trend will continue on year 2011. Hopefully, increased blogs’ traffic can cover currency conversion loss.

By the way, this is my last Internet income report. Thanks to those who follow these reports. Hopefully, it encourages you to continue blogging. I did a proof of concept myself. Online blogging really can bring revenue to you. It replaces my 8 to 5 daily job. You can do the same too.

Keep it up…

November 2010 was great ~ a record high on monthly earning. And Vibrant Media was the big boss this round. Vibrant, Google AdSense and ContextWeb hit record high again too. Well done to them. Of course, increased blogs’ traffic helped to generate more income too. As I said, focus on quality of the articles, people will come and re-visit your sites again…

Internet income report for November 2010

Vibrant – US$ 699.91 (RM 2140.67)
Google AdSense – US$ 571.02 (RM 1746.46)
ContextWeb – US$ 417.81 (RM 1277.87)
Nuffnang – US$ 108.78 (RM 332.72)
BlogAds – US$ 91.00 (RM 278.32)

Grand Total: US$ 1888.52 (RM 5776.04)

Yeah… USD 1888 ~ Chinese love number 8 == rich and prosperity. But 1 USD == 3.0585 RM. US Dollar currency rate is decreasing fast lately. Therefore, Ringgit Malaysia is getting stronger which turn into less earning for me. Nuffnang is the only income source from Malaysia. And it contributed 5.76% of total income only. This means that almost 95% of my income is from US. So strong USD currency is very important to me. How about you?

Yeah… CONTEXTWEB New Selling Desk Dashboard has lot of useful new features ~ several charts. I can check my CONTEXTWEB earning much easier than before with the help of the charts. Charts include Fill Rate & Avg. Price, PerformancePrice Revenue, Revenue & Total Impressions and MTD Revenue vs. Last Month. Personally, I like Month To Date Revenue vs Last Month Chart the most (when I see current month to date earning is better than previous).

MTD Revenue vs. Last Month

Second is the Revenue & Total Impressions Chart. I can have a glance of 30 daily revenue performances in 1 shot.

Revenue & Total Impressions

Hmm… I still have issue to understand PerformancePrice Revenue Chart. Need more time to study it. Do you like CONTEXTWEB New Selling Desk Dashboard?

Based on past years experience, Q4 is the best quarter for Internet earning. No more 13th month bonus when I was employed. So increasing earning in Q4 is like the bonus for me. And congrats to Google AdSense and Vibrant Media on hitting the record high. Well done…

Internet income report for October 2010

Google AdSense – US$ 559.86 (RM 1734.44)
Vibrant – US$ 546.11 (RM 1691.84)
ContextWeb – US$ 226.52 (RM 701.75)
Nuffnang – US$ 104.56 (RM 323.95)
BlogAds – US$ 91.00 (RM 281.91)

Grand Total: US$ 1528.05 (RM 4733.89)

1 USD == 3.0980 RM. US Dollar currency rate is increasing due to Europe financial issue. Thanks to that, Ringgit Malaysia is dropping a little bit. Hopefully, it can continue to going down so that US earning will be even more.

Is your Internet income going up too?