The crude oil insight blog, breaks into the first technorati top 100 lists with an authority rating of 550. I have no idea how the hell did that happens (I have a few sneaking suspicions). For a blog that started off in February and is still ranked with a page rank of only 2.0, the…
500,000 page-views, 4.5 years, three incarnations
I had been so busy with work, travel, travel, work and breaking the 3 dollar Adsense barrier that I completely missed a milestone I had been eagerly awaiting for the past few months. Somewhere in May, (don’t know when), the Desi Back to Desh blog crossed 500,000 page views. I was just checking my regular…
My Google Adsense mis-adventure – Invasion of the spiders, help please – Part III
Since we are on topic, I thought I would also post the Statpress snapshot. Is this normal? I have about 80 – 100 unique visitors with 425 pageviews (which is fine) but 2,513 spiders in a day and by the time I am done with may I would have had the dubious distinction of having…
My Google Adsense mis-adventure – Site portfolio and profiles – Part II
Here is the profile of my adsense enabled sites, their traffic patterns and their revenue contribution over the last three months. I am open to any tips, suggestions, ideas and thoughts that will help me double or triple these numbers in the next four weeks. Desi Back To Desh blog The very first blog that…
My Adsense mis-adventure – Struggling to break 3 dollars a month – Part I
I thought I would fess up today and share the progress or lack of it made on the Google Adsense project in the first three months. If you have been following me around you know that around early February I decided to build a printing press for printing US dollars (or the money machine as…
Taking the weekend off or how the mighty have fallen
Some days you should just stay in bed and not get out at all. I woke up at my usual 3 am and realized that while I had long list of todo’s I really didn’t feel like working today. It took an enormous effort to head back to bed at 4 am and not feel…
More on Facebook, PTA and the LHC judgment
A friend wrote this and sent this onwards this afternoon. I think it deserves a wider audience than the mailing list it was circulated on. First publicize it, and then ban it “I learned a very important message at a young age when my friends and I couldn’t even bowl over arm. I was bowled…
Forecasting the Monetary Policy decisions – will there be a rate cut or not
Forecasting the monetary policy The next monetary policy announcement is due in the last week of May 2010. We attempt to forecast the cut in the policy discount rate by looking at oil prices, the relationship between oil prices and imports, exports, remittances, the current account balance, net foreign assets, credit to the private sector…
My Google Adsense Journey – Three months of Adsense, lessons learnt
In the beginning there was oil… It was oil that started the Adsense debate, the oil insights blog and the follow on blogs that came later. Learning Finance, Startup Insights and a couple of other interesting experiments. Three months later the click through rate (CTR) is the highest on Oil Insights, the traffic is highest…
PTA kills the internet and pulls Pakistan back into Stone Age
One big step forward for PTA (the Pakistan Telecom Authority), a time warp portal for 160 million Pakistanis. In the worst days of a dictatorial government this wasn’t done. An overzealous judge and an equally incompetent regulator have rolled back Pakistan into the dark ages. Suddenly without Wikipedia, without you-tube and without Google, the internet…