Nathan Waters

Finally! After signing up twice for an invite, I finally received one this morning and set it all up for www.nathanwaters.com

I must admit that I haven’t actually been using any traffic tracking software at all so far for this blog which probably isn’t/wasn’t very wise. I originally thought that my web host may have had an inbuilt tracking feature but I haven’t been able to find one.

It takes up to 24 hours for the data to start coming in, but it should be interesting to see how many people actually visit this blog. I tend to get the feeling that I do have a few people who checkout what I’ve been doing every now and then as I do get a few comments. Although it would be obvious that whatever traffic I was getting before would be very little now since I haven’t been posting regularly. Also the fact that this blog doesn’t specifically have a niche means that it’s a little random in content and so a little random in visitors. But I don’t mind.

My intentions for the blog at the very start were to make money… I have to admit it

Since starting this blog to today I can tell you that I’ve made a grand total of US$126.50 (all from adsense), of which $100 was from an Adsense referral which meant that someone very kind signed up to adsense through the little button on the right, they made $100 from Adsense and so Google gave me $100. Yay!

But I’ve since realised that it’s unlikely that it’ll make good money unless I target a specific niche or I become successful. I mean even people like Yaro who have 1000+ subscribers are not making much money from blogging, but he is building a great reputation, skills and a large advertising/marketing platform.

So for the mean-time I figure I’ll just continue to post whatever I feel like, which is hopefully at least a little interesting to those of you reading this. The blog should eventually become a great place to launch my new ventures and projects, it’s great for networking, good for building a reputation and perhaps one day if I do become the next Branson, I’ll be able to use this blog as a complete online diary and history of my quest and my journey.

Nathan Waters
Analytically Analysed