As I have mentioned before on this blog, I have needed to put some effort into AlbertaTourist.com in order to monetize the blog so that I am achieving at least a few clicks per day. For March to date, I have received 21 clicks on 970 page impressions which have provided me with $1.99 in income. This tells me a couple of things :

1. The keywords my site is associated with do not pay very well
2. I am not averaging at least one click per day.

I think at this point, I would be happy with one click per day. To me, it is better than nothing. Here is what I have attempted to do to try to achieve this (I have been following the suggestions I wrote about here):

1. I went through each of the pages on the site and updated the meta tags. Basically, due to my inexperience when I wrote the site I neglected to include detailed meta tags. To help me with this, I found a cool meta-tag builder at Vancouver-Webpages.com

2. I did some Googling for similar keywords and did a blitz on reciprocal linking. Basically, I just did a bunch of emailing to the webmaster of various sites and asked for a reciprocal link. I am going to monitor them and ask again if necessary. I am hoping that this gets my page rank up and drives more people to the site.

I have a few other things I would like to do to help optimize the site. One is to build a human sitemap and the other is to create a reciprocal link page that tells people how they can exchange links with me. I think that I will add it to my link page and on the front page.