More Amazing Stats

It's not very often I look at my Google Adsense account, as I don't earn a lot from it and it's one of those things that just runs in the background.

Today, I loggged in for the first time since early August, just to see whether any of my newer domains were earning any revenues.

I opened the account on June 21st 2003 and set up my first domain on June 21st 2003. Though I got a few visitors that day, it wasn't until June 22nd (A Sunday) that I got my first paid clicks - and made a stunning total of $7 - not bad for a Sunday.

It's nice seeing the total appear at the bottom of the page, though I know some people earn more with Adsense in a month than I have in 5 years! Makes me sick with jealousy if I'm honest.

What a surprise I got though when I looked at my top performing name over the past few months. It breaks all of the rules of domaining. It's a .co.uk and what's worse, it's hyphenated.

This particular name does 4 times the traffic of the next best performing name on Adsense and achieves an incredible click through rate.

I won't mention the name because I don't want to affect the numbers.

What I do find interesting is that out of my top 5 performing Adsense names, 4 are hyphenated and all are .co.uk.

I've never been a particularly good domainer. Imagine what I could have achieved with type-ins!