Actually my current stats is much higher.

3 month rank is 1,655,110
1 month rank is 1,065,403
7 day rank is 1,087,210

The 7 day rank fluctuates the most. It was 1, 500,000++ last week and 597,000 the week before last.

However, there is a problem. According to google analytics, my 3 month ending September 8 is as follows: 5799 visits, 3,352 unique visitors, 20,532 pageviews and 4:38 minutes/ visit.

US is 4,125 visits, 3.56 pages/visit
Canada is 277 visits, 2.60 pages/visit
India is 215 visits, 3.02 pages/visit
Philippines is 180, 5.86 pages /visit
and Taiwan is 73, 4.3 pages/visit

However, Alexa gave my percentage as follows:
US 43.0%
India 34.2%
Taiwan 7.9 %
Philippines 7.0%

Canada is nowhere in sight. Plus US traffic is probably massively underreported since India, Taiwan and Philippines are too high compared to US percentages. So question is how much is the actual traffic being under reported, especially coming from the US and Canada.

Plus, during the week when my pageviews were going as high as 1,000 a day most of it from the US. My 7 day rank was falling to 2,000,000 ++, although my 3 month rank was holding steady. So Alexa seems to underreport US traffic massively as far as my site is concerned.

The adsense spiel is just a joke. My adsense is pulling in around $18 to $20 a month the past 3 months, so probably will get my check in 3 more months. But I earn over 150x that in my day job. My maid earns 5x that amount. Anyway in the Philippines, we have a term for that “consuelo de bobo”, literally to console the fool. It means better than nothing. Plus, it doesn’t work, revenues didn’t increase at all despite almost double the traffic. And putting the ads in out of the way places, is per design. My bro and my GF have been telling me to put them on top and in the posts since Day 1. But that would be too commercial for me.

As for going to the US, no choice for me now as my GF, whom I hope to marry in a year or so, lives and works in San Francisco. So for me, it was never an economic decision. First it was professional, then it became the oldest reason in the world I guess.

As for the match, no I won’t go this year. Many of my classmates have urged me to try academic medicine first. In fact, one offered me an H1B job in the medical school where he is an associate professor in IM and an interventional cardiologist. This was before my first try for the 2008 match last year. I turned him down to give the match a try. He had advised me to go to academic medicine for a year or two. And if I still want to, then go for the match. Even with a double 99, according to him, being an old grad can be tough without backers. He was right. He wasn’t the only one. Other classmates, who are professors in different medical schools also gave the same advise. So now, I’ll probably try their route. One even told me that one of my classmates is a member of the residency selection committee in her hospital. That is if I want to go to Family Medicine. So I’ll be going to the US this November, visit some of my classmates for a “conference” and plan out my moves next year.

As for the feeds, I tried them with both IE and Mozilla Firefox and they both work, so I don’t understand why it isn’t working with yours. I probably should check it out using other computers just to be sure. Anyway thanks for the info. Appreciate your concern.

So, I have two small suggestions:
1- Adsense banner on the top.
2- After fixing the blog’s “feeds” famous bloggers usually put them on the top too. I suggest over the “recent posts box”

Regarding the Adsense Ads, it looks like you skipped a couple of lines when you read the “contract”, lol. In case you didn’t know they highly stress that advertisers are not to encourage family, friends, or site visitors to click on the Ads. They say that they may terminate an account if they suspect suspicious behaviors like that.

Anyhow, from my experience, just so you do not have high expectations, the Ads do not pay well at all. It took me like 6 months to make my first $100! That is ridiculous. Yes, the Ads generate more revenue now but still I am not satisfied at all.

It is not a secret that the key to higher revenue is raising your blogs traffic. The more the traffic the higher the revenue. Again from my experience, among every 100 visitors only one will click on the Ads. You know all the other numbers so you can do the math and make your own conclusions. And I suggest you put one small “banner” over your first post. It will get more clicks over there for sure.

Although I do not want to be nosy, I find my self tempted to ask this: is the US worth all what you are doing and going through? and will you be applying for the match this season?

As always, I wish you the very best.

Thank you and it’s done.

MDIN2009

P.S. We should do a link exchange.

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