January 2014 - Blog Income Report $8.37

18 February, 2014 | Blogging | 13 seen

Welcome to the first online income report of www.reinisfischer.com website.

My blog now is about 4 months old, and starting in January I decided to experiment - can a blogger earn any decent income from blogging, I decided to make public my online success or failures. I have been active online since 2005, it's almost 10 years now. But my online income was and still is relatively low.

In a matter of 5 years, I have earned Google AdSense a lit bit more than $100. But I'm willing to change that.

Starting this year (2014) - I have implemented Google AdSense on 4 properties (including this blog), they all are modest in daily traffic.

For now, I'm using Google AdSense (on 4 properties) and Booking.com (1 property) affiliate to monetize my sites.

Here is my online income report for January.

• Google AdSense - $8.37
• Booking affiliate - 0

Total - $8.37

On average in January I earned $0.27 per day. What makes me below extreme poverty if compared to the World's poorest country

Recently I set up my first AdSense goal - to break even my…

How To Display Image Galleries with Thumbnails on Drupal with Flex Slider

16 February, 2014 | Drupal Development | 135 seen

Recently, I faced a challenge while trying to display image galleries on a Drupal-powered website.

While there are a few modules that you can use to build your gallery view, such as the Views Slideshow Gallery module, I recently discovered some Drupal-powered sites using the Flex Slider library.

Excited by this new discovery, I tried to create a gallery with thumbnails, but unfortunately, it didn't work out as expected. However, I eventually found a solution on how to configure Flex Slider to work on Drupal.

Here are the steps required:

Cycling in Tbilisi: Marjanishvili - Ortachala

15 February, 2014 | Outdoor Activities | 9 seen

Left Embankment of Mtkvari is one of the longest asphalt pavement cycling distances in city of Tbilisi - it stretches from Didube to Ortochala (passing Tbilisi Old Town). It is among the easiest routes as well. 

In today's Tbilisi cycling series post I'll share some photos from  Marjanishvili to Ortachala ride, you will see interesting and beautiful views with buildings next to river Mtkvari. Make sure you check out Part 2 in these series: Cycling in Tbilisi: Left Embankment of Mtkvari or alternatively check out cycling topic.

Metekhi church in Old Town

Dam over Mtkvari river in Tbilisi

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Monument in Ortachala

Fancy building

Dwelling houses on cliff in Tbilisi

Mother Georgia and Tbilisi aerial tram

Fishermen in Tbilisi

20 weeks of blogging in row

14 February, 2014 | Blogging | 4 seen

<p>This week mark 20th week since I started my blogging contest - <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/can-you-blog-365-days-row">Can you blog 365 days in rows</a>.</p><p><strong>What have been done in these 20 weeks?</strong></p><ul><li><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">I have tuned my blog visual part, and still continuing work on it.</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">I have received <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/my-first-traffic-spike-lessons-learned">my first traffic spike</a></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">I have implemented Google Adsense to monetize my site earnings</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">I have found some topics to write about - like documentaries and TV series</span></li><li><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">I have started a <a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/photos">photo blog</a></span></li></ul><div>32…

How to Create a Stunning Masonry Front Page in Drupal: A Step-by-Step Guide

12 February, 2014 | Drupal Development | 54 seen

Creating a Drupal masonry front page can be an effective way to showcase your website's content in a visually appealing way.

Masonry layouts are popular for their ability to display content in an organized and dynamic manner, allowing users to easily navigate and explore your website.

In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the steps to create a Drupal masonry front page. 

To begin, you'll need to install and enable the Masonry module in your Drupal site. This can be done through the Drupal administration dashboard by navigating to Extend > Install new module, and then searching for "Masonry" in the search bar. Once you've installed and enabled the module, you can begin configuring your masonry front page.

To create a masonry front page, you'll need to create a new view. In the Drupal administration dashboard, navigate to Structure > Views > Add new view. Give your new view a name and choose "Show content of type" as the view's base table. Then, select the content types that you want to display on your masonry front page.

Overpopulated

11 February, 2014 | Documentaries | 11 seen

<p>One of the best documentaries I have recently seen - a humble scientist from Sweden explains many interesting facts, like how many child are born for woman in average, does Asia and Africa is overpopulated? &nbsp;Scientist explains how medicine and education have provided longer life expectancy in countries like Bangladesh.</p><p>In this documentary is shown &nbsp;a beautiful story about African family living with less than $1 day and dreaming to buy a bicycle. And how bicycle literally drives them out of extreme poverty.</p><p>About energy consumption. About the Riches and Poor.&nbsp;</p>

Making Money Online with AdSense: My Journey to a $40 Monthly Income

10 February, 2014 | Blogging | 13 seen

I've been blogging for a while now and recently, I published my first online income report, showing a grand total of eight dollars earned from Google AdSense. This might not seem like much, but it's actually an improvement from the previous years. I've been using Google AdSense on low-traffic websites since 2009, and over that period, I've earned just a little over $100. That's about $20 a year, or about $1.66 per month, or just $0.05 a day.

The reason my AdSense earnings have been so low is due to two reasons: first, I haven't used Google AdSense for all the 5 years, and second, my websites have had low traffic, barely reaching 1,000 visitors per month. I haven't paid much attention to CTR, CPC, and other metrics that could have improved my earnings.

That's why I decided to set my first goal for Google AdSense - to earn enough to cover my Linode VPS hosting bills, which I set at $40 per month. This may seem like a modest amount, but it's not about the amount, it's about being worth it. To achieve this goal, I need to optimize my CTR and CPC values.

To give you an example, if my CTR is 4% and my CPC is 0.20, I would need 200 clicks and 5000 visitors to…

Mr Selfridge

9 February, 2014 | Worth to Watch | 16 seen

<p>Another great TV series from British islands. I wouldn't call myself a huge fan of British movies or series, but there are few really good one. And Mr Selfridge is one of it.</p><p>The story is about an American entrepreneur who founded Selfridges store in London, United Kingdom back in 1909.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Here is more from&nbsp;Wikipedia:</strong></p><blockquote><p>Mr Selfridge is a British period television drama series about Harry Gordon Selfridge and his London department store Selfridge &amp; Co, co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece/WGBH for broadcast on ITV and PBS. The series began airing on 6 January 2013 in the United Kingdom (10 episodes), and on 31 March 2013 in the United States (8 episodes, the first and last being double-length).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Selfridge">&nbsp;http://en.wikipedia.or… far - have seen just first series, and all of them was worth watching.</p>

The Following

8 February, 2014 | Worth to Watch | 11 seen

<p>Started to watch tv series - The Following</p><p><strong>About The Following:</strong></p><blockquote><p><span>A brilliant and charismatic, yet psychotic serial killer communicates with other active serial killers and activates a cult of believers following his every command.&nbsp;</span></p></blockquote><p><strong>My thoughts after watching first season:</strong></p><p><span>If honest, I'm surprised for <strong>imdb</strong>'s&nbsp;rating&nbsp;7.7 for this TV-series - Or let's say in other words - I watched first season, but I didn't have this breathtaking feeling that it's mine. It's more&nbsp;appropriate for those who like movie <strong>The Twilight -&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;for teenagers.</span></p><p>Plot line<span>&nbsp;what's concentrated of stories of Edgar Allan Poe - doesn't make a sense for me. Well, I have red some novels by Poe, but still I wouldn't rate this serial too high. I would give it average 5, not 7.7</span></p><p…

How many beers you can buy in Europe for minimum wage?

7 February, 2014 | Macroeconomics | 14 seen

I like charts and graphics, who doesn't? Well Reddit user Adilu, has created a map of how many beers you can buy in Europe for a minimum wage:

According to map - most beers you will get in Belgium = 1028, and less in Georgia = 36. Rest of Europe averages in 300-400 beers.

Please visit Adilu to find out more

How to register your site with Bing Webmaster Tools

5 February, 2014 | Blogging | 31 seen

There is a great alternative to Google Webmaster tools - Bing Webmaster tools - might help a little if you are looking for ways to improve Bing SEO

Signup or login. Once you are logged in Bing Webmasters click on Add site left top sidebar

• Enter your details. As you can see mandatory field is just one: URL - enter your site URL. I highly suggest that you submit a sitemap file also.
• Leave default All day (Default) in select menu where Bing asks how often it should visit your site. If you have highly trafficked site, you can change values to other.
• Then click Add.

In next window Bing will ask you to verify your domain. You have 3 options:

• Option 1: Place an XML file on your web server
• Option 2: Copy and paste a <meta> tag in your default webpage
• Option 3: Add CNAME record to DNS

More winter for Tbilisi

2 February, 2014 | Living in Georgia | 3 seen

<p>End of this Janaury and start of this February has brought back to Tbilisi some winter. Here are few shots I made on 02.02.2014.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tourgeorgia.eu/photos_stream/winter-continues">More pictures watch here.</a></p>

Blog statistics Januray 2014

1 February, 2014 | Blogging | 8 seen

4th month since I started blogging thing has passed away. This time I got my first traffic spike, and overall I get out of modest less than 100 visitors month.

Speaking of February plans - 300 visitors would be nice, if no traffic spike happens!

Exploring the Impact of Facebook on SEO: A Case Study on TourGeorgia.eu (2014)

31 January, 2014 | Blogging | 9 seen

As a webmaster, I'm always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to improve the SEO of my websites. Recently, I've become interested in the potential impact of Facebook on SEO and decided to conduct an experiment to see for myself.

In this article, I will share my findings as I explore the relationship between Facebook and SEO through a case study on my website, TourGeorgia.eu. I will be analyzing the effects of Facebook activity on the boosted posts and measuring the impact it has on the website's search engine rankings.

So, does Facebook activity have an impact on SEO? The answer is "sort of." While there is no direct impact on SEO, there is still value that can be passed on to SEO through likes and shares on Facebook.

To test the impact of Facebook on SEO, I created a post on my Facebook page and boosted it with a small budget. My aim was to see if this would have any impact on the search engine rankings of TourGeorgia.eu.

Before the experiment, I checked the search engine rankings of several keywords related to my website. The results were as follows:

• Tbilisi - not in the first 25…

A Premier Drupal Developer Serving Tbilisi, Riga, and the World

29 January, 2014 | Drupal Development | 2 seen

When it comes to professional Drupal development, few names are as synonymous with excellence as Reinis Fischer.

With a career that spans multiple countries and continents, Reinis has established himself as a highly sought-after Drupal developer, working with clients in Tbilisi, Riga, and beyond.

Reinis' expertise in Drupal development has been honed through years of hands-on experience, working with a wide range of clients and projects. His deep understanding of the Drupal platform and its various modules has allowed him to deliver innovative solutions that meet the unique needs of each client. Whether it's developing custom modules or integrating third-party applications, Reinis approaches each project with a focus on delivering exceptional results.

In addition to his technical skills, Reinis is also known for his ability to work closely with clients, helping them to understand the Drupal platform and how it can be used to achieve their goals. Whether working with businesses in Tbilisi or with international clients, Reinis takes the time to understand each client's needs and works to develop customized solutions that meet those needs.

It's no…