I’m seeing an increase in my earnings suddenly - not much, but it’s a definite trend. Before Christmas, my affiliate sites were dead in the water and most of my earnings were coming from sold adspace. But in January, I made a Commission Junction sale (yes, I did convert everything possible over to [...]

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It looks like my sites are doing okay in the PR update. This one’s gone from 4 to 5, as did my “B-2 Bomber”. Some of my articles blogs gained decently, as did the directories. The new version of the directory for this site (same sites, but new software, and therefore new [...]

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Woohoo. It doesn’t really mean anything, unfortunately - I talk to webmasters I know are getting more traffic than I am, and they’re below me on Alexa, because it’s all down to who’s got one of those toolbars and who hasn’t. Not exactly a serious benchmark comparison.
Still, it’s fun to see the pretty [...]

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I’m using AdBrite’s Intermission ads on this site. You don’t see them on your first visit, and you only see it once per day, so it’s not as annoying as some. And I figured one of us needed to take the plunge and give them a try, then review it for the whole [...]

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I’m using CrispAds again, and liking what I see. The keyword system is still confusing to me, and I’m not sure I’m using it to my best advantage. But the ads they’re giving me - mostly graphical, since I chose the option that gives text ads or graphical - are good. Are [...]

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I discovered today that someone had signed up to a forum on one of my sites using a porn search term as their name, and putting a porn URL in their user profile under their “homepage”. That’s an outbound link, the same as any other. And, if you search for one of your [...]

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