Advertising

So far I've only been using Adsense as a means of advertising. Which on one hand is nice, since it's very easy, relatively unobtrusive and so far has been delivering a decent level of return.

However, after doing some research and seeing how much it is to get a simple text link on some sites, that other means might be much more lucrative. Since even for PR3 or 4 sites, a link can cost anywhere from $5-50 a month, that can easily beat out adsense revenue if you don't have a ton of traffic. Even $5 a month would considerably increase my revenues for the site.

I'll continue to do research and see what I find.

Losing Battle

Sometimes is seems like this whole SEO business is losing battle. If you don't keep trying to get inlinks than you're quite likely to see yourself dropping in rankings. After getting up to a good position, I've seen myself dropping for the past couple weeks. Now I'm off the first page of rankings for my major keyword, despite adding some more links.

Now I must throw myself back into the battle and get that good ranking back!

Hmm

So after sinking at bit in my google listing (to #8 or 9), I've seen a significant drop in revenues, which is frustrating. I still send out some cold-call link exchange requests to try and up my rankings, but they haven't been as successful as they had been. I'm trying to research some other methods/means of getting backlinks. We'll see how it goes.

I've picked up a few new domains and are slowly populating them with content. Other life things keep me from devoting a large section of time to them, but they'll get there eventually.