And that is putting it very very pleasantly indeed, the sons of god knows what have just wiped the pagerank of this blog to zero, they have done this because I scrape a living making sponsored blog posts, I am really rather angry at them

It seems they have done this to thousands of people who use a certain blog marketing website, I wouldn’t mind but the site in question uses pagerank as a system to allocate paid post opportunities. So now I am doubly stuffed, no pagerank and no paid blog opportunities. This really is very annoying, please not I have not used a single swear word in this post, although I am definitely thinking them.

I currently have around 5 active websites, between them they are getting several hundred unique visitors each day, ok this isn’t a huge amount of traffic but it’s not bad either. I have several affiliate links on some of these pages, and they don’t make me a penny.

Why is this? I know people are clicking other advertisements such as Google AdSense PPC ones, so why are my affiliate links showing zero traffic? I would expect to get a few accidental clicks if nothing else?

I am beginning to suspect the people running the affiliate schemes in question are being less than honest with their traffic reports. Quite frankly, right now they are wasting space on my sites, I’m going to rip them all out I think and find something else, more stable, to put in their place.

I have been keeping a very close eye on my Google AdSense logs lately, I know I have had a much improved rate of traffic to at least three of my websites. What I am not seeing is any real gain in AdSense page impressions.

Quite frankly I think I am going to remove AdSense completely from my pages, the revenue I am earning from it is minimal, ever since Google introduced smart pricing it’s been getting worse and worse, what is the point of leaving advertising up that if you are lucky and Google don’t decide it’s a fake click (don’t get me started on what I think about the way they decide what is and isn’t a fake click) that you might just might make $0.03 for?

I have tried AdBrite, they are even worse, they have a habit of letting their customers cancel a per 1000 page impression advert just before it actually hits 1000 impressions, really quite a stupid way to do business.

The picking are getting very slim for those of us who like to sell clicks and impressions, it used to be you could make a decent living out of it but not anymore, that’s all gone now, too many people trying to get a slice of a decreasing pie.

I have managed to get my hands on a really nice SEO friendly domain name, it really is a good one, lots of daily worlds searches in the particular niche it covers and very little competition.

I’m considering setting up a full blown money making blog using it. I’ve been working recently with the guy who owns Online Tech Tips and he has promised to give me a few pointers in getting stertep with blogging for money.

I would really liek to move more into this type of work and drop some of the junk copywriting I have to do these days, some of it I will keep becasue it is enjoyable to do but the normal SEO optimised articles will be gone for sure.