Where I'm Making Income

Wow, it's been a while since I made a post.

Anyway, given the passage of time, it's become clear to me that I make most of my online income in the following areas:

1) Text links.
2) Adsense.
3) Share-a-sale.
4) Kontera.

Yes, those are in order. Across a variety of web sites with varying popularities I have been able to consistently earn three digit revenues from static links on a monthly basis.

Adsense is generally providing a mid two digit revenue -- and I greatly wish I could increase that without violating my own sense of ethics.

I haven't been doing so well with Share-a-sale or other affiliate programs. Many people are doing well with Clickbank and other programs -- but, again, this isn't an area that my ethics will let me excel at.

Kontera brings in single digit revenues. I don't work very hard at it and think it is just supplementary -- allowing me to continue pursuing other revenue sources at the same time. I did try Adbrite, but they were absolutely useless for my properties.

The great thing is that I have a full time job and associated income, while my web properties are pretty much on auto-pilot right now.

Q: Should I Sell Links?

Shhh!

Selling links is a dangerous game these days. They are certainly one of the best ways to monetize a site with PR, but you risk that PR if you sell links. You see, it seems that Google will impose penalties on sites that they deem to be selling links for the purpose of PR instead of traffic.

So, what is the poor webmaster to do?

Obviously, how and why we sell advertising is a business decision that should be up to us, but just as obviously we cannot ignore Google's viewpoint as they are the site the currently determines PR.

My advice, go ahead and sell links. However, don't do it publicly! There are all kinds of link brokerages on the net -- though it is beyond the scope of this post for me to review them all for you.

Just do a search on Google and I'm sure you'll find them...