My various projects have taken a slight downturn from the roughly $2400 earning of February. Here’s the earnings breakdown:

Amazon Associates (US) - $1000.20

Amazon Associates (UK, CA, DE, FR & JP) - $40.47

Chitika - $60.67

Google AdSense - $627.63

Other Affiliates - $243.04

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Grand Total for March 2008 -  $1972.01

While that’s some nice extra change in the pockets, I was a little disappointed at a decline of $400 after a record month in February.  I can’t quite put my finger on why; however, March traffic was about 89% of February traffic.  March earnings were roughly 82% of February’s.  The rest of the difference may be chalked up to a little ad placement experimenting that I did in March.

I need to continue optimizing what I’ve got to work with.  More Adsense ads in content is crucial (meaning, I need to go back through many older posts and add the code into them).  In-content ads are performing so much better than those outside of content - more than the rest of the ad locations combined.

Additionally, I need to work on Chitika optimization.  There’s a lot of potential with Chitika that I need to take more advantage of.

Finally, I need to work on optimizing non-US visitors with Amazon Associates programs.  I use the AZ-One plugin from 52 Lives for incorporating Amazon links for non-US visitors.  Obviously, it works; however, it doesn’t seem to achieve the same traffic to income correlation as Amazon.com produces.

On a final, final note, I need to look into private advertising further.  I think I’ve got sufficient traffic to start marketing this; however, I think I need to tweak my theme/s a bit before soliciting advertisers (not the case with Blogger Lane though - see right).

This was educational and therapeutic for me.  I hope you got something out of it too.  Now, I’ve got some work to do.