Affiliates Tested

Well, here are the figures:

Adsense: $3.87.
Scratchback: $0.00.
Widgetbucks: $0.00.
Amazon Affiliates: $0.00.
Squidoo: $0.00.

$6.64 for 8 weeks work

My best Adsense week since starting this tracking, and it mainly appears to have come from one blog, which I tweaked recently to have bigger Google Adsense adverts in a more prominent position for eyeballs.

I actually implemented it before last week's report - when I earned a record $0.00. And that's despite the fact traffic has been similar for both weeks, so either it took a week to really start to kick in, or I've just been lucky - the next couple of weeks should tell!

Well, things really have fallen apart this week. Whether it's the credit crunch and economic recession, or some other disaster, I don't know, but I've earnt nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch.

Adsense: $0.00.
Scratchback: $0.00.
Widgetbucks: $0.00.
Amazon Affiliates: $0.00.
Squidoo: $0.00.

The irony being that I've actually moved a couple of ad placements for what should have been an increase in responses!

So the total is: $2.77 for 7 weeks work

It's not often you can get such a big boost when you sign up for an affiliate advertising scheme, so here's a link to earn $25 if you sign up to Widgetbucks as a new publisher.

So if you were considering trying it out, do it during October, and you'll get a $25 bonus when you reach $50 total! Click here to sign up and have a chance of getting a free $25 bonus.

I can't tell you how Widgetbucks compares with Adsense etc in terms of performance yet, as it's still early days. But their widgets are certainly attention grabbing - or at least I hope so (look to the right!)

Well, not the greatest of weeks, despite traffic still being ok.

Adsense: $0.01
Squidoo: $0.00
Scratchback: $0.00.
Widgetbucks: $0.00
Amazon: $0.00.


So $0.01 for a week's worth of reasonable traffic, and no clicks. Since the 24th August, 2008, I've made a whopping $2.77 for 6 weeks work! And that's despite moving some of my Adsense ads around for a better response.

Back to the drawing board!

I've heard a bit about Widgetbucks, but never got round to signing up. Until now, that is!

I'm hoping it'll make a bit more difference than my current advertising options. And I'm also exploring a few more alternatives. One of the ones which has really caught by eye by popping up all over the place is Pepperjam. The only confusing thing is that it refers to company names and VAT numbers. Which is a bit off-putting when you're an individual blogging, but seeing as I've seen it advertised all over small audience blogs, they must let them in...

Both give a start up bonus which would be enough to give my revenue a kick start on it's own from my blogging - but I'm hoping they'll do a far better job of getting some revenue out of my high traffic blogs than is currently happening...