Poscribes Web Site Update

As I previously reported in my Anniversary post I have been making some changes both in front and behind the scenes to try and stream line as well as monetize some of my efforts here at www.poscribes.com.

To date I have experimented with a couple of advertising services and currently I can report that AdBrite has proven the most successful (about $80 in two weeks). Google Adsense on the other hand is proving to be more of a black art in showing some signs of success. In the same time frame I have only made $3.70.

Having consumed numerous posts from reputable bloggers, today marks the start of another phase in advertising experimentation. This time around I have chosen to display a couple of the 300x250 Ads (1 Adsense, 1 Adbrite) per recommendations found at John Chow's site, in a sort of head-to-head challenge. John seems to have experienced great success with Google Ads of this size and with my small success to date with AdBrite I decided to do a simultaneous test. Both ads will be displayed on each post and have the same degree of exposure as the other. It will be interesting to see what happens!

I have also during this time secured one paid ad from Performancing.com for Enterto Spamless Email, a FREE email service offering I might add.

The stats for the site are steadily increasing, largely in part to a peak ranking of number 3 on Google for the search term 'Top Christmas Gifts for 2006' and a current number 9 ranking for 'Top 10 Christmas Gifts for 2006'. The first post has been read more than 10,000 times now. Simply amazing! Obviously I hope the increased traffic will continue into the New Year, although I fully expected it will drop some.

Since moving into our new home and setting up the 'office'. I have made an effort to try and keep things a little more organized although I do have to admit I need to do better still and once we are the other side of the New Year I intend to do a little reorganization.

Remember this:		Well it now looks like this:

Well that's just a quick recap of where things stand at the moment. Like I have said I intend to make some more changes in the New Year including possibly moving the systems into their own data closet and the site into a high-availability configuration on a much more powerful system.

I will also be rolling out in the New Year a statistics page (linked from the main menu) that will show the number of visitors along with, for the various methods employed a breakdown of the revenue streams enabled in support of this site. This will be a manually updated page, probably at weekly intervals.

Only 5 more shopping days till Christmas!

UPDATE:

I had some formatting problems that I mostly solved with a little style editing however, the AdBrite revenue took a sharp decline after doing so. That said, I have removed the AdBrite content ad and returned to the original Top ad placement that was performing very well! Also, 2 like ads next to each other might be not to Google's liking. No sense taking the chance.