rfung - 5:48 pm on Sep 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Just an update:

My 1st site sort of dried out for the season(about $5/day now that school started already), but the pleasant surprise is that my second site is pulling a nice $20/day now! I ran into a product that is new and people started going to my site looking for info on it - I immediately found a merchant that sells it and in the next 2 weeks I pulled in $1500 in sales (well I make 10% of that). Thinking I could build even more traffic from this product, I went to AdWords and Overture and placed a campaign on the relevant keywords, at up to 10cents per click. The product is not so hot now (orders have slowed) but the traffic clicking on my campaign (and its nicely ranked enough that I only pay 5 cents/click) is somehow generating 100%-150% worth of Adsense money.

Lesson to note - diversify.

I may break $1k this month.