August 2007 earnings were just slightly below average at $5,658.60

Big earners:
Adsense was slightly down from July at $2,390 in August
Kontera also down from July at $1,000 in August
Subscriptions were up from July and came in at $1,834 for August

Other stuff:
Auction Ads was horrible at only $41, mostly due to the fact that I was forced to remove it for all but only a few days out of the month. I’ve been disappointed with the performance of AA because earnings have been on a constant downhill slide due to their “issues”. Now that AA claims to have fixed their performance problems and at least admits they have a click-tracking problem, I’m going to try and keep using them thru the entire month of September.

Commission Junction and ClickBank sales were also down from July, but I’m sure I could improve this if I wasn’t so lazy – affiliate sales actually take work and is not quite as easy as PPC. Totals sales from both were $231.

Yahoo’s YPn was also down at $18, but this is understandable as I only have it full time on one low-traffic page, and alternated it with Adsense for only a few days on only one high-traffic page. A long way from my YPn high of $387 in May 2007. If YPn could just deliver a targeted ad 3x in a row it would have the potential of making some good money.

Ask.com search, AzoogleAds referral earnings, misc. donations and a couple eBook sales (yeah, people still pay for the full PDF version because they can’t wait for the free version here in the blog) came up to around $150.

Traffic:
Traffic was down again in August at 282,312 unique visitors and 729,334 page-views. This is down slightly from July’s 322,470 uniques and 803,518 page-views. The site has been suffering from a summer-slump since June and I’m really hoping that things will begin to increase again in September now that school will be starting back up. And – for the record, I filter my own IP as well as all the moderator’s administrative page-views at the site, so they are not included in my traffic totals. Filtering my Analytics stats this way is easy with the Drupal Analytics Module.

Let’s see how September goes….