Another month, more money, I like that. This is the first month that I’ll see exactly how eBay’s new QCP algorithm program would work out, and to be honest, I’m not terribly impressed, but I’m not feeling very bad about it either.

The eBay forums are just a flutter with frustration over the program change.  People just don’t know what to do to improve their numbers.  On top of that, eBay has started to penalize those that get hit with bot attacks.

Imagine, one day you get hit with a bot that goes through your site, clicking links to eBay, sending thousands of hits to various auctions and sales on eBay, and eBay turns around and begins to pay you absolutely nothing for days!

I’ll tell you what, I fear a bot attack if it will make my efforts null…especially when you can’t completely handle the problem.  You could filter many of the known bots, but many are created each day, and over time it’s just a constant problem.

I’m not sure what eBay is trying to do by forcing each web site owner to filter for bots when eBay themselves have it within their capacity to do the job more effectively.

Whatever, I’ll just continue to press forward.

So what are the number for this month you might be asking?  Well, here they are:

AdSense - $82.35
Ebay - $495.26
LinkListings - $24.00
Client Work - $10.00
DiggityHost.com – $2.03
Chitika – $4.96 (first implementation on October 17th)

That brings the total for October to $618.60, over $100 off from last month, but hey, things are looking up. Not every month is going to see growth over the prior month, unfortunately! And with eBay’s switch to paying affiliates per click, instead of percent of sales, I’m not going to complain.

Chitika – Turning page views into profits

ChitikaI’ve added Chitika into the mix, and if you have not heard of them, you might want to find out more about them. Most of my regular visitors will never see a Chitika ad on my site, but every one of the people who perform a search through Google will see the Chitika ads.

Chitika ads only display when a user comes from a search engine. On top of that, Chitika claims that I won’t see any degradation to my AdSense numbers either, and so far they are right. My AdSense numbers, although lower than last month, are still going strong. They are lower than last months AdSense revenue, but there’s a perfectly good explanation for that, and it has everything to do with me playing around with one of my web sites, and nothing to do with adding Chitika into the mix.

If you are getting a good amount of search traffic to your site, I would strongly recommend that you sign up with Chitika.  I think you’re leaving money on the table if you aren’t already using their services.

I wish you the best of luck with your money making activities, next year I will start to share more details of what I’m doing.  For now, I’m still building the empire. ;)