Your income report for July looks great! An 80% increase is huge, you should be proud of yourself! It takes a lot of hard work and dedication. Keep up the good work and I am sure your income will continue to increase.
~Debby

Remember back in April when you decided to take blogging seriously, well consider August as my “April”… I have been following your success among a few others, and I am now ready. I’m going to be documenting it in detail on http://www.theathomecouple.com throughout the month, and I will be keeping you posted on our progress.

Thank you for all your hard work.

I’ve had my website for two years, and the money I’ve made from it is something like $35 from donations. I’m hoping things will improve if/when I get more serious about keeping it updated and treating it as more than just a hobby.

And I think I’ve made up my mind that I’m definitely going to start a blog eventually (as soon as I finish my own simple custom blog software – or maybe if I discover an already existing good WordPress alternative).

You mentioned wanting to find a way to diversify your income stream, and also the idea of doing some advertising. I hope this doesn’t come across as spammy but I’d like to point out the ad system Project Wonderful, which I just recently found out about due to someone mentioning it on a forum: http://projectwonderful.com/

They have a nice, transparent auction format for people to buy and sell ads, and also, the ads aren’t pay-per-click (which pleases me immensely, since I really don’t like pay-per-click ads). They take 25% of your ad revenue, though.

However, in light of the fact that no one has ever approached me for direct advertising in 2 years of having my site, it’s nice to have 3 advertisers showing some interest, less than 1 day after putting up a Project Wonderful ad box. The maximum anyone has bid yet is a 1 cent or so, but, hey, it’s better than nothing.

Until I build my traffic I’m probably not going to make much money with it, but, it looks like a good, cheap way to advertise, much better than any pay-per-click system, since you pay for length of the time your ad is up, instead of for clicks.

Just thought I’d suggest it. I haven’t looked very hard for ad systems in the past but this is my favorite that I’ve found out about so far.

Best wishes,
Apollia