I’ve made an update to the CommentLuv plugin so it behaves better, the speed should be better too after rearranging the different parsing routines and I’ve added a bit of code submitted by Edward De Leau of http://edward.de.leau.net/ to handle web-log.nl blogs. Thanks Edward!

The second part of the AJAX series is coming soon, I’ve been literally worked off my feet this week so I’ll have to squeeze some typing in during the evenings this week to get it finished.

I’ve added some adsense code here and there to see if it has any potential, I’ll see how they perform before deciding if I want to keep them. Lots of impressions so far but no clicks and I’ve also added a couple Tradedoubler ads. One at the top for PC World and one to the right on the main page for special offers. A few clicks but no sales yet but it’s still very early to decided if they will be worth it or not.

I’m also trialling the Google search box instead of the Wordpress one, it can search the web and this site and display the results within the FiddyP template which is pretty cool. I’ll test it for a few weeks to see how that goes too.

AntiBarbie has prepared a holiday themed short story for here and it’s great! Look out for it on the 1st of December, she’s a dark writer that one. You’ll see why when you read it.

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I am an affiliate with a lottery site and have been for a few years now to great success but, I have never really entered the realm of affiliate marketing with products before. Apparently it is supposed to be an ok earner if you have enough traffic (and enough sites) to make it worthwhile.

I get between 200 and 500 uniques a day here, do you think that would be enough to monetize this blog with affiliate products?

I’m not sure, I’ve never been one to recommend stuff just to earn money off it but I have some decent reviews to write about after my new theme is here (still no word from the designer yetI heard from him and it’s probably the best theme I have ever seen!) and it would be nice to offer people that read the reviews a convenient way to purchase the product (and for a little trickle of coins to come my way if they do).

I have seen the likes of TradeDoubler and Amazon associates all over the place, if you use either or both of them I would be interested in hearing your experience of them. Did they make you any money? are they worth it?

How about successful ways that you have monetized your blog? I’m lucky enough to earn a fair amount from my TeamPlayLotto site, full time job and my own company so earning megabucks within a microsecond of blogging time is not really a high priority for me so I’d just like to experiment with some things so I can use the experience for monetizing clients’ sites, if I can get some detailed knowledge of money making website tools then I can pass that along with the clients project (along with an extra charge of course!) and then put some of that money to use for fabulous competitions! …. that would be nice, a self financing contest blog..

Any affiliate experiences you want to share?

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