Just a quick update to let everyone know I’m still alive. I’m working on a lot of stuff at the moment, which I hope to share with you all very soon. Heck, I’ll share some of it now.

Pixel Meadow was a blog I ran for the last couple of years. I always meant for it to be my web development business blog-cum-portfolio, but between this, than and the next thing, it ended up being just a personal blog. Now and again I’d post something reasonably decent and the site somehow managed to gain a pagerank 5. Pixel Meadow is on its way back, definitely as a business entity, but with a web design/development blog.

Also in the works is my personal blog, but that’s not even remotely interesting to any of you, so I’ll skip over that one (for now)…

There’s a lot more happening than those two, but they’re all I’m going to divulge just now.

Money-Making Progress

It’s about a month since I started seriously looking at making money online, so I guess now is a good time to post an update to how I’m doing.

1. Adsense revenue was up a lot. In May I made about $0.5. In July I’ve made $14. That’s across 4 sites, including this one, where most of the revenue comes from. Here’s hoping this keeps on rising. Over the next few weeks I’ll be experimenting with other types of ads to see which pay best.
2. Most of my adsense sites are indexed with Google. I need to update them with more content, but that’s not urgent.
3. Text-Link-Ads have been a success. You can read more of my thoughts here, on Yaro’s Forums.
4. England’s World Cup Glory was the big launch for this month. It broke even within 2 days so I decided to use it as an experiment in promotion. Things have been steady, even though I haven’t been updating the site as much as I should. There’s definitely a pattern to sales (i.e. a small boost just after every England game!). The numbers aren’t huge, but I’m more interested in the lessons to be learnt just now.

So there you have it - what I’m doing and what I’ve been up to. Look out for more information on upcoming ventures and launches soon!