This month has been pretty good for earnings. Our AdSense has gone back up by a 25% increase, I had a couple more Text Link Ads 'sales' too, which has helped with the income, plus a couple more sales on DIY Covers. Total for the month comes to $292, which is a good increase on the past two months.nnMore importantly is cash in the bank. We didn't get an AdSense payout this month (although the one due this month will be about £90), but with a few other payments in we've had almost £120 come in, and that's without AdSense, so just £7 short of the monthly target. However overall we've got £436.82 total which is £55 over the combined average (average last year was £381 at this point). With an AdSense payment every other month instead of every month the targets will not always be met, however I'm really happy to almost reach our monthly target without have AdSense included, afterall we all know it's not good to rely on just one main source of income.nnThis month has seen a refresh of 2 existing sites. One sells osCommerce templates and eBooks which was half on WordPress and half not (I set it up on WP before I knew about page templates!), so this month I finally got to integrate the site into WordPress properly, give the site a new theme courtesey of WPDesigner, and altered the site a bit to show a random template in the sidebar on every page (something I've been meaning to do), clean up the code and give a couple more options. I've got a few more ideas for the site which I'll be working on over the next month.nnThe second site is my Food and Drink blog. It's more of a passion than an AIS site as I do blog on there, however I've got a couple of ideas to maybe make a bit of additional income from it which I see as AIS as I would still blog there even if I didn't make any money from it nnSo this month I'm intending to get these finished off and am then thinking about an overhaul on our Tattoo site. I've yet to finish the shopping cart on it (typically it just gets put to the bottom of the to do list) which I kick myself for as we could have made a fair few sales via it. Plus I have new tattoos to add which I think will be popular, along with some eBooks that I have the resale rights for.nnHope your month of March was good and April is prosperous for you too

After writing about 1 month last year, it was put on hold by Gary, however he's now officially launched the first product for sale on the site. For sale is his 5 Starred script, but on the incremental pricing structure, so today it's $1, tomorrow it'll be $2 and so on until the 30th of April it'll be $30.nn5 Starred is a script that allows you to create a list of top web sites, allowing people to vote on their favourites to determine who's top. People can easily submit a URL to the list (which goes into an approval queue). You've also got the option of showing and using Google PageRank, Technorati Rank and Alexa Rank in the algorithm to determine the top spot. It's a nice addition to any niche subject site, I'm currently part way through adding it to my Food blog to list the top food and drink blogs online. Another good example is at Club osCommerce.nnWhy have a top sites list on your site? Mark at 45n5n has proven that a good list can really drive the traffic to your site, and the success of his list and subsequent Money Links has really shown. I even read other blogs that I've not connected to Mark and suddenly see them mention the famous top 100 and 45n5! So, sure maybe it's an ego thing, but when the product costs just $1 (today), why not grab it and give it a try. It's a good little marketing tool. You can't lose much now

I've been pretty ill recently and haven't worked for about 10 days now. Obviously that's not great as I don't get sick pay (I'm sure I could get some state sick pay but it's not worth the money to worry about it!). Luckily I've had a couple of AIS boosts, sold a few text links, made a couple of product sales etc. Nothing ground breaking but it all adds up.nnI haven't been able to sit at a computer for a continued period but I have taken a couple of days to finally upgrade osCommerce site, update the prices and add a couple more products that had become available. The site runs on WordPress with a static front page. It did have the additional, dynamic pages as separate pages, but since setting that up over a year ago I've learnt how to create page templates, so I've moved everything over so that it's all within the WordPress set up. Thanks to a free template the site has also had a facelift and cleanup.nnSo that's one job done. I've also set another blog up on a subject I have plenty to write about which also seems quite popular with text links so hopefully I can get that into their marketplace once I've got a bit more content on the site. Depends whether they still go for PageRank of 4+ or whether they'll look at the merits of the site content.nnThis being ill malarky gives you plenty of time for other things!

So with the new terms and conditions at Google AdSense, you need a privacy policy on every site displaying AdSense. Thankfully JenSense has written up and released a general one for free.nnKnowing how Google will suspend accounts at the drop of a hat especially if you fall foul of their terms, I'd recommend getting this on to any site running AdSense as soon as possible.

With the launch of Secure Delivery Affiliates, we're now offering an affiliate program for DIY Covers, along with a review pack to try the product out.nn

DIY Covers Affiliates

nnOur affiliate program offers a payout of 50% of the full price, which means $49/£24.50 per sale. Once signed up as an affiliate you'll get links and buy now buttons available to you which you can add to your own site or use in any information about DIY Covers. Earnings are paid via PayPal.nnTo join our Affiliate scheme you need to just signup via our affiliate signup with Secure Delivery. If you already have an account with them, then follow the affiliate signup link and just login, this will automatically add you in to our affiliate program.nn

Review Pack

nnThe Review Pack is available to anyone who wants to try before they buy, or to affiliates who want to create their own review on their site, or at least have an understanding of what they're promoting. Don't forget, you need Photoshop 6+ for the actions to work. The Review Pack includesnn

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• A tutorial on installing actions into Photoshop

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• A tutorial on using these actions

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• A crash course PDF on creating eCovers

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nnTo request a copy of the review pack simply contact me and I can send you a free download link. All affiliate signups will get a copy of the review pack however that relies on me keeping an eye on signups, so feel free to give me a nudge if you've received one within 24 hours.