The global economy is in a spin and apparently there are not too many areas left untouched by this serious situation. Although the advertising budgets of many companies have suffered financial cuts, online advertising is still a viable means to earn a living.


This year we did not see the growth we were hoping for, but due to the circumstances, any growth is favorable. Both of our flag ship sites http://scripts.tropicalpcsolutions.com and http://widgets.tropicalpcsolutions.com are approaching a million monthly visits each.

Our other sites received 250,000 combined monthly visits. Although we have doubled our traffic as of last year at this time, our earnings have taken a slight dip. This downward trend in earnings is most likely due to the economic strains on the advertisers budgets. With all things considered our Adsense earnings have held their ground much better than expected. Although most single-click payouts are in the 5-10 cent range we still regularly see single-click payouts in the $2-$3 range and our overall monthly earnings are currently holding @ $3,000 USD.

This year we mainly focused on expanding into ad networks other than Adsense. We have established accounts at dozens of ad networks and found a few of them to be worth the additional efforts. Currently the ad networks we work with are:

• Text Link Ads
• Adbrite
• Chitika
• Bidvertiser

We have also begin experimenting with the different CTR's and payouts of Kontera and InfoLinks in-text advertising units. Although we like Chitika we didn't find their in-text links to be very targeted/relevant. Both Kontera and InfoLinks seem to be fairly relevant but the payouts to-date are very low compared with Adsense.

NOTE: If you rely on online advertising to pay your bills and business expenses then be sure to check this out and get involved!
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We have recently doubled our Text Link Ad earnings since our last post regarding TLA.

If you have been following our progress with various 3rd party ad networks you will likely be familiar with our last post regarding TLA. As mentioned in the previous article; when compared to a similar Adsense link unit, the TLA link units seriously outperforms the Adsense units.

November TLA earnings:


December's projected earnings:


So, in a matter of a few months we have doubled our TLA earnings. We believe this increase is simply due to updated site descriptions. You see, when we first set up our account out TLA we wrote our site descriptions as if we were writing a normal site description. We failed to write the descriptions specifically for the only folks who will actually read it...the advertisers. We made a few changes to our descriptions including other information the advertiser might be interested in, such as the location of the ad placement (above the fold etc...)

I am hoping that this rate of progress continues into the new year and we can reach our original TLA goal of $400 monthly.

Last post on TLA:
http://tropicalpcsolutions.blogspot.com/2009/09/text-link-ads-great-service-for.html

Sign up for an account at TLA and start making money today:
Join Text Link Ads
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If you run a small to medium size website and depend on 3rd party advertising your business plans may change if this bill passes!


This is being proposed under the guise of privacy concerns. Now, I am getting tired of fear mongering by those in charge! A stupid cookie (that your browser can be set to ignore) should not be a valid reason to potentially ruin online businesses.

If you depend on advertising revenue to pay your bills then be sure to visit Keep our web free and learn more about what you can do!
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Our PHP email form ContactMe has been updated to allow for Russian alphabet characters.

Thanks to a note from a Russian user, we have modified the contact form to allow for the usage of Russian language characters. To get this newer version click below:

PHP email form with Russian language support
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A few users of our PHP guestbook program have written me in regards to the random number feature and asked that we remove it.

We didn't remove this feature from the main program as we feel it is a good idea overall. We did create a patch file you can use that will eliminate the need to enter the random number. This patch file can be found here:

PHP Guestbook patch file
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