I am proud to announce that my small network of sites set a new record yesterday for total earnings in 1 day from contextual advertising. In January, I set a new Adsense record. Back then I was only running Adsense, I didn’t have YPN on any of my sites. On January 8th, my Adsense earnings were $46.55 and my Adbrite earnings were $1.12 for a total of $47.67.

Yesterday I broke that record. I didn’t shatter it by any means, but any record being broke is a good sign. Yesterday, my total earnings from Adsense, Abdrite, and YPN were $47.89. A cool 22 cents higher than my previous record. Yay for me!

Back in January the only reason my earnings were so high was due to the NCAA Championship game. My Fight Song Lyrics site was getting an insane amount of traffic. Earnings quickly died down after the game was over. The best thing about my earnings yesterday is that there were no events or special occasions to cause such an increase. It was simply due to my overall increase in traffic and some lucky clicks.

Now getting nearly $50/day is a very nice accomplishment. In fact, averaging $50/day was one of my goals to accomplish by the end of 2007. Here we are in March and I’m getting very close.

I don’t expect to maintain these high earnings from here on out though. I think throughout the week I’ll go back to around $30/day which seems to be my average. I will be pleasantly surprised to see another $45+ day today or anytime this week. I take this as a sign of progress. A $45+/day here and there will eventually turn into an every day thing.