A couple of people recommended that I add MyBlogLog to  my site. I’ve seen it on other blogs, like Bob and Jon. MyBlogLog let’s you see who visits your site. Not everyone who visits, leaves comments so it’s hard to tell. It will be interesting to see who is holding out on me! Just kidding.

I created my avatar and made it a little shark. The shark may look small, but don’t be fooled by the size of it’s bite. I always love watching shark week on Discovery channel, and since I have a shark at the top of this blog, I felt it would be appropriate to have a shark as my avatar. Plus I don’t really want my face on everyone’s site. If people want to see what I look like they can look in the About Me section.

I don’t have anyone on my recent readers list now, but hopefully by the day’s end it will fill up. I’m not sure if this adds traffic or value to my blog, but it looks like a cool feature.

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February has come and gone. Another month trying to break into the online earning industry. Another month of improvements and another month of experience gained.

This past month was an interesting one. I’ve been online making money now for over a year, and this is the first time I’ve ever used Yahoo Publisher Network consistently. I can say that for the most part it performed at a higher level than Adsense. The fluctuations wig me out and confuse the crap out of me. But at the end of the day it’s only the numbers in the total column that matter.

February also marks the first full month I have expanded with Adbrite. I was using Adbrite dating back to mid December, but only started experimenting with interstitial ads this month.

To start things off, I want to discuss briefly my Adsense earnings for February. My total Adsense earnings for the month were $124, down from $352 in January. The main reason for the drop was of course me moving one of my bigger sites to YPN. Another reason for the lower Adsense earnings is because College football season is now over. Fight Song Lyrics earned $150 in January alone, mostly because it was bowl season. Fight Song Lyrics only earned $55 this month. I can expect similar earnings from this site until August when football kicks off again.

Now onto Yahoo Publisher Network. Pimp Myspace is the only site I have running on YPN. In January while running with Adsense, this site made $122, but in February wilth a full month on YPN it made $377. A nice $250 increase. There were no drastic increases in traffic either.

In the next coming months I hope to incorporate YPN into more of my sites.

The final revenue machine I use for my websites is Adbrite. Adbrite was very good to me this month as well. In January, Adbrite earnings were $24. This is running just on Pimp Myspace and not using interstitial ads. In February, total Adbrite earnings were $100. Like I said, no drastic increases in traffic or ad placement. PRetty much just adding interstitials.

So total February earnings from these 3 streams: $124 + $377 + $100 = $601

That come’s to $21/day. An increase from where I was, but still a long way from where I want to be. I’d like to increase my earnings by an average of $5/day each month. That means when I calculate my March earnings, I need to be at $26/day.

Wish me luck.

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I guess I spoke too soon about the number of RSS subscribers in my previous post. I was surpised that the RSS feed count didn’t go up after reaching the front page of digg and getting 12,000 uniques in two days now. I just logged in to read some comments and was quite taken by the number I saw. 206 subscribers!

That’s a lot of people. I feel important now. I feel like I owe it to my readers to produce better content now. Not that my posts weren’t interesting over the past 8 months, but maybe it’s time for me to step it up a notch.

I also noticed that I am up to 599 diggs. I’ll probably reach the 600th sometime tonight. I also just wanted to thank everyone for digging it and posting comments. Hopefully this is the start of a new era in my blog.

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As many of you know by now, my article yesterday The Evolution of Yahoo, was featured on the front page of Digg. It’s the very first time I’ve ever had an article make it to the front page. In the past, the most diggs I’ve ever has was probably around 20 or so. After 40-50 diggs, yesterday’s article made it to the front page…that’s when the fun began.

The traffic started flowing in by the hundreds and then by the thousands. I was watching my statcounter page and every 5 seconds I would hit refresh and there would be another 200 uniques added to the total. It was insane. The traffic was so high that it crashed my site. I figured it would happen because I don’t run my sites on a dedicated server. I have a VPS, which can’t handle the load. I was forced to call my host’s tech support line 3 times and have them reboot my server. After the first reboot, the site was up for a minute, then crashed again. A lot of people would be pissed, but I thought it was quite entertaining.

Had my site not crashed so many times, I think my traffic would have been a lot higher. Yesterday I ended the day with 10,391 uniques. Thats about 10,250 higher than normal. As of right now, I’m already at 850, so as you can see the digg traffic is overflowing into future days.

The digg page for my article can be seen here. It has currently been dugg 572 times with 60 comments. Reading all the comments was the best part of this whole experience. I’ve never read comments on digg before. Man those people are funny. Here are a few of the better ones:

• Yahoo has blown it several times. First they tried to become a content company when the Internet was asking for a search company - that arrogance allowed google to drive in 20 freight trains right under their nose. Second, they tried to appease China while telling their base in the US ‘FU’ - well once people in China started getting put in jail for exercising free speech (yahoo id them for the govt), the US base said FU harder right back at them.
• I also am confused over the ‘hot’ features… more like confusing, bloated, disconnected acquisitions– sucked of any remaining innovation, left to languish.”
• “new site loaded with hot features” vs. “a couple of news headlines buried within a dizzying mess of ads, celebrity gossip, and useless web2.0 eyecandy”
• Yawn. Old news is useless.
• This is what passes for news these days? Someone discovers the Internet Archive and it’s worth commenting about? Good lord, what’s next? “Slashdot ID numbers have been steadily incrementing over the years! Film at 11:00.”

Funny huh?

Now for the juicy part: The daily revenue after a digg. In the week prior to the digg, my blog made $2.00 via adsense. That comes to around 30 cents a day average. Yesterday, my blog earned $4.68. Thats almost 16 times higher than the daily average. Sure $4.68 isn’t a lot, but its the 16x that is the important figure. If you have a site making $10 on a normal day, then you make a front page to digg, that 16x translates into $160. Not bad for doing no work.

The only disappointment I have is not seeing an increase in the number of RSS subscribers I have. You’d think after having 10k+ uniques that some of them would subscribe? Maybe feedburner just hasn’t updated?

I’m also noticing quite a few link backs to my blog post. That is very important. I haven’t sifted through them all yet, but there’s atleast 10 I can see right away.

So that’s the story. Let me know if you have any comments or questions.