Ok, I confess.
You can tell by the dates of my posting to this blog, I've really taken a break from working on my own websites. Sometime in early September, I stopped building links, I stopped adding new content to my websites and I stopped building new marketing sites to further increase my own profit. I even stopped looking at my Google Ad Profits for weeks at a time. I was burned out.
Now its January.
And Im excited again by the prospect of the marketing work ahead of me! Ive taken stock of my 30 odd websites, graphed all of the stats and reviewed the findings. As you might expect, 20% of my sites are generating 80% of my profits.
My findings show
fantastic profitability (ctr) from a particular layout and design...
- consistant rankings by using a specific combination of internal linking structures
- self-generating, ongoing link popularity growth by using link management software
- 4 sites BANNED from Google
... and my findings also include some data on lower profit websites that are very well indexed, but are simply ranking poorly. These will be my first target sites for reworking - using the techniques from the profitable sites, of course!
Of most interest is the automated link popularity results;

Even though I have not worked on marketing this site since it was banned by google (back in May 2004) - the link popularity continues to grow!
:-)
To bad the site makes no money. :- (
...yet.