I think it’s time that I take the first step to monetizing my blog. I didn’t think I would ever really do this, mostly because I only have about 60 uniques a day, and most of you are loyal readers that probably won’t click on the ads anyways… but I thought what the hell, let’s give it a shot.

As of right now, I don’t plan on putting Adsense, or ValueClick Media, or any annoying pop-ups. I’m going to keep it as clean as possible. Currently I submitted my site to Text Link Ads. If my blog is accepted, I will try to sell 6 text link ads to be displayed on the right sidebar. If all 6 links are sold, I’m guessing it will bring me around $40/mo. It’s nothing special, but it’s almost enough to pay for my $50/mo hosting charges for all my sites.

I also signed up for the Text Link Ads affiliate program, so if any of you are looking to monetize your websites and want to keep it clean at the same time, then sign up for them. Use this banner below so I get the hook up

Finding a new Wordpress Theme

This theme just isn’t cutting it for me anymore. I’m on a search for a new one… a free one of course. Finding a solid free template isn’t that hard, it’s just I’m so picky it usually takes me awhile. I’ll probably end up settling on the same theme I used for my new fan sites, I’ll just mod it up a bit.

Philip Rivers

My Philip Rivers fan site is looking to be like a huge success. It’s only been launched a week or so and is already on the 1st page in Google for the search “philip rivers”. That’s great. I added a statcounter last night around 9 PM, and by midnight it already had 14 uniques. It also had 2 clicks yesterday and made me like 25 cents LOL. It’s not much, but a good sign for the future!