garce

I'm probably stating something that you're already well aware of, but using pps at streamray/cams.com would've made you a hell of a lot more. I'm not 100% sure how their pay scale works pps vs recurring, but even 2 premium sales at $75 per would have made you more. 40 premium sales is what? $4,000?

Like thurbs said in his most excellent post, go pps until you get some working capital.

Those free host links are costing you money. If those links are unrelated to your blog's content, they are creating confusion - with your surfers and with SE's. Free hosts can be - and often are - shut down on a whim. Then your $1,400 magically turns into $0 real fast.

Lose the free hosts. Seriously. Take 10% of your income, get a dedicated server, make a few quality sites, use your existing free hosteds to feed those sites. Your free hosted links to sponsors WILL disappear one day. Better to funnel the traffic to sites that you control.

I appreciate your honesty in posting your stats, but you will never have real, sustainable success until you have control over your own sites. Right now your livelihood is at the mercy of a person you've never met.

That, to me, is terrifying.

All it takes to have free hosting vanish is one too many nasty support requests or bitch and moan emails. Don't like free? Want to complain? How do you like none? Buh-bye.

You don't even have to do the complaining. Maybe someone else bitched often enough - or hacked the server - and the freehost admin thinks "fuck this" and shuts the whole thing down. Regardless, your work is now gone.

One day you will wake up and all of those free sites will either be gone, or be butchered beyond recognition. The chance of this happening is 100%.