Thanks for the kind words.  Everyone’s eCPMs have fallen and given that Google’s have risen, I think they have been shafting partners on the rev share.

As to there being an adsense expert.  I don’t think they exist, but check out my adsense posts as I’ve given a lot of useful tips.  There’s more advice here in my making money online guide.

I will be hanging around here in the future, keep the income stream high!

I’m using some to pay for a car, but I’m saving the rest at the moment

Maybe I need to take the leap.

This is coool . i have just begun hope so that i can also get some great going .

Why do you think other schemes will impact your adsense smart price? It really depends where you put them. If adsense is your main scheme then just don’t put them in better places, or just keep an eye on your CTR.

I’ve managed to accomodate all the other schemes on my site without impacting adsense. Intellitxt may take down the CTR on the 468 adsense unit I have under posts a bit, but that one doesn’t make that much money as the the square unit makes all the cash, so that’s ok. All the other schemes definitely have no impact.

Nice to hear a reply back from you. I have visited your blog it is nice one.

I honestly never approached advertisers before and I might do so in the near future. I’m just trying to figure out how Everton is that successful in getting direct ad sales which account for almost 10% of his blog earnings so I can try a similar strategy.

Yes you are right but i said the traffic plays important role. Without Traffic you or me is nothing.

PR also plays a role. i agree with you.

Not strictly true. If that was the case then Martin would have more direct sales than me as he has more traffic, and we would both have more direct sales than people like John Chow who we have more traffic then!

Where and how your site is positioned play a role as well

The key to direct sales are Traffic if you have traffic the direct link sales queries start comming. Internet is the all about Traffic the more traffic you the more successfull you are.

In terms of traffic I haven’t written any link bait articles for a while, although I tried an mp3 tagging post last week but no-one really bit. I’m going to do a few in July and email bigger sites with the link like I used to, to try and get them to read it and link to me.

Low traffic this month depends on the number people spend time online. Did you check your ranking for the keywords are the rankings same in google? As google now heavily discounting links many people in the industry see a drop in their rankings.

Comming to direct traffic what are your plans? i would be interested in listening that.