These posts are way overdue, due to being so busy with blogging projects. So I’ve combined them into a single post with two summary sections.

January

Wow, is it February already? I was so busy catching up all the work I couldn’t finish in December and January that I’ve not being staying on top of my own sites all that much. Them’s the breaks when you contract.

I have a large series of articles scoped out for this weblog, but no time to finish them all. I do have one ready, about buying and selling websites, which will appear shortly after this milestones post. [Soon, soon.]

February

While I’m starting to get a better handle on finishing all my contract work, I’m still learning to be more efficient with my time. AdSense went up and down on a daily basis in February, and ended up sub-$50 because of the short month.

ReviewMe requests trickled in quite often in Feb for several of my blogs (about 5 or 6 sites now), but I’ve pretty much reassigned all of them to other bloggers who write for me. I think they deserve more than $5 per post, so I pass on the requests to reliable, objective bloggers. There are only two sites I’d write the review myself.

Text Link Ads continue to perform well for me. Sign up (affil link) if you want to give it a go. (You’ll want at least PR4 for your blog before joining. Not all blogging platforms are supported yet.) I cracked $350 in TLA for Feb, and March will be better. I’ll keep improving my websites and registering them with TLA. (You also have to maintain them even after you get sponsors. That’s one I’m struggling with, as the number of blogs I have with at least one sponsor is growing.)

My personal plan is to focus on what’s needed for TLA success, and maintain that, with an aim for at least $2000/mth (for all my registered sites) in TLA sponsorship, which I will give to my mother, as she plans to retire soon and will have little income. (She’s a business owner that’s struggled for a paltry salary for 27 years.)

Other endeavours that I hope to get into more prominently is domaining, as well as going back to writing for my own blogs more often. To support the latter, I’m switching all contract work to Mon-Fri only. Weekends are for me, with only a bit of writing late Sunday evening for Monday morning’s posts. It’s a transition process, but it’s a financial security blanket. Now that I’ve gained some knowledge on how to improve my own blogs, I plan to do so. I’ll be revealing a lot of these details on my Internet UltraGeek - Chasing Internet Success blog, once I start posting regularly. (Just once per week for now, while I sketch out some content.)