Update: I had written this post, then gave members of our email network first shot at advertising. At first I intended for 4 advertisers, through the network I ended up getting responses from 5 people. The first banner is already being displayed by Andrew. Our advertising is already full and sold out. If you’d like to reserve space for next month please let me know. With such a success on the direct advertising we will be opening up another ad spot soon.

Looking at our adsense totals I noticed that we should be making a lot more money with advertising. One of our spots on single posts received over 11,000 impressions but only made about 5$.

Last night I searched and found a great adrotator plugin called WPAds that is exactly what I want. It rotates banners evenly in whichever spot you want.

To start I am looking for up to 4 advertisers to place their banners on our single posts under our comments section. Everyone who leaves a comment will see your banner. This should be especially useful for Comment Fridays. Our blog has 6x more comments than we do posts (639 posts and 4,231 comments).

Have I sold you on the advertising yet?

The banner dimensions can be anywhere from 125×125 to 250×250, basically any banner you have available. The price is only going to be 8$ to start and we’ll see how it goes. We also may look into selling our adsense space directly under the post.

Please leave us a comment if you are interested or contact me directly.

It’s been a long and productive year for us. We have grown up into a great popular blog, as well as gotten some great writers and regular readers along the way. Pulling in about 10,000 unique visitors a month and 500+ RSS readers is nothing to sneeze at.

Daily Blog Tips listed their top posts of 2007, I thought it was a great idea to do. So I’ve done the same. I took about 4-5 excellent posts per month. Some were left out, but I did my best to give you some good reading.

January

• No Comments? Why Bother?
• This is NOT a sponsored post
• Confessions of a Blogging Veteran
• Top 10 Sins of Blog Usability

February

• 5 ways to get more comments and make you smile
• Why is it that people send spam still?
• Dodgy Money Making Schemes
• A few sophisticated directories

March

• Here’s a quick way to make your long posts more readable
• Displaying your RSS Feed Count: What is the Big Deal?
• Hey!? My Blog is a Transformer
• Hi My Business Name Goes Here and This is My Blog

April

• To tweak or not to tweak your blog?
• Finding Cost Per Visitor: Are Your Ads Paying Off?
• Are you using your RSS to promote your other blogs?
• The Benefits of De-Lurking

May

• It’s Not Always About Traffic
• Increasing Blog Traffic by Using HTML in Comments of Other Blogs
• 4 Steps To Becoming A Bad Web Parent
• Top Five Reasons for Blogging

June

• Join the iReply Revolution
• Round ‘Em Up!
• Make Money Online with SurveySpot
• Business blogs - how personal to get?

July

• 6 Great Tips for Hosting a Blogging Contest
• 5 Must Have Comment Plugins for WordPress
• Don’t Underestimate The Power Of Link Love
• 9 Reasons for a Blogger to Use a Desktop RSS Reader
• 9 Reasons to Use a Desktop Blog Editor

August

• 10 Quick Blogging Tips
• Using Craigslist to Promote your Website
• 6 Spanking New WordPress Plugins You Haven’t Seen
• 6 Firefox Add-Ons That Boost Productivity

September

• 10 Firefox Add-ons to Supercharge your Blogging
• Blogger/Blogspot Next Blog Warning
• Two Free Font Utilities You Should Check Out
• Bloggers Are the Biggest Copy Cats
• Isn’t Email Marketing Spamming?

October

• 5 Things You Can Do With Your New PageRank
• Blogging The San Diego Fires
• Affiliate Marketing With NeverBlue Ads
• Getting ‘Scammed’ Got Us Mentioned on John Chow Dot Com

November

• 3 Magazine Themes For WordPress
• Top 20 Contest Blogs
• Making Money With Videos
• Does McDonalds Pay More than Blogging?

December

• Leaving the pack to follow the flock: A Browser Fairy Tale
• 3 Must-See Lists for Top WordPress Plugins, Tweaks & Firefox Extensions
• Entrecard: Blogging’s Newest Fad
• Domaining is Bloggers New Pastime

We didn’t get a chance to post yesterday, with it being Christmas and all.

The morning started with opening tons of presents for my son. After that, of course we had to play with them all! Christmas breakfast then on the road to visit family. The best part about that was, I found my calling.

Yes that’s right I may quit blogging to become a full time Guitar Hero rocker. Yesterday was the first time I played and I felt the crowd behind me. I’m not sure I can balance both in my busy life! Choices… choices.

Sometime after the 1st of the year we hope to announce another BAYB contest, but we have yet to find a contest sponsor. However, today we will be giving away 100 entrecard points. 2 people who leave comments here will each win 50.

Merry Christmas

I’ve been working on getting the winners picked, to make sure we can get them their money before before Christmas. I want to thank NeverblueAds for being so generous and sponsoring this contest for us and our readers. It’s not too late to Join NeverblueAds and start your affiliate account. There are tons of offers up, including several Christmas ones to promote on your blog. I have lots of their freebie offers on It’s All Free Online.

I did the method of picking the winners a bit different. For the most part it’s still random, but I did hand picked one winner. The contest entry was very touching, so I had to make sure they got selected. After you read their contest post, you’ll see why. Here is an excerpt from HomeSchoolZoo contest entry:

This would be great to use for my Acts of Kindness project. $100 would go a long way toward making it a very special Christmas for two people I work with. There are some other great prizes, too, such as special reviews and a $25 cash prize. However, with three $100 cash prizes up for grabs, I’m shooting for that.

One person I’d like to help this Christmas has two small children. I’d love to be able to get some toys and coats for them! Another person I have in mind to help could use some ordinary things like new socks, tee-shirts, and such things as that. Both individuals have hit it pretty hard the past few months and I’d like to try to make their Christmas just a little merrier if I can.

In the spirit of Christmas we want to help them too, so HomeSchoolZoo is our first 100$ winner. Not everyone can be as fortunate as some of us, so I too hope it can be made a special Christmas for them. The rest of the winners are as follows:

2nd Blog Contest Central - 100$ from NeverblueAds
3rd An Anonymous Journal - 100$ from NeverblueAds
4th DatMoney - Website review from us
5th International Freebies - 25$ from Blogging4everyone
6th Contest Blogging - Website review from Nspeaks
7th It’s Write Now - Website review from SelectIndex
8th My Musings and Stuff - Featured blog at A Links Blog

Congratulations to all of our winners and thank you to everyone who participated! For the cash winners please use the contact form and give me your paypal address, or leave a comment. Thanks! Make sure to subscribe to our RSS feed for other chances to win upcoming prizes. I will be giving away entrecard points in the feed in the next days.

For those who are waiting for the end to enter, you only have another day left. Our contest deadline is Monday 11:59pm PST time. We’ve gotten some late entries, but there is a great chance for you to win. I’ve been very impressed by some of the entries and I’d love to give everyone a 100$ just for them.

I’d like to thank and mention of course our big sponsor NeverblueAds. Of course our other sponsors Blogging4everyone, Nspeaks, Select Index, and A Links Blog.

If you haven’t entered yet, make sure to check out our Christmas Contest post. We are giving away 300$ cash that is sponsored by NeverblueAds.

Yesterday some of you experienced a bit of a technical issue here at Blog about your Blog. If you tried to leave a comment you were denied. It was pretty easy to find that Bad Behavior was the culprite.

I haven’t yet attempted to fix it, but I don’t think it would be worth the trouble. Has anyone else had Behavior problems?

Sorry about the problem, don’t be shy now. You can comment again.

In October we earned 316.10$. The income has remained pretty steady, but I really want to increase it. With Christmas coming up that would definitely be nice.

Traffic

According to statcounter, our traffic was almost 9,000 unique visitors. We had a great day with the RealRank article going crazy on stumbleupon and sphinn.

RSS Feed

Our RSS feed count has been steadily increasing. Thanks to a huge boost in our email subscribers that number has hit the 500 mark. To end November we reached 528 readers and 75 email readers. That’s 100 increase from last month.

Popular Articles

Our most popular articles for the month include:

• Arrival and Departure Traffic in Realtime with FEEDJIT
• Top 20 Contest Blogs
• Future of Blogging
• Does McDonalds Pay More than Blogging?
• Blogging Fingers is Sold
• RealRank Won’t Work With Google PR

Earnings

Now onto the good part, the earnings.

Google Adsense: 13.27$
TLA Referral: 25$
PayPerPost: 48.50$
Sponsored Review: 39.00$
Sponsored Review Referrals: 10$
Private Ads: 120$
Direct Reviews: 40$
ScratchBack: 8.84$
Kontera: 3.90$

That brings our monthly total to $308.51. *sigh*.

Advertising

Blogroll We are offering two more spots for 10$ per month.

RSS Feed You can also advertise at the bottom of the site feed for only 10$ per month. We have 528 readers! That’s a great rate.

Banner We have 125×125 banner space available. For one month we are looking for 25$ per month to get it started. The max will be 4 banners.

If you are interested in any of these please use our contact form and get in touch with me.

Instead of trying to come up with a post, I’m going to take a personal approach today.

My computer has been terrible the past few weeks, so I took the plunge and wiped everything off of it. Of course, now, the internet won’t work. Wireless kicks my butt, I don’t know as much about it. I hope to be back up and running soon so I can get some more great posts for you all.

Now would be a great time to get some other authors blogging for us, if you are interested please contact me so I can get you set-up. Don’t forget our top 2 authors this month get 15$ each, so it’s worth a shot to get an article up.

Our Top 20 Contest Blogs list has been great, I want to thank everyone for posting about it already. The list is catching fire so please help us move it along. The post is on sphinn, but still hasn’t gone hot yet. We only need a few more votes.

The email subscribers contest is also doing well. We started off with only 14 subscribers one week ago, now that number is up to 66! I’d love to see that go to around 100, there is still about another week left. After this contest is over it looks like we have another sponsor for a 300$ contest! Just in time for Christmas.