I’ve had Kontera links in for three days now. I am going to keep them for a while as they pay about $2 to $2.50 per day. I put them on several web sites and I feel I should be getting about 8,000 impressions per day, but Kontera is reporting only about 3,000 impressions. Some of my older sites are not consistent in how they display ads, so it could be that they simply do not appear on some sites, but the difference is significant. I am investigating. If I can get these ads on all 10k per day impressions that my sites get, that should be about $7 a day or $2,700 a year. That’s far less than Google, but much better than Chitika.

The ads are pretty dumb. They link generically to most any empty phrase at random. If they had paid less than a dollar per day I was going to drop them. The one thing about Amazon was that the ads were always to pertinent items, usually books, which fit well with what I wanted for my sites. I hope Google comes up with an alternative soon.

The eBay partner network makes me over $4 per day due to the music gear sites that I maintain. The CragisList search sites are making me about $3 per day. This was a surprise as I made no money off of search links in the past. The star site is doing better, although it is erratic. Yesterday I made $61, but the day before that I made $2. The total from all Internet sources is hanging at somewhat less than twice the poverty level for two people in New York, still not enough to retire on.

I need one more good idea. The Craigslist search idea was great and even though only a month old is making a little money. I need another couple of good ideas and then I can enjoy my life before it is over.