Has it really been five days since I last posted to my blog? Having to transfer some sites and databases to new hosts turned into a major project (not to mention headache inducing and RSI aggravating ordeal too) over the weekend and early part of this week, but it was technically rewarding as I took the opportunity to recode the pages and created my own set of web services, which is great because I'll now be able to easily use the back end data in some new and interesting ways across other sites.

Anyways, here's a roundup of things that have happened since I last posted:

Toys Site: I talked about my new toy site a while back and how I had incorporated Amazon's Web Services into it. No real work done on it all since then, other than a few links to get it indexed and am pleased to see the first trickle of sales come in. Always satisfying to see the first evidence that a site actually "works" as an affiliate vehicle.

Adsense: Adsense income has gone up on sites that I moved to a new host (in the US). That has to be pure coincidence though.... surely!?

PPC: I enjoyed some cool PPC success last month. Unfortunately this month, I'm just not seeing anything it. Conversion rate has plummeted. Seems to have coincided with the merchant making significant changes to their site. It's heart breaking to see a winning formula tinkered with and end up with a such a reversal of fortunes.