I found your link from Kirsty's nerdynomad and just got curious. It's uplifting to know we're not unique to this experience. When my husband started his site, it was just to pick up his long-forgotten passion of playing drums. We were both novice to site building...even to the internet, and it was a struggle (it still is). We only know of the google adsense and when we finally had it going, we we're checking it as part of signing in to his website. One can only do this for so long...we got tired seeing a few cents for a month, then we forgot all about it. After almost 2 years, we got $100-check from google--it's our forgotten adsense-- just about the time I'm trying to check out blogging. Also very timely that I found Kirsty's blog and I realized it is possible to monitize a web site. I was able to nudge my husband into trying the affiliates--he wants to retire anyway (ha! ha!). Frustrating... that's why I checked out Kirsty's archives on affiliates and adsense again.

It seems that you're into music, if you want to see our website www.xzyllardrums.com you will not only see his drums but some awful pages with codes he made from affiliates that we're trying to experiment this week. I don't know how long it would take until we end our frustrations! Nice site...I don't know how we can clean-up ours though.

I didn't think you could make a lot of $ with adds...unless you're Boing Boing. So, I guess I'll keep it clean.

way to take a stand. $.85 doesn't go as far as it once did...