Back in October 2005, Adam Peneberg asked if Google had Peaked? His question was a little premature, they hadn't peaked and continued to grow. But here we are 18 months later and you have to start asking the same question. Simply take a look at the Alexa graph for google.com.

Note a peak, which lasted from early 2006 to late 2006 and the drop-off in 2007. Was 2006 Google's peak? We are measuring in percentages of Internet traffic and since Internet traffic is still growing quickly, the aggregate view of this data would likely not show a peak in 2006. On the other hand, I think it would show a peak since late 2006 thru today.

I have always been very critical of BlogAds. Constant bugs and little revenue made 2006 a bad year for them and me. But this March, BlogAds turned a corner and I started to actually make a little money ($213 on $315 in ads). I've stuck with BlogAds mostly because I've seen others do extremely well with them. It's still far from my favorite blog advertising platform, but I can finally say that it's working for me.

http://www.blogads.com/

These last 3-4 months, I've written several paid posts using the ReviewMe website. My experiences were not very good. In fact, it felt very fake. This last week, I got what felt like my first real ReviewMe requests. It was for Feedable, an RSS reader, and targeted to The RSS Blog. On topic. I felt very comfortable about the review, so I wrote it. Honestly, I would've reviewed it for free with a simple email from the author, but getting paid was a nice bonus ($125). I've now written 4 reviews for a total of $350 over four months. That's not going to pay the bills, but it's beginning to look like a nice compliment to my other blogging income.

http://www.reviewme.com/

Don Ramsey is reporting the Google's AdSense is missing the majority of clicks on his ads. I'm unsure why people are concerned with this. For me, it's a matter of total revenue, not accounting. If an alternative ad server makes me more money, then I swap out AdSense. It's the same argument I see with AdWords clickfraud. Who cares? If you are making money, then use it. If you are losing money, then punt it. If YPN makes me less money, but accounts properly for clicks, then do I use AdSense or YPN?

http://blog.domramsey.com/tech/google-gone-awol/

Dave Winer, the father of blogging, has made substantial changes to his blogging system in the last month or so. The changes will finally overcome some SEO disadvantages that he's incurred over the decade he's been blogging. Here are changes I've noted.

• All blog entries now have titles.
• Each blog entry now has its own webpage.
• The title of the blog entries are also in the HTML title of the associated webpages.
• The title of the blog entries are also in the URL of the associated webpages.

These changes do not affect his archive, but these good practices will give Dave an enormous boost in the SERPs going forward.

This is just a monthly update on how my various advertising solutions are working.

AdSense

February 2007 was my 2nd best AdSense earnings month ever. Only last March had more earnings and my AdSense earnings are up about 20% over the same month last year. All but $1 of my AdSense earnings were from AdSense for content. My CPM was down 20-30% over the previous month and 20-30% over the same month last year.

FeedBurner FAN

February 2007 was my 4th best FAN month. Down 10-20% from the previous month and 70% from December 2006.

Update: March has really started off on a good note. I've receive numerous new ads in the first 2 days.

Amazon

Amazon stats are down right now. They usually work and this is an exception.

Update: Amazon earnings were down about 50% from the two previous months and a very small fraction of my best monthly earnings.

BlogAds

BlogAds stats don't work right now. This is typical. Not much ever works at BlogAds. I keep getting new ads (1 in February for $55) and I think I'm getting paid correctly, but I honestly don't know, as their website has too many bugs. BlogAds represents less than 1% of my total earnings and someday I'm going to find the time to remove them completely from my websites. BlogAds is a joke!