After that success with the Joe Bucks Site, I decided to try and exploit this Income Stream more fully.  To that end, I've set up a handful of Mini Nets.

What is a Mini Net…

In short it's like a mini network of `feeder` sites which lead to a `money site`.  The feeder sites might or might not have monetisation on them - they might or might not have an email capture.  What they do have is links to the `Moeny Site`…

You can read more about this system right here.  Download the FREE eBooks and read to your hearts content. For me, here is my scenario (which I am writing up into a more detailed report over the next few days).  The report will of course be free of charge!

• The `Money Site` is a Joe Bucks affiliated site, on which the payouts are anything upto $100 per sale.
• The `Feeder Sites` are White Hat (content based) sites which have no monetisation.  What these do have is email lead capture pages, as well as links and banners to the `Money Site`.

I've not yet been able to ascertain whether the approach is the right way to do things - I am still in testing stages.  But, looked at objectively, I think the approach is viable and sustainable.

Affiliate instead of Adsense?

It's got to the stage now, where I am thinking that Adsense should be a backburner AIS - one which bring in useful pocket money and no more.  I've been a bit concerned about relying on Adsense for income - even though adsense is only 20% or less of my online earnings - for you guys who rely on it 80% or more, now is the time to diversify.  And by `now` I mean right now - today, not tomorrow or next week or next year!

So, my aim is to get Adsense right down to 5% of my monthly income total.  By concentrating on Affiliate AIS, I can make this happen…I intend to reach this target by March 2007.

Here's my overall adsense percentages (in terms of monthly earnings) for the last 5 months:

• May 13.86%
• June 9.11%
• July 13.45%
• August 13.92%
• September 18.20%

As you can see, the median figure is 13.8% - to bring this down to just 5% will be quite difficult.  Of course, I could just remove Adsense from the sites it is on, but then I would have no pocket money.  The answer is to increase the other Streams of Income, thereby decreasing the Adsense Stream (in terms of %).

For right now, the easiest stream to work on is the Affiliate Product Stream - by using the methods outlined in Affiliate Project X, I am already seeing a marked increase in my Affiliate Income Streams;

ClickBank Reporting
Period ending 2006-11-01: $119.22
Period ending 2006-10-16: $103.79
Period ending 2006-10-01: $30.49

I actually purchased Aff Project X on 5th October, so as you can see, this represents a nice increase within a matter of weeks…from $30.49 to $103.79 to $119.22 (so far this period).  That's a 240% increase immediately (if my math is correct)…
Of course, I not only use Clickbank to earn an Affiliate Income - I also use some sites own reporting system, on one particular Aff Stream;  40 clicks, 27 uniques, 21 buyers for a total of almost $300 so far this month.

Sorry for the rambling post.