I actually saw a thread on an un-named forum that was concerned with Google Adsense revenue. The person who started the thread was hoping to ascertain CPM trends for the year 2008. This was at noon on January 2nd. I about lost it! Man, there are no trends yet, and you aren’t getting screwed yet, no matter how hard you try and pretend! And yet here was a person ready to start making excuses for revenue trends in 2008.

Don’t do it! Save yourself the heartache and grief. This is the start of a new year for advertisers and publishers alike. Don’t hesitate to swap ad codes and ad programs with the hopes of greater monetization. You aren’t pinned in to one monetization program for any reason! If you think you’re being screwed, then for god’s sake, do something about it!

I am having success with 8 different monetization plans on approximately 30 different websites, and the results are impressive. In the last six months alone, programs like Chitika Linx, Kontera, and WidgetBucks have sprung up that offer enormous potential. Luckily for me, my Adsense revenues were also up in 2007, so all of these other programs are just icing on the cake.

If you aren’t monetizing a website with at least 4 different schemes in 2008, you have no one to cry to but yourself if you don’t make the kind of money you’ve been dreaming of. The days of complaining about Google as if you’re a helpless child are over!

Good luck in 2008 whichever way you go.