The sort of posts that are one line with a mention of the topic, but no real meat. When I add nofollow to WordPress blogs, most of these types of comments mysteriously disappear!

There’s lists going around of dofollow blogs and when you get on one you are inundated with low quality comments and of course even more automated SPAM comments.

I already spend to much time dealing with the automated comment SPAM (I own 50+ WordPress blogs), without having to spend more time deciding if a comment is just for the backlink or because they found the post useful.

I have posts on other sites with dozens and even hundreds of comments on them, (have one post with 600 comments!) most real people who comment on blogs don’t do it for links, they comment because they found the post interesting and want to take part in a discussion or learn something.

David Law

I have to admit I do prefer AdSense to trying to make money from ClickBank etc… as you say you put your creative energy into the content and what you do today can be still making money 5+ years from now. With affiliate content you always having to keep it up to date and if you want to do well have to cover products you have little interest in.

I like writing about SEO/AdSense/making money, but not so much reviewing products that I might like/use, but don’t really feel passionate about (not fun).

I started a WordPress SEO Tutorial http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/seo-tutorial-for-wordpress a few days back and wrote the first 5 pages in under 2 days, some of them are really long pages I really enjoyed the process. In comparison I’m doing well if I write one product review every 6 months!

David Law

If your earning over 100 bucks a day from adsense and affiliate/private ads that is better than most, its very good in fact and I would put you in the top .1% of other guys swinging away out there!
I think people in the know are moving to private ads, I do like it for various reasons.

I like adsense as its low stress and very easy set up. I use your templates with good results.

For me I like building an adsense empire rather than too much dabbling in many things. Adsense is all about creating things on your site so people will come to it. If you have a few sites you all your eggs are not in one basket. If you every wanted to convert them into sales sites its possible.

Therefore your energy is put into building quality traffic rather a specific product. But you have made the point you get paid more on affiliates. But I say ahh yes, but you must work to keep them up. While adsense empires just build and build and slowly on auto pilot you get rich. Your creative energies go into content.

About your back. 2 years. My friends with operations are better in 6 months, but the whole healing process is about 2 years. I think healthy living etc is very important for the healing, but you know this.

As always best regards, Mark Biernat