To help drive some traffic to a few of my sites and to add some potentially valuable backlinks, I’ve created 3 Squidoo lenses. A Squidoo lens is basically a page that you create with links, pictures, and other information about a specific topic. Still confused? Well, check out the three lenses I created below to get a better understanding of what Squidoo can do.

The Home Poker lens features useful information on running and attending home poker games. Wii on the Web pulls together popular websites and information dealing with the Wii. The Office Humor lens is just that, a lens featuring office pranks, jokes, and other office humor.

Ok, so I’m mostly using these lenses as feeders to my other sites. If the prove to be fairly popular, I’ll spend some more time building them up and seeing what they can do.

As I mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been working on revamping the Wii Play site. Well, the bulk of the changes are now online for your viewing pleasure. The biggest change is the design, though the layout itself is fairly similar. There are a few formatting issues with IE7, so hopefully I’ll have those fixed soon.

There have been other changes (namely the front page) but it all still functions pretty much the same as it did before. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it right? I do still have a long list of features I’d like to add to the site, but I can roll most of those out separately when I find the time to do them.

The next big step for the site is to start a marketing push. Hopefully I can light the spark just enough so that the place can really take off and be a great Wii community driven site.

It’s time I slow down on creating new sites and take some time to go back and update/remodel/fine tune some existing sites. There’s a huge list of modifications and additions for just about every site and I’ve been neglecting that list too much lately.

First on the list is Wii Play. That’s the site with the most pending features as well as a site that I’ve come to realize needs a better design. I’ve already gotten a good amount of the design done and I’m starting to implement key new features. The site will still function as it does, it’ll just look nicer, work better, and provide more information. I also am going to get off my butt and actually start marketing it a bit so that some more people will sign up and start contributing.

After Wii Play, I’m likely to start working on a redesign of Watermark Tool. I’m constantly surprised by how much use the site gets as I’ve done no marketing at all for it. It’s also pretty ugly right now and really deserves a much cleaner design. I do have some pretty cool features planned for the site, but I’m not sure how involved I’m going to get with those on this next pass-through.

The last big update project will be… Ok, I have to keep some things as a surprise!

You all may have the day off today, but I’ve been busy launching Home Poker Game Guide! The new site features advice and tips for hosting and playing your own home poker games. It will be a great site to compliment the recently re-launched Home Poker System - with the hope being that people can setup their games with Home Poker System and then get some usefully information from Home Poker Game Guide so that their home games will be the best they can be. There’s only a couple posts at the new site so far, but I’ve already got a bunch of topics queued up to work on - so be sure to keep checking back for the latest!

Also, I’ve decided to scrap the site Poker Sensei as it was just one of those ideas that seemed better in my head than it did in reality. I still love the domain so maybe I’ll come up with something better for it in the future, but until then, consider it abandoned.

As promised, I’ve compiled the breakdown of my August earnings. Again, these are just the percentages of earnings I had with each program, not specific numbers and no breakdown of which sites. Overall, earnings were a tad lower than last month, mostly due to me slowing down a bit with new sites and updates to existing sites.

1. Google Adsense - 50% of my August earnings came from Google Adsense clicks. This number is up from 44% in July.
2. Text Link Ads - Text Link Ads accounted for 44% of my earnings which is a bit up from last month.
3. SIAB GEAR - SIAB GEAR was down to 5% in August. Since my sales are so low, one or two sales difference accounts for a fairly big jump in total earnings from the store.
4. Chitika - Chitika moved up from the last spot, earning a full 1% for me.
5. CJ and Amazon - Commission Junction and Amazon combined for less than 1 percent of my earnings in August. Again, these two programs perform fairly badly for me, but it’s also due to me not using them much.

The breakdown looks very similar to last month’s, with each program only changing a few percentage points. Chitika, CJ, and Amazon continue to fight over the scraps of last place as Google Adsense continues to fend off Text-Link-Ads. Once I find some time to start marketing my SIAB GEAR store more, hopefully I can bring those sales up so that the store can compete for first place someday.