It’s hard in this business knowing when to stop, I am experiencing fantastic success with my websites which I have been plugging away at since 1999, and I know how it can consume. But having laser vison obsession helps if you want success.

Anyway Darren, great site, learned a lot from you. You could walk away now and know you’ve made a difference, so it’s all good. I grow peppers to help my sanity, hope your veggies grow well.

BTW anyone going to the London ADTECH next week?

No matter what you create, it can always be used for evil. That is the danger in creation, but don’t let it stop you.

Regarding #9:

When you post as much as you did last month, I pretty much just scanned the entries instead of reading each one. There was too much. Sometimes one good entry is better than ten good entries because at least the one entry will get read and noticed.

Keep on truckin’, man! You’re doing great!

There will always be times of self-doubt and disillusionment, but take a look back at your old posts and please take some of the advice you have given to us during this time. You are great at what you do!!

As far as less posts are concerned, I’m with Mike Sansone, it gives me more time to digest the valuable information you offer.

Thanks for your work!

You are also right about the posting frequency being to much to handle. I can only spend so much time reading and commenting on other’s blogs because I have to write on mine. Now I don’t read all the comments. Sorry if this was said before.

I personally prefer a Darren who is well-rested, happy and enthusiastic : )

I’m sure you do, too!

I guess your posts are sometimes just timely catalysts for things a lot of us have been mulling over.

It’s a good way to get your feed subscribers back to your site on a regular basis..

I think you need to take into account the target audience for this blog. These are people who are interested in pro-blogging, and probaly know a lot about adsense and such. They’re aware of ad placement and are less likely to click on them. Moreover, a lot of the ads on this site are rather generic ads from the blog-category that we’ve all seen a couple of thousand times already.

Of course, saying that this blog earns $5 a day probably doesn’t include the indirect revenue streams this blog generates. The Six Figure Blogging-thing probably wouldn’t be as succesful without this blog.

that seems to be incredible low. is the sitemeter accurate? round about 2000 visits a day? but more interesting would be the number of real visitors and the number of frequent visitors.

That said, it’s always important to have time for the ‘real life’ and not live life on the Internet. In addition to that, I don’t see myself as a fan but as a fellow friend or companion who is also a blogger. :)

Cheers.

You’re doing an awesome job and the quality of your posts remains very high and very consistent :D

cya!

About disillusionment and spammers hope it don’t really influence on posting otherwise we’ll just cross hands and watch them working :-) And professionals are taking serious steps against “spam” so you can just ignore them

good luck ;)