If your like me you try various new revenue sources when they open or when you qualify for them, and probably like me, some of them work for you and some don’t.

So after a while the ones that aren’t working get dropped from your sites, or perhaps pushed down the site so that you forget your running them, or because they don’t perform you stop checking them for anything earned.

Today might just be a good day to go over every advertising site/program you have ever used and check your account balances, I did that this morning and found several hundred dollars in various programs that is due to be paid (but lacking payment information), or is very close to hitting the minimum payment threshold.

I recently caught up with an old friend and found out that he has created a service that is a great help to anyone who exchanges links.

His site will automatically check your link exchanges to make sure they are still valid, saving you a heap of time doing it manually.

Well worth the $15 lifetime fee it costs you.

I’d recommend checking it out  http://www.textlinkhq.com/

(Disclaimer: No money or beer changed hands for me to post this, I just think its a great idea at a great price!)

So on one of my “Generic” profiles I have been using a number of tools to build my friend count. One of them I purchased after I wrote my column on the tools on my pc, which I must update and tell you about.

Another one is an online tool which I am yet to talk about, it has 2 modes, unpaid and paid, until now I have been using it in unpaid mode, but I decided to give paid mode a go, so I subscribed for a month.

I was cruising around sites the other day and I came across www-one-dollar-a-day.com, it’s not a bad site either, well worth a read.

While I was there I discovered that the owner of that site has a MySpace bulletin generator for sale. I’d been meaning to code one of these for a while, but lack of time meant I never got to it. The script was only $20, so I thought I may as well just buy it.

I would of been better off coding it myself, the script as delivered doesn’t work, it’s my own fault I should of checked before buying.

On my main work computer I use Firefox as a browser, additionally I have all of the following plugins loaded.

• Adsense Notifier - Monitors My Earnings
• SearchStatus - Displays Google PR and Alex Ranking
• Clippings - An extended clipboard, great for often used items
• HTML Validator - Check my HTML
• Hypertext DOM Browser - Browse through the DOM of a webpage
• IE Tab - IE inside of Firefox
• MeasureIT - Lets me measure the size of something on screen
• User Agent Switcher - Fake the browser User Agent to websites

All of us probably have a set of tools we use on a regular basis to maintain our sites. I occasionally find a new useful tool when someone mentions the tool. So I thought I would run through all the different tools I use, what I like (and dislike) about them, how I use them, where to get them, etc.

I am going to break this topic up into a number of posts because I use a lot of different tools.

I noticed something interesting the other day. I have a couple of new sites that do not yet have page rank as listed via the Google API or the Google Toolbar. I had these sites registered and verified for Google Sitemaps and while looking around the sitemaps site I noticed that the area that shows Page Rank for the site actually showed some Page Rank for the site.

In my case the site in question had the entire “low” bar full of green, instead of the “Not Yet Assigned” bar as I would have expected.

Google won’t be sending me anymore cheques, no I have not been banned. New Zealand is now one of the supported Countries for Electronic Transfer. So if you hadn’t noticed you need to head on over and set it up.

I set it up earlier this month and had the account verified, so early next month I should receive a direct deposit of earnings.

For a long time now I have been a regular visitor to a couple of major website publisher forums, both of them are great places to learn and full of very helpful people.

Unfortunately I recently quit one of these sites because of the way one of the volunteer staff was treated, fortunately that ex staff member also runs another website publisher forum, so I have replaced SitePoint with his forum.

If your keen to learn then you definately want to drop in on websitepubisher.net, the other site is DigitalPoint.

People sometimes ask me how I manage to publish so many websites (currently I have 17 I think) and then manage to get people to visit them.

Publishing the sites is easy, the hard part is getting traffic to them.

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