Biker News Online, my motorcycle website, is showing a lot of promise. There's a lot of motorcycle news material to write about, there's a lot of people wanting this kind of content, and there are lots of advertisers wanting to get in front of this audience.

And it's not just motorcycles, parts, and accessories that's getting advertised. As it turns out, it's love. There are several "biker dating" websites willing to pay out some big money for registrations, and there happens to be a very big biker community in the USA. The demographics also show that bikers tend to be in the upper-middle class, which translates into consumer spending.

The best thing going for Biker News Online right now is that traffic is still on the rise. Yesterday, it had its largest one-day audience ever at 3,100 unique visitors. I recently added Quantcast tracking and you can take a look here.

DoggieNews is another site that I'm committing to, though I haven't updated it much lately, but it's on my list of things to get going. Biker News Online taught me a lot about effective blog design and blog usability; I'm going to apply that knowledge to DoggieNews.

This blog, In Your Web, I'm also committed to, if not as a for-profit publication, at least as a journal of my experiences with website publishing.

Money With AdSense is my newest blog, and one that I don't know will be successful or not. There are SO many websites focusing on this topic. On the other hand, the potential advertising income is very lucrative if I can just get some good referrals from Google and Yahoo.

Menifee 24/7 I'm also committed to. But that's also still an experiment. It's focused on my local community, publishing news and announcements. I call it an experiment because my goal was to attract local advertisers, like some real estate agents, a pizza shop, or the neighborhood pet groomer. But it hasn't happened. As it turns out, AdSense is earning some pretty good money considering the very small audience. That provides me with a lot of hope.

Junk Food Blog is still up in the air. I think I'm going to commit another year to it. I'm going to redesign the blog template. I think I can triple the audience on that blog with a more usable template design, and just getting back into writing more content.

Another site I'm still committed to is Real Estate and How. The AdSense performance statistics are simply "out of this world". The amount of money being spent on AdWords in the real estate market is ridiculously high. That's why I can't give up on this site. My problem thus far is not enough traffic. If I can just get the traffic, I'm set.

Blogs I'm Not Committed To

I still get e-mails from people wanting to know why I haven't been updating Strange New Products. It's kinda of a bad idea, that's why. But I haven't taken the site down, because it still makes money by itself. It's a bad idea because it takes too much effort to find material to write about. I've been known to spend an entire day, morning to night, combing the Internet for strange new products to write about. The site just doesn't compensate me for that time, nor would it compensate anyone else if I hired them. I'm better off putting that time into other sites.

Slot Machine Blog died because the guy I was partnering with just doesn't respond very well. He's an actual slot machine technician, who has a lot of information that slot machine players would love to know. But I can't get him to provide me with a daily flow of information.

Erection News, despite its name, is not a porn site. It was meant to market all the erectile dysfuction drugs. I guess I can't answer why I haven't been updating this. I ought to. There's a lot of money in it.

Perfume Fancy is just a bad idea. There's plenty of content to write about. However, the advertising spend in this industry is not that great.

Bottle Watch is largely a bad idea also. While it does attract a large audience, I just can't monetize it. The handful of affiliate programs for this niche are not that great, and AdSense prohibits its creatives from appearing on alcohol-related sites.

OCThen.com is more of a hobby site. Since I spent 23 years living in Orange County, I have a lot of great memories, and this is the site where I like to write about them. It doesn't earn much income, though its small audience is very loyal. This is a site that I still update, though not often.