I have made a few posts that need a follow up that can be bunched together rather than warrant new posts by themselves so without further ado:

Everyclick
I reported that I noticed almost 1000 visitors per day coming in from Everyclick which is powered by ASK. (Everyclick.com is a search engine with a difference – it gives 50% of its revenue to charities)The trend is rising sharply and I hope those of you that took notice have made moves to make sure you are in ASK’s index because they are buying traffic and promoting themselves so worth trying to get some of that action.

I had good rankings in ASK and therefore in Everyclick so the increase in my traffic could probably be closely associated with the moves that Everyclick have made and should correlate to their own growth since early April.

In the last month I have received over 77,000 visitors from Everyclick averaging over 2500 per day up from the 1000 per day in April with quite a few peaks of 4000 per day! Yikes this train is fast, all aboard!

So far it looks very much like paid traffic as Jamie mentioned in the comments of the original post , it is difficult to see how this can be sustained, but watch this space I’d say.

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Mini Sites
Tattoo Fonts running the newly named Quick Links earned $669 in May together with it’s adsense income of $146 means the one page tool based mini site earned $815 for the month.

The newly launched Tattoo Tracer is getting just under 100 visitors per day but won’t be monetised for some time until some natural links build up.

My information one page mini sites have had really varying success earning anything from $1 up to $70 each for the month.
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Investing in UK Domains
Rob’s interview was excellent and I have furthered my UK tld portfolio a little, also note that Rob is in the process of launching his own blog so anyone with an interest in UK domains should check out Domain Blog.
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Using the competitive filter for Adsense
After posting that I had improved my Adsense income and overall cost per click by using the competitive filter to get rid of MFA & low paying advertisers I noticed a message in my Adsense account from the optimization teams stating

After an automatic review of your sites, we think you might be able to improve your monetization using the following tips: You may be filtering ads that monetize well on your site.

Hmm, well I decided to remove my list from the filter to let nature take its course and although my CTR rose a bit to give me more clicks, the resulting CPC and CPM dropped down again meaning I was no better off each day, in fact slightly worse off again. So I stick by my original post and for me using the competitive ad filter to filter poor paying ads although limits my advertiser pool and relevancy a bit, I am usually better of for it. Now if Google could introduce a base rate or lowest CPC for larger publishers I’d be happier to let things be.

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Did you know that SEO.com has sold for $5 million big one’s? Bought by Mike Mann (founder of buydomains.com) , Mike is know for investing in popular generic domains, a good deal or not only time will tell.  Buy a domain and then create a business around it, that’s style!