Wow, so I checked my email today to find a bunch of sales for links today. I added them up and the total came to $1,166.47! Wowzah! Over $1,000 of profit in one day is quite a feat. This also brings the link experiment to over 500 links sold, and $15,368 generated. Was hoping to get over that $15,000 mark. I also made over $300 on the day with my other online ventures, brining the day’s total over $1,500. I think it’s high time I throw some of this money into the link experiment. Think I’m going to go with a ton of link experiment t-shirts and some advertising. Reviews of the websites that got links coming up next.

It’s been just over a year since I started the Link Experiment and with a link purchased today for $245, the site total has been boosted to $14,161. I’ve put the Link Experiment on the back burner for a while, but perhaps it’s time to breath some life into the site. I’m betting recent purchases have been made for SEO purposes. A $245 permanent link on the homepage of a PR 4 site, plus the added benefit that if the site ever gets popular again the link could pay off even more. At any rate, I think I’m going to try to start blogging some more just to get my ideas and thoughts out on paper. My new project is Diggy Games, I’m promoting it as a Myspace Games Site. I’ve had it around for like a year and a half, but haven’t done much with it. I’ll write more on this later.

After a long dry spell Link Experiment has sold 2 more links for $435 bringing the site’s grand total to $13,706. Maybe we will crack $15,000 afterall. The homepage still has a google pagerank of 5 and there are now multiple links that have been on the homepage for over 200 days. Killsometime.com has been on the homepage longest at 253 days.

as many of you know google updated its PR recently. The update has been kind to the link experiment upgrading the homepage to a PR 5 and updating the links page to a PR 3. So now buyers will get a PR 5 and a lifetime PR 3 when they buy a link from the link experiment.

So I’ve launched a new site called Million Dollar Brandon. The idea behind this one is to allow people to create domain names for $9.95 per month, get a comission of $50, then split the commission with the people who used my link, and also giving a backlink to whoever does this. This results in a net gain of $15 and a backlink, a domain, and hosting for a month for the user. Then I repeat 39,999 more times to become a millionaire. Easy enough.

So we have a new #1 link going to the 1234directory. The old #1 link had lasted 85 days on top but it’s reign of terror is over. However it is the dawn of a new era for the link experiment. In talks with the buyer I agreed that he could hold the #1 link for 4 weeks time. This might setup a new system for the link experiment whereby the #1 link will be guaranteed for a minimum of 1 month blocks. This may encourage more buyers when they know that their link won’t get booted after a day.

Who would have thought that 2 requests for the #1 bid in one day would turn out to be a bad thing? I received both requests via email and I had to warn both perspective buyers that there were 2 parties interested in the #1 link. I felt that I had to give warning that if they went ahead with a purchase they may only hold if for a few hours.

I’m working out a solution now. Unfortunately however it looks like one party will end up buying the link and the other party will end up walking away. On the plus side, still good to have a #1 link and still good to get the Link Experiment above the $13,000 mark.

I recently got an email from a guy interested in buying the #1 spot. This means 2 things. At least $401 more towards the Link Experiment and the Link Experiment will move over the $13,000 marker. Conversations with this webmaster have convinced me that it’s time to revitalize the link experiment. This site has gone through peaks and valleys from the very beginning and I think it’s high time for another major peak. Let’s get this baby back on top!

After going a long time not selling any links, Lifehoo.com has purchased a link for $100. Hopefully this will help breath some life back into the site. I’m taking a break from running now deciding that after running 10 years competitvely with my longest break being 3 weeks in that period, that it was time for a rest. I’m thinking about a few months off, then maybe going for the Chicago Marathon. We’ll see.

Went for my longest run ever a couple days ago, a 20 miler. Kept up a good pace, did 6 of the miles on a treadmill when it got dark and was doing about 6:48 per mile and felt slower than what I was doing outside. My legs felt like garbage the last few miles though. That pace will get me under 3 hours for the full marathon, which will qualify me for Boston by over 10 minutes, so that’s good. However, it’s hard to imagine running over a minute faster per mile for a full 26.2 miles. I got my work cut out.