I checked Google Analytics for the first time in a while to see how this blog is doing and things have improved a lot recently. I’m now close to 1,000 unique hits a day, 75% of which comes from search engines. That’s good news considering in August traffic plummeted to about 100 uniques a day thanks to me using a robots.txt file that killed my search-engine traffic.

The Google Page Rank update came recently and this blog held its PR4. To most of you that won’t mean much and is a rather tedious fact, but it was a surprise to me nonetheless. I’m expecting my Page Rank to take a hit in the near future, but I’m not particularly bothered about that because the only traffic I really care about is from RSS subscribers, which are almost at the 200 mark now.

These increases in visitors have come at the same time as me deciding to post less here. It was killing me to update this blog every day and so I made a decision to update every few days instead. My theory behind this was that if I waited a few days, I might have something more worthwhile to say. While this hasn’t always been the case, I am sleeping a bit more than I was before.

You may have noticed that I moved the Adsense blocks today. The positions they were in before were totally sucking and my earnings dropped to about a tenth of what they have been in the past. Sooksiam, I hope this meets your approval.

Although I don’t make excessive amounts of money from this blog, through all my work online and for other blogs and websites, I actually make more money per month than my salary. I worked out that if I quit my job and worked from home, I could make close to 200,000 baht a month. Before any of you shoot that figure down, send me an email and I’ll tell about all the web work I do and how that figure is possible.

While the money is tempting, at this stage in my life, I enjoy my job too much and think I would be making a mistake by working from home. Would you do it?