Progress continues albeit slowly. I've created some tools to help me with the article marketing aspect of things. In doing so I cam across a nice little library on CodePlex called the HTML Agility Pack which has proven very helpful when it comes to working with HTML on the server side. I've also picked up a few more clicks but still haven't generated a single penny in revenues.
I haven't done much else this week on the project because I've been balancing out family life. Spent the whole day at Idlewild with the wife and kids and now I'm too tired to do much... think I'm going to call it a day pretty soon.
Just a note on an idea I came up with that I think may be worth exploring; keyword index and trend analysis. In a nutshell I'm thinking that it would be interesting to create a set of keyword indexes which would contain the CPM, CPC and impressions of a set of keywords over time (I think I could get the info needed via Google's API). The idea is to use this data in the same way day traders use game theory to determine buy/sell recommendations. For example, when the Cost per Click of the "Flowers" keyword index drops below a certain value the system would automatically issue a buy order on "Flowers" ads. The inverse would be to suspend the ads when the CPC exceeded a particular value. The goal would be to play in a particular market only when it is statistically probable that you will make money. Of course this same data could be used by publishers as well to help decide what content currently holds the highest value.
One other side note, I've just started reading Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe and so far I'm finding it very enjoyable. I'm only a few dozen pages into it so I'll let you know if it's worth the time once I'm done but so far so good.
TTFN
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