I'm not saying this to brag, I'm just letting everyone know that not everyone's earnings are down lately. I'm ecstatic, I hope this keeps up. Who knows... the AS income is a bit unpredictable but I'll take it!

I've worked hard to get traffic up this year, I've added plenty of new content, fixed robots.txt files to keep SEs from indexing junk & duplicate files, blocked traffic from a country who spams a lot, updated outdated scripts, started one new (small) niche website, etc. In general I just kept doing what I've been doing. It probably helps that my websites are my sole source of income so I have more time than most people to dedicate to it.

I hope I can inspire others to keep at it even if things are down right now. Just like the markets, think long-term. Provide value to visitors, generate unique content, etc.