Hi everybody! I just became interested in internet marketing in late October when I found out about adwords and how it works. In the first month I lost money by about a 1:4 ratio. From what I understand, this can be a typical result unless you are very lucky (or skilled). Since then, I've turned my bids way down and learned a bit about PPC from it. Anyway, along the way I learned that there are so many different ways to participate in internet marketing, that I really want to build sites and who knows what else. I'd heard a lot about blogs, so I got a google blog and they said "would you like adsense with that?" and got it approved in about an hour. So, I'm not making any money yet because I'm just trying to take in all the information overload available on the net. I figured it would be really easy to just fire out some simple sites with a bunch of adense dumped on them, but I'd rather watch and learn from the big kids how to make quality sites first. Scott