This of course is nothing against Jim Kukral. I think his blog is awesome, in fact, I think its one of the better blogs out here. Time time has come though, I need to remove ScratchBack.com. It’s not Jim’s fault, nor is it mine or yours. Here is the problem I am having:

It is simply not earning money. The main purpose of having the widget displayed on my blog is to offer a neat way for readers to say thank you for doing what I do while also getting a nice reward for making the small $5 dollar donation.

The problem I am having is that the low cost causes a conflict of interest with my sponsors and advertisers. It wouldn’t be much of a problem if the links on the widget flowed faster, but they don’t. I have links still showing on the widget that were purchased over a month ago.

For me, it’s kinda hard to sell a $99 / month banner ad when advertisers can see clear as day links that have been purchased for $5 dollars stay on the blog the same amount of time. The ScratchBack.com widget is for you. I put it there to give you an affordable way to advertise on my blog and by saying thanks.

No hard feelings… I don’t have any and neither should you. It is obviously something that doesn’t interest you, therefore it must go. Thanks for the $141.37 in tips. Just for reference, I have done close to 50 posts since I put the widget up. The amount earned equates to getting tipped $2.82 per post which gets viewed almost 10,000 times.

Perhaps I should become a waiter, seems to make more money than providing people with tips about how to make money online.