From Jimmy's site:
"I was running an experiment to see if it is possible to make money on the web...
Well the results are in... Even with a popular site I have made only pennies from putting ads on my site from the likes of Trade Doubler and similar.
It took hours of work, and since they don't pay you till you get a certain amount, I'll probably never get the money!
My advice... don't bother with these programs.
The good news is that you may have noticed Google Adwords on my site. This seems a much better program, and there are others like it.
I am earning on my way to $60 from two months in the adwords program. Every time someone clicks on one of their inoffensive text ads on the site I get a few cents. When I get to $100 they will hopefully mail me a cheque...! This would be great as it would go someway towards paying my bills to keep the site up, and buy the software to write it. So thank you all for tolerating these ads. They keep the site alive.
As to the other ads what a waste of time! Except Amazon which seems to be worth keeping going with. I get a small percentage of anything I sell at Amazon, direct from this site. I have made about £4 so far in credits."
One would think his dad could chip in a few bucks!!