I know I’m still plenty green in this game, but in my opinion, in a few months, if you keep up your current production pace, I think $1000/month is very realistic. As I may have mentioned, I currently have an agenda very similar to yours. I’ve written 35 articles this month. Unfortunately, they haven’t really gotten me anywhere financially, as the whole keyword optimization thing didn’t really click with me until about a week ago. I’m shifting my tactics from screwing around with social media optimization to a more consistent keyword/niche site strategy…I have a ways to go, but you can count me in on your challenge as well…I’ll take the physical challenge!

Small target I know, but baby steps are important.

When I first read you challenge idea a thousand reasosn why ‘this coming month’ wouldn’t work came to mind … then I realized that October is actually much better for me than about 10 of the other 11 months agead, so why wouldn’t I just jump in now and get it going? I more than doubled my AdSesne over the past several months.

While in September, in addition to some out of town trips I have two major eye operations. They are out of the way very successfully now and I see things as I have never seen before, literally.

So $1,000 USD of AdSense income during the official “Google” October? 0001 on 1 October 2009 through 2400 on 31 October 2009, times and dates in the US Pacific time zone.. the official Google times shown at adsense.google.com “Sanitized” Google reports data will provide the official tally.

The other part of the challenge … 100 new posts, we will accept each others word for. I intend to run this challenge/post new articles to about 4 sites (I’ll firm that idea up this evening) and I’m keeping several of them private. I’ll post stats about posts in the sidebar at http://www.talarsystems.com where I will also write about this challenge on a daily basis.

I’m going to wish you the best of luck becuase unlike so many challenges this one is not zero sum … no matter how we do respectively, we both have to gain significantly in both expereince and actual earnings.

So who else will hop in … the odds of winning something are great, the cost of entry can be as little as $0.00 (no reason this can’t be done on one or more Blogger.com blogs), and who is not in a position to be happy with a nice “Christmas Bonus” from Google?

Or will everyone else just watch and read?

I accept your challenge sir and will meet you on the… at the… ok I really do not know anything about duels or wherever I’m going with that statement so I’ll just leave now.

Bye.