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Any advice for improvement?

Or some way to make money from it?

That second one is pretty important, but I've never figured it out.

Oh, the platform: PHP/MySQL on Centos Linux

It started out as Wordpress, but there is very little of that code left. I've gone over everything and optimized it heavily, which is the kind of thing I used to do in real jobs.

BTW, anyone need a website performance expert for monitoring, load testing, and performance problem debugging? I'm looking for contract work in the Bay Area, but full time might be OK too.

I have this conversation a lot.

If you can build a site, and community like this you could also contribute to small business internet presence.

I monitize my time on the internet with our small business. We sell a cleaning service to the public, and get 80% of our new business from the internet.

I have a series of WordPress blogs that are free to me except the hosting. The business grows at the rate of 20% per year, on average, in the past four years.

With Real Estate sites they monetize by selling a service. They may advertise, but they have that income stream by services.

Dustin Luther at Rain City Guide sells his online ability in seminars about social media.

If you have this kind of ability, why not sell that, on your site? You then become your own best advertizer.

David Losh says

If you have this kind of ability, why not sell that, on your site? You then become your own best advertizer.

What kind of ability?

BTW, why not advertise your cleaning service next to every comment you make? That's a feature allowed to Premium users. Only $5/month, first month free. No "nofollow" tag either.