have you considered the CTR theme? Also when I started adsense 2 years back I was told if you ran adsense you could only run adsense. No mixing in affiliate offers etc?
i have tried CTR, and never said i wasnt using it
as usual, adsense is a bit confusing at best here. the TOS says no other 'contextual-based advertising'. do affiliates fall under the umbrella of advertising? dunno.
anyhow, they are all static CPA offers, and dont even have them any more. and the amazon affiliates are posts dedicated to reviewing the product with a link to buy now and the product page. not context-based at all.
Great story! Are all your stats posted from Google Analytics? I've been running Statpress on my blog (only have the one at the moment) and really not liking it!
i used to use GA but dont any more. first off, theres the question (paranoia) of giving google more info about your autoblog and getting slapped for it.
but the main one for me is you can only track like 6 separate sites with it, so i simply out grew it. i now use piwik for that and it does everything GA does and more plus is open source and customizable.
for the data i posted about google search results, obviously you have to use google as the source...
google webmaster tools is great, its not something you add to your site, just verify that you are the owner and they let you see the under-the-hood data they already collect anyways about you.
really helpful to see what keywords you are ranking for and where people are landing.
i also used statpress way way back, and hated it. gave totally crap info. basically it confuses real visitors with spiders and ends up giving useless data.