Thursday, December 01, 2005
Experimenting with AdSense
If you've read this blog for any length of time, you may have noticed the appearance of little ads at the top of the blog. I've been experimenting with AdSense lately.
It's my first venture into AdSense, which I really should have started long ago, considering how much the site is content oriented. I was a little hesitant to add it. I guess I felt it somehow made my site look—gasp—commercial. (Ahem, Jeff, you do realize that your wife and kids expect the large amount of time you spend sharing your experience with others on this site will bring in money to let you to do things like pay the bills, don't you?)
I'll admit, I'm a neophyte with AdSense, but I'm learning a few things already. For example, I've been more pleased with the relevance of ads that appeared on some of the website pages I've tried them on. Undoubtably that's due to them being more intentionally focused on a single concept than is the blog, with it's constantly shifting focus.
As a matter of fact, I've found myself cringing a little at some of the ads that appeared on the blog, ads that promoted companies that sounded like ripoffs, like the search engine submission companies or the ads that appeared after my entry about stay-at-home moms. I really cringed when I saw that one that promised stay-at-home moms a selection of no-skills-required jobs that paid over $300 an hour—in return for a healthy chunk of cash.
Yeah, sure, and I have pink petunias growing out of my ears. (Ooh, I wonder if that phrase will trigger ads about gardening.)
I'll keep monitoring the ads and see how relevant they are. I'd like to keep them up to monetize the content pages, but there are other options if they continue to be low in relevance.
Jeff
If you've read this blog for any length of time, you may have noticed the appearance of little ads at the top of the blog. I've been experimenting with AdSense lately.
It's my first venture into AdSense, which I really should have started long ago, considering how much the site is content oriented. I was a little hesitant to add it. I guess I felt it somehow made my site look—gasp—commercial. (Ahem, Jeff, you do realize that your wife and kids expect the large amount of time you spend sharing your experience with others on this site will bring in money to let you to do things like pay the bills, don't you?)
I'll admit, I'm a neophyte with AdSense, but I'm learning a few things already. For example, I've been more pleased with the relevance of ads that appeared on some of the website pages I've tried them on. Undoubtably that's due to them being more intentionally focused on a single concept than is the blog, with it's constantly shifting focus.
As a matter of fact, I've found myself cringing a little at some of the ads that appeared on the blog, ads that promoted companies that sounded like ripoffs, like the search engine submission companies or the ads that appeared after my entry about stay-at-home moms. I really cringed when I saw that one that promised stay-at-home moms a selection of no-skills-required jobs that paid over $300 an hour—in return for a healthy chunk of cash.
Yeah, sure, and I have pink petunias growing out of my ears. (Ooh, I wonder if that phrase will trigger ads about gardening.)
I'll keep monitoring the ads and see how relevant they are. I'd like to keep them up to monetize the content pages, but there are other options if they continue to be low in relevance.
Jeff
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