Dec 18 2007
Going Ad Free
I had tinkered with Google AdSense to see if it could generate some revenue for the site. I think I ended up with a total of 7 clicks out of 7 or 8 thousand page impressions for a whopping $1.33 of pure profit, not so good. So I’m dumping the no-good bitch. Call it a failed pilot, on the plus side, the site doesn’t look as cluttered. I think it will take a lot of convincing for me to put ads back up and at least an order of magnitude increase in traffic before I reconsidered.
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Yay - you’re not an ad whore anymore. Way to man up.
I think that you should ask for contributions instead. I’ll send you a buck.
The business geek in me told me that it was an opportunity cost to NOT place ads on the site, therefore I checked it out. However, even if adSense was successful on my site, I think it would have taken the site to a place where I would be tailoring my content to drive ad revenue, and that just isn’t where I wanted to go with this.
I can see a different site geared completely for revenue generation as a possibility, if I had the time, but for now, I would rather write for me rather than revenue (like I had the choice anyway
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Apparently, you can make some pretty good cash with paid writings. Especially if you have a high google rank.
I know a guy who runs a site, www.mwillett.org, who makes about $250.00 a month with google ads…. but he has google PR out the ying yang and thousands of visitors a day.
For us little wee ones, that don’t want to put hours a day getting good rank, I don’t think google ads are for us…
i have the same thing on my blog. what i like is how the ads go by my content, and usually it’s just rehabs, drink mixing sites, and how to get out of DUI. However, when i was posting stuff about wanting to wrestle a midget in lime jello, i had ads up on how to meet single little people. fucking comedy.
Hey! How do you meet single little people?
I mean it’s so HARD! They’re so popular you can’t find one without a ring!