I Sense AdSense

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barneyb
on April 22, 2008
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After the merciless hounding of Joshua, along with some of my own curiosity, I added AdSense ads to my blog this weekend.  My plan is to leave them there until the end of May, and then remove them.  I can't imagine there's even close to sufficient potential income to justify the ugly factor, but perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised.  Not holding my breath.

4 Responses to “I Sense AdSense”

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  1. 1 Joshua
    April 22, 2008 at 8:38 am

    There will be if I click on them every day! jk. At the very least, it will be some interesting data.

  2. 2 Joshua Cyr
    April 22, 2008 at 9:00 am

    You may want to look at adroll. I created a community there of CF related sites, so advertisers can buy into a package. And if no ads meet the minimum price, it shows your default at (adsense in your case).

    http://www.adroll.com/communities/coldfusion

    Just started it, and 4 or so sites have joined together. THus far no ads, but you never know. :-)

  3. 3 SIGEPJEDI
    May 7, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    I think you'll be suprised, and with your insane 8/10 page rank I suspect you are getting some good traffic.

    However, if you want results you should check out optimizing the location and color scheme of the ads. undoubtably can make or break ad clicks. Also dropping some inline ads in/on your trackback urls will be a value add.

    JOSH

  4. 4 barneyb
    May 7, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    Josh,

    I'm not terribly interested in money unless there's a lot to be made. I could probably spend a while tuning my ads and such, but ultimately it'd boil down to a lot of boring work, so the payoff would have to be huge.

    Right now, it's more of an experiment than a money making endeavor. Depending on what happens through the end of the month, I'll either stop or continue (imagine that….). Like I said above, I don't have high expectations. That's partly because of my unwillingness to expend significant effort, and partly because I don't think my audience is the ad clicking sort.

    The page-traffic I get to this site, based on what I can cull from my analytics, is mostly people looking for a solution to a specific problem or a Subclipse/Subversive comparison. Neither case lends itself to spontaneous ad clickage, in general. There is also a large about of feed-traffic which I'm not capitalizing at all, except across click-throughs to the site. There are relatively few of those (except via aggregators), since I intentionally syndicate full entries.

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