Since yesterday’s post about Adsense’s top paying keywords I logged on to see a sharp rise in my earnings.
I don’t blog for money but I like to keep an eye on how Adsense works: what sort of traffic brings clicks (for example, I was refered a few hundred hits from Slashdot and didn’t make a penny, which suggests that geeks don’t look at them…) and where is best to place them (and no, I can’t be bothered to move them from the top, that’s why they are there…) - so when I come to rely on Adsense for a project’s capital I will have a better understanding of it.
My traffic comes in bursts. Recently I have been seeing 70 - 100 visitors on a normal low-activity day, then it could rocket if my post refers to something in Technorati’s top searches - but my Adsense statistics tend to remain the same. I can’t disclose the exact amounts (Google’s policies) but they stay pretty steady and pretty low.
But today I thought I’d check. My page impressions were lower than usual (but then, it was mid-day and I hadn’t posted anything) but my clicks average at about 70% - let’s just say that if my ads were for “Mesothelioma Lawyers” I’d be at Manchester’s Apple store in the morning…
Stu from pimpmypagerank.com dropped by this morning, and seeing as most of you will be here to find out about Adsense, check out his site.
Tags: Money, Adsense, Blogging, Google.
Adsense rejected my blog, the prudes!
Oh, and I use the NoScript extenstion on Firefox and keep google ads blocked, I imagine a lot of geeks do the same.
To shhexycorin,
You do understand that people put many hours into the content that you read on the web?
Any few cents that trickle in via adsense compensate them in some (small) way for all the work that they have put in to provide you with FREE entertainment.
Which is precisely why I’m happy to donate a penny or two to the developers of the NoScript and AdBlock extensions.
No-one spends hours trying to provide ME with free entertainment. They spend hours doing something they either love doing, or get paid for doing, or else they wouldn’t do it.
The idea that you should be “compensated” for blogging is ludicrous, if you hate it that much, don’t fucking do it.
There’s nothing wrong with using your blog as an opportunity to make a bit of cash, but choosing not to be exposed to a load of advertising isn’t exactly wrong either. Especially when there seem to be ever more sites set up exclusively to make money from Google Ads.