Sun 9 April 2006 - Should Daniel sell-out?
Daniel wears Glo-Weave shirts. He shops at Safeway. He loves Weetbix for breakfast, and always includes Leggo tomato paste in his spag bol.
A while back I decided to play around with Google ads on a few pages: Here, here and on Geekrant.org.
To my utter surprise, it’s now earning US$5-9 per month. Which is hardly anything, of course. But it is almost enough to pay the hosting fees on some of those sites, which is slowly adding up to more and more money as traffic grows.
The content on toxiccustard.com needs a revamp anyway. The Guide to Australia pages still get a lot of interest, and would be very Google Adsense-friendly. I’m thinking a nice Wordpress installation, allowing comments, ads on each page, and an update every so often would do it and my wallet the world of good.
As for this site… How would I feel with ads plastered all over tastefully adorning the margins of my blog? Maybe just on the archive pages, which people coming in via Google seem to hit the most, but leaving the main page, which real readers see more often, ad-free.