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As I am making money from this, I thought it may well be time to say a big Thank you to Google. Yes of course they are also making money from this but I would never have been able to sell such a wide adversity of ads as what I am now, and in such a timely fashion.
Not only is Google making us and themselves money but I also feel it has improved the users experience to our sites. Some of the ads even tempt me to click but of course I never click on them.
We do not know the future of Google AdSense nor where it is heading especially after the Related Searches fiasco, but I still want to say a big Thank You for them making me money and improving my users site experience.
So, Thank you.
Not only is Google making us and themselves money but I also feel it has improved the users experience to our sites. Some of the ads even tempt me to click but of course I never click on them.We do not know the future of Google AdSense nor where it is heading especially after the Related Searches fiasco, but I still want to say a big Thank You for them making me money and improving my users site experience.
Yeah, me too! I too am grateful to google - it allows me to concentrate on the thing I love the most - content creation - plus it delivers alternative views (not coming from me and since I totally never ever censor/block google ads - big variety is certain) on topics related to my web sites.
Well, I am so so satisfied with targetting... but I understand that Google has vast pool of advertisers and I want to help Google too so I don't protest (don't block) if some not directly related Ads are running - so that these AdWord advertisters can get their clicks too...
We were doing it anyway but now have an added incentive.
It has also made me relook at nivigation etc which is invaluable to our users experience anyway.
Had to be for the best so long as we dont see loads of dup pages on the same site just trying to atract page views for ad clicks.
Mack.
[edited by: mack at 10:25 am (utc) on Aug. 10, 2003]
I've been holding off on building a new content site, due to concerns about a lot of time investment for little cash... but it's clear to me now that I can make some quite decent side revenues with AdSense so I'm gonna go ahead with the site! :)
it's clear to me now that I can make some quite decent side revenues with AdSense so I'm gonna go ahead with the site! :)
do you people don't have any other (other than money) incentives to create content? does it always has to be about money?
you should be concentrating on creating of content that is interesting to visitors and not on optimizing stuff to get more bucks out of AdSense! If you concentrate on the first, the second will come by itself...
We sell direct as well and while we have ads on X they tend to take a package saying I will pay X per month to be on these pages. They are not targetted, and no fun, but bring on a lot more than AdSense.
Your posts very aggressive and personally I am tired of it.
What people have said is that when they create X page which will improve users experience previously there may not have been any direct income, now though they can still continue to create valuable pages for users but are also remunerated (or might be) for that effort.
Our main site is about Y we are not about to start talking about A, B and C just to make money but we will CONTINUE to increase Y's content,
Our main site is about Y we are not about to start talking about A, B and C just to make money but we will CONTINUE to increase Y's content,
Yes, Google in a sense is about to revolutionize Internet because people will start developing more valuable content, seeing that they get bucks from it. Also important: also niche content is becoming now an interesting thing to create because Google is able to target very very narrow areas of interest. I love particularly this niche content thing - I was not very motivated to create certain niche content, that is interesting but not very popular, but now I am in process of doing it, seeing that Google will be able to target every single page of it.
By the way: I wonder how you get much more money than from AdSense with your "X" site... would you care to elaborate on this topic?
RE: Last year
Fleece Blanket is nice. It sits on a arm of my couch and gets used a lot.
Thanks to AdSense, maybe this year _I_ will be the one sending Google a Holiday present, instead of the other way around. :-)
-Pete
I begun just two days ago and AdSense deliver highly targeted ads which seems to do well.
I were thinking of a click through like 0.5% but the first 1.5 days have been around 3-4%.
Thanks.
do you people don't have any other (other than money) incentives to create content? does it always has to be about money?you should be concentrating on creating of content that is interesting to visitors and not on optimizing stuff to get more bucks out of AdSense! If you concentrate on the first, the second will come by itself...
Right now, I am in between full-time jobs, and all my income comes from miscellaneous online and offline projects and my Web sites. Each day, I must typically balance what it is I *WANT* to do and what I *NEED* to do (earn money to pay my rent).
Before AdSense, these two things (Want and Need) were often not complementary. With my Want being the opportunity to share my knowledge about digital photography or digital music or swing dancing, I would typically have a hard time finding affiliate programs to join that would offer me more than a smidgen of revenue and provide useful related options for my visitors. So when push came to shove, I'd have to spend my time instead helping BoringCorp optimize their BoringWidgets page to earn some cash or mow lawns or whatever.
Now, however, I'm relatively confident that I *CAN* start or expand a 'hobby-type' site on, say, reviews of online music services... and earn at least enough to justify doing this (providing interesting content to people) over doing something boring (serving lattes at the local Starbucks, helping my eccentric uncle make a Web page selling his custom shoelaces).
In other words, the opportunity of AdSense isn't encouraging me to make crap-but-profitable sites. It's encouraging me and giving me the viable option of building upon and sharing my passionate interests while bringing in enough cash to justify the diversion :)
In other words, the opportunity of AdSense isn't encouraging me to make crap-but-profitable sites. It's encouraging me and giving me the viable option of building upon and sharing my passionate interests while bringing in enough cash to justify the diversion :)
Exactly and as you said, it can fill the "in between full jobs" time and AdSense is also bringing life to websites that for years were not updated but now they start to flourish again (even I myself have digged out such web site lately). So it is a win-win situation. I wish only Google could get rid of this "fraudulant clicks e-mail terror" by putting some technical solution for it in place.
I wish only Google could get rid of this "fraudulant clicks e-mail terror" by putting some technical solution for it in place.I have faith this will come in time, and I agree with you that it's enormously important.
Remember, AdSense is relatively new. I am willing to bet that Google is heavily testing algorithms to fine tune fraud detection, especially with fewer false positives :)
I don't see many (any?) posts now that refer to new warnings or people getting dumped off the program, which must be a good sign.
[edited by: Laisha at 11:42 am (utc) on Aug. 11, 2003]
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