Back From The Dead

Back To The Future?

[farmboy]

First, let me say a great big THANKS to Netmeg and IncrediBILL.

Hello to those of you who I've never met but I consider friends. It's good to be back in the Internet world,

For those reading this, I used to be a "regular" on Webmaster World.

I've spent a year dead, or at least very close to it.

I hope to write some things everyone will find useful as far as preparing for your death.

And I'm writing this on the AdSense board, I am a "former" Publisher who hasn't been paid in a year and has great difficulty contacting someone with AdSense.

It's good to be back.

I hope you take seriously what I write and prepare for what might happen to you any moment now.

FarmBoy

[RedBar]

Whist I agree that it may attract attention, would it encourage users to click?

Deliberate speling mistakes seem to work well:-)

[samwest]

Farmboy: welcome back, many are not so lucky (our beloved tedster who we lost while you were gone). I hear ya on writing down passwords etc, I'm over 50 and am a ticking time bomb myself and have often thought about losing it all to a stroke or heart attack. Unfortunately the antics of Google have not lowered my blood pressure any. I guess the lesson to learn is "don't pet the sweaty things".

[farmboy]

Anyone want to discuss colors?

Here in much of the U.S. it's Friday afternoon, it's cold, and to warm our toes, anyone want to discuss a very o-l-d topic?

When you pick color schemes for your AdSense ads,

(1) Which is your favorite?

(2) Which works best?

(3) How often do you use the old "default" option?


FarmBoy

[farmboy]

Farmboy: welcome back, ...

Thanks samwest. Sometimes I think I should write a book about what I've learned over the past two years. But I don't want to bore anyone.

Maybe I could write online and infest the pages with those AdSense ads?


FarmBoy

[samwest]

@Farmboy - I would highly encourage you to write the book. As a hack writer myself, I'm into several projects at once. There' no business like the publishing business.

Regarding adsense colors...
When I used adsense, my favorite color was "default" which was basically black & white. Since I've stopped using Adsense tho, my ecom conversions have improved and my site regen time dropped to less than half.
I used them for over a decade, but in the end the newly gamed Adsense and Adwords programs just didn't work for me.

[farmboy]

@Farmboy - I would highly encourage you to write the book. As a hack writer myself, I'm into several projects at once. There' no business like the publishing business.

samwest, thanks for the encouragement.


FarmBoy

[farmboy]

Anyone paid attention to stats before and after a change into/out of (U.S.) daylight savings time? Have you noticed people spending less time on their computer when daylight gets longer.

FarmBoy

[netmeg]

Most of my events are outdoors and most of my users are on phones, so it just goes up.

[farmboy]

AdSense competitor for fa__book and tw__er .

I heard this morning about a site that is taking traffic from those two and is sharing revenue at about 90%. I understand it is growing rapidly.

I don't want to put the website name on here unless a WW person gives permission, but it's a short dotcom domain.

Anyone have experience with it?


FarmBoy

[farmboy]

Most of my events are outdoors and most of my users are on phones, so it just goes up.

Interesting. Thanks for responding.


FarmBoy

[farmboy]

Speaking of use of mobile phones and getting your information/news from facebook, etc, how many people know who is:

1. Bruce Jenner and why is he in the news lately?
2. Who is Gruber and why was he in the news lately?


FarmBoy
(This post is about AdSense)

[farmboy]

Will anyone recommend a site where I can go and see my site in (1) Mobile and in (2) Desktop?


FarmBoy

[netmeg]

Try this one:

[studiopress.com...]

[tangor]

Head whirling! Thirty-eleven questions! :)

Color: Whatever is call to action
Time Zones: yes.
Weather: yes.
Write book: yes.
G suggest: maybe.
Reasonable clicks: See fortune teller.

Grand fun!

[farmboy]

Head whirling! Thirty-eleven questions! :)

Just like Uncle Si, I'm legal in all 55 U.S. states.

HEY!


FarmBOY

[farmboy]

Try this one:

Thanks netmeg, I'll try that one.


FarmBoy

[farmboy]

Anyone tried this "new" ad size Automatic Size , Responsive?

Good opinion, bad opinion, still trying it out?


FarmBoy

[Swanny007]

Anyone tried this "new" ad size Automatic Size , Responsive?

Yes, I like it and that's all I'm using for new ad units. Performance-wise it's not really much different that I've noticed. From the user's perspective it puts the right size ad in every time which is a win in my book.

As I convert all of my sites to be responsive, I will convert every one of my ads to be responsive. OK, I may inline a 300x250 here and there... or at least experiment between the 300x250 and a responsive ad when inside the main content of an article page.

[IanCP]

@FarmBoy

Mate can we try and start new questions in a new thread?

This one is now becoming quite dated and unwieldy.

[farmboy]

Yes, I like it and that's all I'm using for new ad units. Performance-wise it's not really much different that I've noticed. From the user's perspective it puts the right size ad in every time which is a win in my book.

Thanks for responding Swanny007.

I like what I see so far and I'm moving towards this "new" size.


FarmBoy

[farmboy]

Mate can we try and start new questions in a new thread?

This one is now becoming quite dated and unwieldy.

IanCP,

Noted. I'll remember to start a new thread when a question/topic arises.


FarmBoy