Comments on: Blogging For Profit?

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:59:32 +0000

I’ve thought about advertising. I figured it could at least help mitigate the hosting costs. I just don’t think I have many readers just yet, as I’ve just recently decided I need to try and post more regularly.

How’s this for a random question… :)
You mention the RSS feeds, which are great, saves me from typing in urls and visiting each site just to find out there’s nothing new, yet. In fact, I have started to use the Google Reader. My only complaint so far is that it doesn’t grab the comments. So the question is… Is there a good RSS reader that will grab the comments feeds as well?

Thanks.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:58:30 +0000

Sweet! It looks like I’m to blame for that one, Elliot! I took a quick spin the the Google AdSense TOS and didn’t see any clauses preventing conditionally showing ads. I’ll read it in more depth later…

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 22:42:13 +0000

That is a good idea, if it's not against the Google TOS. I might have to look into this, maybe I can start making some $$ off stop looking at me, swan! means searches. ;p

By: Justin Perkins

Justin Perkins — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 20:00:27 +0000

I’ve been thinking about the exact same thing lately, and I too have a chart in Google Analytics that looks amazingly similar to yours (80-85% new visitors). I just started using Google’s stats service a few weeks ago and it was that very chart that got me thinking about serving ads to search engine referrals.

I wasn’t thinking of using anything but adsense, but what I was really questioning was *if* conditionally serving adsense is a violation of google’s terms. That could be a serious deal breaker for me, especially since it would be glaringly obvious what I was up to from google’s perspective (my stats).

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:49:18 +0000

Wow, that’s a big difference. I wonder why they dropped it so much. I guess they were paying you for the beta-ness of it. Regardless, the 12 days of Christmas contests were fun, and I’ll definitely do something as impressively embarrasing next year should you decide to have it again…regardless of the prizes.

For anyone who read this blog post before..now. I just posted some revisions. My wife pointed out that I was being rude with my ranting about the search engine visitors and she was right. The truth is, I really do like those visitors. In fact, I love seeing random posts get ranked highly in the engines and I appreciate any traffic I get.

So, many thanks to my spell-checking, PR agent of a wife for protecting my public image yet again. I love you Ames.

By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:35:30 +0000

At this point, I don’t think the Y! ads are worth it. The amount per click severely dropped and you won’t get more than pennies per day. Whereas when it was in early beta, I was able to pull down $300 a month. I used that money to pay for the 12 days of christmas books.