Today I decided to remove Google ads from netwriting. The reason is:
- Low Click through rate and little money earned
- Absence of google ads looks a little more professional.
- They can always be added later, if the blog generates very high traffic levels.
True, I didn’t place them in the best place. But, even in the best place, I think the small income doesn’t justify the nuisance factor. It is good to see a blog as an investment. When you are waiting to build up subscribers and get the first page rank, there is little to be gained by over monetizing your blog.
This is also one of the 23 things Nate Whitehill mentioned in his blog post about how he built up his first 500 RSS subscribers ( I would imagine it won’t be too long before he makes 1,000)
Now, the main problem with this blog is the header. Either I need to modify existing template, with new logo (I wish php was as easy as Html) or find a new wordpress theme.
Tip: when removing things from your sidebar, it’s a short cut just to comment them out. This means if you want to change your mind the code remains where it is.
<!– - - > code for commenting out note there are 2 dashes –
/* */ for php
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Hey Tejvan,
Thanks for the mention. You are right on to remove the Adsense codes. As I am sure you know, there are so many other better ways to monetize a blog.
On another note - you have a great blog - I am really enjoying it! (added you to my RSS)
Thanks for dropping by Nate.
Your blog might give me some advice for how to monetize…
I think you’re right about removing Adsense, but for a new blogger, it’s the easiest way to get adverts up. I have it on my site, and I think I’ll keep it until I have enough traffic to make real advertising a possibility.
Or do you think it would be better to get rid of the ads right from the start?
It depends on the blog. On my finance site google ads work very well, basically even a small number of clicks are worth alot. Because I make a bit on other blogs, its easier to feel its not worth bothering about the odd cent on this blog.
When I started blogging I of course shoved adsense everywhere!
thanks for dropping by.
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Hi,
I’d suggest to comment your code with
This way the commented code isn’t sent to web browsers. You can add comments there and no one will see them. I think it’s better and you don’t send garbage to the browsers..
is the delimiter of PHP code
/* */ is the delimiter of commented text in PHP
Thanks for tip Maurizio
I don’t have any form of monetization on one of my blogs but I do on the others. The one that I don’t is kind of a test run to see what will happen by not having them. Bloggers are so use to seeing them that they rarely click on them anyways. I try to when I visit a blog that has adsense because I know that just one click can make a difference to them and I know that this is one way for bloggers to make money.
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