The dosh is out there.

Money from your blog

A new year, another year and you’d possibly imagine that I’d have loads to talk about. The truth is… and I hesitate at the keyboard .. Fat cat Charlie staring at me in anticipation of his supper, I’m scraping the barrel, and have been for a while.

Initially in the creation of this blog the learning process carried me forward, brought into life from a determination, a passion and a belief that my acquired knowledge would deliver me into a new prosperous era. This up till now hasn’t been the case, however, to be fair I haven’t made full use of the recourses at hand.

I am nothing if not optimistic and believe the corner is just over the next hill. Ha aha.

So google ads, everybody who designs a web site knows about these little ads you can place within your content, which in theory will make links to relevant other sites with similar content, thoughts etc.

That is one above in all its glory, I have no knowledge writing this what the content of this add will be, usually they correspond well to my written words, and I am happy to have them there.
I imagine now, if I use enough well thought out key words, such as:
Making money from your blog
get rich with google ad sense,

the ads will reflect this and draw readers to click links in the hope that they too can become an internet entrepreneur.

If a visitor to the site clicks on one of the links a revenue is generated for the displayer of said link.
It sounds good in theory, but my experience has been, when checking site stats this infrequently happens.

To begin with this site is lucky to get 20 hits a day, although the numbers are growing, visitors rarely click links.
There seems to be a feeling that the whole process is somehow contrived and dishonest, that the sole point of a post is to direct visitors elsewhere so that they might purchase a product, thus rendering the whole scheme viable.

It has become habit now with me when visiting sites that display advertising to click links if content made me laugh, or indeed helped me to solve a problem.

The thing is, non designers browsing the web, and I am only speculating don’t realize this and under the terms and conditions of the google adsense contract the designer is not allowed to coerce visitors towards links, other than to place them in highly conspicuous locations.

Above: My earnings over the last 15 months: My goal, to make the ton by 2009. Ha ha, I’m an ambitious chap.
See you in rich-ville.

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