I Could Pay my Mortgage with AdSense
Paul Wilson wrote about a tool that shows you how much money you could make on your blog if you used Google Adsense. It’s called Adsensemeter.com. According to that tool I could make around $1000 a month. He compared me against some of my peers. As I’ve mentioned before my friends at BuzzBooster pay their mortgage with AdSense revenue.
I haven’t put Adsense on this blog because I think it’s ugly. It interferes with the writing - which already has little aesthetic appeal. My blog in general is very much based on information. You’ll see I have affiliate ads (thank you to anyone who has bought from my blog). They are pretty ugly. But my friend Mat says, who cares. I guess I do care.
So what do you think? Should I turn on the AdSense ads and see what happens? I think I’ll turn on MightyAdsense - a Wordpress plugin - and test it out. Would it make you leave me?
I’m a little surprised that Adsensemeter doesn’t have any links to how to optimize AdSense for your blog. It seems to me, when you see the potential you want to know exactly how to. They are missing out on a chance to write articles with AdSense ads on them. Or sell ebooks or other eproducts all about AdSense. They could team up with Joel Comm, AdSense king. I just don’t understand why they are not capitalizing on this when their tool is focused on capitalizing.
P.S. - This post is a rebellion against SEO. So please excuse the funny links. I’m just feeling burned out on it today. I spent too long trying to explain it to beginners.
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June 20th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Janet,
In addition to a potential cash influx, it seems there might be some wisdom and insight gained for you as a blogger and an internet marketing coach.
I say do it.
If that seems too tacky, have you looked into text-link ads?
Good Luck!
June 21st, 2007 at 7:38 am
Janet,
If you need help with logo design, let me know. My mom tells me that I am good at that kinda thing.
Tyler
June 21st, 2007 at 8:57 am
I second John, Do it! Money is good!
June 21st, 2007 at 9:52 am
It’s so hot when a babe can pay her mortgage with adsense. Grrr!
June 21st, 2007 at 5:55 pm
As long as readers are able to distinguish between content and ads with a glance at your blog as say go for it. But avoid over optimizing AdSense because you will loose readers.
June 22nd, 2007 at 1:05 am
The advantage of adsense is that you don’t have to do anything. It analyzes your site, and looks at what the user is doing, then displays the ads.
As for writing, I find that I end up make more compromises for affiliate ads than I do with Google. With Google, I just concentrate on the content.