The Unofficial AdSense Blog’s 3rd Anniversary!
I’ve been so busy lately that I can’t believe I let this slip by: The Unofficial AdSense Blog (this very blog) recently passed its third anniversary. This post is #954, which means I’ve been averaging about 318 posts per year… almost one per day on average.
Looking back, it’s interesting to see how much the blog’s changed. As some of you know, the blog started as a companion for my book Make Easy Money With Google: Using the AdSense Advertising Program. The first post, Web Hosting Is Never Perfect, is really kind of lame, just me talking about problems I had with my hosting service at the time. This is back when the blog was on the domain MakeEasyMoneyWithGoogle.com. (I eventually had to move away from using that domain because Google stopped serving ads to it because the domain name had “Google” in it.)
The next few posts were mostly filler until the book started shipping on June 17 — see Make Easy Money With Google Is Now Shipping and which I followed up with a press release on the subject. This was the first printed book published about the AdSense program, and I was (and still am) quite proud of it. I wrote it for a non-techie audience and I think I covered the topic fairly well for that audience.
What I’m going to do over the next few days is publish a retrospective of the blog and how AdSense has evolved over the past three or so years. Stay tuned!
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4 Responses to “The Unofficial AdSense Blog’s 3rd Anniversary!”
When I scrolled down the article, in the AdSense block under the “Tags” area is a big ugly ad for the Rich Jerk. It features the uplifting message “I’m Rich, You’re Not.”
I understand you have no control over that, but it reinforces my feeling that Google’s ad inventory gets very thin on niche sites.
I recently spent some time looking at the ads on my old carburetors site and the same ads repeat over and over. About 1/3 were advertising some bogus site where you can make your car run on water.
If you are thinking about another book (That’s a joke, I read your thoughts on wealth through publishing
marketing ads directly to advertisers seems like it might be a useful topic.
Congratulations on your third anniversary.
When I started researching home based businesses, your book was one of the first I bought. I still refer to it.
I have a number of websites in production but I am now recovering from a major illness and I do not spend as much time as I should on my websites. So I started using the amazon carousel widget to monetize the sites and I have included your book on three of my sites.
Your posts about AdSense are very helpful.
Thanks,
Sandra
Rock On E!
Both Quality Sites for Any Bloggers looking to Excel + Make Money Online!
Cheers! Billy Warhol ;))
Paul: Sometimes I do wonder if for this blog I should sell space directly… kind of goes against the whole idea of the blog, though, which is why I’ve resisted.
Sandra and Billy: Thanks!
Eric