Adding Google AdSense to ChrisBlogging
For the second month in a row, posting my freelance writing income stats has resulted in an increased number of emails in my inbox. This time around, after only a day, several readers have asked why I do not attempt to monetize this blog. As I have mentioned in the past, monetization is important to me, but not until I reach certain traffic levels.
Now that I have built a solid readership, surpassed my traffic goals, and have the okay of my readers, I think it may be time to add some Google AdSense blocks. For the most part, when I decide to do this it will be more or less an experiment. There are two things that I will be looking for.
1. How much money can I make with Google AdSense? Is it really worth adding, or will it do nothing more than make me a few pennies every day?
2. My readers are important to me, and although they are known as “traffic stats” they mean more to me than that. Will Google AdSense affect my reader base either negatively or positively? This is what I will really be keeping my eye on.
With no technical skills, adding Google AdSense to this blog is not going to be easy for me. In fact, it will be a trial and error process. While I do have other blogs that use this advertising program, I have always paid others to help me out with adding the code, etc. But on this blog, my goal is to learn this kind of stuff on my own. So bear with me if there are some changes along the way that are not as they should be!
Related Link: Sabahan.com offers plenty of information and tips on Google AdSense.
September 4th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I think it’ll be fine. I don’t mind seeing Adsense if it helps keep a quality blog going strong. Everybody should get paid for their work!
September 4th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
In my experience, adding Adsense rarely puts readers off if the content is good, as yours is. I have also found that if you get the keywords right, you can make a tidy sum from Adsense. Go for it - you can always take it off if it doesn’t work.
September 4th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
So far, your ads are far from obtrusive. Best of luck! I know readers are important, but heck, it’s still your site.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
It was such a pain to put adsense on my blog at first that I had to use an adsense already made theme >_
September 4th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I worry about click fraud charges. I have Google AdSense on other sites, but haven’t added it to my blog. I just don’t want to risk losing my AdSense account. It seems to me that I have heard of more bloggers losing AdSense accounts than regular webmasters. I could be wrong–I don’t remember where I read that–but I am still hesitant to take any chances.
September 4th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
I’m also considering AdSense in the future, but not for my main blog page. Today during lunch, I ran a little test using sponsored links and various keyword combinations. The purpose of this drill was to see the assortment of advertisers.
By the way, great blog, Chris. Count me among your regular readership.
September 5th, 2007 at 10:07 am
I think you did it the right way by writing good content and getting the traffic first before putting the adsense code.
A lot of people did it the other way round. Hope you can update us on the adsense earnings soon.
September 7th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
good luck, it’s not very hard, you’ll manage