October 16, 2005
Advertisements have been reimplemented on this website. I am playing around with them a bit, but you will now see Google ads and Chitika eMiniMalls throughout the site. I am trying to optimize them so that they are actually useful to you; we will see how that works out. I have also implemented the Google Search Bar for when my search functionality just isn’t bringing you what you want.
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October 17th, 2005 at 9:27 am
Let me know how these work out for you. I’ve been reading problogger.net a bit and been thinking about trying to monetize some of the stuff that I do. Not that much of it is worth reading, but I thought it might be a way to recapture the money I put into the site. I’m particularly interested in seeing how things would work out in the forum where most of my traffic is going to be.
October 17th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
Hopefully they will do all right. I will throw up a post in a month or two stating whether they were worth it or not. Hopefully they will not be too obtrusive and that people will actually find some value in them; I suspect that the google search bar will be especially useful for people if they aren’t able to find what they are searching for the first time.
October 18th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
I’m not seeing the google search bar. Is it only on the index page?
When you signed up for Adsense did they give you the impression that they’d take just about any site? I’m worried that they would say “No you can’t use adsense for the site or the forum.” I’ve mainly been thinking about the forum since it’s where I get most of my traffic.
October 19th, 2005 at 11:43 am
I would think that your site would be fine for Adsense. I doubt highly that you are rejected for the program.
And the Google search bar is only available after using my search field. Basically, I have a note in the top right that states if they don’t find what they are looking for, try Google, and there is a small search bar there. Also, if no results are returned when they search using my search bar, then there is a big Google search bar in the main part of the page that says “Sorry, Try Google”.
Another place I have thought of implementing it but have not yet done so is on 404 errors if they try going to a bad page or some such.
October 19th, 2005 at 4:50 pm
Yeah I’ve been thinking about jumping into this feet first as I found out that I’d used more bandwidth than what I had thought. Damn hosting provider had the bandwidth thing broken.
October 21st, 2005 at 9:38 am
Chris, check out Inside Adsense: Adsense 101, which Google just posted earlier today. That will give you links that should answer your questions fairly easily.