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By: The Adsense Dilemma (Or How To Make Money) | More Than Scratch The Surface

The Adsense Dilemma (Or How To Make Money) | More Than Scratch The Surface — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:33:07 +0000

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By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:49:14 +0000

Is there a happy medium between blog A and blog B? if half your traffic comes from RSS and bookmarks and the other half from searches, is that kind of like the Nirvana of the two? or do you need to decide which type of site you are and then commit yourself to that type of blogging?

By: Jensen

Jensen — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:09:46 +0000

The two types of blogs are so obvious… Guess I’ve never thought about it that way because I’m so new to blogging. As some of the other commentators have pointed out, people who are technically savvy seem to have “ad blindness”. I know I for one never see ads. Although, I think using Firefox with Adblock has a little to do with that…

By: Don@AffiliateWatcher

Don@AffiliateWatcher — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:24:31 +0000

Great post Gary. You’re pretty much spot on about why people don’t make money with Adsense.

Of course, SMART pricing isn’t helping either!

Don

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:57:25 +0000

Hi Garry, can’t speak for the other new readers you’ve got recently, but I can tell you I found your site through K-IntheHouse… I keep seeing you in the comments at Ks site, so I checked your site out and it’s great. +1 to your feedburner count.

Your theory sounds spot on. I’d never thought of it that way before, but it makes perfect sense.

It’s also worth pointing out that some content types do well for Adsense, while others don’t. For example, it’s known that technical sites do very poorly with Adsense, because the target audience has Adsense blindness. Also, the ads are less useful to the readers, etc.

If you put this together with your theory, I think we have a great idea of what will work and what won’t. A type B site on knitting will probably rake in the Adsense dollars. A type A site on web development will get almost nothing (that’s me)! It would be interesting to compare a type B blog on web development with a type A blog on knitting. I wonder which would win?

Anyway, great post!

By: bLuefRogX

bLuefRogX — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:56:08 +0000

I’m a type A blog as well, albeit rather new. So far adsense has been disappointing, but I don’t feel that I’ve grown enough to actually go into affiliate marketing yet. Perhaps when I’ve grown larger I’ll give it a shot.

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Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:46:39 +0000

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By: Pablothehat

Pablothehat — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:47:44 +0000

I am definitily Type A rhesus monkey blood…LOL …

‘Never get rich at blogging someone else’s dodgy dosser’
T.B. Layer.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:30:50 +0000

@ David

for the sake of clarity (as long as english isn’t my naitive language), are the “leaf pages” you’re talking about the “Internet search” and the “Posters” pages of your “CelebrityRamble” ?

thanks in advance

ciao
alex