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« Tsunami: Our Ever-Growing Stinginess | Main | The Coffeehouse Gospel » January 6, 2005Distributed Journalism & Other Stuff About BloggingThe power of blogs goes beyond politics, says this writer over at eWeek. Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, via Instapundit, we learn that popular v-blogger Evan Coyne Maloney is unhappy with Google's AdSense program, which targets ads based on a blog's content. He wishes it didn't serve up offensive anti-Bush ads to his pro-Bush audience. I have the AdSense service running on HobbsOnline and I don't mind the off-target ads. In fact I find them kind of funny in that an informal online poll of my readers last year found that about 85 percent of them supported the re-election of President Bush. AdSense won't generate much revenue. It took me eight months to accumulate the first $100 in revenue and it's going to take three months to accumulate the next $100. Not huge, but not horrible either. What will be worth watching in the blog ads game is BlogKits.com's new offer. Here's the press release. And here's an excerpt from BlogKits' website: Bloggers finally have a new way to make a buck with their weblogs. The BlogKits BlogMatch Network is an opportunity for anyone who owns a blog to be matched with businesses, marketers and/or advertisers looking to partner with niche-filled, content specific, quality blogs.Interesting. Posted in Blogging & Journalism
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If I see a political ad I disagree with I tend to hit it. That way they have to spend their money and some income is generated for the site is was visiting. Posted by: Daran at January 6, 2005 08:13 AMI have lots of AdSense ads on my blog that I don't agree with as well - but just like Daran says, I hit em anyway, I don't mind them spending their money on for no useful purpose. But I'll have to check out this Blogkits service - thanks for the headsup. Posted by: DocB at January 6, 2005 09:11 AMI don't have the traffic (yet) to warrant AdSense myself, but I love checking out what it serves up. Not when it takes the opposite direction as much as the occasional wild tangent. The news story describing Saddam's hidey-hole drew ads for ventilation ducting systems. Posted by: triticale at January 6, 2005 09:35 AMTriticale: I don't have the traffic yet either (hint,hint), but have adSense already. I think in a month's time I gleamed abuot $6 from it. Gotta start somewhere I suppose. Posted by: DocB at January 6, 2005 11:45 AMI noticed an even stranger Google ad on my blog a while ago - written in French. I even took a screenshot and wrote a brief post about it: http://www.madanthony.org/blogger/2004/11/french-love-mad-anthony.html I think most of the google ads I get are useless, but it's not costing me anything to leave them up, so I do. I get the feeling they are designed more for web pages than blogs, that tend to be about different subjects. Some of the connections I get are wierd - I've had gay dating service ads when I had a post on gay marriage, and ads to buy a Toyota Corolla when I complained about a rental car I had. Posted by: Mad Anthony at January 6, 2005 03:13 PMI don't have AdSense on my blog but I do have it on a set of foreign language learning pages I run (multilingua.info). Not making a lot of dough, and small wonder: The page on finding a bathroom in Western Europe brought up ads for plumbing fixtures, not language learning. Hopefully, they'll get better at this. They should just offer an AdSense meta-tag to specify what a page is if the ads showing up don't make sense, but I don't know how much programming would be involved. But it does a good job with the index pages across the site. Posted by: Geoffrey Barto at January 7, 2005 02:10 AMMy adsense income is steadily increasing at a rate of roughly 80% a month... I started in May , and it took over 5 months before I earned more than $1 in one day... I started using blogs in Sept, but never put adsense on my blogs until Dec. Adsense has gone from $21 in Dec to what will be just on $300 this month (currently at $202 with 7 days to go)... last month I thought I would get to $250 this month, but $300 looks a reality. I'm predicting my 1st $1,000 month to be July. HOWEVER, I have no idea how much of that income is from my blogs Posted by: Russell Savige at April 23, 2005 12:12 PMPost a comment
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