2004-10-13 
 

to ad or not to ad?

Using Google's AdSense on this site would provide me with a teeny tiny source of income. Very teeny tiny. I'm guestimating less than 50 bucks a year, if that.

But that might pay for this website.

Also, in all honesty, I'm curious as to just HOW interested random strangers are in this site. If a search for I love Annie Lennox brings someone to my page and they then clicked on an ad for Annie Lennox at Amazon in the sidebar, I'd get the aforementioned teeny tiny amount of cash along with an idea of why people were popping onto certain pages. (Right now I can see how many total pages are viewed and what the top search strings are, but there's no real knowledge of what the connections are.)

Then there's also the knowledge that using this ad service would quite likely put my site closer to the top of the Google search lists than it is right now. Do you know how far down I am on the 158,000 site results that pop up for I love Annie Lennox? Neither do I, I couldn't keep scrolling through them forever. (Sure, adding a Michael Slaven to the end of the phrase gets this site a bit closer to the top of the results, but still frustratingly far down. I'd rather be on top.)

Or maybe I'm just a money hungry nut who's willing to sell out at the first scent of cash. (Or in this case the first scent of cent.)

Today's entry has been brought to you by the letter M and the number aught-four.

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* posted by me at 12:37 AM

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