After several months of exceptionally poor performance, I’ve decided to ditch Google Adsense off of this blog. Adsense is doing ok over at About A Webmaster, but it’s just never really taken off on this site. I’m fairly sure that it has to do with the ad-blindness of blog readers combined with naturally low CTR of many of the topics that I cover here and having an untargetted website overall.
So for now, I’ve turned to a link brokerage service. I’m going to have to see how it works, but the initial pitch is enticing. I’m not sure what their ad inventory looks like though. The ad inventory looks a little thin to me initially, but I’ll really have to wait and see. I’ll hold off on plugging the advertiser until I see results. There is a thinly veiled warning from Google about link brokers but since I can’t make a dime using their program, I am forced to turn to other methods of generating revenue.
Pay Per Post Affiliate Program // Jan 3, 2007 at 8:51 pm
[...] What would a money-making program like Pay Per Post be without an affiliate program? Basically if anyone were to sign up and get their blog approved by Pay Per Post, I get $15 out of the deal. What do you get out of the deal? Well if yo’re trying to monetize your blog and having a hard time earning anything with other programs, PPP offers a way to break into the earnings. [...]