Selling Out

Maybe you’ve noticed the Google ads. Yeah, I guess I’ve sold out. It’s really something of an experiment. I’ve been against putting any kinds of commercial ads on this site for quite a long time, but I thought I’d give adsense a try. These ads aren’t too obtrusive, and should be geared toward the content of my site. I’ll be monitoring them to see how much revenue they produce and whether it’s worth keeping them around. Hopefully I can recover enough to cover my domain name registration and hosting within the year. If not, then I don’t think I’m willing to put up with looking at these ads. If you love me, you can click on some of these ads and visit my sponsors. Maybe you’ll earn a penny or two for me.
It’s either unethical or unprofitable for me to click on my own ads, and I see this as a real drawback. The ads Google feeds are specifically geared to the content of the site on which they are displayed. Well, since I provide the content of this site, and the content is dictated by whatever happens to garner my interest at the moment, then it makes sense that the ads would be perfectly geared to me. Besides, I don’t get an awful lot of visitors to my site, and nobody visits it more than me.