Comments on: Removed Adsense

By: Logan

Logan — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:12:00 +0000

I just removed Adsense from my site because it seems that it’s pretty unlucrative (is that a word?) for personal blogs. Oh, and I linked to this post.

By: nickel

nickel — Sat, 28 May 2005 04:21:00 +0000

Yeah, I noticed the 1:03 thing the other day in my RSS reader. Do you schedule them, or are you an incredibly punctual night owl?
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fivecentnickel.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2005 15:28:00 +0000

Different Anon here….I was wondering about that 1:03 AM :)

Don’t get so defensive about your traffic, though. You seem motivated to become a good business leader, the comments shouldn’t bother you.

By: Neville

Neville — Fri, 27 May 2005 04:43:00 +0000

Jim,

I generally make make all my posts 3-4 days in advance. I simply press "publish" when I feel like posting.

Notice just about every post is published at 1:03 AM. It's not a coincidence.

-Nev

By: jim

jim — Fri, 27 May 2005 04:12:00 +0000

Heh, in all fairness, the date and timestamp on the post was 1am at April 29th… not much left in the month dude.

By: Neville

Neville — Fri, 27 May 2005 03:30:00 +0000

Anon,

First read the post, and you will notice it says in BLUE RIGHT ABOVE THE REPORT: "Keep in mind that April is not over, so all traffic is not accounted for"

-Nev

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2005 02:18:00 +0000

Neville said...
Last month I got over 115,000 pageviews and over 25,000 unique visitors.

where do you get those figures?..

Just recently you showed a traffic report showing 7,730 sites and ~22k visits.... something does not compute...

By: Neville

Neville — Thu, 26 May 2005 20:51:00 +0000

Last month I got over 115,000 pageviews and over 25,000 unique visitors.

Google gave me the $400-$500 figure based on this.

Not like it matters, I don't have a single ad on the site, so the more traffic I get the more of my server it sucks up.

-Nev

By: jim

jim — Thu, 26 May 2005 20:09:00 +0000

I do agree it might not be suited for this site, but on content sites is where the money is being made – not necessary where things are being sold. For example, my own site is about personal finance too but I post stuff that’s relevent to me personally (when I need to learn about something, I write about it) I recently bought a house so all my posts have been about mortgages/loans/etc and the ads are pulling in decent money because of those keywords.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2005 19:36:00 +0000

NevBlog wouldn’t generate that much, but remember he’s talking about what Google told him. Whaddya think they’d tell him? Hah.

Anyways, Adsense isn’t really suited for this site because most of his readers are actually reading his blog. Adsense works very well on sites where people are looking to buy something, but not very well on content sites.