Jul 29 2005
Google AdSense
I’ve been making some changes to the site this week. The first, was to install AWStats to track the traffic coming to the site. This was an eye opener. Even if 90% of the hits AWStats is showing are false positives, the traffic on my site is 2-3 times what I previously thought it was. Not that I place much importance on these sort of statistics, but it is fun to look at the numbers and see where the traffic is coming from. And, yes, I do have a strange idea of what’s fun.
Second, due to percieved increase in web traffic, I decided to check out Google’s AdSense to see what, if anything, I can gain by adding their product to the site. If you’re using Internet Explorer, you’ll see the AdSense bar on the right side of the page right under the About Me section. I chose a fairly smail banner 250×250, and so far it appears to be pretty unobtrusive. Unluckily, it looks like AdSense doesn’t work too well with FireFox. Neither the AdSense ads nor the AdSense home page work right with FireFox, or I have something misconfigured in my installation. I have a problem ticket open with Google, so I hope this can be fixed in the next few days.
Anyone have any experience with AdSense? I’m a little disappointed that FireFox isn’t working with it yet, but that will hopefully be a minor issue. I’m curious about what their payment schedule is like, how accurate you feel their tracking is, and what, if any, problems you’ve had with it. I’m not looking at this as a way to make a lot of money, I’m just hoping to maybe make enough to pay for the DSL line and my ISP bills.
2 Responses to “Google AdSense”
Just to let you know that your AdSense works with my Firefox 1.0.6. I can click through to the links no problem.
Do’h!
I had an overly generalized listing in my AdBlock configuration. It took me a couple of tries to figure out which one it was but now I can see the ads on my own site. I’ll have to make the same changes on my home systems.
Martin