Don Xml's Grok This

	Google Ads – Results From First Month Seeing that Google recently changed their terms of service, and now allows you to publish your GoogleAds earnings, I figure that I have an obligation to the readers of this blog to let you know that I’m now $18.12 richer for adding GoogleAds to my site.  Now, that was about 4 days shy of a month, and I haven’t changed my blogging habits to try to maximize earnings.  I have no idea how Google figures out how much you earned, since it is based on what was clicked, not how many clicks you get.  Some days I’d get 10 clicks and earn $0.17, other days I’d get 1 click and earn $1.39.  Since Google will not bother to cut a check until you earn $100, it will be about 5 months before I see anything.  The good news is that it almost covers my base hosting costs (WebHosting4Life rocks), so if I roll it to the other sites I host, I may actually pay for all my hosting costs.  The one thing I worry about is putting GoogleAds on the ERDoc’s site, since the GoogleAds Preview tool says that it will select online pharmacy ads for the site.  Definitely not something that should be on a blog for an emergency medicine doctor.  I think I’ll hold off on adding ads to his site. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Published Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:25 PM by donxml Filed under: Random Access, Blogging Comment Notification If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS Comments mearls@hotmail.com (Michael Earls) said: Interesting, that's the exact same number I'm seeing. Coincidence? Probably. I'm pretty sick of them putting ads for "blogging" on there. So sick that I've gone in and removed the word "blog" off of every entry, template, and keyword on my site. April 5, 2005 9:26 PM Sean said: The ammount that you get is based one how much the advertiser chose to pay per add. They more they were willing to pay the more you get from a click. April 6, 2005 3:36 PM

About donxml

I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.