Entries with tag "ads"

Well, in the two weeks or so that I had the AdSense ads on the site, my income averaged about $0.18 per day. In all, I raked in a monstrous $2.73. They don't even send you a check until you reach $100, so at this rate, I'd have to wait a year and a half to actually receive any money from this. Yeah, so the ads are gone. I guess I made some invalid assumptions when estimating the number of ad impressions I'd get. Ah well, it's good to know I won't ever again have to struggle with the moral dilemma regarding whether or not it's worth putting ads on the site. Now it is answered definitively in the negative.

You may have noticed (if you're not logged in) that I've added a few small ads to the site. I've tried to make them as unintrusive as possible — matching them to the site's color scheme, etc. Even so, I hate to do it. But the flight lessons I'm taking are putting pretty significant demands on my budget, and I'm trying to find ways to reduce my monthly expenses in any way possible. The $160/mo I pay to keep BinRock online was obviously one of the first things to look at. I've never considered adding ads to the site before, because I always assumed they'd only bring in $10 or $20 a month, and that just wasn't worth the clutter they add. But I've been talking with friends of mine who participate in Google AdSense, and I've been learning that actually, based on my monthly traffic, it's quite likely that I'll bring in something in the $80-100 range — over half of my monthly server costs. That's just not something I can ignore — at least for now. Once I've finished the flight lessons and my finances have settled back down, I may get rid of them again. And of course, if it turns out they really aren't producing enough income to be worthwhile, then they'll be gone much sooner than that.