Google Ads: What's Up With That?
If you've been to my site, which everyone who is reading this has (duh), you possibly have seen this...
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The annoying Google Ads search engine.
Well, it annoys the snot out of me anyhow, and I'll tell you why.
First let me explain for those who aren't aware. The purpose of putting Google Ads on your site is to make a few pennies here and there if readers click on the links. The other goal is to increase your chances of higher placement in the google search engine. Perhaps there are more reasons, but those are the ones I know of.
The issue many people (including me) have with this whole thing is that they rarely show anything of interest or worthy of being clicked on. Like who the h*ll wants to SEARCH for ads? Not only that, but when you do type in a key word to search for, you get cr*p generally.
For example, I typed in "moron" into the ad search, and it came up with some Argentina study abroad hits. What are they saying about Argentina - full of morons or something, or do you have to be a moron to study in Argentina? It just doesn't make sense.
But, seeing as I'm still waiting on my blogads to pick up steam, I need to make a bit of money elsewhere for my blogging efforts, so I leave the google ads up.
And, come on. Don't I write about enough stuff with a fairly common theme that their ad search can't pick up on key terms?
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What's that cr*p all about?
Duh, I've got a blog. Come on, like you can't determine anything else from my site.
It used to show up with decent hits when I first started, but like a month later, it just shows that junk all the time. So, I thought I'd change placement to see if that makes a difference. No such luck; just cr*p all around.
And, I know I'm not the only victim of cr*ppy ads because I've seen this over and over again on other sites with google ads.
Lame-o!
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Comments
I clicked on your google ads for you. I figure my clicking will buy you a large latte at Starbucks. ;) Enjoy. Perhaps I'll click a bit more and pay for your whipped cream on top.
Posted by: thirdee | February 24, 2006 10:33 AM
Lame, indeed. Especially since they insist that you accumulate $100 before they'll pay you. How many bloggers' ad revenues add up to $100 in a year?
Not mine. Not in two years. Maybe in twenty... meanwhile they're accumulating interest on hundreds of thousands of bloggers' ad revenues. I don't count on ever seeing a penny from the ads; I'm just hoping it really does help my placement.
But if it's any help, when I switched to the banner ads (468x60) and allowed them to show image ads as well as text, the ads started getting more clicks.
Posted by: SilverDragon | February 24, 2006 11:06 AM
Sam, there's a reason why people can actually bullshit other people and call themselves "SEO Experts" (where "SEO" means "Search Engine Optimization") -- because things are only "obvious" once someone explains them to you.
There's LOTS of things you could do with your blog template to get better targeting of Google ads. Tweaking a few things here and there could mean double or triple the Adsense revenue. Could totally be worth it.
Posted by: Dossy
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February 24, 2006 11:50 AM
I think google figures us morons won't know the difference. Argentina, whatever. If you search for "genius" they might be more careful. I'll go click some of your ads too, you deserve to have 13 cents held on account in your name for the next few years. (I mean that in a good way).
Posted by: AbbaGav | February 26, 2006 06:02 AM