More on Ads

I just saw this post over at Micro Persuasion on Wikipedia and Google Adwords. I have been on this kick now for about a couple of weeks on getting Google ads working for me. As you might know so far they haven’t. So I find it very intresting that Wikipedia, if it is them, are taking out ads via Google to generate traffic or money. Take for example the search of “crowdsourcing”. This generates as the third of fourth advertisment on the Google Adwords but its like the second listing in the normal search. Why would they be doing this? Is Wikipedia losing money on this or making more on traffic?

Today’s Featured article is on Cornell University, which is in Ithaca, NY. Just down the road from where I grew up.

[tags]wikipedia, Google, Adwords, Adsense, Cornell[/tags]

Is Adsense Dead?

AdsI have been thinking lately about Google Adsense, and have posted my thoughts about it before. Doug at work has showed me a lot of cool tricks and trades about how to generate traffic and ads that are worth more per click. I have been checking things out and I will tell you it’s a lot of work. About a week or two ago I was reading a post by Robert Scobel where he had mentioned something about getting paid to blog. I searched the internet and found a couple of sites and one had the best business plan to make money.

I personally haven’t made much money if any (not enough for a check yet) from Google’s ads but some have made thousands. The average user is getting smarter and not clicking on advertisements making it hard I think to make money out of Google’s ads. It is much easier to get paid a portion of money to just write at free will and that’s what I like most. What do you think about the two different models? Is it easier to make money through a company that will pay you per post or count on clicks to generate revenue? I personally like the pay per post deal and I will be generating more money that way too if all goes right!

Hey, Are You a Pirate? arrrr

Pirate FlagLast night I was watching wife swap and they teamed up a family that was very organized and a family that thought they were pirates. Well this pirate family’s father was the one that invented “Talk like a Pirate Day.” After telling Jen about this day I logged onto Google to find that today September 19 2006 is “Talk like a Pirate Day.” So go out and talk like a pirate.

[tags]Talk like a Pirate, Pirate, wife swap[/tags]

Fox News has New Style, I Guess…

Fox NewsFoxnews.com has a new layout this morning, and it looks like the site is broken. I usually go to the site everyday at least once and enjoy seeing the red background. However, today when I went to the site I thought the (CSS) style sheet did not load. The site looks like it’s broke. The white background and the different shades of blue are nice, but the layout and placement of the stories make the site look like my bedroom (clothes all over the place). I think that Fox should return to there old style or redo the layout! Anyone with me on this?