I am experimenting with different advertising models on Fractals of Change. Google adSense so far has been pretty much a bust. The ads they serve up through some mysterious algorithm are boring - usually ads for some kind of extreme rant or another. That may be Google’s robot’s comment on what I write but, regardless, you don’t click on these ads very often and clicks are what I get paid for.
Amazon ads – where I pick the books and where Amazon pays for purchases, not clicks – do better. I hope you like what you bought on my recommendation. Interestingly, often people click on my links to a specific book on Amazon and then buy something else. Amazon still pays me in this case. BTW, even this “success” is chump change: less than a dollar a day income for blogging; so, unless you can attract a bigger audience than the 5000 or so people I estimate read Fractals of Change or have a much better advertising model, don’t quit your day job to become a blogger.
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