Azoogle and aff ads on my sites
I just spent a couple of days putting ads on my sites. I paid $10 for the Phplinkdirectory mods at Linkforever and installed the banner rotation one on the directory here and at ChillyCool – they were well worth the price. If you install them, be very careful following the instructions, especially for modifying the files. I used the search replace function to find the code I needed to modify, and ended up finding the wrong instance of that code and chasing my tail for a few hours. But other than mishaps like that, it works perfectly.
I got WPAds for the blogs so I can know what I’m rotating. Before that I was using an ad rotator that just grabs them from a text file, and there was no way to comment in what each ad was for, so removing ads was a serious PITA. Not anymore.
I have no idea what I’m doing. All I know is I’m going to keep adding and removing ads until I find out what my visitors want. On an interesting note, Project Mai Tai is beating this site, ChillyCool and Project B-2 Bomber combined for clicks on these ads. Bigtime. Which is interesting because it has about a thousand visitors a month and the others get 5k to 15k. Which is making me think about just what is the right kind of blog to inspire ad clicking.
Project B-2 Bomber, despite its higher traffic, is a site people come to for reading and discussion. I’m convinced they’re pretty much ad blind and there’s little I can do about that.
This site and ChillyCool… I don’t know. I think the webbie niche is pretty much ad blind, except when we’re looking to see what the other guy’s up to. 
But I know I’ll click an ad on a webbie’s site (A) if I notice it and (B) if it looks interesting for any reason.
Project Mai Tai, however – what’s the secret there? It’s just an information site. Almost all the posts are quite short (but informative). My guess is that because the entries are a quick but (hopefully) satisfying read, after finishing them people glance at the rest of the page. Maybe that’s too simple, but who says it has to be rocket science?
It also proves to me that building your RSS subscriptions does not stop people from coming to your site and clicking ads.
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Sounds cool I will look into it… I use goggle adds and text adds now….