No Google Adsense!

aw thanks glad you enjoyed it

The same thing happened with me on one of my blogs Sue… All of my Adsense ads were about creating blogs and not about the content of the blog at all.

I believe money can be made with Adsense, but not on this blog… :p

I think we need to have considerably good amount of traffic to our website then only we can make good money with adsense.

Well, you have to customize the plugin CSS according to your theme, i think I can’t help in this case…

What do you mean by the “same settings”? What do I need to put in my admin panel?

Welcome.. heh heh, sorry ’bout going a bit over board there.

I’ve got it in a couple of places and never make a lot of money, but it just sits there without my help and makes some. A trickle is better than none, and if you have it trickling in from several places it starts to add up.

Hello, I followed your link to here from Bloggers For Dollars.

You’re definitely not alone, as you can see from the comments here. Making money from AdSense is little more than hype; you will notice that those who brag about making the money are those with VERY popular sites or blogs.

I got fed up with this awhile back and made this post:
http://steph.shadowsinmotion.com/uncategorized/unhealthy-the-adsenseyahoo-ad-click-hype/

At the time (July of 2006) I was using AdSense. These days I don’t.

Also, about AdSense and the word “blog” – You’re not alone there, either! Oh, wow, are you ever not…

Back when I used AdSense I was in heck of a struggle to try to eliminate ads for blogs or blog services. I spent several days adding sites to my competitive ad filter / blocked sites list, whatever you want to call it.

It was a lost cause. There are SO many ads for blogs.. ~sigh~ It was like trying to stop a waterfall by using a bottle cork. It just wasn’t going to plug the flow of those ads.

I did learn something very useful from my attempts, though. All of this was true at the time, but may have been tweaked since then:

1.) Google seems to use keywords rather than using the actual content of your website or blog posts. Unfortunately, based on my experience, they seem to give more weight to some keywords than they do to others. Sometimes it is a considerable amount of weight.

2.) Your domain name will be scanned for such keywords.

3.) Google (at least AdSense) will tie such keywords from your content/posts to your domain name. #1 applies – it will weigh some keywords far more than others. Those that receive more weight will “stick” to your domain name stronger than the other words.

“More important” keywords will be used instead of any keywords that you may have in your domain name itself.

Content (and at times, the actual words of your domain name) be darned. Once it ties these keywords to your domain name you will be stuck with ads for them site wide. When I say “stuck”, I mean industry strength super glue stuck.

4.) The word “blog” is one of the keywords that it gives a godly amount of weight (or “strength”) and stickiness to. Unless this has changed since my battle with AdSense over this mess (July of 2006), your actual content matters little to nothing at all when compared to these keywords.

I noticed that the ads that show up immediately after submitting a post DOES use the content of your post. However, once their system notices your domain name and thus connects its chosen keywords to you the content of your post will be ignored and those keyword specific ads will be used.

My Shadows In Motion blog covers some very strange topics and, as one may expect, is more popular at Halloween than at other times of the year. Despite this, I just couldn’t get rid of the “blog” ads.

In time it did eventually shift to associate with other, more pertinent keywords, but it probably helped that I flat out stopped using AdSense for awhile and had completely removed the dreaded word from my templates and posts.

Perhaps this long hiatus from using their service forced them to clear their cache for my domain.

Ultimately I gave up. It was way too much work for a service that way underperformed.. I pull it out again from time to time to see how it’ll do, but little ever changes in terms of its performance.

If we had thousands of unique viewers per day and we tucked AdSense into our content in such a way that it looked like a part of said content then yes, I’m sure that we’d see much better performance.

I wish you all the luck with that.

/rant off
~Steph
wow, that was a huge comment…

hehe…I’m downloading and uploading a lot of them… what color did you like? I like the cyan one… one sec…

And now your theme is totally different on the front page! Did I just so happen to comment right as you were changing?

I’ve made a whopping $12 since August. Ha!

Hey, how come your theme changes when you comment? That was disconcerting. I REALLY like the theme on your main page!

It’s a bit difficult when the blog doesn’t have a specific theme. The more people you have coming into your blog, the more chances they will click on one of the links. I have blogged for a long long time but have earned less than $200.

what are the settings that need to be the same?

Actually, I made a new account for Anna to be different than Admin for other reasons, not for MyAvatars… and now that seems to have fixed my problem with MyAvatars… except for the overlapping text…

I agree Bismut… I don’t anticipate I’ll ever have a lot of traffic to this blog since it is a personal journal and not a blog many people would be interested in reading… I have a really boring life!