Well, I’ve had my google ads on this page for a month now. I know some of you were interested to hear how well it works. So…

To date I’ve earned $4.76.
Totaled 3,440 page impressions.
And 10 clicks.

Note: They only pay out once earnings accumulate to $100. (it might take me awhile)

::The Nitty Gritty::

I’ve noticed so far that I can earn different amounts for clicks on the same ad (or at least the same ad space). I wonder if it is related to the length of time a visitor spends on the sponsored page… but I have no way of verifying that. I’ve also noticed that I earn more for clicks on text ads, but the image ad seems to get clicked on more. The image ads also earn revenue based on page impressions alone (no clicks required), at the rate of about one cent every few days.

…the thought has occurred to me to place 500 image ads at the bottom of my page and just let the page impressions roll. $5.00 every few days… but I figure that would not only be really annoying, but also poor sportsmanship. Besides, Google probably already has some sort of filter for stuff like that. Haha. Anyway…

I’ve noticed that the ads aren’t always relevant to the content on the page, particularly on the home page. But the ads are usually more focused on individual post pages.

I did use the ad filter and remove a couple of cellulite-type ads from the sidebar a couple of days ago (since Sandra complained :)), so hopefully we’ll have less of those moving forward.

To sum things up –
I don’t know if all of this is worth it yet. We’ll give it another few months and see what happens.
Its not exactly a get rich quick sort of thing. But I imagine it will be fun to randomly get a $100 check in the mail in 5 years. lol!

So there you have it. I imagine I’ll report on this again in a few months.