by ZombieSkittles on March 24, 2010
If you have read my blog at all over the past year or so, you may of noticed the ads sitting underneath posts. Well I’m finally ditching them in favour of a donation system. Go on, look at the bottom of the post. See any advertisements? Of course not.
So that’s where this comes in. In the top corner is a can of coke. If you click it, it will take you to a donation page where you can send me a whole Australian dollar if you enjoy my writing. I got the idea from Rubenerd, who does the same thing but with coffee. Considering I probably drink a lot more coke while writing than he does coffee, that a similar thing could work here. Every fortnight I have to pump money out of my bank account in order to pay for this website into my PayPal. If I got a dollar donation, that’s one less dollar I have to pay for the hosting, which is money that can be spent on fuel coke.
Of course, you don’t have to do a damn thing, and still continue reading everything I write. It doesn’t bother me, but if you decided to shout me a drink via PayPal, I’d be grateful.
Of course I’d prefer you to donate to something with a bit more purpose than me, such as Blood:Water Mission (please do), but I can’t tell you where to spend your money. I’m thankful either way, as long as you read and enjoy my writing, I’m happy. You could also of course, donate to Rubenerd. His stuff is 10 times more interesting to read than mine, and is more often than not, slightly more inspired and informative. Not to mention the occasional reference to grilled cheese sandwiches, and the word.
As an added plus, if you click on the can of soup, you’ll be greeted with something that has provided endless chuckles for me, and should for you if you are the fan of his that I am. In fact, if you click on the can of soup, that totally beats donations hands down.
by ZombieSkittles on December 1, 2009
Today while surfing the net, I made the normal visit to YouTube that we all eventually make. As to be expected, Google had an ad on the main page. It was massive.
I know you’re probably saying “that’s not too big, it seems the normal size”, but that’s not the whole ad. You wait 10 seconds, and this happens.
It turns out all those spotlight videos are fake, and the whole thing is a clickable ad for Coca Cola, that leads to their Facebook page.
Now, I’m no expert in Google’s Terms Of Service when it comes to Adsense for us, but I’m pretty sure that if you disguise an ad as anything but an ad but to gain clicks, you instantly get booted from their program without any chance of appeal (they say you can, but honestly, I can’t say I’ve ever heard of it working.).
Now, here they are on one of their own sites doing just that. As someone who uses Adsense (rather poorly, I might add), I can’t see how they can do this, while the most I can do to mine is put them underneath a rather nice looking horizontal bar (doesn’t the bar above the ads just look so good? I have to admit, it turns me on a little bit.). I’m not sure if the ad in question is actually an Adsense ad, but surely they should adhere to their own rules, at least for the sake of consistency? Am I completely wrong in my assumption, or have they changed the rules? TELL ME!
by ZombieSkittles on July 12, 2009
I’ve tried it in the past and it failed me, but I decided to start advertising on a few of my sites again in hopes of getting maybe a few dollars extra. The idea is that I already write on these sites for free as my own personal hobby of sorts, so if I manage to make a few extra dollars here or there through it, then that’s just an awesome perk.
Currently I have two types of ‘ads’ on my sites. First, the obvious advertisements are the Google Adsense ads at the bottom of posts. They’ve never earned me anything in the past, but I’ve decided that it’d be better to have them just in case.
The other attempt at additional moneymaking is through a small amount of affiliate marketing. On this site to the right, there is an image of the 31DDDB eBook. The book is for sale for roughly twenty dollars through ProBlogger, and focuses on helping a user make content for their blog. The image is a link to the product’s information page, where you can buy it from. The trick is that it’s an affiliate link, and buying it through that link gives me a percentage of the sale. I don’t know if this will actually make any sales (it’s made absolutely nothing so far), but once again, if it worked even once and got me a few dollars, it would be worthwhile.
It’s pointless and I doubt it will help bring in any significant money, but I’m willing to try anything.
If you have read my blog at all over the past year or so, you may of noticed the ads sitting underneath posts. Well I’m finally ditching them in favour of a donation system. Go on, look at the bottom of the post. See any advertisements? Of course not.
