And I think I agree – when times are hard and you are trying to scrape together whatever you can to help the family, it does seem irresponsible to overlook any opportunity.

Hope things get better, bro.

Ed That Goes Ping :
It seems unlikely that I’ll make more than a few pennies this way, but I won’t know until I try.

Yeah … AdSense doesn’t do much. Dan Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs) mentioned how a banner month for him (1.5 million visits? 1.5 million uniques? can’t tell) netted him just over $1,000.

The theme of that piece is that blogging doesn’t pay, which is disputable. People rightly pointed out that he wasn’t really trying if all he was doing was AdSense. On the Web in general more money is in the ads people go out and sell to specific advertisers because they’ve got strong audiences in the right market. In the blogging world, the next step up seems to be going with an ad network that caters to the same niche you do, which just means that the ad network’s people are out hustling the advertisers interested in that niche.

Thing is, even if you’re not even going to pay for your hosting doing this, it doesn’t hurt to get your feet wet and start thinking about other options.

My choice was based on the idea that it if there were any way I could be making money right now that I was ignoring, it would be irresponsible of me to continue to do so. It seems unlikely that I’ll make more than a few pennies this way, but I won’t know until I try.

Note that some readers don’t have the option to install adblock on their computers (for example, if they are a work without admin rights).

I’m sorta surpised that you would play the dancing monkey for advertisers you don’t, yourself, necessarily support.

Are you comfortable with your choice or do you struggl with it? I’m not being judgemental, just wondering what’s running through your mind.

Thanks!