Your page, your data, your ads, your money
Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006
at 12:50 PM
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That's how Otis Gospodnetic describes the new revenue sharing plan for his Simpy bookmarking site. The model is remarkably simple. All you have to do is setup a bookmark tagging account on Simpy, and then enter your Google Ad Sense ID. Each user gets their own bookmarks page, and this is where the ads appear. You can promote your bookmarks page to increase your traffic. Each member gets 100% of the Ad Sense revenue. I haven't seen a revenue sharing system this simple before, but I hope it becomes a standard.
(via Mashable!)
Seeing Google from a new perspective
Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2006
at 7:17 AM
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My personal opinion of Google is that it is out of control and has a real chance of bringing the Nasdaq back down when it finally crashes. I also recognize that many website owners are thrilled by the amount of money they are making from running Google ads. Their perspective is worth exploring. When my RubyRiver aggregator is ready, I'll be including Google ads on the pages. I'm also going to be buying a small number of ads on Google to promote this site. These are both experiences that I need to understand. All of my web advertising experience is with banner ads. We ran millions of banner ads a day on the Andover.net sites with our own sales people and code, but we never used Google's ad system.
Another aspect of Google I want to learn more about is search engine optimization. This is a shadowy world that seems to be a magnet for hucksters. We did some of this at Andover, but nothing of the sophistication available today. One of the many ads that appear on Google when searching for "adwords" is:
Adwords Make Money Online
I made $20,000 online last month.
You don't even need a Website.
This is so reminiscent of the nonsense that prevailed when the Web first got hot. Like TV ads showing how you could make a fortune without even owning a computer.
