I’ve been exchanging emails with Dion Park of www.iKATV.net. He’s been encouraging me and cajoling me in all sorts of ways, one of which has been to see if I can make a few pennies out of this site.
So I explored a few ad services, and decided on Google, not least because they offer an extremely unobtrusive way of advertising. Big flashy colourful ads you will not find on this site. Logos you will not find. (I might make an exception for the FT. If they give me free syndication rights so that I can bulk-post some of Anna Fifield’s pieces, then I’ll happily put their logo here. Some hope.)
You’ll see the new ad-links at the bottom of most pages. I think how it works is that you click on the key words and you will then be taken to some ads related to those key words. And I think that every time you click on an ad I get something like 0.00001p. By 2010 I should be able to afford a Trebor chew (if they still make them). By the time I’m dead I will have paid for one month’s webhosting.
The ads being by Google, the keywords are context-sensitive. Sometimes the keywords are spot-on, but they can change each time you view a post. For example, my post on Kim Ki-duk’s The Coastguard has “Kim Ki-duk” and the “armed forces” as keywords for clicking on, when I last looked. But my post on the world cup Google found a bit trickier. Goodness only knows what “SOS Lyrics” are all about. If you find out, let me know. Finally, this site risks being added to the Axis of Evil, because at the bottom of my post linking to a story about two Kim Jong-il impersonators, Google encourages readers to “view ads about terrorism”.
Please click away. I’m not going to, because apparently if Google find you clicking on the ads on your own site they suspend your membership (that would be easy money, after all). Please give me any feedback as to whether the ads are any good, or at all relevant. Thanks. And thanks to Dion for his encouragement.
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