Thursday 31 August 2017

#236 Upgrades

This month I finally received approval from Google to use Adsense on Something More Weekly. I'd submitted the application months ago. I wasn't sure if such a delay was normal or if there was some special reason it took so long. Still, they'd granted it. I was free to put their ads on the blog.

I knew I wouldn't make much at all. In fact, I wasn't sure I'd earn anything. I'd read that Adsense paid mostly for clicks on the banners, which seemed hopeless. I mean who the hell clicked those things? I opted to place the ads below each post, with another beneath the links that ran down the right-hand side. That way, reader still saw my content first.

The adverts were up for two weeks. I earned a total of 11 pence. Then they disappeared. I'd upgraded the blog to a dot com site and would need to ask Adsense for permission to display the ads at the new address. I'd get around to it eventually. Thankfully, everything else about the new address was fairly straightforward.

The process of switching to a dot com site involved changing some publishing settings on the blog and provide the usual Domain Name Server information to the provider. There were several guides available for this and some contained screenshots. I picked the one with the pictures that looked most like my provider's page and followed the steps. It suggested the switch might not work for between an hour and 48 hours afterwards but it worked almost straight away.

The only other change I needed to make was to paste a few lines of HTML into the page; Blogger's "Don't track my own page views" button hadn't been working, so I'd needed a workaround. There were guides for that too though so it only took a minute to program.

To celebrate the recent alterations, I changed the cover image and fonts. It was all very satisfying. My blog had become a lot like my living quarters. Very seldom visited but guests could expect to find it clean and tidy.

9 comments

Running on empty said...

I didn't see any ads . If they were up for 2 weeks, I'd like to hear if any other readers saw them.

Profound Familiarity said...

I think Fizz is the only other reader.

Profound Familiarity said...

The ads might not have shown on mobile devices.

Running on empty said...

Well that stinks! The majority of my readers are on those!

Looks like I should run a link to your blog again, Dan. Want to run something topical?

Profound Familiarity said...

How would it work, would I write you a guest post about something and then you'd put a link to the blog at the bottom for another post that fell under the same theme (like with the AI post)?

Running on empty said...

Yeah, or you pick a current affairs topic write something on your blog, I will reply n mine and put a link to yours. I'm up with most big international news.

Profound Familiarity said...

I'll put one up about Trump's $1m hurricane relief donation tomorrow.

Running on empty said...

Sounds good! Will put my own twist on it.

Running on empty said...

Well, saw yours, and mines up with the link at the end.