Google Adsense Removed
As you may have noticed, I’ve updated the look of this blog a bit. I have added the images at the top, which link to the corresponding categories of this blog, and the author description on the left side.
But another maybe surprising change, is that I have removed the Google Adsense ads! They were here for almost 3 months, and they haven’t made me a single cent. The main reason is that the ads did not really correspond with the contents of this blog. And as a consequence, nobody clicked on them.
I was considering to remove them for a while now, but I finally did it after reading this post on Entrepreneur’s Journey (which is a really great blog on internet marketing and online revenue btw).
It made me think again about the purpose of this blog, and I came up with the following:
- A marketing vehicle for my games and my music.
- A place with extra information for people playing my games, like the Bubblomania tips and tricks.
- A place to write about my creative projects and experiments as a beginning indie game producer and online entrepreneur, like the Smiley Puzzle Project.
- A place that might contain useful information for other game producers, online entrepreneurs, fans and freaks…
Cluttering the place with ads leading away from my site, obviously doesn’t fit this purpose. The only reason for having these ads was to help fund my web hosting expenses, but it clearly failed that goal. Maybe some day, when I have loads of visitors, I will probably add some form of advertising again. But for the moment there’s no point in doing so.
I’m still in doubt about the advertising on my main games site, so any comments on the subject are welcome!
Related Articles:
- Text Link Ads: First Ad Sold!
- Is There Money to Make by Selling Game Merchandise?
- The Smiley Puzzle Project
- Bubblomania X Tips & Tricks Part 1
- Indie Game Sales Statistics
- Google Adsense
- Bubblomania X 2.0 released!
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December 1st, 2006 at 8:24 pm
[…] Traffic on this blog and the Dark Moon Software site in general grew by 22% this month, despite moving the page for my Bubblomania X downloadable game to the new Bubblomania website. Adsense revenue for this site is negligable, but since traffic has been growing for several months, I re-introduced the Google ads on the blog today. […]