I have revamped up the Goggle ad placements across the site to see what good it does. I started with the ads when they first came out back in June of 2003. Back then the plan was to pay you your total at the end of the year so by January I had made 10$ and got a check for it. Not a lot but exciting enough. Then they changed it to after you make a 100$ in a month, which I mis-read as that you had to make 100$ in one month to get paid, so I got a little peeved and pulled the ads in I think around June of '04 and then put them back with one on a page here in the upper right in the blue at some point, once I realized they let your total accumulate until you make 100$ and then cut you a check. So that served one ad there on each of the several hundred pages of the site, so it served about 250-300 ads a day and made little to no coin, like maybe 80 cents a week if that.

Now I have placed ads on top of all the individual archive pages as well as the category pages, and really have not given much of a thought to how they make the site look, in fact I have almost tried to make it look bad I think. I have also added these referrals, on which you get $1 when someone on a Windows machine who has never done so before downloads and installs Firefox, fat chance of that happening. And the other referral for the ads is if someone signs up through that link and then makes $100 from Google Ads, they credit me 100$, again fat chance. I have also used the google search function here which serves ads on the results which in turn pay out.

So far the ads served has increased to 600-700 a day and the daily payout total is now from .18 - $2.74 a day, kind of a funny range I think. For instance Wednesday the 14th there were 468 ad impressions and 3 clicks for a total of $2.74, on Thursday there were 553 impression and 3 clicks that totaled .18 cents...

Anyway not going to get rich but a 1$ a day would pay for the hosting. Now if I can just figure out what to right about.