Comments on: I got rid of Text-Link Ads

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:06:18 +0000

Lorene, Google Adsense lets you exclude ads that you don’t want, supposedly to prevent your competition from advertising on your site, but you can actually exclude anyone.

By: Lorene

Lorene — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:29:18 +0000

Amen sister! I too struggle with the 12-15 month leads when it comes to pitching freelance stories, and we can’t all write books back to back :-) I’m just exploring the notion of monetizing blogs and websites…mostly I don’t want “get rid of belly fat” showing up with every hit

By: Gardening Advice | Winter Gardening | Indoor Gardening

Gardening Advice | Winter Gardening | Indoor Gardening — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:25:07 +0000

First thanks for a very imformative post. I was considering purchasing some links off a few sites and now I havedecided not to. I do use Adsense on my blog (which is farily new) and I did so on the advice of a friend of mine. I hope that maybe a visitor or visitors find the information I am providing useful but I also hope that maybe a adsense ad that isbeing displayed will be useful to them as well. Ithink monetizing is a good thing just as long as it doesn’t take away from the actual informationbeing provided. Once again thanks for the post and I am finding your site and information very interesting.

By: Arts Links

Arts Links — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:39:29 +0000

Amazon and Adsense are easy to plugin into WordPress so it would seem to be the sensible option to derive some income from your Art. But you do need plenty of visitors to generate any income.

By: Pam/Digging

Pam/Digging — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:48:19 +0000

I haven’t seriously considered running ads on my blog. But Melissa is right that now that everyone is out there doing it (via Blogger, etc), it makes me wonder whether I’m missing out on even a little easy money. This does sound like a good topic for the Spring Fling discussions.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:10:33 +0000

Kathy, good info presented in a very straight forward way. Good luck with approaching gardening merchants directly.

Carol, May Dreams Gardens

By: M Sinclair Stevens (Texas)

M Sinclair Stevens (Texas) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:34:57 +0000

“To monetize or not to monetize?”, that is the question. Although I once made a very good living through my writing, I have, so far, maintained my amateur (doing it for love) status on my blogs. Still, in the last couple of years with the explosion of garden blogs (mostly via Blogger) and Google Adsense plugged in, I find myself wondering if I haven’t missed the boat.

I’m still thinking about your advice over putting up an Amazon store. I feel a bit better about that because I like to write reviews and when I love something I can’t wait to tell my friends about it and get them to try it.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Maybe we can talk more about this during your Spring Fling discussion.