Playing With AdSense And Against It
I've been tinkering with AdWords lately and after two years once again playing with AdSense adverts, deciding to pollute my blog with Google ads in the most non-intrusive way possible.
I colored them in accordance with this blog's design to meld them with the text and placed them in a way that I consider to be optimal for for balance between noticeable and intrusive or irritating. I used a combination of link ads on top of the posting area, a couple of boxes in the sidebar and a classic banner at the bottom of posting area.
Since I thought it would be nice to be able to track AdSense clicks via Google Analytics I googled up and installed this nifty little script that helps Analytics track ad clicks via its Goals feature.
I don't actually expect to get any ad revenue from a personal blog such as this one in the foreseeable future but I have set my one-year goal at skyrocketing 10$. All in all, it is a thing I enjoy doing and that's all that counts.
The irony is that I don't see the ads myself, neither do my website visits get detected by Google Analytics. In fact, I don't see advertisements anywhere on the Web, nor I get detected by various tracking software.
The thanks for that goes to two essential Firefox addons that I would recommend for use to anyone not wanting to see ads or annoying scripts:
I colored them in accordance with this blog's design to meld them with the text and placed them in a way that I consider to be optimal for for balance between noticeable and intrusive or irritating. I used a combination of link ads on top of the posting area, a couple of boxes in the sidebar and a classic banner at the bottom of posting area.
Since I thought it would be nice to be able to track AdSense clicks via Google Analytics I googled up and installed this nifty little script that helps Analytics track ad clicks via its Goals feature.
I don't actually expect to get any ad revenue from a personal blog such as this one in the foreseeable future but I have set my one-year goal at skyrocketing 10$. All in all, it is a thing I enjoy doing and that's all that counts.
The irony is that I don't see the ads myself, neither do my website visits get detected by Google Analytics. In fact, I don't see advertisements anywhere on the Web, nor I get detected by various tracking software.
The thanks for that goes to two essential Firefox addons that I would recommend for use to anyone not wanting to see ads or annoying scripts:
- The first one is Adblock Plus, an add-on that efficiently does exactly what its name suggests.
- The second one is NoScript, a great security addon that prevents execution of scripts and other active content, among other things making you invisible to javascript-based tracking software such as Google Analytics
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