{"id":1364,"date":"2007-06-20T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/20\/advertising-on-my-site\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T09:14:06","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T17:14:06","slug":"advertising-on-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/advertising-on-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising on my blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you noticed that there&#8217;s now some ads on my site. I&#8217;ve been playing with them since May 15th or so. Here&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve come to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I put one ad at the bottom of each article page in (what I hope is) a relatively unobtrusive spot with unobtrusive colors. Very popular pages that I don&#8217;t care too much about (like <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/the-amazing-power-of-makeup\/\">this<\/a>) get a few more ads sprinkled in them.<\/p>\n<p>Google Adsense says that <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\">my blog site<\/a> gets about 500 ad impressions per day. WordPress stats agrees with that but Analog stats says I&#8217;m getting more like 2,000 page views\/day in my blog folders&#8230; hmm. Maybe it&#8217;s that Analog is counting spam bots and web crawlers. On the ads, Google says I have a clickthrough rate of about 0.5%. The site makes $0.50\/day&#8230;. about $180\/year. So the site pays for itself and buys me a nice dinner every few months. You might be able to extrapolate your potential earnings from these numbers.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you noticed that there&#8217;s now some ads on my site. I&#8217;ve been playing with them since May 15th or so. Here&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve come to&#8230; I put one ad at the bottom of each article page in (what I hope is) a relatively unobtrusive spot with unobtrusive colors. Very popular pages that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}