This first paragraph you can skip if you are familiar with Google AdSense. I’m not too sure how well know AdSense is outside of the webmaster community so I thought I better mention it here. After Google launched AdWords, the boxes on the right of your search results that people pay for they decided to expand – Google AdSense was born, allowing webmasters to put AdWords adverts on their websites and get paid.
That’s the basics out of the way, now for the story. I was excited about AdSense when it first came out. Though Google rejected Audio Senate, they did accept Fallen Nation into the programme. So I logged and and added the code to the site, then sat back and waited for the revenue to roll in. But it never did. I served around 50,000 ads and made something like $0.20.
I had soon scrapped AdSense. Though logging into my account the other day I realised I must have it in circulation somewhere. But that isn’t the point – the point is I got rid of almost of all it, it earned me no money. The problem was that Fallen Nation is an online gaming site – very little content. So, finally after months of not using AdSense I decided to give it a chance of TV Forge.
TV Forge is very content based – the average page has over 500 words on it, with the episode guides ranging from 500 to over 1,000 words per page so Google has plenty on track onto. Hopefully then, this time I will get plenty of good ads (the ads I have seen seem nice and relevant in most cases) and if successful I will extend the tests to Emo Movies too.
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