Adwords, Bad Words

See that? How the title rhymes?  Clever huh?  Spent hours on that.

Well, I tried a little experiment adding Google Ads to this blog in the hopes it would cover my monthly blogging expenses (Typepad ain't free).  I figured there would be a lot of ads for kids music, resources for teachers, etc., and I was fine with that.

Then I saw some of the ads that were being displayed.  Medicine for arthritic shoulders and knees, cures for stinky feet, remedies for headaches, and the worst, an ad for a love doctor who promises to teach you how to get people down on their knees begging to be with you.  Huh?  What do these have to do with Children's Music and Early Childhood Education?

Then Tanja (she of the really cool new blog banner...check it out) reminded me of the title of my blog.  Seems I was getting a lot of ads related to things like heads, shoulders, knees, and toes.   Ugh.

So the Google Ads experiment is on hold for now.  If you're looking for relief for your aching joints, you'll have to check somewhere else ;-) 

Comments

[Lisa Yannucci]

Hi Devon,

It can take Google Ads a couple of days to figure out what your site is about.

You can also filter out ads that you don't want to show up on your site using the Competitive Ad Filter. But it can be a lot of work to do that as you have to filter out each ad individually.

-Lisa

[Devon T]

Hi Lisa,

Thanks, I think I will play with it a bit one of these days. Maybe tomorrow...tomorrow...tomorrow...

[Lance]

You may consider Clicksor as a possibility. They allow you to use 5-6 of your own keywords for the ads being served. The payout isn't as high as Adsense but they aren't half bad.

[Adam]

Why don't you try using Wordpress? It's free and easy to use!