Hey MKids,
Jim and I had a quick discussion the other night about the use of Google AdWords on this site. The idea is to help fund the growing needs of this site and maybe even implement some improvements along the way. The downside to this is that, given the nature of our content, AdSense ironically chooses to display religious-based ad’s! I’ve set the ad’s to block any religious content, but these settings take time to process. In the meantime this site is sponsored by World Vision, The Church of Scientology and JesusIsTheDifference .. i just threw up in my mouth a little.
My apologies.
ps: if anyone has any creative ideas on how to fund improvements without using advertising, or has experience optimizing AdWords, we’re very open to suggestions. Thanks!
I use RSS to keep up with the kids… so may I suggest that you could setup Feedburner and serve up some tasty AdSense for feeds so that your RSS feed contains some ads too. I hate ads, but I like this site, so it’ll be worth it.
Feedburner will probably also provide you with some more detailed analytics around who is subscribing to your feeds.
http://feedburner.google.com
I had a feeling it would take a request for nerdy advice to get you to finally post, Bill
Do you subscribe to just the posts, or to the comments feed as well?
Great suggestion. I’ve never looked into feedburner!
I only subscribe to posts… I surfed over here just to see if you’d replied.