{"id":5,"date":"2006-12-21T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/adsense-or-add-cents.html"},"modified":"2006-12-21T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T03:52:00","slug":"adsense-or-add-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/adsense-or-add-cents.html","title":{"rendered":"AdSense (or Add Cents?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the morning placing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/adsense\">AdSense<\/a> ads around my site. Most of the hub pages now have a banner or two. Untouched are the professional pages and the individual comic pages. They look unobtrusive enough, though I have to admit that I&#8217;ve never clicked on one before on another site.<\/p>\n<p>The ads are based on this very content. Right now, there&#8217;s a lot of ads about Dreamweaver, blogging, and Macs. Time to spice it up: cakes! Porche! Hungry Hungry Hippo! Ha, we&#8217;ll see if the ads change if only briefly.<\/p>\n<p>The AdSense policy is a bit strange. Rule #1 is literally &#8220;do not talk about AdSense*.&#8221; They&#8217;re mostly concerned that I&#8217;d blab about how much I&#8217;m making from what advertisers. They also don&#8217;t allow me to ask people to click on them, which seems counterintuitive but very noble. Google: the same company that doesn&#8217;t want me to sell out but on the other hand, helps China squelch human rights. How far the pendulum swings.<\/p>\n<p>*Rule 3 is if this is your first time in AdSense, you have to fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the morning placing Google AdSense ads around my site. Most of the hub pages now have a banner or two. Untouched are the professional pages and the individual comic pages. They look unobtrusive enough, though I have to admit that I&#8217;ve never clicked on one before on another&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/adsense-or-add-cents.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;AdSense (or Add Cents?)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}