Adsense 101
When I'm not obsessing about everything else, I obsess about creating passive income on the web.
My Google Adsense provides random inspiration mixed with curiosity and concern as the income it produces fluctuates from $3.23 one day to $10.85 the next. There does not yet seem to be a level of consistency for me to learn and reproduce. Even the number of page views varies drastically from day to day. Yesterday, the popular page by far was my static page for the keywords "wholesale fleamarket", today that page is way down the list for views and has ZERO clicks.
Curt kids me about checking the stats as often as I do, but I'm learning from them. I don't just check to see how much money the ads are bringing in, I'm checking to see which pages are being viewed and which pages are getting the most click-throughs. I'm a bit frustrated that a true hypothesis can't be made. An important information factor is not available to me. I have no way of knowing which specific ads are getting the actual clicks. Google places the ads randomly on my pages. They are matched by subject matter, but different ads are randomly displayed each time the page is viewed. Some ads inspire click-throughs more than others and I haven't determined if there is a way to track which ones are being displayed.
Once I have that figured out I'll be better prepared to calculate potential clicks and income from any given page.


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