Out of Egypt:

monetize your weblog - and lose all your readers

That's a lot of money, but I have no idea why. I certainly don't plan on making money off of this site. If it gets my name out there, that would be more than enough.

I've decided. GoogleAds will never sully the parchment surface of this blog. If I could make them look seamless, than maybe. But Google would never allow that anyway.

According to Technorati, my blog is worth $43,469.58. I wish I could just write to them have them send a check.

Posted by: garver at September 7, 2007 9:40 PM

My blog is worthless . . . . ?????

Posted by: Carrie at September 7, 2007 10:14 PM

Looking at the link that inspired this little widget, I learned it's all about who you link to. The higher the Technorati rank of the blogs you link, the more valuable your weblog is, though not necessarily in monetary terms, as this would suggest.

And Carrie, the reason your blog doesn't work with it is that you need to register your blog with Technorati and add the Technorati tracking code before it can do the calculation.

Posted by: Evan Donovan at September 7, 2007 11:12 PM

Uh, wouldn't it be much preferable to have the ads NOT be seamless? I want to kill ads that aren't clearly differentiated between the real content.

Posted by: nougatmachine at September 8, 2007 12:21 AM

I wouldn't want the ads to be seamless unless they really were relevant, and I could guarantee their relevance. AdWords can't give me that; I would have to be negotiating actual partnerships.

But from a graphic design standpoint, AdWords is atrocious. When I see it on otherwise-well-designed blogs, it makes me want to just click away and go somewhere else. While I have banner blindness, I have AdWords hypersensitivity. Perhaps it's partly because AdWords is so easy to set up. It just says to me, "I'm lazy, and wanted an easy way to make a few bucks from this, even at the cost of spoiling my layout."

Now there are definitely blogs that I read even though they have AdWords. But it's definitely an "in-spite-of" thing.

Posted by: Evan Donovan at September 8, 2007 1:44 AM