Decluttering In-Between Points, Google Ads To Stay

I've removed some of the page elements on this blog, particularly the Borneo poll series, Flickr badge and several others to make In-Between points less cluttered.

This blog should load smoother now, slashing the loading time may be by up to five seconds on 56kbps dial-up or one to two seconds on 512kbps broadband, the speed I'm currently using at home.

Google ads to stay

The Google ads block, however, will stay where it is for the time being. It has brought in a very small trickle of income almost each week and I'm replicating this model on my other blogs.

This is one thing about Adsense. If you know how to make, say, a dollar a day or even a dollar a week, you can replicate the model on other sites and make several dollars a day or dollars a week.

Replicate, replicate, replicate

That's a small change but hey, the keyword is "replicating". You can replicate the model on new niche sites if you have the energy to maintain them.

And you do learn something as you experiment with ad placements and niche sites that are likely to bring in the bigger trickle.

Adsense ads work better on niche blogs

If you experiment with niche sites long enough, you would gain some knowledge on the type of niche where Google ads are likely to succeed, so that in the end you can have several niche-specific sites that you can really rely on to bring in the larger trickle.

If you learn enough, you can change that small trickle into larger trickle, and then into a small stream. If you learn and replicate enough, that is. Let's not talk about a larger stream yet as I have not seen it happening to me.

In-Between Points is not a niche blog

When I talk about niche blogs, I'm not saying In-Between Points is one of them. This is just a mix-of-everything blog, so it won't likely make for a productive blog in terms of ad revenue.

But like I said, I'm experimenting and learning, and one of the ways to learn is by trial and error.

Targeting search engine surfers

So the ads will stay for at least a couple more months. This blog's regular visitors might not use the ads at all, and that's okay. The key is to target those who come to this blog via search engine.

Search engine surfers do so to look for specific information on the web and when they come to your site via a specific blog entry, they would also be presented with relevant ads that correspond their search.

So they are more likely to use the ads because they are related to the information they have been looking for.