Kevin Fahey

Google, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Adsense

Posted on 5th December 2007

Majority of web sites have ads. Some are placed by banner swapping, others by commission if somebody click on a particular ad and is re-directed to the web site and purchases an item or sign’s up for a services etc... And then we have pay-per-click ads. There are many of these but here I will talk about Google Adsense.

 

Google Adsense

First thing I have to say about Google adsense is, I love it! It make me money.

Why Use Google adsense?
If you have a exciting web site and want to ad Google adsense, it will not be necessary to change you design, format or layout of your web site

Google adsense displays ads relating to the content of your web site, and you may block any unwanted ads.
With no experience of HTML no can still use google adsense?

Google adsense gives you complete control over the design, sizes and colour of your ad.
Making Money with Google Adsense?

Here is where I went wrong. Started off design a web site for the nightclub I work in. Came home one night and decided to put Google adsense on the web site to see how it goes. Put 468 x 60 ads on 5 of the most important pages. Woke up the next morning could not believe it had $1 in my account, excellent, so spent most of the day placing ads all over my site.  Six months later I am still making $1 from this site. The problem was the night club opened only 4 months of the year, there are only  1 million people on the Island, and most important most of my site contains was pictures after pictures of tourist getting drunk. Almost the same ad on every page, No content no revenue!

So, pretty much the same as my summer job, seasonal web sites are no good in the long run. Google adsense have payout minimum payout of $100 and I would take me a while to get a check.
Let’s think international interests which will keep visitors happy from all over the world. Sports got to be one. So I decided to create a site related to all sports (www.sporting-info.com). After one week Sporting-info.com had created more revenue for me than greenhillsdisco.net did in the last 3 months.

 

Google Search

Google say that they are just another web search engine, so any time they are attacked or sued over their judgments on a site they just tell us to use another search engine. Lets take my site for instance www.webmastersmallorca.com.
Google claim it can take months for your site to be listed, luckily I have not have that problem. All off my sites have been indexed with 10 days. Well sort of, index page took 2 days list the home and 6 months later am I still waiting on some of my pages to be indexed.

All was excellent for the first 2 months, most of the search queries that I aimed for came up in the first 10. My content never changed that much, still using the same keywords. So why are my results coming up on the 2nd or 3rd page now.
I am certain it has to do with “bitvertiser” or any other pay-per-click company that are fighting to bead Google. I would not advise change from Google Adsense. This is not an actual fact but through my re-search I came upon more a lot of stories similar to mine. So I have re-moved “bitvertiser” from my site and am going to give it 4 – 6 weeks and I will tell you the results.
Here a video I found interesting a relating to my problem.

 

Google Earth for the Good or the bad?

Well as a web designer, as well as Google adsense, I love it! I am no artist am most of my customers want maps and directions for the business placed on the web site It takes me about 5 minutes, 10 with an image and 12 to embed the map on my page and upload to your server, and I’m slow. Saves me time and save my customer money.
Also with my web site www.webmastersmallorca.com I will be adding a page for bars, restaurant and real estate’s agencies in the area of Santa Ponsa Mallorca to add their business to the map. This is also a way to make extra revenue from Google adsense, which I will talk about in more detail later. Information and your finger tips and then we have a bad side of it, Privacy and Security!

Thomas Harding, a journalist is Brasa reported to the daily telegraph that officers found the camp's precise longitude and latitude of camp which was hit my terrorists. It is also confirmed that terrorists are using Google Earth to locate vulnerable areas to attack. Here are some quotes in which I question the use of Google Earth for the good of this world.
“Documents seized during raids on the homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs taken from Google.”

“Written on the back of one set of photographs taken of the Shatt al Arab Hotel, headquarters for the 1,000 men of the Staffordshire Regiment battle group, officers found the camp's precise longitude and latitude.”
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