You know, I keep hearing about these people who blog for a living, who make hundreds or even thousands of dollars blogging. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but in a year-and-a-half of writing this blog, I have earned less than five dollars and received nothing. Certainly, I didn't start "Pack Mule for the New School" so I could quit my day job as a teacher and sit around cashing checks off the kinds of things that I write. But not even five dollars for all of the ads that have run on my blog . . . come on!
For a while, I used to link Amazon products to the blog posts I would write, mainly as a courtesy to the reader by offering an easy connection to whatever book or movie I was describing. Yet, since April 2010, I managed to earn $4.29 off those links, and I can't figure how to have them actually give me that money. I'm not so destitute that I desperately need $4.29, but shit, if it's mine, give it to me! I could at least use it to buy a twenty-five-cent used book off their website, even though that would be giving it right back to them.
And AdSense . . . . letting them post ads all over my blog, I have earned $0.05 and quite frankly have never pursued getting that money. My best guess about why no one clicks on the ads on my blog is that, because I am often criticizing something, their keyword-generated system often puts an ad for what I'm criticizing next to my criticism. For instance, when I was deriding Herman Cain in one entry, an ad for Herman Cain's campaign was next to my post! Not always, but often enough.
Dear corporate advertisers, I have withdrawn my willingness to continue letting you use the extra space on my blog, your ads will no longer appear here, and I want my $4.34. I don't care that it will cost you $0.44 each to mail me a check -- the Post Office needs the money anyway -- and I don't care that I will spend nearly the whole amount in gasoline driving to bank to cash the checks. Just to prove a point, I will do that and I will rent a Red Box movie on the way home with the dollar or so I haven't spent on gas going to the bank. And that will show you that . . . . well, you get the point, right?
For a while, I used to link Amazon products to the blog posts I would write, mainly as a courtesy to the reader by offering an easy connection to whatever book or movie I was describing. Yet, since April 2010, I managed to earn $4.29 off those links, and I can't figure how to have them actually give me that money. I'm not so destitute that I desperately need $4.29, but shit, if it's mine, give it to me! I could at least use it to buy a twenty-five-cent used book off their website, even though that would be giving it right back to them.
And AdSense . . . . letting them post ads all over my blog, I have earned $0.05 and quite frankly have never pursued getting that money. My best guess about why no one clicks on the ads on my blog is that, because I am often criticizing something, their keyword-generated system often puts an ad for what I'm criticizing next to my criticism. For instance, when I was deriding Herman Cain in one entry, an ad for Herman Cain's campaign was next to my post! Not always, but often enough.
Dear corporate advertisers, I have withdrawn my willingness to continue letting you use the extra space on my blog, your ads will no longer appear here, and I want my $4.34. I don't care that it will cost you $0.44 each to mail me a check -- the Post Office needs the money anyway -- and I don't care that I will spend nearly the whole amount in gasoline driving to bank to cash the checks. Just to prove a point, I will do that and I will rent a Red Box movie on the way home with the dollar or so I haven't spent on gas going to the bank. And that will show you that . . . . well, you get the point, right?
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