Chekhov's Mistress
Does Earning a Few Cents on Google Adsense Make Sense?
I recently saw google ads on a blog that I frequent, and thought, hey that’s cool, and put Google ads on my blog. They are gone. There are two things I learned from this. 1) Anyone can have Google ads and so therefore, only the lCD (lowest common denominator) are likely to have them. And 2) The 14/100 of $1 that I earned in my two week experiment was not worth cluttering my site, because, like my apartment: there’s a lot of crap laying around there already!
The real reason that I took down the Google ads was that when I titled an entry “The Incestuous Den,” talking about the world of literary journals, I was queuing up Google to place ads for…right. And when I quoted Faulkner using the word God, I suddenly was promoting scripture education on my site. These guys, the google-bots, are just too good, but artificially, or preternaturally human, they are not. So the ads are gone and I’ve chalked up the fourteen cents to experience.
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