Comments on: AdWords? More Like… Ad-TURDS!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:03:07 +0000

yeeeah I found that out after I registered it. So pretty much I failed right out of the gate. You win some you lose some.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:45:17 +0000

I just saw an ad in your sidebar titled, “Fix Atomica.exe” - nice going bro, looks like you named your blog after some sort of virus/worm/malware/spyware. Time to pick up, redesign the site, buy a new domain, and settle in at a new place.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:16:04 +0000

Wow, even being the poker enthusiast I am would never wear any sort of poker shirt…unless it were weaved out of $100 bills.

By: Jason - GorillaSushi

Jason - GorillaSushi — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:45:55 +0000

Yeah, search engines (all of them) and paying for adspace are really the only way to guarantee reaching the internet at large.

I used to get tons of search traffic from “explosive diarrhea” searches.

By: Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:30:57 +0000

Hey, I found your blog thru entrecard … and I’m Singaporean so I can appreciate your efforts in helping our law enforcers :D.

Seriously though, google adsense can be evil. I’ve gotten some money from them so I’m not complaining but sometimes I get 15 clicks and its worth a total of .97 cents and you’re wondering, gosh, Google just made a ton of money off of me. What’s up with that?

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:48:20 +0000

I am surprised how many times I show up on google’s first page for things. Not even that obscure, like “whopper discontinued” in regards to that burger king commercial. I get traffic from google a bit already. I have found a couple other first page results too. I just don’t like the fact that everything is so geared toward pleasing the Google Gods.

Hopefully I get all this start-up promotion and technical blog stuff out of the way so I can focus more on doing high quality updates.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:32:16 +0000

Google search yourself and see where you turn up. I about fainted when I showed on the first page of my (very narrowly worded) search results. Because everyone googles everything. I wrote a post about this godawful stuffed dog toy that, no shit Andy, lifted it’s leg and peed. I got tons of hits of that post for no apparent reason. I also wrote a post about my colonoscopy, and I get hits on that almost daily…a lot of people are having to get them and they want to know what it is like. From someone who is not medical. That kind of stuff in search results is where you can get to the regular people. At least for me. Good Luck!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:21:28 +0000

Karen: I am pretty leery about the whole “blog community” thing. I knew they existed, but I had no idea they were so insular till I started this puppy up. Honestly I am surprised at how well Station Atomica has been received in the communities I am a part of, and that is great, but what I really want to do is break out of the whole blog-o-sphere and into the internet at large.

That is where I am hitting a brick wall. As big as those communities are they are a tiny tiny fraction of what is out there. And I refuse to read the money money online blogs too so I am just hoping for word of mouth as of now.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:06:46 +0000

Ah well no big loss. I am keeping them around because, as weird as it sounds, they make my pages look better. Things are awful empty on the ole sidebars without some ads.

I wasn’t really expecting them to work anyways since I am pretty sure my readership is internet savvy and pretty much ad-blind. I’ll find some way to squeeze some blood from those motherfuckers if its the last thing I do though.

By: Deb on the Rocks

Deb on the Rocks — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:59:33 +0000

Oh, crap, that’s what Hurricane Relief means? I thought it meant that they recognized my inner Bono.

I just don’t like them on my site or my gmail when they seem to be blaming me, taunting me or telling my tales with rehab program ads or birth control options. Nosy bugger.