a crank’s progress

ongoing — You Can Get Paid For This

Tim Bray analyzes his recent foray into Google AdSense. His experiences mirror my own (some ads are worth more than others was one thing I learned early on).

He’s doing a little (!!) better on this than I am, but then I don’t get linked from the tech section of CNN.com either.

Also, he’s dead right about ads on pages with a single piece do better than on a page with multiple, different pieces. I shoulda remembered that from my startup days and the follow-on experiences with WayPath: you can’t determine contextual relevance against an assortment of different items.

But as he says, there’s some organic growth at work here, so while I may never do quite as well as he’s doing (I’m covering my cable modem bill this month - yay!), there’s some upside.