racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

I blogged about ditching the AdSense Adwords at the J Spotter.  Seemed like it was not such a good idea to keep the adlinks as a header banner after all.

I got dismal clickthrough rates (as in zarro clicks!), even though it was one of the highest in page impressions.

And it may also be misconstrued that I’m trying to fool readers into
thinking it’s a navigation header.  Not true,of course.

Yuga also posted on this issue.

In fact, he posts a handful of articles on how blogs are becoming online billboards
nowadays, being plastered with ads all around–pretty much like how
EDSA, a main thoroughfare in Manila, has become to be in the past few
years.

At any rate, while AdLinks may be cool to include with some types of
sites (i.e. those sites where people really click on stuff to get to
what they’re looking for), it may not be appropriate for most sites,
especially blogs.

After all, with blogs, it’s the content the readers are after.  The ads
are just secondary.  And with tech blogs such as this, theory is that
unless the readers are looking into buying software or techie stuff,
they’d rather keep on reading.

So the J Spotter
says bye to AdLinks for now.  As an experiment, I’ll keep the adlinks
here active (they’re over at the sidebar in case you’re looking for
something).

Check out the GVisit site for the J Spot.  It pinpoints the last 20 visitors on Google Maps.

In some localities, you can even zoom in the map and satellite image to
go as close as seeing the actual building and vehicles on site.

Cool, huh?

Learned about this through Jolo via pinoy.tech.blog.

For the first time, I broke through my bandwidth limit of 5 Gigabytes for this particular blog.

My August stats tell me that the J Spot got 106,932 page views from
37,322 visits by 7,032 unique visitors, or about 2.8 page views per
visit and 5.3 visits per visitor for the month.

Daily (on average), the J Spot got 3,449 page views, 1,203 visits and 204 unique visitors this August.

Not bad.  Again, I have you, my beloved readers, to thank for what I consider a modest success for a blogger.

I broke the bandwidth limit, but the site is still up and
running.  Just another cool feature of our very generous i.PH
service.

About the AdSense performance … Now that’s a stat I wish I could do something about.

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