Will Curiosity Pay Off?

Written by Jason on August 23rd, 2007
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You guys just love commenting don’t you? With 113 posts and 3,532 comments, the average is 32 comments per post which is quite a lot for a new blog. It seems such a waste not to do anything with this, so we figured we’d cram a little 468X15 adsense bar in there. Anyone that’s curious and goes through the comments will find the ads just after the last comment. We feel this is the perfect position since it’s also just above the reply box. We’re using your curiosity to make us mooney!

Think about it; A lot of you kids come here via your RSS reader. Since we use feedburner, there’s an option to display the amount of comments a post received. If you’ve read the article, chances are you’re curious as to what your fellow readers had to complain about. (Currently it seems the RSS feed shows a maximum of 10 comments which isn’t correct. We need to take this up with the feedburner crew).

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It’s not just you who enters the blog on a post instead of the main URL. Loads of other visitors, who were too lazy to sign up for our full RSS feed which would make their lives easier, enter the blog on a certain post. This might be because Google sent them here or perhaps via Stumble upon. It doesn’t really matter where they came from, what matters is that we have made sure that an obviously busy spot on the blog is being utilized to make us more moo-lah!

Is Adsense the way to go? We probably won’t be able to tell you for another few weeks. Perhaps it would be better to display an affiliate/referal link of some sort. Since the amount of ad impressions is going up by a significant amount, the eCPM is probably going to drop. We’re not sure if this would affect us in any way since we’re no expert in the whole online advertisement scene. If you are, please feel free to leave us a comment. Even if your name isn’t MsDanielle or Darin, we’ll still take your input into consideration! :twisted:

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30 Responses to “Will Curiosity Pay Off?”

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  4. Steven says:

    Let me know if this new ad spot works wonders.

  5. OnPulseIM says:

    I think he does, lol

    problem mr cow with those ads is: A) They are not relevent and B) They require 2 clicks before you earn.

    Why not continue searching

  6. OnPulseIM says:

    trying without caps and with a trailing /

  7. Jorge says:

    Evil, evil cow

  8. Damn, you already tricked me into clicking a link to Dairy Cow Diets!

  9. This blog is a perfect example of what Google’s section targeting is for. You guys could easily lose the cow ads and get something a little more productive going.

  10. ray says:

    haha, thats funny your ads are cow ads.y’all are lucky you get soo many comments, i neeed to learn your trick. i have decent traffic but i never get commenters.

  11. Cubofild says:

    You read about feedburner and comments in chow ebook, nice catch with ads! :)

  12. I don’t see any cow ads. I feel cheated.

  13. Joyce Babu says:

    I am sorry, but you won’t be getting any clicks from me. Adsense ads are filtered by my Anti Virus :8

    • Steven says:

      Did you ever manage to fix your page?

      • Joyce Babu says:

        @Mr. Cow – So what do you feel after the first day? Is it producing any clicks for you?

        @Steven – It looks like you didn’t notice my reply to your comment. I hope the site should load fast by now, because I have removed many plugins and compressed and packed many of the javascript and css files. Thus I brought down the post page size to 200KB of which 120KB is cached. Which means each page load after the first should take only 80KB. (Previously it was 300KB / 150KB).

  14. reash says:

    I know this is off topic but I just love watching the cow as he strut his dancing skills just above the very first comment of this post.

  15. ms danielle says:

    hey i think it’s a good idea. funny how the ad block i’m looking at says “milk cow / dairy cow diet / wordpress blog / moo cows”

    wordpress blog?? lol

    i also love the little dancing cow! so cute! :D

    are you testing the ad block in different locations? i read about how santoshp put his in his sidebar which i just started testing again. i’m still experimenting since i don’t know as much from the publisher side.

  16. Well now, I think somebody needs to have a word. I clicked on a link for “cow facts” and in the end I finished up on a website about orangutan adoption.

  17. Tay says:

    The ads are great. Not only are they placed perfectly and will most likely result in a decent amount of clicks, but they’re interesting!

    Dairy Cow Diet. Wordpress Blog. Bovine Milk. Cattle Dairy. *chuckles* I love this blog. :D

  18. Wordpress blog! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha… hold on.

  19. Very good placement on the links. I have done this on a website or two. Right where people like to click…. A few might be happy-clicking-whores and “accidentally” click an ad.

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  21. Steven says:

    I saw one of your comments but at that point in time, the site wasn’t fixed. I wasn’t sure if you left another comment. It’s hard for me to keep up with all the replies on here LOL. I try my best though :wink: