jfrank

I wanted to try out AdSense, so I added it to my site. It was fairly painless, but I needed a clean way to integrate it with Word Press, so I went and looked for a plugin that deals with managing ads. There are many, and I found one, but I had to upgrade Word Press to the latest version in order to use the plugin.

Since it was so simple, I went ahead and added analytics too. It took about 5 minutes to add to my theme and that was that. Thanks Google.

Well it helps to have visitors too, after trying to convince barney to put ads on his site (which he declined), I am still left wondering a lot of things about it. Its more of an experiment right now than anything else. I’m wondering how much it would offset the bandwidth cost of an average blog. Like if someone was to get hits on a blog obviously factoring in images and other ‘heavy’ content, could the revenue from the Google ads offset or even overtake the cost of hosting?

I found an interesting site called maxmind while looking for a database of country information.

they have a simple iso list,

http://www.maxmind.com/app/iso3166

and a database of world cities

http://www.maxmind.com/app/worldcities

free.