{"id":76,"date":"2004-07-26T17:48:28","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T22:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2004\/07\/mega_bucks\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T19:30:15","slug":"mega_bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2004\/07\/mega_bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <A HREF=\"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2004\/07\/google_ad_repor\/\">Jeb&#8217;s success<\/A> with ads on mac.fiveforks.com I thought I would try it out on the only page on my website that seems to get any <A HREF=\"\/ted\/2004\/05\/site_meter\/\">traffic<\/A>, the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/igirder.com\/dejumble.htm\">Dejumbler page<\/A>. Of course as soon as I put an ad on there traffic dropped off sharply and I wonder if Ask Jeeves knocked me down in the rankings when they saw a Google ad? All my referrals come from Ask Jeeves which for some reason ranks the Dejumble page very high when you enter &#8220;unscramble&#8221; in its search engine.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after 4 days I&#8217;ve had one click-through which was me seeing if it would really work and I guess they knew that because I didn&#8217;t make any money on that one. That&#8217;s out of 90 page views. Since you only get paid once you&#8217;ve reached $100 it could be a long wait.<\/p>\n<p>What bugs me about the whole thing is that I could tell Google what kind of ads they should put on my page: puzzles, Scrabble, games, crosswords, etc. But instead they are reading the text on my page and putting stuff in there about programming and coding. I couldn&#8217;t see a way to give Google any hints on what to advertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Jeb&#8217;s success with ads on mac.fiveforks.com I thought I would try it out on the only page on my website that seems to get any traffic, the Dejumbler page. Of course as soon as I put an ad on there traffic dropped off sharply and I wonder if Ask Jeeves knocked me down in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2004\/07\/mega_bucks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mega bucks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}