Comments on: Results from the Google AdSense Experiment

By: Mike Davidson - Adding a “Subscribe” Bar to Your Blog

Mike Davidson - Adding a “Subscribe” Bar to Your Blog — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:51:42 +0000

[…] I got this idea while experimenting with Google AdSense several months ago. I only wanted to show the ads to casual passers-by (perhaps coming in through search engines) and […]

By: Calvin Tang

Calvin Tang — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I still see the ad, even though I came in via Bloglines. Does this mean you haven’t implemented the new cookie yet? Mmm..mmmm…. cookies.

By: shorty114

shorty114 — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Isn’t it against the Google AdSense terms of service or whatever to publicly disclose your AdSense earnings? Or maybe I’m thinking of something else…

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Calvin: Try again. I think Bloglines uses the GUID field as the clickthrough URL, so I just fixed the GUID field to use the correct cookie-setting URL.

shorty114: Good catch. I have deleted the full data table and am now just posting two approximate data points (page views and revenue). Hopefully that’s enough obfuscation.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a brilliant idea. It didn’t work for me from bloglines either, though.

By: Sonny

Sonny — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great idea. I still see ads on every post although I subscribed to your feed and come from Google Reader. I also tried to visit through bookmark (del.icio.us add-on on Firefox), the ads still showed up.

By: Ulises

Ulises — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i came in through my firefox live feed, i don’t see the ad.

Saludos!

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Another one arriving via Bloglines, and the ad is still there, Mike. The only cookies I see set from your domain are those for Mint and the site style.

By: Clay Smith

Clay Smith — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It works from Vienna on a Mac. Fantastic idea, by the way.

By: Peter Goodman

Peter Goodman — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just don’t see the ad period. All I see is a big black box where it is supposed to be.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What about just adding an ID to your body tag, that way us regular readers can just add a CSS rule to our browser stylesheet.

My ad blocker blocks it out anyway, but could be useful to some.

By: Tom W.M.

Tom W.M. — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For me, in Google Reader, every post since “Low Involvement Fantasy Football” popped up again as unread–duplicates. I guess that this is why Atom feeds have GUIDs independent from the clickthrough link URL. I’ve just switched. (On a more positive note, I don’t see the ad.)

By: Jonathan Snook

Jonathan Snook — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

For those of you coming in off bloglines, remember that the old page will still be available as unread. You might have seen two posts from Mike today that seemed to be the same (I know I did). Basically, the next article should fix the cookie problem.

By: Mat

Mat — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, now i’ve subscribed to your feed just so I don’t see the ad. Marketing strategy? :) $400 a month is a nice average, it’s worth keeping unless people really start complaining about it.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great idea Mike. I hadn’t thought to use RSS traffic to determine whether or not to show ads. Back in April I set up Adsense to show to all visitors from search engines. I just checked the referrer for “q=” or “p=” which catches most of the search engine crowd. I don’t feel as bad hitting those people up as I do the non-referrals and links from other blogs.