AdSense Side Benefit? (Continued)

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AdSense Side Benefit? (Continued)

Craig Danuloff tells me that my previous post on this topic isn't right.

He says AdSense has nothing to do with page rank. Craig surmises that, "It is much more reasonable to assume that your blogging increased both your PageRank and your relevance to the term 'Fred Wilson' because so many people now link to pages on your site using your name as the link text. The increase in relevance is probably more responsible for your improved position than any PageRank increase."

Well then I change my assertion to "Improved Google page rank is a nice side benefit to blogging".

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Posted March 10, 2004 in Venture Capital and Technology

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Fred: Your new assertion is spot on. Blogging is text, context, and link rich - three things Google (almost) literally eats for breakfast.

Just as blogging increases anyone's visibility in the active community in which they participate, it also increases their visibility in search engines (Google in specific) for people not currently in their community but doing related searches. - Craig

Posted by: Craig Danuloff | Mar 10, 2004 3:13:00 PM

Google AdSense is very, very interesting. First, I'd like to ask how you got around the "no personal sites" page. Not that I am bitter or have even tried to get Google Ads on MY site, but I have done so on several other sites.

I've noticed that most of your keywords seem to be "blog." I don't find that especially compelling, personally. Your topics are so engrossing, such as Venture Capital and Presidential Politics, yet you're getting "blog." Maybe it pays well, but it's not really "on topic." Sure, your site is a blog, but you don't talk about blogs *that* much.

I opened up my first Google AdSense account for personal use for a site I created as a fun little joke site (http://www.signsofdanger.com). It's an archive of iconographic "warning" and "danger" type signs and allows users to submit their own photos (*hint* *hint*). Withing two minutes of placing the code on there, I was receiving ads for purveyors of such signs.

That, my friends, is most impressive.

I'm not certain that anyone is making a lot of money off of clickthroughs on my site in terms of sales, and I know for a fact that the keywords are not terribly expensive, because I'M not making but pennies. However, I find that technology and its immediate "direct hit" undeniably COOL.

Posted by: Scott Partee | Mar 12, 2004 5:53:24 PM

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