Blog Monetization Update (2) - Brother Can You Spare A Click?

Since the last update earlier this year, things have happened. Two people each clicked on an advertisement and the blog earned a whopping .27 cents! Woohoo! Um, yeah.

So at the time of the previous update the blog had earned $8.88 from the start of monetization in 2015. The accumulated earnings are now $9.15. This is still far from the $100 dollars needed for an automatic payout. (I could claim it, but why not wait to see how long it takes.)

What this means is not really anything of significance, however, if everyone that reads a post would click an ad (and then presumably clear their cookies to get the bad taste out of their browser), the blog might make enough money through the rest of this year to allow me to buy TWO cups of big chain coffee.

Of course I would love to bring in enough from the blog to help defray the costs of my Dwarven Forge addiction, but that would likely require courting controversy which I am loath to consider.

So PLEASE everyone, click an add when you read an article and hopefully soon I can get the earnings into the double digit dollar range.

The Advertising Question part 2

So far none of the readership has commented on the idea of allowing or keeping clear of advertising on the blog.

Therefore, an experiment will begin soon and run for a number of months to gauge results. I will activate AdSense and see what happens. If it proves useful and not burdensome to readers, I will allow it to continue. If it proves pointless after a good trial run, and/or proves a headache for readers then it will be halted.

Please feel free to chime in at any time.

Quizzing the Readership

Up to this point I have deliberately kept the blog free of advertising (aside from having the Zazzle store which gets almost zero traffic). My thinking on it was to make the site both less bothersome and easier to load. These days load times are pretty insignificant so the real question for the readers is would you be bothered if I activated AdSense and allowed advertising on this blog?

Please post your thoughts in the comments to this post. I will not be making the jump immediately, preferring to wait and bring this up again in a week or so to give readers time to discuss the idea.