Confessions of an AdSense User

Well, I've been a member of the Google AdSense program for a few days now, and I admit, I am getting a tad frustrated that I didn't generate any revenue for the afternoon (yesterday afternoon). That is why I created a Blogger account, so I have an excuse for putting up Google AdSense ads. I imported my latest post from my Xanga blog in hopes that Google would parse through the content to display relevant ads. Well, to my horror, only PSAs have been showing.

So what do I do? I don't know anbody who uses Blogger, let alone generate content for Google to parse for keywords. I spent a big portion of my day, reading up on search engine optimization techniques, after I found some AdSense tutorial (that turned out to be an infomercial-like video) with some guy netting some ridiculous amount of money from one month of AdSense usage.

I looked at some of the techniques, one of which was (after buying the software) to dump all the pre-generated articles onto your webserver, input your AdSense code, and link them all up. I can't believe that works. I do a quick Google search on the titles of some of the articles (which nobody has bother to change) and find hordes of websites hosting the same article. Last time I checked, that was called "spamming".

School is starting up again soon, and I want to make a quick buck during my winter break (don't we all?). But, with no good content, and no readers to read the content that doesn't exist, how do I get visitors to come read some random guy's blog. A blog which is--for the time being--rants at how some random guy can't capitalize on the popular AdSense program.

Well, if you any readers out there have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

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