Adsense: Cents or No Sense?

Do you use Adsense on your blog? If so, are you all warm and fuzzy about Google Adsense? Is it worth the time and the aggravation?

One project I completed earlier this year featured optimizing the placement of Google Adsense code. Many blogs, including several that I control, use Google Adsense to help monetize their operation. Do you use Adsense on your blog? If so, are you all warm and fuzzy about Google Adsense? Is it worth the time and the aggravation?

There seems to be a love/hate relationship with Adsense. Some site owners swear by it, while others find the limitations imposed by Google to be difficult to deal with. Another camp feels that Adsense ads ruin a blog and cheapen it in the process.


Five Blogs That I Read

Following the lead of Darren Rowse over at CopyBlogger, here is the list of the top five blogs that I read.

I guess it’s safe to say that each of these blogs is in the niche that I place my own blog in: Accessible Website Design. In reality, several of them probably have more to do with website content or blogging advice, but for the sake of this article let’s lump them all together, OK?


Personal Finance Blogs

These financial sites all get terrific visibility and great page views. I never would have guessed that this niche market would be so popular.

People love to listen to others talk about how to make a fortune and save money. But guess what? They also like to listen to people talk about their serious financial distress and what steps they are taking to get out of debt.

Within the past two months, I have had the good fortune to work on several blog themes that fit one or the other of these classifications. The projects have all been fun to work on and the blog adminstrators have all been interesting people with backgrounds that make each of them quite expert in the field they have chosen to write about.