So I have the SEO optimisation on this site cranked right up, doing everything right and ranking very high on the search engines for some pretty obscure term.
And I have a big plan with this site, and others that i run to start using my online skills (its the magick of the modern times) to start generating some passive income, just from recording my online nomadic travellings. I have a few goals that a little bit of extra income would help, and a income stream of a few dollars trickling in every day would come in handy.
SO
The Adsense ads on the site serve two purposes. The first is that they give the page another random element, one more thing that I can feedback into image and text searches in order to generate new content for the site. The second is to get a few cents if something pops up there that is of interest. However people don’t really click these all that often.
THEREFORE
At the bottom of some posts, not for the eyes of you people who are here for the stuff about conciousness and reality and philosophy and magick, but just for the casual clicker that gets here from a google search, there will be some posts that have a section at the bottom called “BUY IT TODAY” which will have a link to an affiliate product or something like that.
If it doesn’t concern you, just ignore it, but It is my plan by throwing out hundreds if not thousands of these SEO rich articles inbetween this content, it will actually perform quite well over time by not competing directly against niche targeted sites, but attracting traffic that these sites would normally miss.
It is my hypothesis that it is content that is different from the norm that is out there, that has a high noise ratio combined with SEO targeting that will actually do quite well, and that it is volume that wins out over directed sales copy in the end.