I've been reading articles about "How to get blog hits" and "How to make money off a blog", and the secret seems to be to develop a specific audience and to gear ads toward that audience. They then click on the ads and I earn money. It is not allowed for me just to put a big section in my blog that says, "Click on my ads and I earn money." The content of the ads they send me depends on the content of the articles I write. (As is evidenced by the fact that I once said I was a fountain of knowledge and my blog carried ads for decorative fountains for weeks. Now I've said it again, so you can expect more fountain ads!
Anyway, the idea is to focus on a specific audience and to write articles of interest to that audience, thus attracting ads geared to that audience, which they then click on, thereby earning me money. Groovy. But it does not sound like anywhere near as much fun as writing about whatever happens to pass through my mind at any given moment.
So, I guess on the rare occasions when I'm feeling like I should be productive, I'll gear articles toward my natural audience. And I guess my natural audience is people who have disabilities.
Maybe I can even attract ads for things I want myself and don't know where to get. Some of them are:
1. a wheelchair that fully reclines. It would be great to take naps right in the chair.
2. a wheelchair that climbs stairs. I saw them on TV once, and they were outrageously expensive, but I've not seen them since. Do they exist? Do they really work?
3. a scooter that beeps when it backs up.
4. a scooter or wheelchair with a radio. Yes, one can wear an MP3 device, but that scares me. I find it is good to be able to hear approaching vehicles or pedestrians!
Do you suppose it might be possible to make a scooter or wheelchair with a built-in umbrella or roof?
Which reminds me of a joke. A brunette, a redhead, and a blond are going into the Sahara desert on a trip. A TV reporter interviews them as they leave. He says to the brunette "I see you are taking an umbrella. Why?" The brunette says. "If the sun gets hot, we can stand under the umbrella in the shade."
"OK" the reporter says. Turning to the redhead, he says, "I see you brought bottles of water. Why?"
The redhead answers, "If it gets hot, we can drink the water to refresh ourselves,"
"OK" the reporter says.
Then he turns to the blond. He sees that she has removed the door from a junked car and is holding it. "Goodness" he says. "What do you plan to do with that door?"
"Well," the blond replies. "if it gets real hot, I can roll down the windows!"
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Can I just click around in the links, or can they tell how long that I was there and not count the hit if it were only a few seconds?
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