An Experiment In Capitalism

Posted on April 14, 2006 by Scott Jennings| 26 Comments

I slapped up a GoogleAd(tm) today. Let’s see how many gold farmer ads I can get!

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  • tazelbain

    *cough* sell out *cough*

    Kidding, but I thought bandwith was dirt cheep these days. Have you had a large growth in traffic?

  • http://www.psychochild.org/ Psychochild

    Enjoy your $2.53! I know I will. When I eventually learn enough for them to actually cut me a check.

    Woot!

  • scottj

    Heh, yeah, it’s more to track traffic than to actually make money.

  • Freakazoid

    Corpnews is doing the same thing now.

    Damnit, why does pop need to copy everything you do?

  • =j

    Why all the hair ads? That is just creepy.

  • http://www.mmodig.com unbeliever

    now i can read broken toys and have sexy curly hair!

  • scottj

    > Damnit, why does pop need to copy everything you do?

    Actually I copied him.

    > now i can read broken toys and have sexy curly hair!

    And I bet you could find erectile dysfunction medicine too! (posts and checks to see what ads show up)

  • Stormwaltz

    I rolled four hair care ads and an invitation to view videos of torture and forced confessions at Guantanamo.

  • http://www.orbisgames.com Nefertete

    omgz so did I!
    on our sites virtualhorseranch.com and virtualpups.com … i thinks they kinda pay crap for click throughs but working on better :)
    Clicked on yours a few times… !

  • http://www.mmodig.com unbeliever

    a broken one?

  • andro

    Condoleezza Rice
    Get celebrity information from the past and present

    I think that’s my favourite. Amusing concoction brought about by a ridiculous advertising model, or telling Swiftian commentary on the state of current affairs, who knows!

  • TPRJones

    Dang, I don’t get anything cool. It just keeps coming up “blog”, “blog”, “blog”, “ringtones”, “blog”. :(

  • jnfr

    Blog

    Teens! Create Blogs, Chat Live, Get Ringtones, Music & more at Varsity

  • http://www.warhammeralliance.com Garthilk

    Honestly,

    I have a website that gets only 500,000 ad impressions a month and barely generate 20 bucks a month with a CTR of 0.1% with Adsense. Your best bet. ESPECIALLY, with the contacts youhave in the game design field would be to sell directly to advertisers.

  • Jurrasic

    Haircare and torture here, too. Tres Creepy what google spiders see in your site, Sir Lum.

  • Woog

    “Need Unique Content?
    300 Royalty-Free Articles, Training Templates, Tutorials and more. $79
    http://www.InsaneContent.com“

    I think they’re trying to tell you something.

  • Nicademus

    I’m amazed that there are Lum readers who don’t use FF with adblock. It’s amazing how much shit is out there when I have to use IE.

    Firefox: Proving that Mac Users don’t have a monopoly on smug condescension.

  • scottj

    By using adblock you deny me my rightful $0.03!

  • http://ambernight.org Amber

    Firefox: Proving that Mac Users don\’e2\’80\’99t have a monopoly on smug condescension.

    Yes, but we had it first.

    :P

  • http://ve3d.ign.com/ Apache

    pretty creepy what ads you are getting n_n

  • Nicademus

    No worries Scott, I disabled Adblock and even clicked on the creepy curly hair ads. So if there is a clickthrough bonus its all yours!

  • Soulflame

    I see no ads. :(

  • http://www.plaguelands.com krones

    lum needs +1 bagel, I click on hair ads! this quest sucks, fuckity lum.

  • tazelbain

    I usually don’t start disabling ads until they start flashing or take up to much of the screem

  • Pharkas
  • scottj

    I yanked them. Sadly I could never figure out how to turn on death/war/chaos and they added a layer of sleaze that $2.50 a day wasn’t enough to wash clean.