Good Bye Ads!

The Google Adsense experiment has come to an end.

After roughly 4 months of advertising with Google Ads, I've decided to remove the advertising on the website. The total earnings, $5.79, over this time period frankly don't justify the use of space. I used the Google Adsense as an experiment to see what sort of revenues a small niche blog could earn through regular blogging.

With a readership of roughly 30-50 viewers a day, there is a niche readership but certainly not a website with thousands of random viewers with the number of clicks on advertising rising by sure chance. There aren't really any specific advertisements for the Balkan Music content, so most viewers don't click the advertisements. Ads selected by people (such as me) would be more effective because I would understand this niche better (but I don't plan to add advertisements, too much work)

Also, here are the results of the Amazon Associates Program:

For the entire period of being posted on the website:

5 clicks, $0.00 income

Generally, I think that a website needs more general hits to to really generate revenue based off Adsense revenue. Google Adsense, generally doesn't have specific enough ads for niche websites such as Balkan Music (in English). There isn't a big enough market for Advertiser's to display ads that readers would want to read.

Anyway, it was a fun experiment.

I hope now to utilize graphics to make the Balkan Hour tags more accessible such as a menu bar above or on the side. It will increase the clicks to useful tags such as "Roma" and "Chalga" so people can understand genres better. We shall see.