Re: Google and Amazon Ads

**"bbmackey" b*@prodigy.net**

Dear Betty,
> 
>>  Oh, there are Google and Amazon ads on my informative 
>> website, too. 

Now, that is an intriguing statement.  Are you saying that you get paid for 
ads on your website? Am I missing something here?  
> 
Lina Burton

------------------------ reply ---------

Lina, the line you quote is from my paragraph (in the Imagekind post a few days back) about my imaginary future in which my garage is no longer filled with boxes of unsold books like it is now -- small batches are printed on demand instead. 

I am seriously working toward having passive (for me) internet activities that pay me. Having paying ads on an informational website is something that is possible in the here and now. Yes, you can allow Amazon.com and Google (and probably others) to place ads on your site without losing control of your content. The advertisers provide you with ads by way of  bits of code to paste into your website pages.

Doug Green is doing this very successfully on his website and blog. Here are links:

http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/annual-flowers.html is just one of many of his informative pages with a google ad worked in.

http://doug-greens-gardening.blogspot.com/  Blogs can have ads, too.

 If anyone clicks on the ads, very low commissions (with Google, pennies per click) are paid. But with enough reader clicks it adds up to something.

I am starting to do this on my website. I developed easy ways to make garden troughs with hypertufa and a variant of it called papercrete. This info used to be the handout for one of my talks but I got so many requests for copies that I posted it online. Notice how I put my book and cd ads at the end of the instruction sheet.  http://mackeybooks.com/make_a_trough.html

This page gets many hits because people are searching for the information. A few people also click on the google ad at the bottom of the page. Just last weekend I added an Amazon.com ad to the page, too. 

Many sites that offer book reviews have such links built in, sometimes inconspicuously. If you click a writeup about an interesting book and suddenly you find yourself in Amazon.com, that is how it happened. Some people are making real money with these things but when they put too much of it on the sites it gets annoying and drives people away.

For more information on utilizing google ads, go to www.google.com and click the link to "advertising programs."
For more information on Amazon ads, go to the bottom of any www.amazon.com  page and click on a link at the bottom of the page that says "Join Associates."

With best wishes,
Betty

Betty Mackey, Publisher
B. B. Mackey Books
P. O. Box 475
Wayne, PA 19087
bbmackey@prodigy.net
www.mackeybooks.com

 http://bettymackey.imagekind.com/gardenworld
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