N Ideologics

When I started blogging, I wondered how long it’d be before I was earning billions of dollars. Let me tell you, I’ve still got some way to go.

Since I really started working on monetising the blog, I’ve earned the following:

• $3.74 from infolinks
• $6.47 from Google Adsense contextual ads
• $0.12 from Google Adsense search

That adds up to a whopping $10.33. That means I’ve paid for the domain, but what about everything else? The time I’ve put into this blog is ridiculous, the money I’d be spending on hosting if I wasn’t lucky enough to have a server in the first place would be ridiculous.

I could have worked at Walmart and made that in an hour or two – but there’s something about passive income that is very attractive. Not having to work another day and instead doing what I feel like doing is the ultimate dream that I hope to one day live.

I have placed ads more prominently for those that come to the blog (but they aren’t present in the RSS feed), because I believe I should be paid for providing useful content. But just a few days ago, while browsing connectedinternet.co.uk, I encountered an ad that sits between pages. When I clicked on a page of interest, I was presented with an ad that would delay my reading for several seconds – and sadly, I won’t be reading connectedinternet.co.uk.

This experience leads me to believe that there is a fine compromise to be made with ads. Advertisements aren’t annoying if the content you’re viewing is useful – they might look ugly to someone with OCD, but connectedinternet.co.uk has an awkward mix of content and I find it hard to find the content that is of interest to me. The Google ads and side ads were not a problem, but having an ad interrupt my browsing for several seconds has put me off completely.

Maybe I’ll go back there if there’s something I recall reading there, but I certainly won’t be a regular reader anymore.

The path to financial freedom is a slow steady path where you must be wary of your own greed, and follow morals indefinitely that you must define at the very beginning to sustain a particular readership.

I have recently separated the posts into main categories, one of the categories is Gaming – but it’s empty at the moment. What do I intend to add? Old games that I enjoy, and perhaps some new games too. As I keep blogging, what I want to blog about is becoming more and more clear. When I started I thought I’d need several different domains, but everything I’m writing about has one thing in common – it all relates to computers.

With that said, I think the domain name covers it all pretty well.