What did I do wrong?
I created a new page, much better than the old, but the new editor I am using does not handle scripting and such well so I plunked in my ad links manually with notepad.
Why are my google ads not appearing?
I’m not familiar with google ads, but if I compare your page to this one, this one has this little line in it:
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
Maybe that’s your problem?
:smack:
Yup, that fixed it, now to fix the formatting…and the incomplete pages…
[hijack]I noticed that the ads appearing on your page are from companies offering PC repair services, including ones who offer remote services. So why are you displaying ads for competitors on your page?[/hijack]
Most of them are more expensive than me, also, if push comes to shove, I would rather get the clickthrough if they don’t use me. Its a pretty high dollar hit, most of those ads are paying .75-$1.08 per click. Given enough traffic to my site, I could almost retire on clicks like that. In addition I know Google is charging them $4-$5 per clickthrough on those. It gives me a little giggle to think I am basically costing them $5 when they are a back button away from a cheaper service.
I’m still working on the page, even as is its 100x better than my last one. I will also be working incorporating afffilliate links for AV software and such on other pages. Sure they might be able to fix it themselves using one of my reccomended applications, but at the same time, they do sign up, and they do pay. My old banner link for mozy.com has yeilded 11 signups in the last month $1 each.
Its freaky how well this is working, I figure by having a deeper multi page site, the extra exposures and different ads on each page can only help.
I am averaging about 1.50/day in ad revenues, between ads on here and customers using my search page which is Google driven and pays me .03-$.10 for clicks on sponsored links.
I figure every time another person ends up running my search page is another $1 or so per month in my pocket. I set their home page to my search page any time I do a clean install of windows for a customer. I am averaging about 60 hits a day on that page.
Domain farming is looking like more and more of a viable form of income. I own several other domains I am working on and figuring that crosslinking will help search rankings on all of them.