This is old news, but for the first time in 6 or so months I signed into my adsense account. (I wanted to make sure that money that I’ve been owed for a year hasn’t magically reached the payout mark.) I looked around a little bit, and I considered updating the Google Adsense Widget with any changes, and I stumbled upon these new YouTube ad-enabled players.
These may have been around for a year for all I know have been around since October, but I’ve never seen them and they are rather cool looking. For one, they are far more attractive than the default YouTube video box, and they have the ads embedded right into them.
EDIT: One issue with them is that Adblock bocks them, so maybe it wouldn’t be so good for “normal” videos unless they released a version with and without ads.
Blogging for Change…
No, this post isn’t about making a difference; it is about the blogger (specifically myself) and advertising, so be warned that this post will be in a far more conversant style than I usually use. In a perfect world people would throw money at me like confetti for every word that flows like poetry out of my keyboard, unfortunately as those extremely annoying commercials reminded us, we don’t live in perfect and are forced to live in reality.
I would love to be able to make money with this site, but the average blogger has only three basic ways to make money through their efforts–selling ad space, reviews, or just hoping loyal readers will contribute. (Assuming, of course, that the blogger only writes content and doesn’t sell tangible products or services.) However, each of these methods are fundamentally flawed and are just as likely to backfire as create a steady income (income of any sort, not just the quit-your-day-job amounts).
Adsense Creator
This creator makes it painlessly simple for you to adjust your adsense ads. Just select the options you want, and once you are done adjusting the adsense code the creator will update your code and you can move on with life. The creator includes an advanced color picker to make it easy for you to pick just the right color. Originally, I made the following creator for my Wordpress Adsense widget; however, I decided that it was being wasted, and I wanted to see if I could make Wordpress pages behave as real HTML files, so this became a one-day project to get it working.
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