So what is this "Ads by Google"? Have you noticed this on the left hand column of our blog? It's new within the past week. Well, once again we had a suggestion from someone reading our blog. With the amount of traffic on our blog they suggested we start advertising on our blog to raise money. At first we weren't sure about the idea, but then after the Poker Run, we started thinking of ways that we could give back. It's a wonderful thing to be blessed as much as we have been, but we feel the need to give back. It's a hard feeling to explain, but we both feel this way.
So, we remembered the e-mail we got from that person and I looked into it. I found that it is easy to do, and costs us nothing. The way it works is that we get about $0.25 every time someone clicks on the ad. We don't get anything for people logging onto our blog, only when you click on the ad. The ad is small enough where it won't detract from our blog, but yet it will raise a little money that we will give back to a charity. We have a charity in mind, but we need to do some checking first. We'll let you all know when we decide. So that's it, we decided to try it out and see how it works.
We will monitor the contents of the ads. When I signed up, it indicated that the ads would be tailored to the content of our blog. So the ads should primarily be cancer and health care related. If we start seeing and Viagra or other "enlargement pills" ads, we will pull the plug! Our purpose is to be able to raise money to give back, not to offend our readers.
