ChrisHammond.com is now ad free

Friday, August 29, 2008 By Chris Hammond (Updated 9/3/2008)

I don't know why it has taken me this long, but I've finally taken down all the google ads from my personal website at www.chrishammond.com. I had the page all littered up with ads for the past few years. I just ran a report on my google adsense account and it looks like I started running ads on ChrisHammond.com somewhere around 8/23/2004. Since that time I've had 373k page impressions, 2,565 clicks, with earnings near $466. That averages to about 309 impressions a day, 2 clicks per day, a click through rate of .69% and $1.25 CPM. Not a bad overall number, but for 4 years, making $116 a year on ads I don't think it is worth the clutter on the site anymore.

So for now, ChrisHammond.com is Google Adsense free. That doesn't mean I won't have other ads running on the site, I will most likely setup some sort of banner system between all of my websites (102 total domains on my godaddy account now), to cross promote all the various things I work on throughout the year.

What do you think? Are google adsense ads a waste with the numbers generated above?

 

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I do... which is why I dropped Google ads from most of my sites. I prefer commission junction, which gives me more control over what ads show up and a better return.
Posted By: Josef Finsel on Aug 2008
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I think you missed one! Google Ads are still displayed at the bottom.
Posted By: Rich Campbell on Aug 2008
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I actually saw that ad and removed it before seeing your comment, thanks though!
Posted By: Chris Hammond on Aug 2008
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it's so much cleaner now :-)
Posted By: Cuong Dang on Aug 2008

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Chris Hammond

Chris Hammond is a father, husband, leader, software developer, photographer and car guy. Chris focuses on the latest in technology including artificial intelligence (AI) and has spent decades becoming an expert in ASP.NET and DotNetNuke (DNN) development. You will find a variety of posts relating to those topics here on the website. For more information check out the about Chris Hammond page.

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