Excited About AdSense
My big news item here is that last week I started to monetize my Aloe-Vera-and-Handy-Herbs.com site, by adding AdSense ads, and applying for link exchanges with Value Exchange. I’m surprised at the willing responses I’m getting for the latter.
I’ve known for some years about putting Google’s AdSense ads on my web pages, and how it can bring in some quiet income in the background. You can apply for free, follow the instructions for choosing what you want your blocks of ads to look like, and then paste the code into your html for the web page. What happens is that Google’s software can tell in a trice what your keywords are on that web page, and it whips ads related to those keywords into that space whenever anyone visits the page. If your visitors click on the ads, you get paid for the click. How much depends on how valuable that keyword is to their advertisers. Some keywords will trigger very low returns on each click, but others are much sought after, so they will bring you a higher return.
Naturally, I’ve been doing this on all my websites for some years, but my keywords were of low commercial value so it would take many months to reach the $100 level, which is when Google sends you the profit. When you have an SBI site, like my aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com site, and are following the Action Guide, suddenly the value of the keywords is much higher. Instead of waiting from February to September to earn another $100, (as I did this year) I now expect that to happen more monthly! Maybe, after a while - if I work this right and the traffic keeps climbing - I may get $200-300/month!
See me grinning? That’s why I am liking SiteBuildIt! (SBI) better all the time. They really nudge you in the right directions. I can hardly wait to try some of the other suggestions too. (Have you seen the demo videos?).
I’m not satisfied that I’m using my article-writing hour as fully as I want to, but I have been writing some and will share one of them in the Ruthe’s Roses section this week. Let’s see, maybe the one I did at April’s request for her writer’s website. I know I have writers and wanna-be writers reading here. I’m working on some others, but there’s that time crunch.
Hey, aren’t you glad that I’m rather unpredictable with my article topics? You get some variety in your surprises. What’s more, if you send me a hint, I might even take it. 
What kind of articles do you like best?
It is interesting that you should talk about what to say to someone who has lost someone to cancer. I have experienced that twice in my life and I have seen both sides of death from cancer. My mother was in terrible pain when she died and didn’t know anyone around her. My Uncle was at home when he died. We went in to say our goodbyes. He opened his eyes, smiled at us, Closed his eyes, sighed and was gone.I worked for the Cancer Society and they told us not to talk about Cancer with the person unless they want to .So I tend to talk about other things but if the topic does come up then I can truthfully say that I have been there and talk to them about my experienced.