I got this idea in my head that I could make money from my website… turn my blog into a million dollars. Just build it and they will come. Free money just for tucking ads in your pages.
Sad reality: you probably did not know that any ads exist on this page. But they do. My first ads were placed on my site in 2001, and they were for Amazon.com. I figured that as long as I was going to mention some of a small handful of art books I would actually recommend, I may as well get a referral commission from someone selling the books. Amazon.
Between 2001 and 2007 I made $1. Yep, that’s one dollar. And it should further be noted that it is 1 US Dollar, which has gone down in value over that same time period.
Also, in that same time period, Amazon determined that there was no existing live on my Mars, so they took away the dollar.
If you click on the thumbnail above you’ll be treated to my private information regarding the financial exchange between Amazon and myself, and will not that Amazon is a giver.
Amazon Gives Back.
To the State.
December 30, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I have not made any cash from them either yet. It is a pity they don’t at least give you something for page impressions like Adsense does.