You’re a Google Ad!

Have you ever noticed Google Ads? I’m sure you have. And I’m sure that you have noticed them on any and every website. No matter what you’re doing, we all encounter Google Ads every single day. I have been able to practically filter out even seeing them while I browse the web. Seriously. They do not even register to me. I’m sure advertisers love people like me.

Now, a lot of people (ie. most people) would use Google Ads to make money. Take a look at your highly trafficked websites or blogs (insert your own definition of a highly trafficked website or blog) and odds are, they have ads on them. And odds are, they are served up from Google. They may not look like your generic Google Text Link Ads, but trust me, they probably are. There are only a few big players in the game, and Google corners the market. If you get a ton of traffic on your site, you can make some serious cash. There are some ads where you only get paid when people click on them, but then others pay when they are simply presented on a page. I mean, how do you think Pioneer Woman operates? When you have over 10,000 people seeing your site a day, sometimes multiple times a day, and you have deals where you get paid just for page views, even if you are only making a penny a page view, add it up. Not bad for doing not much, huh?

Well, here at The Untitled Title Page, we do things differently. We’re odd folks. Did you know that we serve ads on this site? We do. They don’t appear on the main page (I intentionally restrict where they show up), but if you drill down to an individual post, you will find them. But why Adrian? Why do you have them? It really boils down to one simple reason. For fun. Have you ever looked at your gmail and see a RIDICULOUS ad being served when you are checking your mail? Of course you have! Have you ever seen something that was TOTALLY applicable to what you were just doing, or searching? Yep. And why is that? It’s a little thing called “what you do really isn’t a secret on the internet.” Google knows. Why do you think they make so much money? Because you search, they track that. You browse, they track that. They have DATA. And with that data, they can tell what people will do, where they will go, what they are likely to have interests in. That’s why they can target advertisements so well and according to the people who pay them to do it, so effectively.

So really, I want to see what ad Google will place on our site in relation to the blog post content it’s being served within. And usually it’s pretty applicable.

Fantasy Baseball Help when talking about Fantasy Baseball? DUH!

Unusual Baby Names in a post talking about how we named Morgan? Absolutely.

Sanitizing your toothbrush in a post about cleaning dishes? Okay.

Free Sex Offender Report when discussing people invading your personal space to touch your newborn baby? Um…no?

How to cure your yellow teeth in Emily’s roasted veggie pasta recipe post?

I rest my case.

So have fun. Play the game too if you want. I just like seeing what they come up with. I might add it to more places on the site, just for more laughs for me personally.