Bohemia Bunny

So long, and thanks for nothing.

August 14th, 2008 by lynnylchan under Blog Life and Comments

I’ve removed the nuffnang sidebar ad from my sidebar.

Reason #1: Even though I’m a Glitterati, I’ve not seen any increase in my earnings. They’ve stagnated at $16.17 for the past few months. I blame this lack of income on the new system that relies on clicks instead of page views. Now, I won’t tell people to go click on my ads, and I’m certainly not going to be stupid and click on them myself. So the ad has to be interesting enough to warrant clicking, which brings me to my 2nd point.

Reason #2: I get uninteresting ads. I don’t want to advertise “Uniquely Singapore” or “Safra” on my blog, but unlike Google’s contextual ads, I don’t have a choice. At least with Google Ads, I’m to blame for the HIV-testing ads, because of the posts about my J-drama. And no one wants to click on these crappy ads, so they’re generating zero income FOR ME while the advertiser gets free eyeballs.

Reason #3: Advertising on my blog not only costs you money, the money has to come straight TO ME. That was why I stuck with PayPerPost for so long, because I saw the money in a month. With nuffnang, I display ads but I don’t see the money. What’s the point?

Reason #4: I started working.

And now for possible rebuttals:

Rebuttal #1: It’s my own fault for putting sidebar ads. Yes, I know other nuffnangers get the cute new Wall-E ad because they’re using the rectangular format. Well, Wordpress doesn’t allow me to do that. And between a blogging platform that I really like, and advertising that doesn’t even earn me that much, which do you think I’m going to choose?

Rebuttal #2: I have very low pageviews, so I get ads that no one’s interested in. Well then, shouldn’t I remove them in order to keep the 20 or so pageviews I get every day? I’d rather be read than make a few cents.

Rebuttal #3: My blog makes money while I sleep, whereas I only earn money as long as I work. True enough, except that my blog doesn’t ACTUALLY make all that much anyway.

So, I hope you enjoy the new and nuffnang-free Bohemia Bunny. The Google Ads stay for the time being, though, just because I like seeing what funny ads they come up with. Oh yeah… now that I’ve removed the nuffnang, maybe I’ll put Advertlets back on. Just because.

Disclaimer: I acknowledge that it’s my own damn fault I’m not making money from my nuffnang ads. So since it’s my own damn fault, shouldn’t I be the one taking steps to rectify it? So I am.

Edit: I added the Advertlets sidebar for all of one minute. It’s very cute and all, but having my face compete for attention with the gorgeousness of Felicia Chin just doesn’t seem like a great idea. So I guess the money I have sitting with Advertlets will just continue sitting there. Oh, and I have an incoming ad from Nuffnang next week (they sent me the email some time back and I forgot about it). Let it not be said that I don’t stand by my opinion. I’ll restore the sidebar ad in time to display the ad, just to see if it actually makes any money. Stay tuned!

Edit 25th August:

Well I made little more than a buck off the Dove ad, and about the same from SAFRA. Altogether my earnings have grown by 3 dollars since I last checked. Whee.

Google Ads is still the best, I’ve earned 3 USD this month alone.

Since I don’t have any incoming ads, I should remove the Nuffnang logo. But actually I’m also a lazy person and the need to add and remove the widget is just a hassle.

So in conclusion: Does Nuffnang make you money? Yes. Is it a lot of money? Well, at my current viewership, no. It’ll be ages before I make enough to cash out and call it a day. Then again, I am the same person who patiently did surveys for 5 years (or more - can’t remember) until I had enough points to cash out, and made myself about 50 USD. I can outlast the system - the company had better still be around to pay me when I qualify!

Edited 28th August: Some dude with the nickname “Uncle Josh” left a comment advising me to switch to Advertlets. Unfortunately some glitch happened when I approved the comment, and it’s mysteriously disappeared. Anyway, Uncle Josh, thanks for your advice, I’ve already tried Advertlets and it doesn’t satisfy my requirements as far as making money goes. However, you might want to praise your staff member Jess Ong, who already responded to my comments on the Titan widget. Good job on promoting your own company, “Uncle” Josh.