One of the reasons I started this blog was so that I could experiment with a number of things including Google AdSense.  The way AdSense selects ads is by crawling your site on a regular basis and trying to determine keywords to match up with the ads.  I've been pretty impressed with the relevance of the ads placed so far as they have generally related to programming jobs, custom control vendors and web hosting.

As you probably noticed my previous post on finding the value in test driven web development was written with a little more, erhem, passion than normal.  I was particularly amused the first time I went back to the post to check the comment that had been left by one of my colleagues:

I'm not sure if it was total coincidence or not but it certainly looks like Google AdSense is doing it's job because the first ad, in prime position at the top left of the page, was this:

Oh dear.

Labels: AdSense, Blogging

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