That's SELLING, it's a skill, it takes time and usually talent.
Worse yet for you, it was addressed above. Keep up with the program.
You assholes are amazing!
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Worse yet for you, it was addressed above. Keep up with the program.
lukep your ramblings are painful to read, it reminds me of the ramblings of that Arizona shooter except his catch phrase was "control with grammar" and yours is "first to dare to sign the checks" but I get the same frustrating feeling of reading complete unfounded incoherence. you were wrong, it's ok champ, don't lose your mind over it.
You can't eat while learning a skill or trade. You starve before you learn it. With adsense, you can pick it up today and run with it. Lowest. Possible. Risk.
A government officer, I suppose, was the first to sign checks. Well before my time.
Google was the first to sign checks for people who planned to make a living off (and succeeded at doing so) where they didn't have to learn anything but "Post this ad code here" and get some eyeballs to it. -Many of them already had the eyeballs but didn't have the money because nothing was so easy to monetize with.
UG, I've been really patient with you. But my patience is getting thin. Let me try one last approach that I think will be easier for you to agree with:
Imagine in 2012 Facebook's Open Graph really takes off and people are using their OG ads platform to monetize everything. Suddenly these kids that have millions of 'pages' worth of content each all on facebook and myspace can start drawing an income from them, just for pasting the OG ad code there.
And then imagine that there are so many of these tykes that a whole new generation (AA?) is started where they all instinctively JUST KNOW that they can make money by doing something that takes no skill whatsoever, they just place ads online and they are there doing it already anyway.
They'll feel entitled to make their living online, right? Sure people who want to be a fireman will still fight fires, but those who want to sit at home and do nothing can feel safe knowing that they can do exactly that while the earn an income they feel entitled to.
We're talking about a lot more than 300 adsense farmers now, right? I have no doubt this can happen. None. It very likely will. And if it does, the history books will all start talking about empowering the proletariat as something that was formerly impossible until the internet and specifically Facebook. (In that example.)
But Google started that. It's just some Ad Code and a check book, nothing more substantial than that.
Then you haven't read the 2 or 3 posts above where I gave full credit to the fact that Google is standing on the shoulders of the inventors of the web... My point has been all along that google was only the first to sign the checks for something that couldn't be done before.
It couldn't have done it without them, you got that right.
Meanwhile, don't confuse the both of those with money in my bank account. And lots of it. :thumbsup:
Then stop reading.
I'm no big fan of google, really. They bring as much harm as they do good.
I just thought this was an interesting point that no one noticed before; something that I've realized for years now and has filled up my bank account with ease.
If adsense hadn't come along I wouldn't be on wickedfire today; I never would have learned to affiliate market at all. I'd be stuck in a J.O.B. for sure, with no way up but way too much hard work and likely more education than I have received already.
So I guess I'm steadfastedly arguing this one, tiny little point to give the thanks to google they deserve for that alone; No I won't be installing analytics on any of my hundreds of domains, nor will I ever take anything Mr. Cutts has to take seriously... But I guess I feel that I can at least do this much for them.
Adsense was 1st to pay people easily.
Other things that came before: Hard. Took Skills or talent or years of preservation.
Is this really so damn hard to swallow? Or do you people hate G so much that it bends your logic to not be able to see this???
And getting traffic to your blog so you can collect your adsense monies is not a skill?