You may recall from one of my earlier posts (here, if you’d like to refresh your memory) that I was struggling with the balance of having a good looking site and earning revenue from it.
In that post, I decided to go back to embedding AdSense within the post. Well, I’ve had a change of heart. In fact, I’ve gone one step further and have decided to remove AdSense completely from my main blog - FlightSimX - as an experiment.
I’m going to leave it that way for at least 2 weeks and see if people stay on the site any longer and come back more frequently. This might not sound like much of a big deal, but AdSense is my biggest revenue source on the site, so I will be losing out financially, at least in the short term.
What I’m hoping to see is more page views (not necessarily more unique visitors, as the removal of the ads shouldn’t really affect that). Perhaps I’ll also see an increase in ad revenue from the other, more appropriate ads on the site.
I’ll report back as the experiment continues.
