Google Garbage™ Returns

It’s back!

Time for another experiment in soul-crushing nonsense: a series of posts exclusively determined by Google Trends popularity. This time though, I’ll attempt to monetize them. Yes, I’m breaking my advertising ban, but for experimental purposes only.

For this experiment, I’ll place AdSense ad units within the experimental posts, and we’ll see a bit more about the behavior of the searchers that come through. My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that my click-through ratio will be fairly high, as long as I keep the posts short. Presumably once the visitors realize that the rest of this site is unrelated to their query, they’ll need somewhre else to go. And unless I’ve given them everything they want on the subject, they’ll have two options: click the back button, or click an ad. We’ll see.

Based on the logs from the last experiment, posts about attractive women and/or violent criminals (preferably both, e.g. Amanda Knox) are popular, as are self-improvement topics. I would suggest that a self-improvement program might start with ignoring this kind of garbage, but hey, for the moment, I’m here to satisfy the crowd, not lecture it. Just for the moment.

And so, dear readers, please bear with me until the experiment is through, or my soul is adequately crushed, whichever comes first. Unless of course I start seeing some decent money from this, in which case it’s goodbye forever and see you in hell!