A part of me…

Last week I got my first mail from Google. It wasn’t a check but it was close enough – I received my PIN number for the AdSense account which I totally forgot I had (ok, I didn’t forgot about it, I just don’t check it very often).

In case you are not familiar, AdSense is the little (and not so little) ad blocks you see on some most of the websites – even this one   Every time someone clicks on the ads,  the AdSense account owner (in this case yours truly) gets paid for driving a potential customer on somebody elses site. This is the most popular way to monetize a website (unless you are offering a product or service but that’s another story). Anyway as the payments usually are sent by check, Google has to verify your physical address so they send you a mail with a PIN number which you have to enter in your AdSense account. Of course they don’t send it when you create the account (that would be a lot of postcards), but when you reach the minimum threshold of $10.

So basically last week I found out that for the last 3.5 months I had made $13.29 from AdSense (only $2.5 from this blog, the others are from Hubpages). I know this is nothing, but hey, it is not like I have done anything to earn more

P.S. I know you are tempted but please don’t try and help me out by clicking 100 times on the ads when you visit, because this may as well get me banned. Once or twice a week would be enough (just kidding… I think… )