We want… more moneh!
Was the only request made by Canadian officials in a recent South Park episode. When asked exactly what money they expect to be given and by whom, their answer was “give us some of that Internet moneh!”
The naivete expressed by the Canadians has some truth to it. There is plenty of money to be made on the web, but as we found out painfully almost a decade ago, its not just laying around waiting to be snatched by anyone with a half decent idea and lots of capital.
You could say I’m a veteran on the web. My first website was a silly 3-page website on Geocities I made when I was 6 years old. My user ID was like 136. I’ve been improving my craft ever since. I’ve created several websites as a freelancer, I’ve programmer many interesting things in PHP over the years, starting way back with PHP 3. I later worked as a PHP developer for a major website and was responsible for a very important project.
I’ve made a critical mistake. Not once during my whole run as a web developer have I looked into monetizing my creations. It was always either for someone else, of for fun. Never as an independent profit making project, and now I’m stuck lacking a lot knowledge I should have acquired years ago.
Those of you without ABP installed would have noticed some Google Adsense ads on the right. They’re not there to make me a lot of money. I know they’re not going to. They’re there so I could see what Google Adsense looks like from the content publisher’s side. Its about time I came across that. I’ll be glad if it gets me a penny from this blog, but I want to get familiar with it for some other projects.
Wish me luck!