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I removed Google Adsense and…

February 21st, 2007 Posted in indie life

…my sales increased! I don’t know if just a pure coincidence since is too early, but I decided that the google ads in my main Winterwolves site were too much, so I decided to remove them completely, for the small sum they were giving me wasn’t really worth it.

Well, last week had a great jump of sales ! indeed, all those ads were competitors ads displayed on my site. Like someone having a shop, with banners all over it “hey why you don’t just go look in that big shop xyz instead?”.

Quite stupid now that I think about it… I don’t think I’ll ever put adsense on my main site again! :)

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