Brian Vaughan

Feeding the Cow

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If you have visited the Mad Cow’s website over the past few days you might have noticed an ad running on his site, from me. Now some of you are probably thinking, “Why is he doing this?, What is the point?, Does it work?”. Well let me answer those questions for you.

1. “Why is he doing this”? — Well that is a great question, I over head the Mad Cow talking on another site, asking for ways that he could increase his AdSense earnings since the dairy ads weren’t all that great. So I thought to myself, I can help him out a little with advertising as well as bring a few visitors to mysite, So I went on over to my AdWords account and set up a site targeted ad and set it to target http://johncow.com.

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2. “What is the point”? — Well this is basically the same question as #1 I just wanted to make it a three question post. But basicly to show some appreciation for what he is doing, he is doing a bang up job. So hopefully it will encourage him to keep up the great work that he is doing.

3. “Does it work”? — Another great question, well the answer is simple.. maybe… Yes it works, Did I get a huge amount of traffic? No I didn’t, I did bring in 25 people that might otherwise not of visited my site. So was it worth it? Yes, yes it was. I killed two birds with one stone, I helped out the Mad Cow, and I got me some new visitors to my site.

All in all, it worked out great for both of us, I even picked up another link in one of his posts Blue Cow Down, so that was another added bonus for me. Here is an image of what the ad looked like on his site, I might in the future re-enable the ad when I have some new better content here, that I think his viewers might enjoy.

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5 Responses to “Feeding the Cow”

1. cooliojones Says:
   July 19th, 2007 at 6:50 am

   So YOU’RE the person who did that ad! I was wondering who did that, but I knew it was a fan. I liked that ad, good job on helping out!

   Some sites are experimenting with a “featured links” section that sells text link ad space. What do you think about that?

2. Brian Says:
   July 19th, 2007 at 11:10 am

   Yes, it was me that put up the add, seems now that JohnBuffalo is doing the same.

   About Featured Links, They are another great way to bring in some money. You will earn the most if you can get people to directly by from you, but that is very hard to do, next best thing is text-link-ads.com

3. Becky @ PreBlogging Says:
   August 9th, 2007 at 9:37 am

   just saw this post now…. I think it’s a great idea. What did you spend for say 10k impressions on the site ?

4. Becky’s Guide To Blogging » Blog Archive » AdWords Fun Says:
   August 14th, 2007 at 6:05 pm

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   August 15th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

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