Blog update: New gallery and AdSense
When I was travelling, the optimal solution for showing my photos on the blog was a WordPress plugin, that imported my photo-albums from Facebook – in that way I only had to upload the photos one time, and photo uploading when travelling can be a pain to do. But since I’m staying in Lima and working with the internet, I decided to get a better gallery for the blog.
NextGen Gallery for WordPress
The best thing about WordPress is definitely the easy way to find and install plugins – everything from photo galleries to SEO-plugins can easily be found and implemented in the blog in no time. I had been looking at the NextGen Gallery before, so I decided to give it a try. I’ve uploaded all of my travel photos, and in the next couple of days I will add all the titles and descriptions to the images – hopefully I can get this gallery plugin to work with some decent SEO at the same time.
What I really like about this plugin is the easy administration – it took me no time to create and upload all of my travel photos. I will definitely recommend this plugin if you have a WordPress blog and want to share your photos.
AdSense – commercials on the blog
I have also added some AdSense boxes to the blog. I don’t expect to earn money on this blog, but I have the ads on the blog for two reasons; first of all I want to learn AdSense to know, as it is an very interesting perspective on Internet Marketing and I never really used it before. Second of all it would be nice to cover the costs of hosting this blog.
With AdSense people will only see sponsored links that are actually about the subject I’m writing about – interesting ads that people actually CAN use, and not just random ads for products that have nothing to do with why people are on the site. I remember the time I started working with internet and making websites, where most of the ads on the internet didn’t have anything to do with the websites – it was just companies paying for people seeing their banners. I love the way that Google really changed the way of seeing and using the internet.
It is my hope that the ads are not annoying, thus still visible for the user. Their relevant, in “eye-heightâ€, but its not like a flashy banner in ugly colours, disturbing the websites design.
April 16th, 2009 at 21:47:38
Hey Christian. I hope things go well for you here in Lima. Establishing a business here can be a real pain in the neck, so best of luck to you!
You’re right — the charity should have gotten that number BEFORE I applied for a visa. So I would still be able to go to Scotland when they get such number, but that may be a while and in the meantime, I’ll give London a try. I’ll just have to start from scratch, that is filling out an application, having a phone interview and then going through the visa process again. Alas…
April 19th, 2009 at 13:25:44
Hi Moya.
Yea, it goes well so far, but I am still in planning of actually opening the company.. Still havent decided what to do about my Danish company / tax “problem”. Hopefully I’ll figure it out within 1-2 weeks, and start the process of establishing a Peruvian company.
Hope you get to London then, I really think you will like it there! Havent been there myself so far, but got several friends from London, and everyone speaks so positive about it.
Good luck with the process, remember to keep us updated on your blog.
April 19th, 2009 at 14:10:59
Nice, man. Have you earned anything through AdSense yet? Maybe a dollar or two D:
April 19th, 2009 at 14:23:42
Excactly about a dollar or two haha. But so far it is just on this blog, and my very small SEO / CMS-testing project. I expect to play alot more around with minisites, SEO, adsense and affiliate programs / marketing in the future. Would be nice with the passive income while living in Peru.
(Some day I’ll beat you in AdSense income!)
May 4th, 2009 at 02:25:20
This is good start for you. We can not really expect too much from adsense in a blog, but it will help you pay the hosting costs. making your blog posting hobby like free, but not leaving the oppurtunity of earning more.