The unofficial AdSense Blog is 5 years old today

A part of me can't quite believe it, but 30 May 2010 (today) is the 5th anniversary of this blog. I made the first post on 30 May 2005, shortly before the publication of my book, Make Easy Money with Google: using the AdSense Advertising Program (here for details).
Those first few weeks of posting were pretty lame, I have to admit. at the same time, the blog is actually called Make Easy Money with Google to go along with the title of the book (which was never my title, BTW, the working title of the book was "Google Pot", i.e. "how to make a pot of money with Google", and neither I, nor the marketing folks at Peachpit Press could come up with something really good), but I had to change the name of the blog after Google me that they were going to stop AdSense ads on the site sent because it is their trademark "Google" in the domain name included.
In retrospect, a bad decision. I have just dropped the AdSense ads (which I did recently anyway) because the ads on this site have never amounted to much anyway — an audience of AdSense publishers not just click the ads. Also refined I had a lot of inbound links to the makeeasymoneywithgoogle.com domain, so memwg.com moving to required a lot of careful redirection. I had the chance to come up with a good brand for the blog instead of just the first letter of each word to make a domain name at least.(On the plus side, a 5-letter domain name makes for shorter URLs ...) Yes, I called the blog "The Unofficial AdSense Blog", but the domain name must have associated.
Really, I would have gone with a less spammy sounding domain name from the beginning, but it was of course to the title of the book with the title of the blog. But something shorter and more brandable would have been better.Although I don't know how I would have come up with something that "Google" or "AdSense" not in the domain name record and had the same problem with the delivery of the ad.
Titles and domains aside, I have a lot of pleasure derived from this blog.The exposed me to blog in reality (as opposed to just reading about it) and led me to great conversations with a bunch of interesting people and I hope that I have been able to offer some useful information to my readers over the years. Not quite sure where I take the blog following, but so far it's a great ride!
30 May 2010 | Filed Under AdSense
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