---
title: "Selling my soul to AdSense"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/17/selling-my-soul-to-adsense.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/7/17/selling-my-soul-to-adsense.html"
published: "2005-07-17T00:28:00"
updated: "2005-07-17T00:28:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I'm doing an AdSense experiment on my blog page on the the interview page at Team Agile . We'll see what happens, and if the ads are \"good enough\" and not too annoying. Let me know what you think! I wonder if putting…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Selling my soul to AdSense

By Roy Osherove July 17, 2005 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 17, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

I'm doing an [AdSense](http://www.google.com/adsense) experiment on my blog page on the the [interview page at Team Agile](http://www.teamagile.com/mainpages/Interviews.html). We'll see what happens, and if the ads are "good enough" and not too annoying. Let me know what you think!

I wonder if putting AdSense in blog posts is a good idea or not. Currently, I'm not liking it that much. We'll see if my greediness outshines my morality (which is [exactly what my wife is studying these days](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2005/07/17/419677.aspx)..)

BTW - [this is a nice overview](http://www.problogger.net/archives/2004/09/23/adsense-tips-for-bloggers-1/) on maximizing profits using AdSense, at least on the strategy level.

Found it via [Scoble](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/07/16.html#a10653)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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