I’ve been working on my site dedicated to documenting old iranian 45rpms, irannostalgia.com , a minimum of 3 to 4 hours a day since 2002 without receiving any income from it or donations.
Not being rewarded for what you work on, makes it hard to continue. It would be great to be able to live from what you like to do. Trying all sorts of things to at least generate some hope for the site, I tried Google Ads. It generated a few pennies for the site. An amount that is not even enough to pay for the web hosting services that the site needs. But at least, it is a step in the right direction. Even though Google Ads returns pennies that dont cover anything, the idea of getting at least something back is more exciting to me than having one million freeloaders entering the site just to increase my web hosting bills.
It was exciting to cash my first Google check, but the Google Ads that were showing on the site where really boring. Mainly they were phone card ads for calling Tehran and ads for tours of Iran. Basically all the ads had to do with Iran and were really of no interest to my viewers. I mean my viewers are not going to hire a tour operator to get tours of Iran. With Google Ads you cannot choose the Ads that you want to display on your site. It automatically generates the ads. I wanted ads for other type of items that I think my viewrs are more likely to click on. For example, electronic products or female products or home improvement producst. But with Google Ads there was not way. I exchanged emails with them, just to find out that irannostalgia.com was asociated in their database with Iran, even though I live in Spain, and that there is nothing I can do about it. I tried different things and options and tricks and nothing worked out. I still got phonecards to call Tehran ads.
So finally I’ve had it and I’ve decided to remove all farsi ( arabic ) script writing from my site. It will all be in latin script from now on. The word Iran will be Eyeran from now on! And it’s all thanks to your Bay Area friends of Google.
I explain this in these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtW41IqOTU
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