Google AdSense is a branch of Google that pays people to display ads on their website. Google will search your website and display ads on your site that are relevant to the content. The ads come from another Google branch called AdWords. This seems to be a win-win situation. Let's say I own a company that sells hockey equipment. I want to advertise to people who are interested in hockey and ideally, play hockey and therefore need equipment. Google searches sights that have signed up with AdSense and if they have hockey related content my ad gets placed on that sight.
This sounded like easy, if little, money to me. I'm not sure how much AdSense pays but I think it's something like a penny a click. At the torrid pace people visit this blog I would have enough to buy a small coffee at Tim Hortons in 2015.
Once I signed up the first ad they put on my blog was something about funds for the Gulf war. What an excellent match of content with advertisement. There's nothing about Gulf, Guelph, golf or war on the blog. It all turns out to be a moot point anyway because today I received an e-mail from AdSense saying they rejected my application due to "inappropriate language". That seemed a little jingoistic. I only know one language and they didn't even tell me what the appropriate language was. Later I realized they weren't being biased against English but the inappropriate language was swearing. How fucking stupid. This is the gathering place for foul language. The internet is where swear words go to hang out and smoke, probably. It's a shame though; I really could have used that extra four cents a month.
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