Of Google Adsense and Firefox Extensions

Submitted by Patrick Grote on Mon, 04/18/2005 - 2:40pm.

Google Adsense is a way for web publishers to make some money off their sites. You paste a little code into your HTML and Google servers up context sensitive ads. If a visitor clicks on one of your ads you make a little money. There are people who claim to make tens of thousands of dollars a month with it, but most people just pick up money for hosting.

When you sign up for Google Adsense you quickly find yourself with GAD disease. Google Adsense Disorder. It's like ADD, but it's different in that you constantly find yourself reloading the Google Adsense page to see how many more cents you made.

We all know Firefox is a great browser because of the extension community. Extensions are written to do just about anything. Yesterday an extension was released that keeps tabs on your Google Adsense for you! No more reloading the page!

The Adsense extension was written by Mincus and sits in your status bar like so:

 

There are more options you can set in the extension to show you all the information:

 

 

 

This is wonderful extension for those who had GAD and need to recover. From what I understand Google will be coming out with a 12 step program soon on GAD disease.


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