Web 2.0.11562 beta

OK so a week or so has passed and I now have a couple dozen sites displaying Thai language adsense. Here’s a screenshot showing what it looks like. It’ll be a while before I can really see any money from these ads, but as they used to say in the financial industry - the trend is my friend!

Todate: average click value is about 5 cents. It started out around 0.06 but then recently appears to be trending toward 0.04. We’ll see, but I didn’t expect to become wealthy overnight by this. The advertiser pool is still very shallow.

Finally - I’ve been waiting for a very long time for this one. Thai language adwords are available for Thai advertisers!

For someone who has dozens of developed Thai websites this means a lot, because there are so few ways to monetize the sites. We’ve put up some beautiful, hand-crafted sites like this one http://นวดแผนไทย.com (thai massage), with absolutely no way to make a penny, just to get it out there.

Don’t get me wrong, the pool of Thai advertisers at this point is as shallow as the Cambodian Prime Minister’s strategy for national development. And even when I get my first click, it’ll likely be a 2 or 3 cent click. That’s OK, this will be replacing nothing, and as such is gonna seem so sweet!