monetisation - end of

So as you will have seen, I no longer have ads on my blog. I felt it was a valid experiment but they are ugly and while clearly I never expected at all to make serious profits the amount of money generated was tiny.* All I really want is readers, and even then only because I am a writer, not because I have something super-important to say, and I think the ads probably detract from people hanging around to read (unless they are really immune to them). I think I also kind of suspect that the ads make the blog look like it's not actually active anymore, which I suppose most blogs aren't.   

So that's that. 

I'll still give money to Save the Bilby. 

*And it did not increase the amount of traffic here. 

monetising

As I have revealed previously I do potter around the back end of this blog a little bit trying to figure out for instance why some posts are exceptionally popular despite having no intrinsic higher quality than others (and continuing to marvel at how many people land here looking for information about the H. R. Pufnstuff theme or Amscol ice cream - in both cases, I can't really give you anything, I'm sorry). I also of course always want to check out where people are coming from, though I'm aware most of them/you aren't people but bots. That's your problem. 

Anyway anytime I'm lurking around at the back, I'm offered the opportunity to 'monetise' my blog, which I take to mean insert advertising into it. To be honest I've never considered this worthwhile really and I'm sure it will get me zero money (if I did make, you know, $2.35 a month, I'd give it to Save the Bilby or something). But it did occur to me that perhaps it would be interesting just to see if it made any difference to where people came from who read the blog, etc. I would consider doing it I guess just for the proverbial shits and giggles provided it was reversible. 

Any readers tried monetising? Any advice?