As this years edition of Celebrity Big Brother gets into full swing, it reminds me of this time last year when I began finally began to get involved with Google Adsense.
I’d read big things about the campaign but hadn’t ever taken the plunge.

Seeing an auction of a website for non celebrity Chantelle Houghton sell for £450 on Ebay made my mind up to create my own Chantelle website.  By this time I’d missed the boat on acquiring a decent Chantelle Houghton domain, so I picked one up which included the name of the fictional pop group Kandy Floss (hoping there would be a forthcoming single).
This website experiment was a great learning curve in Search Engine Optimisation techniques and advertisement placing and blending.

I also experimented with Myspace.com to attract visitors to the website; Myspace.com was very successful at doing that.
The website was sold later in the year.

At the same time I created websites for fellow contestants Preston and Traci Bingham.

These websites contained features which I still use for content based websites.  A clean, simple layout. An informative opening paragraph containing the targeted key words and a news feed to generate new, auto updating content.