This blog now with advertising

9 Responses to “This blog now with advertising”

1. Miles Burke Says:
   July 13th, 2007 at 7:12 pm

   Well done Nick! Maybe when you’re rak­ing in the dol­lar here and there, we’ll go a lunch, and pay the bill thanks to Adsense. :)

2. Gary Barber Says:
   July 13th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

   So now you have gone and done it. Flipped the switch and slid into the semi com­mer­cial zone. It will be inter­est­ing to see how you go.

3. Mr Speaker Says:
   July 13th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

   Cer­tainly a tough choice I reckon. I was con­sid­er­ing the same thing, but decided that for the pit­tance I’d make from google, I’d rather have an ad free space on the inter­net. I remem­ber being amazed as a (rel­at­ive) young­ster when the inter­net emerged from BBSs. If I was a young­ster now, I think advert­ising would have com­pletely put me off com­puters. Per­haps I’d be doing some­thing useful!

4. Sue Waters Says:
   July 13th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

   Go for it Nick.

   Us that use Google Reader to read your posts are not get­ting the ads, so to me it is WIN:WIN. Do we all get to come for lunch?

   Sue

5. Graham Says:
   July 14th, 2007 at 2:11 am

   Mate, the Paris Hilton ads would have come from the word ‘whore’, not from ref­er­ences to Jeremy Keith.

6. Kay Says:
   July 14th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

   It will be inter­est­ing to see how you go. I don’t mind ads as long as they’re not in your face — every­one deserves to make a buck or two — but in my exper­i­ence tech blogs are a dead zone when it comes to AdSense. Geeks just don’t click ads. If you have enough traffic, textlinkads may work for you though, because they don’t rely on people click­ing on them.

7. shopping Says:
   July 15th, 2007 at 2:11 pm

   I think that there is advert­ising every­where on the Inter­net, and while it may be a tough decision as to whether or not to con­sciously include it on your site, I think that many times we have to think about what we would do. I mean, some people may not like the advert­ising links up on the page or they may find them offens­ive; how­ever, you had a site that was pop­u­lar enough to draw advert­isers in. So, my ques­tion is then, why not make money off of them? If I had a page that was pop­u­lar enough that someone would actu­ally want to pay for advert­ising on it, I would totally go ahead and let them. That is just the way I look at things, though. I don’t think you can go any­where without see­ing ads, not even when you pay to go and see a movie, so I say bravo to you for mak­ing some­thing off them.

8. pet portraits Says:
   December 20th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

   I used to think that put­ting ads on blogs is one dirty scheme in the world of online busi­ness. But my mentor said that every­one does it thus it is a valid and def­in­itely a legal scheme of mak­ing money online. As long as ads are put on the right place, they won’t mess up with the post or con­tent of the blog.

9. oil painting from photo Says:
   March 19th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

   I’ve read some­where that WP are now encour­aging their theme-makers to avoid put­ting ads on their themes. What can you say about this?

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