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Off the plantation
September 28, 2007
I have ceased running AdSense ads on this blog. They were ineffectual and often silly.
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Thanks, nick! But at least you saw first hand how adsense/adwords is gamed, which is useful information.
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at September 29, 2007 12:38 AM
I read this post in my RSS reader accompanied by a Yahoo text ad in the feed. (An ad for Google, appropriately enough.)
Are we to assume you find Yahoo's ads less silly?
Posted by: Michael Moncur at September 30, 2007 12:19 AM
Are we to assume you find Yahoo's ads less silly?
No, you're to assume that I'm close to Yahoo's $100 minimum payment threshold. After I pass it, the ad will go. (If it bugs you, you can just resubscribe using the Feedburner feed above, which I don't believe has an ad.)
Posted by: Nick Carr at September 30, 2007 09:03 AM
Nick, the ads might not work for your site, but I find their advertising relevant and effective on Smallbiztechnology.com
Best regards,
Ramon Ray, Technology Evangelist and Editor, Smallbiztechnology.com
Posted by: rayramon at September 30, 2007 09:31 PM
Just to clarify my previous comment, none of the ads bug me, and in fact I make much of my income from running much more bothersome ads on my sites...
Although I find AdSense has trouble being relevant for all but one of my sites.
Posted by: Michael Moncur at October 3, 2007 08:08 AM
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