Off the plantation

September 28, 2007

I have ceased running AdSense ads on this blog. They were ineffectual and often silly.

Posted by nick at September 28, 2007 11:34 PM

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Comments

Thanks, nick! But at least you saw first hand how adsense/adwords is gamed, which is useful information.

Posted by: dubdub 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