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jcieplinski · 1 year ago

Great post. Funny stuff.

One more possibility you may want to consider—not that I'm doing this. But perhaps some of your readers click the ads because they like your blog and want to reward you with some revenue. It doesn't cost them anything, except a couple of clicks on the "Back" button.

webomatica · 1 year ago

No, that can't be true. :)

w.d.watson aka megalar · 1 year ago

It is true in my case. Once I decided I liked your article, I went and found the ads and clicked on them. I do this on every site that has a post I like without fail. Interesting content should be rewarded.

w.d.watson aka megalar · 1 year ago

In addition to that, I'm one of those rare uses that tries to go bookmark it on as many sites as I can. Dugg it, posted to del.icio.us, stumbled, diigo, FriendFeed, and posted it to magnolia. If Twitter was up I'd have sent a tweet about it.

w.d.watson aka megalar · 1 year ago

Damn, being a new Disqus user, I always forget that it has threaded comments. I should have put that under jcieplinski's comment. Bad megalar.

webomatica · 1 year ago

well that's cool, thanks. I guess I shouldn't be so cynical! :)

w.d.watson aka megalar · 1 year ago

Well, I wouldn't go that far. I do it because I'd like to encourage that behavior. I have a blog of my own after all. :D So you can't really call me noble.

Mike · 1 year ago

Ha, that's neat. I went to go look at your ads, and noticed this:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2310/whotheh...

They should really get someone who can speak english to write these ads. :)

webomatica · 1 year ago

You make me curious what's on the other side of that ad, as it may be poorly
spelled as well, and therefore entertaining. But I'll resist clicking.

Ginger Makela · 1 year ago

Good article. This is a major problem for bloggers, especially ones with tech-savvy audiences who are pretty much immune to advertising because it's poorly targeted and not that compelling. I think that's changing, though. And it needs to change so bloggers who have quality content (but maybe not that big of an audience) can make an ok living. And I think bigger brand advertisers are giving up their fear of venturing their media spend on blogs and seeing them for what they are: the place where influential people hang out. And actually, there was a Design Within Reach ad on the top of this blog post: http://skitch.com/ginmak3/prsf/who-the-heck-is-... It appealed to me somewhat and it's not a monkey to punch. So good job to the DWR and their agency for picking this blog to run ads on. Things are going to get better.

odiemaximuss · 3 months ago

Must be nice to even get a click on an ad, I hope those people show up on our website, lol. But really, I never even thought about it like that before Jcieplinski . Good blogs should be rewarded. Consider these ads clicked.