Do I really want Google Ads on my blog?

Jan 12, 2009

Experimenting with Google Ads and these were the first suggestions it put up on my site. I have taken it down for now, pending refinement.

Discussion

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Paul

I see nothing wrong with those ads at all - they all look like perfectly legitimate and respectable businesses to me and by advertising them you will be adding to the revival of prosperity in our flagging economies and in no way aiding in the exploitation of female workers anywhere and the profits of organised crime. It would be ridiculous to suggest anything else!
Matt Eaton

Jump in I say!! Why the hell not?
Your shout at the pub when you get your first cheque from Google....
Ray Chan

lol, how come they are related?!! :D
nstanosheck

You can tweak and bad various ads at adsense.google.com if you find some ads offensive.
thomascrampton

@Nicholas: Thanks, I will check out the tweak. I want to experiment with ad sense to understand it better. I was thinking of only allowing visual ads instead of text ones.
Uln

I am afraid they will distract attention from your writing. Then again, this can be positive, as you won't need to pay too much attention to ortograph or even to content anymore :)
thomascrampton

@Uln: Never thought of that rationale for taking advertising! The ads would have to visually attractive to distract from the writing. I am not convinced ads are a good idea, so may implement them briefly.
Vasco

Thomas, display Google ads only to people coming directly from search engines. I recommend not displaying G AdSense for everybody else.
thomascrampton

I didn't realize that Google ads displayed are related to how the person came to the page. That makes the experience of landing on my blog entirely personalized (and beyond my control). Not sure I like that! Perhaps I should join an ad network if I decide to use advertising.