Ok It’s Time for the Ads to Go!

My blog has been live on the web for a little over 2 months now and so far I am happy with its progress. Right now the one thing that I regret most in my early blogging experience is my mistake to decide to run adsense advertising within the content of my posts. I have to admit I was after the idea of a little extra cash in the beginning, but I don’t feel the same way now. I really don’t like they way they take away from the look of my blog and the points that I am trying to make with my posts.

I initially started ClarkeW.com to express my thoughts on issues and interests in my own personal life and to be quite honest the small amount of revenue I made was not worth losing potential readers. So going forward I don’t plan on running any more contextual advertising inside my posts and any other advertising I decide to run will be on the sidebar.

I know some bloggers feel different about how they monetize their blogs and I think maybe it is right for some people, but I am just going to concentrate on creating quality content right now. I have several other sites in the works that I planning on implementing monetization techniques on and look forward to getting those going in the coming weeks. How do you feel about running contextual ads on your blog?

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5 comments ↓

#1 Amber on 03.21.07 at 9:33 pm

Yeah, who cares about making money. Let’s see more pictures of Ernie!!

#2 Michael Mather on 03.30.07 at 2:11 pm

I agree with you that the AdSense blocks tend to make the blog less interesting and more like those MadeForAdSense sites which we all avoid.

Making a pitch for a product and supporting it with a good ad in the sidebar is great. But watch out for the new Google ads that are currently in Beta which will appear as links on keywords.

#3 Jerry on 04.18.07 at 7:07 pm

Hey, Clarke:
A moment ago, I saw that you stopped ‘by the shop’ today. Thanks for coming.
On point, Greg and I were talking just yesterday about the balance between ‘quality content’ and monetization. We work hard at it.
Cya ’round. http://www.BlueSkyBrothers.com

#4 ClarkeW on 04.20.07 at 10:28 pm

Hi Jerry,

It looks like you’ve got a great site going over there. I have definitely have decided that there are much better ways at monetization without comprimising the overall look and feel of my blog.

See ya

#5 JerryWFranklin on 04.27.07 at 11:01 pm