If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been around for a while, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll remember the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth over the whole issue of ads on the blog. Not just anybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blog, mind you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you want to put ads on your blog, more power to you. Nope, I was just angsting about ads on my blog.<\/p>\n
I started toying with the idea<\/a> of ads back in September of last year. Then I got caught up in one of those blogstorms that swirl through the blogosphere every now and then and changed my mind, and I said<\/a> all kinds of lofty, idealistic things like I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to sell our stories.<\/p>\n Apparently, I just hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been offered the right price. Silly me, I should know everything is for sale.<\/p>\n So yes, there are now ads on the blog. The seller approached me out of the blue and simply made me an offer I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t refuse. Aside from the money, I liked the offer because it was simple, straightforward, and completely in my control. The ads are text only, I am free to place them wherever I want, and there is no contract to sign. While I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell you what I earn from them, I will tell you that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a decent amount, not based on click-throughs or page impressions. In fact, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m highly impressed with the company and the respect they showed me.<\/p>\n By contrast, and not to slag anyone in particular, but one of the things that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like about the other offer I was entertaining back in September, from the Blogher ad network, was that they stipulated that the ad must appear \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcabove the fold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Plus, they were honkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 big ads with pictures, and you never knew exactly what you would be advertising.<\/p>\n The thing that bugged me the most about the whole blog ads thing was not even the advertising itself, but the predatorial (is that a word?) way advertisers were taking advantage of bloggers – bloggers who might be selling themselves or their work short. And here I’ m not talking about the Blogher ad network at all, just the pittance that was being offered to most paid bloggers that really didn’t respect the work and effort and heart that goes into a successful blog.<\/p>\n To me, this deal was a fair wage with no ethical strings. (The words and link will never change, and it leads to a well-respected shopping comparison site called bizrate.com.) But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve promised to always be up front, and so I wanted to let you know that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a policy shift and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m now on the advertising gravy train.<\/p>\n After all, someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gotta start saving for Tristan and Simon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been around for a while, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll remember the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth over the whole issue of ads on the blog. Not just anybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blog, mind you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you want to put ads on your blog, more power to you. Nope, I was just angsting about ads on my blog. … Continue reading “A Message from the Department of Commerce”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}bail<\/s> college fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"