Comments on: Advertising Removed From My Site

By: John Laster

John Laster — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:21:46 +0000

Nice move. I hope more people go this way and it shakes up the ad marketplace. It’s all messed up. Too many people lose their shirts with ad campaigns thinkin the Inet is going to make them big bank.

I need to dig a little deeper into your site here I must admit. I’m a techie and get the feeling I could learn a thing or two. Maybe even share a bit of my knowledge too.

Keep it up,
John

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:33:29 +0000

Hi Lorelle, Thanks for your support. One of my other sites we manage the ads ourselves, and that has worked pretty well. I think we got dinged there by Google as well, so now the ads have rel=”nofollow” on them. It’s silly, but that’s the new game. Mike

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:21:18 +0000

I’ve always thought of you as a trend-setter, Mike. So I hope your example sets one for many. In order for ads to work, we must have more control over the ads, and set the standards for what are “quality” ads, as ads do reflect back on the integrity and reputation of our blogs and blog content.

Good for you for speaking out on this.

By: Michael Clark

Michael Clark — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:59:56 +0000

Hi,

For my site, and every site is significantly different, but in the month of October 2007 I made $X using Google AdSense; with Text-Link-Ads, I made three and a half times X, $3.5*X. Considering that was only a handful of ads on the site, (2 on the home page, one on the blog, and I think 8 in old blog posts) that’s a lot of easy money. But after evaluating the impact of those text link ads on my PageRank score, and that I was tacitly endorsing those sites (cigarettes and Russian dating) from my site’s home page, I decided it wasn’t worth it. Some of the other ads weren’t so bad, but I feel a lot better about myself and my site by only linking to things I want to link to. Maybe ads will come back, but that is a long way away. Mike

By: mangoo

mangoo — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:27:33 +0000

What does “very high payout” for Text-Link-Ads mean?

Supposing you earn $X/day with Google Adsense, which you described as a “low payout” system, how much, more or less, would one get with Text-Link-Ads? 1.5*X? 2*X? 3*X? More? Less?