I agree with you, I have grown to hate the advertisements on my blog. It has been a noble experiment. When I started them, I had no idea how much revenue they would produce, and Google makes money on our content, so why shouldn't I get a little slice of that? And I have, a tiny-tiny slice, like less than $100 a year. If you have a super popular blog with a thousand or more followers, and 1,000,000 views a month, you can probably earn that much per month, but for me, it has been a tiny amount of money.
I can remember when $100 was a lot of money. When I was growing up, mom and dad had envelopes for each of the kids to keep their savings in. Despite being the youngest of the four, I was the first one to accumulate $100. Once a tightwad, always a tightwad. My ex and I saw the musical South Pacific, and I acquired a new nickname that night, "Stingy Bastard!"
As much as we all hate the advertising, I have a strange request that will speed up the ads going away.
Please click on the advertising and look at the offerings. You don't have to buy anything, but if you do that might speed things up even more. (The adds pays a tiny amount for every ad placed, quite a bit more for a click, and some of the adds pay a bonus for a purchase.)
Let me explain this strange request. The account account only pays when it has accumulated to a threshold amount, at the current rate I am a couple of months away from reaching the next payout level. The more adds that are clicked on, the more credits to the account. When I reach the next payout level, I will shut off the adds. I am so close, I don't want to walk away from months and months of accumulating credits, but once it reaches the next payout, I can take that final payment and turn off the adds.
Another nail in the coffin for my working career. Letting others earn the profit without going after my tiny share. A little less entrepreneurial spirit of capitalism.
A great relief for all of us at being able to read my content, unencumbered.
I considered it at one-point years ago when they first introduced the offering on making money on blogs but never did for a couple reasons. 1- I'm picky on my blog layout, 2, the ads on blogs have gotten distracting, and 3 and the best point my friend had- People come to read and relax with a good read or some visual eye candy...it's nice to go somewhere where you're not bombarded with yet more ads. So I never did.
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