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.
ReplyDeleteYou could run a seperate blog of a certain kind of photos.
DeleteI never click on any of the ads but I have given up on some blogs because the ads make them so hard to read.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that the ads are country specific? I get ads for French products.
I gave up on a cooking blog because frequently there would be images of some gross medical condition (and its treatment) plonked right in the middle of the recipe! Who wants to see a picture of hideously fungal toenails while they bake a cake?! Not me!!
I can read a blog without seeing ads by using "reader view" but sometimes not all of the text is displayed and none of the comments.
I'm glad you’re giving them up.
I occasionally gets adds in YouTube in Spanish, no idea why.
DeleteI don’t click on ads. It only becomes more of a nuisance. But I’m glad you’re dropping yours. They can be very annoying.
ReplyDeleteThe adds are even worse on a phone or small tablet.
DeleteI really want you to stop ads as they absolutely spoil your blog. I don't know if you know how intrusive they are. So while I never click on ads, I will do so. Please let us know when you reach the threshold.
ReplyDeleteI will make them go away.
DeleteOh my gosh...I was looking at luggage last night and guess what popped up on your blog? Yep, the Away Carry-On. I will click on the ads to help your cause.
ReplyDeleteYup, that will happen.
DeleteEver since we started the remodel all I get on your blog in the way of ads are kitchen appliances!
ReplyDeleteBig Brother is watching me and I don't like it!!!
Google knows if you have been bad or good,
DeleteAn interesting concept. I've seen plenty of ads on your blog that mirror things I just recently looked up.
ReplyDeleteWhen I click on the page for my hometown newspaper in Michigan, the one I left almost 50 years ago, I get adds for whatever I have been shopping for this week.
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ReplyDeleteSorry David, there were too many expletives in my original comment so I deleted the whole thing.
DeleteI never turned the ads on as I did not want visitors to my humble Yorkshire blog to be distracted by all that marketing skulduggery. There's enough of that annoying bullshit elsewhere. I will be glad when Travel Penguin is freed from the yoke of marketing slavery.
ReplyDeleteYou could have made tens of pounds every year.
DeleteThat is true but at what price? Right now I am having to look at an advert for "Temu" that has popped up at the bottom of your blog and I do not like having to either look at it or get it out of my view.
DeleteI will be glad when your ads are all gone! Thanks, David!
ReplyDeleteWorking on it.
DeleteHow odd. I've never seen the ads.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the browser you are using?
DeleteMy Grandparents never gave us Christmas gifts, they was to many of us, 28 of us born from 1944 until 1965. But each of us got dollar for our birthday. I'm sure it was more spread out.
ReplyDeleteAnd I was known for hanging onto every dollar I could.
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