Where’s the Ads?

January 13, 2008

You might have noticed that this blog looks a little different than most. When first setting it up, I contemplated whether or not to allow Adsense ads on my site. I could earn a few dollars here and there, and it would help support the cost of hosting, etc.

If you don’t know about Adsense, what happens is Google reads the content of a website and then spits out ads it thinks readers might find useful based upon the content it finds on the page. People click on the ads and for each click the website owner earns a few pennies.

In the end I decided to have an Adsense-less blog. Why? Because I don’t want to send mixed messages to my readers like so many other blogs and websites do. For instance, I could be writing about how to select the perfect puppy, and some ad for a backyard breeder I don’t know anything about or some corporate pet store could pop up. I don’t want to support those kinds of websites even though I might make a few cents from people clicking on them.

I know of one veterinarian who writes about the pitfalls of commercial pet food, flea products, and prescription medications on his website. He believes they’re all evil and giving our pets cancer. This may or may not be the case. Either way, he has ads splattered all over his website for online pet pharmacies and pet food. It just doesn’t make sense to me!

So–you won’t find any Google ads here. That way I can write about whatever I want and I won’t have to worry about sending you off in the wrong direction .

               

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