Update on Ad Network

Thank you, dear readers, for your help identifying what ad you were seeing with the ad network I was testing out. After testing for one week, I have decided not to continue using it for several reasons:

• Despite blocking certain categories and certain brands, ads that I didn't want to have displayed on my site continued to appear and there wasn't an adequate way to resolve that.


• After displaying the ad for one week (resulting in it being seen 11,700 times), my earnings total $1.78, which is not worth having you see any ad as far as I'm concerned.


• It doesn't appear to show on all devices (e.g. never showed on Android and possibly slow to load on some others).

So, back to exclusively selling my own ads. If you are interested in advertising, check out my information here.

Also, it has been a busy and exhausting couple of weeks, but I hope to be writing more again soon. I'm always open to topic ideas (although I can't guarantee that I'll write about them -- I need to be inspired for my fingers to do their magic).

Thank you again for your input.

Comments

[Natalie B.]

I appreciate the thought you've put into this. I think that your hand-selected ads fit your target audience. I know that I've clicked on more than one of them. It always feels icky when a site I like takes ad money from companies that I don't like. I've stopped going to more than one website as a result of this. It's important to me that my clicks don't support a system that I don't agree with. I'm sure my mini-boycotts have zero effect, but they make me feel better. I don't like the way most internet advertising works. Currently I'm being stalked by ads for a men's clothing company named after a great ape, in all likelihood because I did an internet search on the actual animal for my kids, and then clicked on the link to the company in the search results. It's creepy.