Frog In North Georgia

Blog advertising can go too far.  Really.  It is annoying to visit what appears to be a personal blog only to discover that not one post on the front page, but three out of four appear to be paid posts.  And there is a banner ad that is unrelated to the content.  And 125×125 ads also completely irrelevant to the theme.

There’s a nice welcome to the splog (spam blog).  You can see that I surfed onto several of them today.

I’m not anti-advertising or anti-commerce. In fact, I really like targeted ads on some of the software sites that I visit.  Some of them save me a separate search for things I need anyway.  So nobody start flaming me about how advertising keeps many websites free to consumers.  I get that.  I do.  And I don’t mind people funding their blogs with relevant ads.  Turn a profit even.  Long live capitalism.

But for the love of all that is good and holy don’t insult me by asking me to refer readers to a splog filled with irrelevant crap.

If your blog is about humor; have humor ads. If you have a personal blog, general ads (but not 60 of them all unrelated).  Clearly, I’m no advertising genius.  It’s just common sense.

Obviously, I don’t make any money with entrecard.  But I do try to approve entrecards that link to sites about humor, cooking, parenting, writing - stuff that gets mentioned on this blog.  In other words, things that if you’re reading here, might be enjoyable to also read somewhere else.  Even things that never come up here, but are nicely done.  Not crap.

Ok, deep breath.  Rant off.

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