Why you see more ads here now.

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After giving this a lot of thought, I decided to opt for running additional ads through WordPress’s WordAds program. Here was my article about why I decided to run ads at all.

My primary intent for this blog is NOT to make money. It’s not as if I can make a living at in anyway right now. I also love doing this so much I’d do it for free forever. Hell, I’d PAY to do this! (Hopefully Comcast doesn’t get its way in this whole Net Neutrality fight and turn the whole Internet the way TV has gone, where you’d have to pay Comcast to be able to access your usual websites. That would suck so hard, especially for those of us who are…financially challenged.)

But my dream is to be able to quit my regular job and blog and write for a living. I made $20 last month ($46.85 total from January – March) by running the one big ad that appears under the first article. (I do not get to choose which ads are run or their placement, but I do have the option to remove anything I think is offensive). Because this blog is growing fairly quickly and I have decided to run additional ads, I should start making more money from this now. It probably won’t be enough to enable me to do this for a living right away, but it’s a step in the right direction.

I must confess I don’t care for the look of the additional ads, which now appear above the title of this blog and along the top of the sidebar (for the small ads) and another large one under the second article. I think it makes the blog look a bit tacky and cluttered. I certainly hope it doesn’t make loading this site slower.

Please let me know if you are having any problems with the addition of the extra ads, or if it’s slowing down loading for you. I’m not sure if anything could be done about that if it is a problem, but I would like your feedback anyway.

Again, I apologize for the cluttered look but after giving this a lot of thought, I decided it was worth it if there’s a possibility I could make a living doing this.

10 thoughts on “Why you see more ads here now.”

  1. Whew, I was worried that either your site or my laptop had gotten a virus. I hope you can make a living from this — or at least enough to not need to share your place with a room mate.

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  2. I run ads on my blogger site, but I won’t on wp, I have thought about it, maybe if I reach 1000 followers I’ll consider it again.

    your site looks good and it’s not cluttered yet, and nope no page loading issues 🙂

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    • I’m glad to hear it. Just out of curiosity, why do you only run ads on Blogger but not WP? Also, do you have a link to your Blogger blog?

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      • the link to my Blogger is in my profile, that gravitar thingy lol , I only run them on Blogger and not WP because I know for sure that Google actually pays Canadians … and bonus… I get the money in US currency , so I actually get a tad more when I cash the cheques lol they send me a cheque for $100 … I actually get $115 when it’s converted to Canadian currency at the bank lol . I don’t know if WP pays Canadians and I don’t want to run ads only to find out WP is making money but I am not lol

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        • I don’t think you have to be a US citizen but I’m not sure. I do know you get paid more if the ads are North American and not international, which seems weird to me. I don’t know if WP considers Canada part of North America or not.
          That’s pretty good $ you’re getting from running ads on blogger though.

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  4. No loading issues on my Kindle Fire HD6 tablet. I did notice that my old Asus netbook loaded a little slower, but that dinosaur only has 1GB of ram. So I think you’re good.

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