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I Removed the Ads from My Web Site

posted at 12:43 pm
on Feb. 27, 2008

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James Sherrett did a great presentation at this year’s Northern Voice, which led to my decision today to remove the ads from my personal blog.

I think that you can’t be a “little bit” commercial.  You can be commercial to some extend (more or less), or non-commercial.  And if you’re non-commercial, you shouldn’t be adding Google Ads to it.  Be pure.  It’ll feel better.

I learned a lot from implementing Google’s AdSense on this site, and I have taken that knowledge and used it on clients’ sites, and I now have a lot of other places I can use to learn more, and so I’m happy to be reverting this blog to its original condition.



 
 

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Thanks for the kind words, Travis. Next year I'll do a presentation on the scourge of side-scrolling blogs.

 

Posted by James  at  12:24 pm on Feb. 27, 2008

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