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Sep 02
2005

Glick your Authors

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I just read a comment on The Blog Herald suggesting that Ray Camden's blog had too many ads.  I've included my two cents there and have reproduced it here for the click challenged readers.

Savage Vines: "This site (Ray's site) seem quite interesting but filled to brimming with ADs hehe"

Me: Unlike this page (The Blog Herald)?  Ray's blog is positively empty compared to the number of ads on this page.  I think his Ads are minimal and a small price to pay for his wisdom.  The net makes it all to easy for people to swallow up vast quantities of knowledge without donating a penny in return. 

I mounted a campaign (albeit an under subscribed one) to encourage blog readers to acknowledge the sites they read regularly by clicking one add on the site each time they read something of value.  This way the ad owner pays the author for their good content and the reader still pays nothing but at least is rewarding the author indirectly.  Maybe it would have been more successful if I could coin a phrase like "Glick your author" (Googlead CLICK) but that's just silly :-)

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  1. Just an FYI, Savage Vines had been talking about the Blog Herald, not my blog.

    Posted By Raymond Camden : Posted At 9/2/05 12:03 PM
  2. So I believe. I'll remove my foot from my mouth... now.

    Posted By Adam Howitt : Posted At 9/2/05 12:08 PM
  3. I think google calls it - click fraud. Check out their TOS, you can't ask people to click on ads.

    I'm have not problem with bloggers making more money with adsense (I have it on my blog), but I don't think its a good idea to ask people to click on ads. If publishers don't see any ROI for their ads, they will stop advertising - the less ads, the less you make per click.

    Posted By Pete Freitag : Posted At 9/2/05 12:13 PM
  4. I'm also having not problem typing with english and proofreads.

    Posted By Pete Freitag : Posted At 9/2/05 12:15 PM
  5. Adam - as someone who also serves ads on his blog - I would agree with you. However, I think google takes a dim view of encouraging people to click on ads just to inflate the ad servers revenue.

    Let's put it this way - "If you like an authors wisdom, take a moment and READ the ads, to see if there is anything you MIGHT want to click on." That might be grey enough - at least for a blog post (ha).

    Posted By Mark kruger : Posted At 9/2/05 2:24 PM
  6. Of course Mark, you are absolutely right. Everyone needs SEOBook right?

    Posted By Adam Howitt : Posted At 9/2/05 2:35 PM
  7. Adam i have run into this issue my self. I use Adsence all over the place and it it ill advised to suggest as you have to "Glick". Google will eventually find the poast ans ask you to tak it down or they will close your account. This happened to me and I almost lost my account and the revenue it brings in. (supports my gaming, WoW :) )

    Oh man I have to watch out for misinterpretation of my work. hehe

    - savagevines.com

    Posted By Ian Sheridan : Posted At 9/2/05 4:00 PM
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