As tempting as the idea is, I refuse to be paid to blog. My site is not a tool for anyone - least of all me - to make money; it serves as a creative outlet for me so that I can show off my super-1337 intarwebz sk1llz1!11 because I'm geeky and I simply must have an internet presence.
Do you see any advertising on this site (other than a couple of links to similar sites, but they are all non-profit and generally agree with me on this standpoint)? No. There will never be advertising on this site, and especially not spam disguised as a blog entry. I am not going to lie through my teeth and bore all 2 of my visitors to death by talking about how great it is now that my [begin obligatory link] mortgage debts [/end obligatory link] have been cleared by some scammy company or how I really should be [link!1!1] losing weight [/link] by taking some dodgy pill just to get $5 out of it. I could work a real job (*gasp!* Those actually still exist!1!) and get that in under an hour.
Want to lose all your visitors? Go ahead, sell your site. And your soul. To me, you just look greedy and like you can't be bothered to go out and get a real job.
Martijn
5/11/2006 at 16:15
Very true. There are better ways of generating income. For example: properly placed amazon referal links, etc.
That said I'd prefer a clean google-ad over fake blog entries any day. ;)
Katje
5/11/2006 at 18:43
I applaude you and agree full heartedly. Google ads don't really bother me, heck I've considered placing them on my site, but we pay so much to get away from ads on our sites why should we put ads on sites we paided for to get away from them?
Corinne
5/11/2006 at 22:28
I'm not against ads in blogs, obviously, but I am against every 3rd word being an advertisement.
If you want to generate income, ok, but it's ridiculous to advertise your advertisements.
Jaide
6/11/2006 at 17:50
I agree totally. I always thought blogging was for pleasure and not for money. I find it really irritating when people loose the will to write really good blog entries for all their meaningless advertisements.