A word from our sponsors
You might notice that I put ads on nemasket.net. You may have noted the irony that a post about casinos, like perhaps this one, might be accompanied by a Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun ad. The selected ads are influenced by the content. Why the ads?
I’m including them to help me defray the cost of running nemasket.net – both the modest monetary cost and the not-so-modest investment in time. Each time someone clicks on an ad, I get a couple of cents. I’m trying to keep them visible but not overwhelming. This will never amount to much money, but will hopefully help a little and inspire me to create better content that will drive more traffic to the site.
So there you have it. The secret is out – I like money.
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People who complain about ads are fools, and especially so because it is trivial to block Javascript ads if your sensibilities are so deeply offended that viewing something that might be of interest to you is simply unbearable.
I like money also and Google has been paying my mortgage and more for many a year now.
Truth be told Tony – your site played a part in opening my eyes to Google ads. The next thing I’ll probably set up is ad-aware site search.
The ads are not in your face, likely related to the content, and easily avoided.
I love blogging and put significant effort into posting regularly and feel no guilt for wanting to generate a couple of bucks for my time and effort.
I do believe that one of your “followers” pointed out on my blog the hypocrisy of your posting that certain business folks in Mboro stood to profit from a casino – folks you never mentioned – yet you have ads for a casino? I guess everyone has a price in their own value system. I just enjoy the irony of the situation.
I also mentioned to you on one occasion the baseball site I have with several others and how we rejected an ad and link for an online gaming site that would have paid our entire costs. To date we have no ads nor do we plan to.
Snow will probably kill our running for a few weeks. I hate the stuff!
What you’re missing I think is that I’m not choosing what ads appear. They are selected automatically based on the page content. It’s not unlike when I read a tech blog or article about Linux and have the page plastered with Microsoft ads.
Anyone who doesn’t like the ads is free to ignore them, block them, or read sites that have no ads.
I know that I’m just enjoying the moment and the irony. You already mentioned this to me last week about how the ad linkage takes place. Now a question on that.
Right after I posted I got an ad for a gaming site on my email account. Is that the result of anything embedded? You and Tony would know this but I just don’t believe in coincidences.
Here is what I got via email. Have never seen one before.
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I’m a classic ad ignorer – even the Super Bowl.
Bogo – I don’t think the email was related to your visit to my site – we don’t even know if a gaming ad came up when you visited. Also, if your visits to web sites with ads triggered emails, you’d be getting them all day every day. But this is how I think it works. Google does indeed track your visit via a cookie. This is used in AdSense and Google Analytics to gather statistics about your traffic to help you get better ad revenue. Simply visiting my site does not earn any money for me – you have to click on an ad. I could imagine that somehow the cookies are considered to show you ads that might appeal to you and thus increase the odds that you’d click on one and ultimately buy something.
At the end of the day though – the ads on nemasket.net are no different than any of the millions of sites that use google ads. At this point I’ll defer to Tony if he wants to chime in on whether or not your visit to my site would trigger a spam email when you didn’t even click on an ad. I’m going with “no”.
Mark
I know when I visit a travel site I’ll start getting email drops from other sites. I have no idea if I have to click on an ad on your site or just a visit would trigger it as I know these things can be sophisticated. This stuff is quite harmless and PC Tools picks up up with scans. The emails are a simple delete. All this stuff is quite common now. Gotta live with it.
I’m sure Tony is familar with some of the tracking cookies.