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Giving up on John Chow and Advertising

By AndrewBoyd • Sep 16th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tips

I’ve given up on John Chow. He’s been a source of entertainment and education to me since I started blogging seriously in April this year, but I am over it. Meg’s megarant got me thinking and I’ve decided to stop reading John’s blog. It’s been coming for a while - his RSS feed is now so full of advertising that it often takes up more space than the post content itself. I’ve looked at where I’m going as a blogger and I’ve decided that John’s way is not my way - basically, the ads cheese me off the same way that they do Meg and I won’t subject my readers to something that annoys them (and me).

Coincidentally, I’ve given up on AdSense and Amazon book ads in the sidebar and in the footer of each individual post both here and over at Facibus On Blogging - I don’t really need the money and they weren’t making me any anyhow. I’ll get to removing them from my other blogs as time allows.

As discussed in Want more traffic? I have added a BlogRush widget - this is link sharing rather than advertising per se. If BlogRush introduce advertising in amongst the link sharing then I’ll have to reconsider.

AndrewBoyd is a consultant by day and blogger by night. He loves good food, good wine, and discussing faceted classification schemes with friends.
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7 Responses »

  1. Webworm (1 comments.) on September 17th, 2007 at 8:14 pm:

    I am having similar kind of feeling on John Chow blog…

    Any specific reason on Adsense ???

  2. AndrewBoyd on September 17th, 2007 at 8:32 pm:

    Hi Webworm,

    thank you for your comment.

    I gave up on AdSense because it was, well, inelegant. It got in the way of the words - without making me a cent. I don’t have any philosophical objection to advertising per se - so long as it works.

    Cheers, Andrew

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