There ads on this blog. Really. You probably do not see it, if you use adblock for firefox or similar solution.
Turn AdBlock off and look at right column. First, there are ads about perl – form Gabor – I wrote about it here. Then a few adsense (from Google). They should match the content of this blog. And then is a link to one particular book I like very much.
And guess what? No one clicks the ads from Google. I see that in my stats. Even though those ads are matched to site content – as you can see. I doubt if anyone clicks the ads from Gabor either (by analogy – beside, I guess, most geeks use adblock and similar solutions – so they do not even see it – and those ads are intended for THEM). If you have clicked and ad here – either from Gabors perl ad server, or google – raise your hand (add a comment).
See also:
- Advertise Perl with Gabor
- Microsoft bots made DDoS on CPAN
- Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP) – binmode, charset
- Utf8 in web perl application (LAMP) – part 2 – Encode
- Nice people I met at YAPC::EU – continued
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4 responses to “Perl ads here”
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Clicked an ad, was in Polish, didn’t understand a word, waste of time. IMO it proves that clicking on ads is counterproductive.
I have no problem clicking them but no one clicks them on my site either.
It’s not just AdBlock. I read the text of your blog (and everything else on ironman) in a feed reader. I suspect many others do as well. I didn’t see the ads (or the colors or fonts you picked out) until I came here to comment.
I wish more bloggers realized that not all of their readers visit their sites with graphical web browsers. The bad news is, we don’t see your ads or that fancy theme you picked out. The good news is, we likely don’t show up in your stats either, so you probably have (a lot?) more readers than you think.
I don’t block ads, they have never bothered me and the company I work for uses adwords anyway. I have clicked on some of the ads from Gabor Szabo’s adserver although not on your blog (probably perl monks). I would comment that perhaps Gabor’s ads might not be clicked on that much because there “seems” to be so few of them e.g., I always seem to get a padre ad (surprise, surprise).