Sellout
I’ll be the first to say it… I’m a sellout. If you don’t have a browser that blocks ads then you’ll notice a little text-ad in the upper-right section of the journal, and at the bottom of the gallery photos. I’ve been seeing too many searches coming in from MSN, Yahoo, and Google, for the various Apache/Linux fixes that I’ve posted so I thought it would be a good idea to try and recover some costs for the hardware running this site. I’ll hopefully be able to generate a little revenue stream to repair the old server and have some spare parts in case it goes down again! If faced with another hardware failure like last month, I wouldn’t be able to get this thing running again without some extra cash.
October 19th, 2005 at 8:23 pm
Although I don’t mind the sellout, do you have any say over the ads that show up? Right now it’s:
“Are you clean inside? Death begins with the colon. Why is bowel cleansing so important?”
and:
“Bowel Obstruction. Irritable bowel syndrom is serious. All natural way to get rid of it.”
Needless to say, I won’t click on these particular ads.
-Tim
October 19th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
Heh, and then I found this, which makes it even funnier:
“Google AdSense™ automatically delivers text and image ads that are precisely targeted to your site and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful.”
Ben, what are you trying to tell us?
October 19th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
OH! It’s all those poo stories!! Shae did it!
October 19th, 2005 at 9:51 pm
Hehe. Yeah I noticed that myself. And it is definitely the Poo stories that does it. If you look at a different post all by itself then it should work ok… pretty funny though!