How Do You Feel About Adverts ?

Feb 05 2008

Published by Roger at 2:48 pm under Uncategorized

Recently I’ve been considering placing some more adverts on the sidebar of this blog. Most blogs I read have a fair amount of advertising on them.

I have been undecided about this so I thought I’d ask you what you thought. For me the advantage of having some advertising is that I would get some financial return for the work I put into this blog and, hopefully, some readers would find products or services that they would benefit from through the adverts.

However, my purpose in having the blog is not to make money (otherwise it would be filled with adverts !!) - it is to pass on some things I have learned, promote some discussion of personal development themes and for me to be in contact with like-minded people all over the world.

So, if the majority of readers do not want any more adverts, then I won’t put any more adverts on here. Simple as that.

Here’s the poll

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I’d really appreciate your honest answer. If you want to add comments, please do so below. Thanks

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6 Responses to “How Do You Feel About Adverts ?”

# Andrea Hess|Empowered Soulon 05 Feb 2008 at 6:35 pm

Blogging is a lot of work, even though we love it! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with putting advertising on your blog - you deserve some compensation for all your efforts.

I say go for it!

Blessings,
Andrea
# sheilaon 06 Feb 2008 at 12:56 am

I do not see the adverts because I have a subscription with Google Reader, and thus do not see them. Unless, of course, I click to the linke to the site to leave a comment.

I agree with Andrea about the compensation issue. It would act as an additional income stream for you.

If they are personal development adverts, some may find them to be useful.
# Rogeron 07 Feb 2008 at 9:31 pm

Thanks Andrea. I appreciate your support. No one has yet said it would put them off reading the blog which is great

Roger
# Rogeron 07 Feb 2008 at 9:35 pm

Thanks Sheila. I did experiment with putting an advert at the end of a post which would only be seen by people, like yourself, who read the blog via a reader. I wonder how you would feel about that ?

Roger
# sheilaon 07 Feb 2008 at 10:59 pm

I don’t see any problem at all with an advert at the end of the post. If it is at the end, it won’t interrupt my reading of the post. And once I am done reading the post, I can look at the advert and decide if it’s something I am interested in.
# Rogeron 12 Feb 2008 at 8:07 pm

Thanks Sheila. I appreciate your thoughts and feedback on this. I’ve not had anyone say that adverts woulod put them off visiting the blog, so I’d better get on and source some ads !