Comments on: No More Google Ads Here

By: cmdweb

cmdweb — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:10:50 +0000

You can filter out certain URLs using the Competitive Ad Filter in your Adsense account pages. This could be a never-ending task though, trying to monitor whose ads have appeared or are appearing every day.
If you’ve lost confidence, you’ve done the right thing taking them off.

By: Jamie Simmerman

Jamie Simmerman — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:58:15 +0000

What an admirable decision. I think it is a terrific show of character for you to pull the advertising, especially when may businesses are hurting for money. Jamie Simmermans last blog post..Update On Lori Hall-Steele

By: SMD

SMD — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:06:05 +0000

That is a shame, but I’m glad to see you taking a stand and ding what you feel is right. I’ve had mixed results with Google on other sites, and you definitely have to do what you think is right. Good show, and I hope you quickly find honest advertisers to take their place!

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:35:08 +0000

I gave up on Google ads a while ago as you couldn't control too much of it. I prefer to go the affiliate since I control what I link to. It's more work than copying and pasting one set of Google Ad code, but it works better and the results have surpassed what I got with Google Ads. Meryl K. Evanss last blog post..How’s the Dash Part of Your Life?

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:16:15 +0000

@ Cadence,

Thank you for stopping by and for offering your support. I’ll miss the money in the short term, but things always have a way of working out.

By: Cadence

Cadence — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:47:36 +0000

I’m one of your new 1000/day – I was referred to this article from Deb Ng’s site. I just wanted to thank you for looking out for your readers – I, for one, will be returning to read more. I think what your doing is good business sense, that it’ll help your maintain and grow your readership over the long haul. But I’m sorry for the ad loss in the present. That bites!

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:12:15 +0000

@ James

For some reason your stuff seems to be ending up in the spam filter. Very unfortunate. Thank you for the response. I’ll send you an email.

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:06:54 +0000

@ Amy

I also use indeed, and I haven’t noticed a problem with scams so far. I would hate to lose my only other advertiser, but I will try to keep a close eye on them. Thanks.

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:05:57 +0000

@ Lillie

A new advertiser would be nice. It is probably time that I started looking at other revenue streams anyway.

By: John Hewitt

John Hewitt — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:05:12 +0000

@ William

It seems you had the exact same problem. I write about avoiding scams, but the ads for those articles are full of scams. That doesn’t make for a very good approach.