18/09/04
18A quick note on adverts
You may have noticed something new lurking in the sidebar, and like Ryan, I feel the need to explain myself. I’ve always resisted ads such as google’s, I’m not keen on how they look or the idea of making money from site visitors. The exception to this was when Dooce mentioned eating Leta with barbecue sauce, and her google ads made suggestions of where to get that sauce.
So, I’m experimenting with the iTunes affiliate scheme. The advantages here are:
- You get to choose the advert you display
- They’re suprisingly well designed for a link scheme
- Most importantly, I see it as being a way to promote an artist that I’m excited about. If it does make a few pennies then they’ll go somewhere other my pocket, but I don’t really see that happening.
I hope that’s OK!
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Seth said 1433 days ago:
Ads? What ads?/me disables AdBlock.
Oh, that ad!
/me enables AdBlock.
Chris Vincent said 1433 days ago:
Jon, I would only feel threatened by the ads if your site was built around selling me (and your other readers) to the advertisers. Obviously, that’s not the case; you’re still nonprofit as far as your blog is concerned. :)Geoff Aladro said 1433 days ago:
Interpol is pretty cool. Thank you for the recommendation.Jon Hicks said 1433 days ago:
“you’re still nonprofit as far as your blog is concerned. :”“Thank you for the recommendation.”
Great – thats the reaction I hoped for!
Drew McLellan said 1433 days ago:
Gah. Another one sells out. You should be ashamed of yourself.(hehehe .. nice ad)
Sam said 1433 days ago:
Subtle, well designed and considered, and for a good purpose.No complaints here.
Mark Davis said 1433 days ago:
I don’t mind the ads at all. Especially since I barely ever come to the actual website (NewsFire rules!!!!). Interpol isn’t my cup of tea but I think the little graphic in the sidebar looks pretty cool.Hayo said 1432 days ago:
Like Seth said, it aint that bad with adblock on :-)David said 1432 days ago:
Nothing particular against ads except that I use AdBlock ;). If there should be ads, they should be useable by me. That means google ads and ads to music or movies. Guess you’ve struck gold.Too bad that the ad you use link to a document I do not support here. Which gives me a new tab in Firefox with a ‘itms is not a registered protocol’ and leaves the tab empty. Maybe you’d add some sort of pointer to explain you need iTunes or iPod or whatever the requirements are (since I do not know).
Aidan Dunbar said 1431 days ago:
ads? the only thing that i can see related to what you were talking about is the playlist thingy on the right…or am i looking in completely the wrong place altogether?
Jon Hicks said 1431 days ago:
That’ll be your adblocking software working then!Rod Howard said 1430 days ago:
I like the ad because it is unobtrusive and that you got to pick the artist you were going to endorse. I might have to check into that program myself.Colly said 1430 days ago:
Great to see you flagging up Interpol, Jon (you still enjoying The Specialist?), but the link takes me to a search page asking me if I was actually looking for “Internal”. Is ita US store release only?Jon Hicks said 1430 days ago:
Colly – Yeah, I’m afraid its US only at the moment, but there is supposed to be a UK version in a few months.“Internal” indeed. iTunes MS UK needs a kick up the arse.
Colly said 1430 days ago:
They’re playing here in Nottm on 19th December – we’re making that our company Xmas doo. Anyone else is welcome – but get a ticket!And Jon – at least it wasn’t “Eternal”!
Seth Thomas Rasmussen said 1430 days ago:
Despite Interpol’s large nut-blowing quotient, it is a nice design that sits unobstrusively in your existing design. That’s the way do it if you’re gonna do it at all. Nice work.mbCodeMonkey said 1414 days ago:
‘G’ oogle has a capital ‘g’Please give the team proper credit for delivering the best site ever to grace the web – btw – you’ll note the distinct LACK of ads og G’s homepage
Compare that add count to Yahoo!, MSN or Alta-WhatsItsName and consider the slippery slope you stand before
Jon Hicks said 1414 days ago:
Your point was…?