Comments on: ‘why don’t you use adsense?’ http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/06/07/why-dont-you-use-adsense/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: joel http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/06/07/why-dont-you-use-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-992 joel Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:33:40 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/06/07/why-dont-you-use-adsense/#comment-992 NYTimes.com was just the first site I could think of with an abundance of advertising (in my opinion). There are surely better examples. I appreciate the fact that you'd still read my stuff regardless of ads. The thing to remember is that people make up their mind about the quality of a site within 1/20 of a second. Almost 40 percent of all my readers are brand new visitors. I don't want clutter to scare them away before even giving my content a chance. NYTimes.com was just the first site I could think of with an abundance of advertising (in my opinion). There are surely better examples.

I appreciate the fact that you’d still read my stuff regardless of ads. The thing to remember is that people make up their mind about the quality of a site within 1/20 of a second. Almost 40 percent of all my readers are brand new visitors. I don’t want clutter to scare them away before even giving my content a chance.

]]> By: Steven Kempton http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/06/07/why-dont-you-use-adsense/comment-page-1/#comment-987 Steven Kempton Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:43:17 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/06/07/why-dont-you-use-adsense/#comment-987 Thanks for the insight Joel. I agree on most of that, especially the part on clutter sucking. I like the clean freshness of your blog. But I disagree that Google cares more about it's users than the NY Times. There is a time and place for what you want and I think the NY Times provides a beautiful interface that reflects it's newspaper style (I really like the fonts they have chosen). Where as Google is just for search. But I do subscribe to your point, there certainly are a lot of sites where the advertising gets out of control. When I read a blog I am looking for insight and content. The fresh layout is nice, but if you did have ads I doubt it would stop me from reading your blog. I still watch live Sports despite all the advertising. And fact is that sometimes the advertising is relevant to me and I am interested. Thanks for the insight Joel. I agree on most of that, especially the part on clutter sucking. I like the clean freshness of your blog. But I disagree that Google cares more about it’s users than the NY Times. There is a time and place for what you want and I think the NY Times provides a beautiful interface that reflects it’s newspaper style (I really like the fonts they have chosen). Where as Google is just for search. But I do subscribe to your point, there certainly are a lot of sites where the advertising gets out of control. When I read a blog I am looking for insight and content. The fresh layout is nice, but if you did have ads I doubt it would stop me from reading your blog. I still watch live Sports despite all the advertising. And fact is that sometimes the advertising is relevant to me and I am interested.

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