Blogs and Ads

[Sebastian Cocioba]

Hey everyone,
Im going to finally update my blog and move all science posts to my WordPress blog religiously once a week. Before making any changes I would like to get your opinion on the use of Ads in blogs with DIY content. I had the idea to put small science related Ads in my blog to help fund the lab. I would make all the proceeds go toward lab reagents, and keeping the hosting going. If I get enough of a following I may invest in making it a video blog with lights and cameras and all that pro stuff.

I don't want to offend my potential readership with advertisements so its your call as to whether or not I do it. Ill still post to it, but the extra albeit small income would help. My day job does not exactly pay well. Lab slave salary is always low as many of you already know. Heck, I can even post the books so people can see where the blog revenue is going. Total transparency.

So what say you all? Yes science ads or no ads period.

If ads, know of any decent methods of incorporating ads to blogs using a service or method that does not do evil things?

Thanks in advance for the honest opinions. Im really excited to get this show on the road ads or not!

Sebastian S. Cocioba
CEO & Founder
New York Botanics, LLC
Plant Biotech R&D

[Simon Quellen Field]

Go for it.

Well-targeted ads are content.

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[Cory Tobin]

Ads are fine. Just nothing that moves or makes sound :)

-cory

[Alex]

Normally I hate ads but mostly because people sacrifice content for income. Seeing as you have good intentions for it, I don't think that I would mind small and unobtrusive. (read consistently positioned and not popup/high zindex-based)

Normally, I'd avoid clicking on an ad just due to the fact that it was shoved in my face but, again, being familiar with you, I'd probably even make it a point to click them!

I can't really speak for people who may just happen along it but I wouldn't mind it. Especially if it may further some research!

Alex

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do it.  We're all used to ads these days.  If I might suggest, Project wonderful is really good at letting you make sure ads are well targeted. 

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[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

Surely, add ads... But usually I hate ads that move. Can't focus on reading then.

[Cathal Garvey]

I'd say "don't do ads, use flattr and gittip to get support". But, if
you must use ads, project wonderful have a reputation for being the only
guys not to spy on or screw with you and your visitors.

As for me, I block *all* ads. If I want to find content, I'll seek it
out, or be recommended by a friend. But I'll enthusiastically pledge you
on gittip weekly or flattr, so please do give them some space on the
blog. :)

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[Nathan McCorkle]

Ads would be totally fine, especially if they were for products,
services, or materials that correlated with the blog post. For
instance Amazon.com has an API, so you can tell it to grab product ads
for a list of tags you may have, then add your Amazon referrer ID to
the end of the ad. Amazon.com I guess is more common in the U.S., but
they give referrers a decent few % of the sale price. I'm not sure
what other kind of ads would really be relevant, but sometimes I
really enjoy the strangely relevant google-provided ads that target me
based on my search history or whatever, I really /do/ find new
suppliers and services. I've seen enough ads that it doesn't bother me
too much in general, though moving/shaking stuff or audio/video that
starts streaming on its own would be annoying/distracting.

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[Simon Quellen Field]

As my polyamorous friend says: "Embrace the power of AND".

Meaning, you can have ads and a tip jar on the site.

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