Comments on: Don’t Be Alarmed!

By: BigT42

BigT42 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:41:32 +0000

I understand the need for ads, but you might want to delineate them more. With the one I’m seeing for this post, it might be possible to confuse what site I’m really on. Perhaps you should add an “advertisement” notation around them.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:44:44 +0000

@mojaam – I’ve seen sites that have full page ads every time you navigate to a new page, ones where you have to scroll down a page before you see content (mass ads at the top), mass inline ads, URL stuff like linksbuck, and more. I’m not a fan of ads either, so I keep it to a minimum.

Blogspot blogs are notorious for mass ads…it’s dreadful

By: mojaam

mojaam — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:15:31 +0000

It’s definitely not that bad. But please do us a favor and don’t ever become like concreteloop.com where I tried my best to keep up with them via Twitter (which they spammed the heck out of that I defollowed), RSS (which they spammed and not allow full postings), and their website where it’s hell to navigate and use because they pretty much implemented every type of ad you can ever imagined. Good luck!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:41:45 +0000

@Ma Jie Mao – it’s not thaaaat bad is it? Compared to other blogs out there I don’t think there’s much at all
@Bakahashi – yes, outside companies or webmasters pay me for ad space. When we need to eventually switch to dedicated servers, I need to have the budget available for $300USD+/month
@mko – thanks for the advice…I now have a better attempt to block regular expressions

By: mko

mko — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:18:57 +0000

A piece of advice;
Don’t put all banners in same folder like http://reallycuteasians.net/ads/*

It makes an easy block.

By: Bakahashi

Bakahashi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:05:38 +0000

Hmm, well I see where you’re coming from. But a lot of people have Adblock Plus these days, how exactly do adverts help you? Do outside companies pay you for having their adverts on your site?

By: Ma Jie Mao

Ma Jie Mao — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:13:54 +0000

Sad to hear if came to this, but I think it always does.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:18:24 +0000

@Bakahashi – I don’t like free image hosting services for several reasons
1. It would take forever to insert photos into posts, we have WordPress tools to make this process quick
2. I don’t think it looks professional to not use your own domain
3. You no longer have hotlink protection
4. I used to have Photobucket pro and they will delete some of your images sometimes

By: Bakahashi

Bakahashi — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:36:16 +0000

Don’t you guys host images on sites like photobucket or something? I mean those sites are made for times like this lol. And, I for one can not see adverts.

By: Mattias

Mattias — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:21:44 +0000

I think this will work Steve! The Visitor count is just going up like a bull run. Congrats!

By: mojaam

mojaam — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:57:21 +0000

I always knew this day will come. Gotta do what you gotta do.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:46:47 +0000

If only image compression technology was better Then dedicated hosting would be cheaper

By: Locutis

Locutis — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:42:32 +0000

The necessary evil of ads… if only dedicated hosting with unlimited bw grew on trees…