My flirtation with evil: pop-up ads

On a couple of my sites I’ve been experimenting with a couple of ad networks.

They’ve quite wrongheadedly classified the sites as adult. There is content about sexuality but no actual sexual content. Google accepted one of the sites for Adsense but showed the alternate ad more often than an Adsense ad. Some of the content probably uses words that Google doesn’t ‘like’ as it were.

So I thought I’d see if another text advertising network would prove more profitable. But the only ads I’m getting are for a couple of adult sites, nothing my readers are apt to care for. The income has been pitiful.

Before moving on to my next experiment I’d like to accumulate the minimum payout.

Hoping to reach that amount is what prompted me to explore the most annoying evil in web advertising: pop-ups.

I won’t try to offer a defense. I’d planned to allow the pop-up ads for two weeks at most. Earn enough to be paid and turn them off.

The site I chose for pop-up ads gets about 25,000 unique visitors a month. The pop-ups brought in only a few cents a night.

Partly perhaps because of the increasing presence of browsers and toolbars that block pop-up ads. Though when I check the site the ad popped up even though I was using Firefox.

Feeling guilty for annoying visitors and not seeing at least a couple of bucks a day I removed the pop-up ad code on the third day.

Ah the shameful power of greed.

Originally posted 2005-05-26 12:55:40. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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