My almost-ready-to-be-published blog will be ad-free and tracking-free, and generally javascript-free. But I’m not gonna fool myself by thinking that anyone cares.
i guess he’s contrasting blogs that have corporate advertising with blogs that don’t. blogs don’t need to have a revenue stream but some receive donations, which is neither advertising nor subscription.
I get e-mails like that too. I got one from Casper to write a review. I think and I gave them some outrageous number (like $5,000) and never heard back.
Also the post you linked to from that post about e-mail and small business, I’ve got a pretty similar story:
There are services out there now like Sendgrid and Mailgun to at least help small businesses get mail out without it going to spam, or of course MailChip for mailing lists. I should really do a part II to that post at some point.
I run my own mail server and I have seen all the problems described in the post. From a German law perspective, the behaviour shown by Google and Microsoft probably qualifies as illegal under § 4 Nr. 4 UWG (Act against unfair competition, English translation). If anyone reading this runs an e-mail-based business in Germany, you should consider challenging them for the sake of the free e-mail exchange.
I haven’t had ads on my blog in over a decade. I’ve been meaning to remove the Facebook Page/Twitter widgets too when I get around to my redesign, since I’m pretty much giving both companies free information with them.
There’s a lot of implementations that load the widget once the user want to use them. They are pretty common in Germany and pretty much work by having the button “primed” with one click, which loads and activates the JS and the widget.
Well, there are different kinds of blogs. My blog, for example, is just a personal site where I write crap for fun. Other people are Professional Bloggers with ads, sponsors, affiliate links, SEO, social media sharing widgets, paid content, etc. I guess if you can make yourself popular enough you can make a decent living at it but it always seemed like a lot of work to me.
Are there any realistic estimates of how exactly popular one must be to make anything on that kind of stuff?
With typical ad revenue per click, my feeling is that it’s more trouble than it’s worth unless you are really very, very big.
My blog has been more or less actively updated (albeit just with book reviews and monthly photo roundups these last years) since 2004. There have never been any ads on it.
I recently removed the Google Analytics tracker code.
I’ve removed the Disqus integration - I never got comments that were worthwhile.
The blog runs on a $5/mo VPS that provides me with a lot of useful services, so it’s essentially “free”.
That said, while I’d happily declare my blog to be “ad-free”, I do not agree with the statement
That I feel the use of corporate advertising on blogs devalues the medium.
My almost-ready-to-be-published blog will be ad-free and tracking-free, and generally javascript-free. But I’m not gonna fool myself by thinking that anyone cares.
Unlike all those subscriber based blogs that everyone reads and links to?
i guess he’s contrasting blogs that have corporate advertising with blogs that don’t. blogs don’t need to have a revenue stream but some receive donations, which is neither advertising nor subscription.
If I thought that the advertisers who keep trying to buy space on my blog (for link spam mostly) actually read my blog I might consider doing this.
I get e-mails like that too. I got one from Casper to write a review. I think and I gave them some outrageous number (like $5,000) and never heard back.
Also the post you linked to from that post about e-mail and small business, I’ve got a pretty similar story:
https://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-email-unreliable/
There are services out there now like Sendgrid and Mailgun to at least help small businesses get mail out without it going to spam, or of course MailChip for mailing lists. I should really do a part II to that post at some point.
I run my own mail server and I have seen all the problems described in the post. From a German law perspective, the behaviour shown by Google and Microsoft probably qualifies as illegal under § 4 Nr. 4 UWG (Act against unfair competition, English translation). If anyone reading this runs an e-mail-based business in Germany, you should consider challenging them for the sake of the free e-mail exchange.
I haven’t had ads on my blog in over a decade. I’ve been meaning to remove the Facebook Page/Twitter widgets too when I get around to my redesign, since I’m pretty much giving both companies free information with them.
There’s a lot of implementations that load the widget once the user want to use them. They are pretty common in Germany and pretty much work by having the button “primed” with one click, which loads and activates the JS and the widget.
I think thats how most privacy extensions make them work. Disabled until you click them.
I have such buttons that work without Javascript. Just normal links.
You might consider using these or similar social sharing buttons without javascript or tracking.
I wouldn’t think of making a statement my ad-free blog is ad-free, because I never even considered putting ads on my blog.
Do people put ads on their blogs? Even if they’re not on a blogging platform like worpress.org, blogger, medium, etc.?
Well, there are different kinds of blogs. My blog, for example, is just a personal site where I write crap for fun. Other people are Professional Bloggers with ads, sponsors, affiliate links, SEO, social media sharing widgets, paid content, etc. I guess if you can make yourself popular enough you can make a decent living at it but it always seemed like a lot of work to me.
Are there any realistic estimates of how exactly popular one must be to make anything on that kind of stuff? With typical ad revenue per click, my feeling is that it’s more trouble than it’s worth unless you are really very, very big.
My blog has been more or less actively updated (albeit just with book reviews and monthly photo roundups these last years) since 2004. There have never been any ads on it.
I recently removed the Google Analytics tracker code.
I’ve removed the Disqus integration - I never got comments that were worthwhile.
The blog runs on a $5/mo VPS that provides me with a lot of useful services, so it’s essentially “free”.
That said, while I’d happily declare my blog to be “ad-free”, I do not agree with the statement
Also, the logo is pretty damn ugly. Sorry.
Nice. Where should I contact to make a translation? I wanna make a Vietnamese translation for this. Just like the German one.
I’m guessing the contact address at the bottom of the site: info@adfreeblog.org