Dissing Adense?
Brian Clark, a former attorney, and now a fascinating blogger at www.copyblogger.com, has dropped AdSense from his website, dissing it on the way out: "I gave AdSense a shot around here, and I think it sucks and cheapens my blog. It makes me about $200 a month, but I think you're easily worth more than that (although I'm too lazy to remove it from the archives)"
With all due respect, this reminds me of the famous Winston Churchill line:
W.C. "Would you sleep with me for $2 million?"Famous English Lady "Why certainly, I would."
W.C. "Would you sleep with me for $200?"
Famous English Lady "No, of course not. What sort of woman do you think I am?"
W.C. "Madam, we know what sort of woman you are. We are just negotiating on the price."
So does Brian Clark have a price? (Only kidding.)
Kevin O'Keefe, at LexBlog Blog : Ads on blogs : Dissed again, agrees with Brian Clark and then adds:
"Lawyers who would never post ads on their reception wall run ads on their blogs to pick up twenty bucks a month. Nuts."
How is this different, in principle, from running a blog roll of your clients on your website, Kevin? Wouldn't this also cheapen the reception wall?
Generally, I actually agree with Brian and Kevin's view of AdSense, but for a completely different reason, AdSense may confer a website's authority on any ad which appears. As a result, scummy ads may gain some reputation by appearing on a high authority site.
So why are AdSense, now, running here. Is it because I believe that no reputation can be conferred by bizop.ca?
No, as I has stated on the front page:
Bizop.ca is a law blog about misleading advertising regarding the sale of franchises, business opportunities and network marketing.But the ads that are placed here are done by Google.
Google AdSense will run any ad that it thinks is appropriate based on syntax.
Some of the ads may be for dubious opportunities.
So if you think that an ad is misleading, tell us in the Discussion Forum.
Tell us why the ad is misleading.
Use your own words.
Help with Bizop.ca's mission of providing quality information by analyzing ads.
Help us help others.
Isn't there some irony in using the ad budget of a scammer as a tool against their proliferation?
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