{"id":1137,"date":"2007-07-18T04:24:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T12:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2007-10-20T07:16:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T15:16:56","slug":"web-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/web-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been playing with different ad sites and applying them to my different websites.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t noticed, on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/\">main blog<\/a>, I&#8217;ve decided not to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adbrite.com\/\">AdBrite<\/a> anymore, which for some reason dropped a lot in ad revenue over the past months. I switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.text-link-ads.com\/\">Text Link Ads<\/a>, which was advertised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnscoop.com\/\">dnScoop<\/a> and so far, I&#8217;ve made $19.07 in the past month, which I&#8217;m happy about.<\/p>\n<p>They even have their own WordPress plugin. They sell ads for both the overall site and individual blog posts. I currently have 3 blog posts with ads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=308\">Final Fantasy VII &#8211; Dirge of Cerberus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1022\">Naruto Shippuuden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1038\">Stanman\u2019s Birthday<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At first I had no idea that the plugin actually wrote an extra paragraph on the bottom, followed by <em>Related Link<\/em>, so I had actually hacked the plugin to add additional entries to the top ad block.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been experimenting with different colors and styles to make the ads not look as ugly. I have to say, the default ad block was rather ugly (if you recall seeing it for the past few weeks). I&#8217;ve updated it to a new background color and I think the top and bottom borders actually make it look decent.<\/p>\n<p>Of course if you&#8217;re registered on this site, you won&#8217;t be seeing the ads.<\/p>\n<p>However, Text Link Ads is picky with which sites they use. They only allow ads on certain sites that reach a minimum audience and apparently all my other sites are too new or don&#8217;t have enough viewers yet to join the Text Link Ads program. So for those, I&#8217;ve stuck with AdBrite for now.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve been having a lot of problems with AdBrite recently with it posting semi-adult ads on my sites. For Ad content, the default is &#8220;Only clean, family-friendly ads&#8221; and I&#8217;ve double checked that&#8217;s the selection I have for all my ad zones. They have this option &#8220;Also include edgier ads (but still no adult ads)&#8221;, which I&#8217;ve never selected.<\/p>\n<p>I disabled the auto-approval of network ads and these <em>edgier<\/em> ads stopped appear, since I assume they&#8217;re only showing the ads I&#8217;ve approved. I contacted AdBrite support and inquire about this and they said this should not have been the case and asked for screenshots so they can investigate the problem. I re-enabled the auto-approval of network ads and 30 minutes, these semi-adult ads started popping up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/v\/Misc\/adbrite_adult_ad_1.png.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/d\/14127-6\/adbrite_adult_ad_1.png\" alt=\"adbrite adult ad\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/v\/Misc\/adbrite_adult_ad_2.png.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/d\/14130-6\/adbrite_adult_ad_2.png\" alt=\"adbrite adult ad\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/v\/Misc\/adbrite_adult_ad_3.png.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/d\/14133-6\/adbrite_adult_ad_3.png\" alt=\"adbrite adult ad\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/v\/Misc\/adbrite_adult_ad_4.png.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/d\/14136-6\/adbrite_adult_ad_4.png\" alt=\"adbrite adult ad\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I immediately took some screenshots and disabled the auto-approval of network ads again. I&#8217;ve sent them the screenshots. We&#8217;ll see what their response is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been playing with different ad sites and applying them to my different websites. If you haven&#8217;t noticed, on my main blog, I&#8217;ve decided not to use AdBrite anymore, which for some reason dropped a lot in ad revenue over the past months. I switched to Text Link Ads, which was advertised by dnScoop &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/web-ads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Web Ads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}