Google ad madness
Wow. Can you identify the actual content on this blog entry? I count plenty of ads, but it took me a minutes to see the short bit of original content there. No slight intended to the particular author there, since it's something I'm seeing more and more. But, man. Last time I had Google ads on my site, I thought the rules were just one ad block per page. Yeesh.
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Looks just fine, because I use Adblock to keep Google ads out of my Firefox (it can block js scripts by URL).
That's just terrible. Who would read that? I'd want to have a very compelling reason to stick around on a site like that. That density of ads is just plain rude. I've noticed a similar overload on the Rumbling Edge, the Thunderbird bugs blog. On my setup the content of any page on that blog is pushed under the fold by the ads.
Looks fine to me as well:
Heh, okay okay, physician heal thyself and all that... I finally installed Adblock on Firefox and tweaked my hosts file just in case I happen to switch back to Safari.
Google's TOS allows no more than one of each type of ad on a page. I'm not sure if they limit the total number, but they might ought to.
Yeah.. it's just been ad creep. I need to update the templates...
I didn't realize how bad it had gotten :)
Thanks for the feedback!
Kevin
Kevin: Yeah, no offense man... after looking at a few more posts on your site, I realize it doesn't look as bad for longer posts. I think with that template, for a shorter one-off thought, it hit me in the face with "ADS ADS ADS" :)
Allowed are 3 normal ads and 2 link ads - so you can put 5 ads on every page.
But of course it looks really terrible if you do so...