No More Kontera, Adsense, or AdBrite

The extra income that Kontera, Adsense, and AdBrite have been generating over the last few months has been nice pocket money, but after using all of these services for quite a while I’ve decided that they just take far too much away from the user experience here. After all, aren’t the readers the most important part of a blog? Starting today you won’t be seeing anymore Kontera, AdBrite, or Adsense (although past posts with Adsense included will remain) on this blog.

I’ve made it no secret that the newest arena of online earning to me is definitely blogging, so this blog really is an experiment. This isn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last time that I shift around advertising here in order to find the perfect balance between user experience and income.

I have already learned that with blogging more than any other type of website you can’t just throw every form of revenue generator on the page and watch the numbers go up. On a blog you have to maintain a relationship between yourself and your readers. This relationship is affected by the number and intrusiveness of the ads on your site. In the age of feed readers you wouldn’t think that this would make all that much of a difference, but it really does.

Anyways I just thought I’d take a break to let you guys know what was going on around here.