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Comment on Is Someone Stealing Away Your Affiliate Revenue? by Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:14:30 +0000

Wow, that’s quite an eye-opener. I’ve always wondered about many aspects of actually getting credit for affiliate sales. Thanks for the resources. I’ll have to check if the affiliate programs I have links to support these unfair practices. One good thing is one of the links(HyperWear) is part of the ShareASale network.
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Comment on Scary Wordpress Easter Egg by Alison Moore Smith

Alison Moore Smith — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:27:45 +0000

Hah. Beautiful. And creepy.
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Comment on Is Blocking Ads Unethical? by Anne

Anne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:46:09 +0000

Ileane, you make a good point about my use of the word “unethical”. I don’t think it’s necessarily unethical for surfers to be using them if they’re not aware of the common business model for content websites.
However, I do think it’s unethical for bloggers/webmasters who either make money from this model at present, or who plan on using it in the future, to use a blocker and/or recommend that others do it too.

Comment on Is Someone Stealing Away Your Affiliate Revenue? by Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:56:15 +0000

Hi Anne
Difficult for anyone to steal my Affiliate income… I don’t have any yet.

I’m letting by blog settle down and build up visitors.
Once I’ve achieved that, I’ll start thinking about Affiliate income.
Thanks for the warning.
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Comment on Is Blocking Ads Unethical? by Ileane

Ileane — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:42:36 +0000

Hi Anne,

I figured that I would add the newbie point of view to this conversation. I say newbie because I don’t have ads on my main blog (which is wordpress.com) but on the blogs that I do have ads I haven’t cashed in on any payouts nor have I made a huge effort to do so.

I’ve learned a lot about the different types of ads and how to make money from them by reading this post. I admit my initial reluctance to read it because I’m not really and “ad” person, but I’m glad I changed my mind. This is a great conversation to have and I’m certainly going to share it where I can.

Now with all of that being said, I don’t have the adblocker simply because I just haven’t gotten around to installing yet. In fact I just heard about it the other day but I really didn’t think it is necessary for me.

However, I don’t think I would use the word “unethical” to describe it’s use. To me in order for it to be unethical it would need to be in violation of some sort of “code of ethics” for web browsing that I am not aware of.

Based on your arguments I think the word “unfair” or something similar comes to mind. But keep in mind that I’m a person that doesn’t like advertising and I’m actually offended to learn that just by viewing an ad I might inadvertently be boosting a company’s reputation.

Personally – and by that I mean – if I wasn’t a blogger (it’s easy for me to think back to June of 2009) I find that whole concept unethical. It reminds me of how years ago (and they probably still do it) when you went to the movies and they would send subliminal messages by showing you a quick frame of popcorn popping or a beverage being poured into a cup, just to make you go to the concession stand.

Thanks for the conversation and the enlightenment.
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Comment on Is Blocking Ads Unethical? by Gautam Hans @ Blog Godown

Gautam Hans @ Blog Godown — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:09:31 +0000

I think adblockers were great in terms of blocking popups but that was when i had no knowledge about this stuff and I think awareness is the key to it. People have to be aware that all the internet business strives on ads and if they are not shown, then the business will incur losses.

you have done a great job in creating awareness. Now we hope that readers understand the importance of ads in websites
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Comment on Is Blocking Ads Unethical? by Anne

Anne — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:26:28 +0000

I was thinking MFA as in “Made for Adsense” as this, I think, is the more common interpretation of the term. Either way, even if there are sites made solely for CPM advertising, the way to fight them shouldn’t be by blocking all ads – as that means punishing the good quality sites too.

BTW, thanks for the comment and sorry but I had to edit your name in the comment. I hope to see you commenting here again, but please take a look at the commenting guidelines – thanks!

Comment on Is Blocking Ads Unethical? by Max

Max — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:23:26 +0000

You do make some good arguments, though I think you contradicted yourself slightly. Near the middle of your post you wrote, “They don’t get paid for your adviews, just for clicks.” and later went on to say, “I get paid for you to view the ads.” I realize that in the first quote you were referring to AdSense, but MFA could also be a general term for Made For Ads/Advertising, it doesn’t have to be AdSense specifically. I’m not in any way saying that your sites have low quality content, I’m just saying that you are an example of someone who gets paid for ad views and there are others out there who make sites specifically for that purpose without bothering to create good quality content. -Max

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Comment on Is Blocking Ads Unethical? by Anne

Anne — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:56:28 +0000

See, that’s what bothers me. Those computer savvy surfers should be the ones to know better. They can easily protect their computer without any ad blockers, and if they are web publishers (bloggers or webmasters), I’d expect them to have more respect to how we try to make a living online while providing them with content.