We didn’t run ads till we’d been up for almost two years and had enough of an audience to “sell.”

We have never run AdSense – it’s ugly clutter and it devalues sites in my eyes when I see all that weight loss/colon cleansing/teeth whitening garbage.

We don’t have ads in the content column, in the header, anywhere but in one sidebar and at the top of some inside pages. That may change someday but it will NEVER be allowed to be clutter.

This reminds me of the kerfuffle over comment sewers. If you think they’ve gone bad, do something. We have rules. We enforce them. There is no law that says a website operator has to allow people to post anything they want to.

But I digress. As usual.

Funny, I had a different take-away from the creator’s (I think) … which was this: wow, look how many ads are on a single page and yet the industry remains mired in red ink.