Try Something New

The current state of society is paranoid to me, I mean why should a lot of ads on a site really scare anyone? I ask because of a reply I got from one guy, it wasn't a bad reply, it just made me think. I mean if a site makes money, it's gonna make a lot of money even if there's only one tiny adsense block on it, because if a site gets a lot of people, I mean millions, then even one tiny block of adsense is gonna be making tons. So a lot of ads shouldn't be a repellent if it looks good, that's what I think. I added all these ads for both reasons, style and money, but afterwards I looked at my site and thought it would look horrible if I took off the ads. And it's true too! But it does slow down my site's loading time, I know this, that's the main reason I thought about removing them. If ads become part of the style then that shouldn't matter at all, I love the way it turned out, and I don't think it looks crowded at all, it's all content to me. That psychology can go both ways you see, because for me it's more content, but other sites may only put a tiny bit of ads to be "sneaky" and that in my book is no better. It's worse if they intend to be sneaky. It's reverse psychology, because they know every programmer is thinking that too many ads are a repellent. Without ads I couldn't show people other sites with like-minded interests. Or products dealing with my interests. It's all just about what you think the viewer will get out of it. The way I put it is my site has a great "potential" to make money, but so do many other sites with only two ads. If your fear is the site making money then the only alternative is a site like Craig's List, that has no ads, and is also very plain. They make tons of money though from the DVD of the making of their site! Did you ever look at Myspace? They have more ads than me! You probably just never notice them. Most sites work that way. Unless I have tons of free time to write without the need for cash, but that's a bit silly. Depends on the person, I'm an artist selling my wares and the wares of others. If you look in the top right corner you'll see this is in fact my independent artist business/crazy blog for the public. I don't feel the need to put up links to a ton of sites that don't pay me, but I do have links to other artists. I'd rather have ads, you can't hate that. I look at the ads a lot myself, that's why I think people would like them, hell, I love them. As for the picture, I'm not a vegetarian, but I do like the taste of a good "fur burger". Turn over this leaf now! Me so funny...