So, yeah, I’ve added ads to the site, at least on a trial basis. I’ve avoided them in the past to avoid cluttering up the site, and because ads don’t pay all that much, but times are a bit lean here at Man Boobz manor, and with the traffic this site now gets – we recently passed 4.5 million views – ads won’t make me rich but will definitely help. Hopefully they won’t be too obtrusive.
A couple of requests:
I don’t get paid unless people actually see the ads, so if you’re using ad-blocking software, please consider disabling it for manboobz.com. (If you’d rather not, maybe consider a donation? Donations are always welcome here.)
And if you want to help me make a few bucks more, and spread the word about the site in general, don’t hesitate to use the little “share” buttons below each post. Share on Twitter, on Facebook, on Reddit, or anywhere else you can think of. Some of you already do this, and I appreciate it a great deal.
One other thing: WordPress handles the ads; I don’t have any say in the specifics of what gets put here. Let me know if you see any weird or inappropriate ones.
So let the great ad experiment begin.
(If you’d rather not, maybe consider a donation? Donations are always welcome here.)
Can do! Donation > annoying ads. 😛
Adblock Plus has been disabled.
I don’t want to sound like a know-it-all but having worked with websites and internet marketing I have to just respectfully say that in the ad game impressions themselves are pretty worthless. It’s unique impressions (ie. new visitors) that are all important. Considering that most people have ad blockers these days has made these sorts of static ads pretty ineffectual and obsolete but I still wish you all the best and hope this all works out for you.
Personally, with this blog I’d try and strike a deal to do paid reviews or something of the like but that’s just me.
Oh, and it’s funny. When I was looking on Alexa I uncovered something interesting. I find it rather interesting that the biggest difference in visitor stats (besides the male to female ratio) between manboobz and AVFM are in education. Manboobz most common demographic consists of folks with graduate degrees while AVFM’s highest demographic consists of those with high school educations.
Well, right now, I just see an ad for Paypal…wait, now it’s Volusion.
Welp, nothing wrong so far. Will be sure to alert.
Oh, and I just sent you a couple of $.
So basically, ads for scented candles, wooden chairs, divorce attorneys, that guy with the question mark jacket who says how to get the government to pay for everything, and cat food?
Might put an exclusion in adblock plus, if anything to see if you can compete with FreeThoughtBlogs for the most weirdly inappropriate ads.
I can’t find the ads! Where are the ads? o.O
I’ll see about making a donation when I get paid, probably won’t be much but I’ll see what I can do 🙂
Okay, I’m probably being oversensitive here but this seemed a bit snobbish to me. I don’t have a degree, lots of people I know don’t have degrees, and I don’t think that it has any correlation with misogyny or MRA membership.
Still, I think there’s a graduate of every subject under the sun posting here, which is what makes the comments such an interesting read.
I dunno. I’ve done a couple paid reviews and they’re a pain. The companies can’t demand a good review, but when they’re giving you money and the product they send you is just godawful… it’s a sticky situation. Plus I feel like I’m kinda betraying readers by writing about something they probably have zero interest in.
Personally I don’t mind the ads, and I hope they bring in the $$$.
I’m broke now but when I have cash I’ll make a donation.
@Cliff Pervocracy: “I dunno. I’ve done a couple paid reviews and they’re a pain. The companies can’t demand a good review, but when they’re giving you money and the product they send you is just godawful… it’s a sticky situation. Plus I feel like I’m kinda betraying readers by writing about something they probably have zero interest in.”
Yeah, I agree that you definitely don’t want to go the route of doing random reviews for things completely unrelated to your website. I was thinking more along the lines of negotiating deals outside an affiliate site to get feminist related e-books or even websites reviews for a price in order to generate them traffic and hey, decent backlinks never hurt someone’s Google page rank. I agree that might be far too much hassle for some. Was just an idea that I wished to throw out there.
@Anna: “Okay, I’m probably being oversensitive here but this seemed a bit snobbish to me. I don’t have a degree, lots of people I know don’t have degrees, and I don’t think that it has any correlation with misogyny or MRA membership.”
You are reading far too much into this than what is written. I’d have to be self-loathing to do so since I never attended college (even though I had a grant to cover the costs of everything, even my books. Such is life, I guess.)
I merely found it interesting that the other averages were all similar except for that considering that there is a correlation between education and the development of critical thinking skills.
Yeah, you’re right. I’m sorry
I just jumped down your throat because I’ve been dealing with this kind of snobbery quite a lot in anti-BNP groups I’ve been involved with, and it’s not the way you meant it
The Lego girl is adorable! How about some cute kitty ads?
@Anna:
Not a problem. Lots of quasi-intellectuals certainly do like to conflate education with intelligence. It irks me to death too.
themisanthropicmuse: I don’t expect to get a lot of money from this; it’s just something I can add to the site that requires no more work than what I’m already doing. WordPress handles the details, and as far as I can tell pays by the impression. They won’t say exactly how much it pays, but they give a rough ballpark figure; I won’t know until the end of the month how much I’ve made.
Thanks, Shade and Claire for the donations!
Question for everyone: are the ads showing up? It’s just one ad per page, underneath the top (or only) post on the page.
I’ve tested it in Firefox and Chrome w/ disabled AdBlock, and it works for me. But a friend of mine says she can’t get it in firefox or IE.
In any case, thanks for understanding. Hopefully the ads won’t be too annoying.
yeah i can see that ads
I can see the ads as well. I’m using Firefox, for the record.
unblocked for this site, and I just clicked into something and signed up for something interesting, but won’t go into too much detail, or my comment will get caught in the spam filer, heh. But the first ad I got was an interesting newsletter offer about the stockmarket in India.
They have a super strict privacy policy with my email, according to thems.
Point being, I found the first ad that came up for me kinda interesting.
Bah ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ads were originally about getting background checks. Clicked through and read some comments from Steele and Eurosabra in another thread, come back to the main page and it has an ad about getting a criminal justice degree online….click on a link and read some comments from Tom Martin, add on the front page is now for a home security system.
What sorcery is this? How does it knooooooooowwww!!!!!!
I have firefox and I see the ads. I clicked to watch a commercial for Major League baseball. I refreshed and then went to volusion.com. If clicking ads helps you get paid, I’ll click them every time I visit. I’m sorry I don’t have money to donate at this time, but hopefully I can give soon.
Also, if you get more page views, does that help you make money or does that cost you money?
Hmm… I see no ads. Then again, I’m also using a very strange browser. (Look up Uzbl if you’re curious)
Yes, I see the ads.
Oh, and I’m using Chrome.
I’m seeing ads on Firefox. They’re also showing up in Opera.
Just Eat. Not too insidious.
Now, to sit back and wait for the MRAs to bawl about the feminist/mangina millionaire conspiracies and how you’re using them for profit (hope I didn’t give them ideas. I prefer to watch them flounce organically and without outside influence, like some non-imperialist explorer who doesn’t intrude into insulated cultures, tossing Bibles and smallpox blankets all willy-nilly)