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.
My ad on my iPhone is asking me to donate my car.
Haha no thanks sorry
Maybe next ad
I have a copy of that Lego magazine ad 🙂
Firefox Mac and Safari both have ads. And it’s some random online store one at the moment.
Good luck with the ads!
What if I don’t want to admit I use chrome? Do I have to disclose that? *blush*.
No, I created my own browser from scratch and run it on a linux OS, yeah… that’s what I do.
(You know if that were true, my dad would be beaming with enough pride to cure cancer.)
indifferentsky — Chrome’s beating IE. File that under “things that make Argenti happy”.
Donation will be on its way soon, the flying monkeys are just being a little temperamental (the people at Paypal are doing some maintenance or something 😛 ).
@ Argenti, yeah… I’m one of those that thinks google is evil. 🙂 right along side with MS.
IDK, I think MS is extra evil — IE’s long held enough market share to basically define wtf was acceptable web design (ie if it’ll break on IE, don’t do it) — Chrome is giving them enough competition that HTML5 is actually like, functional, and not taking another decade.
Then again, I have MS Office for Mac, so I’m all too familiar with how evil MS is.
I whitelisted it in Adblock Plus for Chromium. The video ads are more unwieldy than I’d like, though.
@indifferentsky: If you’re wary of Chrome, there’s Chromium, which is the underlying codebase. Chrome proper is basically Chromium with some Google-specific things atop it. Otherwise, they’re basically the same thing. It’s what I use.
I started using Firefox years ago (before it was cool!) and never looked back. Now every time I have to use IE (which is not often at all), I get angry at it for being so slow and crappy. :O
I don’t think it matters if you click the ads or not, payment is based on impressions.
Also, I’m apparently not paid for any ads served outside the us, so if you’re outside the Us, I guess you should block away!
I tried unblocking, but I see no ads.
Obvious the ad companies don’t know how to sell to a vampiric manticore, you’ve confused them.
Jeez, how hard can it be? My needs are simple: Blood and flesh, and maybe a nice beach umbrella. Get on it, people!
David, I think there is a way of accessing additional funds by featuring a link to Amazon – readers follow this when buying stuff off the site.
Just an idea?
Looking up audience analysis on Alexa out of curiosity, The Good Men Project appears to have a larger percentage of female audience members then men (as well as those with college degrees).
I’m going to contemplating that. P:
The ad I got is for Volusion.
David, I think you should use an Amazon Affiliates thingy, where you have feminist books. If people buy them or anything through your link, you get %, I think 5%? And it never bothers anyone to get decent book recommendations, don’t you think? Put it on the sidebar and it doesn’t bother.
That said, I think with the Google ads it’s better if people actually click them, not view, but I think Google frowns upon site owners that mention that because people might click just to help and twist the relevance and interest graphs.
I can see ’em. Currently it’s an ad for Safestore, who my partner and I used when we moved house last year. We rented a three-metre by one-metre sapce; it wasn’t until we got there that we realised it was one metre wide, one metre deep and three metres tall.
Are we allowed to tell horror stories about the companies that advertise here? Could be fun…
I’m not actually seeing any ads, even with AdBlock and NoScript disabled. Am I doing something wrong? I don’t want to deprive the page of income. Where are the ads supposed to show?
Oh, wait. Germany isn’t (yet) part of the US. Derp.
I use Firefox and I’m seeing one ad for Netflix.
I’m on Firefox. I disabled Adblock Plus and got an ad for Volusion. It… moves. Static ads I can take, but the moving ones unsettle me. I may have to reenable the Adblock. Sorry. 🙁
(At least the ad didn’t auto-play music or commercial patter at me, and refuse to let me turn it off. THAT is the reason I got an ad blocker in the first place.)
Oohkay, I just got “Are the Illuminati real? Find out on Ask UK”
(I clicked through and just got a weather forecast. Hmm…)
Obvious conclusion: Yes, they are real, and clearly they control the weather.
I’m not so sure. I think we should ask NWO which browsers are Illuminati controlled because I can never keep track.