The time has come to admit to myself this terrible personal problem that’s been holding me back in this blogging effort of mine. Time to stop pretending and just say it. I have ADVERTISE-A-PHOBIA!
Don’t bother to look it up…you won’t find it. It exists only here.
Why is this? Where there are tons of bloggers out there raking in everything from pocket change to whole portfolios (okay, I’m exaggerating a bit here) every month or so and I can’t even bring myself to leave the two basic Google Adsense type ads below my single posts. I pulled them yesterday fer chrissakes. I did leave the little Adsense link block in my sidebar out of sheer tenacity because it’s so unobtrusive. Of course that’s what you might call self defeating wouldn’t you say? An unobtrusive ad?
This stands to reason though. I’m an even worse salesman then I am an “ad-man”. I couldn’t sell somebody a bag of money for a quarter. I mean Kirby wouldn’t hire me even if I showed up singing the company song and told them I was rich and would work for nothing because I just loved their vacuum cleaners! They’d kindly show me the door and then most likely alert the authorities that a mentally deranged wacko just walked out their door.
Look, I like my readers. I don’t want to harangue them with obnoxious ads peppered throughout my pages and with embedded ad links in my posts. I’m not saying that those bloggers who do use ads don’t like their readers as much as I like mine, sure they do. Many of them are much more successful than I am at the moment (but not all of them are SOB’s! 
) and they obviously have tons of happy readers so I suppose I’m just Advertisment Challenged or something of that nature. I’m sure those in the mental health profession will come up with a name for my malady sooner or later, they always do. And the pill for it will follow close on it’s heels I’m sure.
I can see it now. All the new names for helping those like myself. Names like AdsenseAmin, ViADra, Ro-ADrazole, Adacin, Adcedrin and even a pill for the ad obsessive who uses too many ads on their blogs—Adexatrim. Yes sir, they’ll have a cure for folks like me and then I’ll be able to throw ads all over the place and do paid reviews and embed all sorts of ad links into my posts for your reading pleasure and….
Well…maybe not.
I’m not particularly worried about it. Bloggers like myself can often live perfectly normal lives where no one would even think that that an advertisemental problem existed at all. It’s only when I’m in front of my computer looking at my blog and that stray Ad Thought captures my attention that I start having cold sweats and my hands start shaking. But I’m okay with that though. I can handle it.
So here’s to being (almost) Ad free for now and the rest can take care of itself. And I do believe it’s time to end this silly post and go to bed. Tomorrow’s another day you know.
Have a good ad-free night all.
I struggle with this myself. While I have ads on my blog I try to limit it so that the focus of any post is the post itself and not the ad. Meaning, visually, I hope that the ads don’t overwhelm the content.
That said there is a total opposite side to ads on blogs. I read a recent post by a prominent blogger that says he assumes everything is commercialized. Meaning, if a blogger writes about Pepsi he assumes the blogger is getting paid by Pepsi (one way or another). This doesn’t mean it’s true, just that it’s safer to assume it is than not.
I was rather surprised to read that – I guess it’s the type of blogs I read, but with PPP and other review me schemes maybe this is a good attitude to have…?
You’re right. Kind of throws a whole new spin on things now doesn’t it? I wonder how many other folks actually think this way? Probably as many as those who think there is a scheme behind everything. Maybe more considering the rampant use of PPP and the like.
You and I suffer the same problem then. The desire to monetize but we don’t want the ads to be noticeable. A but of a conundrum isn’t it?
I had a good laugh reading your post. I’m not sure if there was some kind of reverse pychology in your thinking but I actually clicked on one of your ads.
Just realised this post is 3 years old! Has your advertise-a-phobia gotten any better over the years?
.-= kelly´s last ramble ..What is the silliest phobia you have ever seen someone actually have? =-.
Kelly – As you can see, I finally was able to manage adding AdSense without getting the shakes or perspiring greatly. The medication helped a lot.