Comments on: Is Advertising on a Personal Finance Blog Bad?

By: The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » The ING Ad

The Writer’s Coin » Blog Archive » The ING Ad — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:32:36 +0000

[...] but this is a case where I use and actively espouse the benefits of ING. So I have absolutely no qualms putting it at the top of every [...]

By: Nut

Nut — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:17:04 +0000

That’s a great point Lazy and it’s something I was hinting at. If you espouse the importance of alternative income, shouldn’t you follow your own advice?

By: Pinyo @ Moolanomy

Pinyo @ Moolanomy — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:50:25 +0000

That’s depend. If you advertise something that you wouldn’t use yourself, then it’s probably pushing the line.

By: plonkee

plonkee — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:28:35 +0000

I have clicked on ads before - and probably will do so again in the future - sometimes something comes up that is of interest to me.

I don’t see it as unethical, like Lazy if it’s a personal finance blog and it doesn’t have ads, unless they’re really new or on wordpress.com, you have to wonder whether they actually know about personal finance.

On the other hand, if it’s a blog about, say, politics then they are quite difficult to make money from - I’m happy for them to have ads, but I can see that people might not think that it’s worth the effort.

By: Lazy Man and Money

Lazy Man and Money — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:33:35 +0000

I’m always weary of sites that don’t have advertising. It’s extremely easy to put ads on any site of significant traffic, so either the site isn’t read by people (a bad sign) or the owner doesn’t like money (a bad sign for personal finance site).