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I'll say the same thing here that I said over at Finance and Fat on this topic.
Bloggers who remove ads from their site because they are not "appropriate" are underestimating the intelligence of their readers.
I don’t care if you have payday loan ads or strip club ads or pretty much anything. TV shows have commercials, radio shows have commercials, magazines have commercials - even highways have commercials (billboards) - and blogs have ads. And much like "ethical" investments - how do you decide what makes the cut?
Monetize away and don’t worry about the readers. Trust me, dumb people who don't know any better don't read your blog.
Mike
I understand the ethics behind your decision not to run certain ads. I am also confident that your blog will be making lots of money at the end of the year. I do agree with Mike - monetize away! I've never once allowed ads I see on blogs come off as a reflection of the writer. And besides, ads don't show up on readers :)
@Bubelah: I could, but I don't want to count dividends in retirement accounts and my brokerage didn't generate significant dividends (which is why I want to invest it in different things...). For the purpose of this exercise I wasn't really counting our "joint" investment income, anyway...
I completely agree about the aesthetics - I use a plugin called "who sees ads" - Pinyo wrote about it today in fact:
http://www.blogthority.com/29-increase-your-ads...
I use it on my site so that Adsense is only visible to search engine traffic or on posts older than 20 days. You can use it for any type of ad.
Another thing I do sometimes is to put in an ad on a post after the fact ie if you write a Prosper post then maybe a week later you can put a banner inside the post which is not something you would probably want for a fresh post.
Mike