Comments on: What’s your say on ad banners on Indian blogs ?

By: Praveen

Praveen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:29:53 +0000

If blogger is really interested in personal blogging, he need not add advertisements in his blog. My web company hosts blogs at very cheap cost. I don’t think that blogs hosted by us need banner ads for recovering the hosting cost.

By: Ebrahim Mafooz

Ebrahim Mafooz — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:16:18 +0000

We i being a web hosting provider and designer find many blogs hosted under me have google adsence associated with it. Mostly blogs are started just as a hobby and if its successfull they atleast get returns to pay up their hosting charges.

And ads mostly dont become disturbing unless its a pop up or like so.

and as sidhartha said its becoming a great revenue zone for all the newbies to the internet.

By: pranav

pranav — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:54:39 +0000

sidhartha,

you nailed it — if only these marketers felt the same way

By: Sidhartha Bezbora

Sidhartha Bezbora — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:22:59 +0000

There is nothing wrong in putting ad banners in blogs. Most people start blogging as a hobby and in the process if they start putting some ads and earn some extra penny then there is no harm in it. Again a lot depends on the kind of blog where ad banners have been put.

A new blogging ecosystem is getting developed there are millions of blogs out there some one is always looking to monetize his site. For example I love blogging and if my blog can financially support me I would love to leave my job and blog full time. Amit of Labnol.org is now a full time blogger earns good from his blog . He is full time into blogging and left his job. He is doing an excellent job.

By: pranav

pranav — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:55:43 +0000

Deepak,

Blogs and blogging has been so popular because they give the blogger the freedom of self expression. in other words, you write whatever you’re passionate about. As a result, blogs and bloggers are generally more closely scrutinized about integrity, disclosure and such.

Blogs and the blog audience form a very vibrant, enthusiastic, passionate and last but not the least – very opinionated ecosystem. One of the foundations of this ecosystem is trust. Any external factor (ads and banners) introducing bias into this ecosystem generally does not fare well with the blog audience. I could go on, but you get the picture.

By: Deepak Shenoy

Deepak Shenoy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:27:05 +0000

I write a blog with adsense on it. While I do have ads of every variety, I also have written articles that are not flattering to the companies that seem to advertise on my site – In fact, in one instance I have specifically disclosed that such company ads may be displayed on the page.

I don’t get the integrity equation. Citigroup has a division that releases research reports on stocks (“buy”, “sell” etc) and also have a banking or other relationship with the same company? For instance they said “BUY Indian Hotels” (The taj group of hotels) – http://www.indiaearnings.com/sub_india/compnews.php?autono=287796 – and they also have a co-branded card with Taj Hotels.

You might say “but they are different divisions!” – to me, the viewer, it would pretty much sound like an integrity problem at the same lines as blogs with ads. Especially with third party ads like adsense where the advertiser can place an ad without the blogger even knowing about it.