Making money and completing school work at the same time? What could be better? While I was just chilling taking looks around my blog I happened to come across something.
The ads that we are commenting on each week are sitting right under our noses. As seen in the picture itself and in
the YouTube video from the picture, we are asked whether we would like to have ads placed on our own site. The ads would be carefully chosen to best match my site. I disagree. As said in the video different companies will pay different prices to place ads on blogs. If one blog has one-million viewers, and is about being active and playing sports, then I wouldn't doubt McDonald's would try and place an ad there as compared to a blog with fifty views that's about fast food. The ads "for our blogs" are really quite the opposite. Rather than being for us they are to create an image of the company. Imagine the excericeing blog and the McDonald's sponsor, if you had never heard of McDonald's and you saw their ad there, what would you think?
Using the power of science and reason, Google attempts to tell us that this is a beneficial choice, that if we do this we help ourselves. They even try to make the Adsense feel positive. In the video while showing the bidding, the highest bidder was a recycling supporter. Recycling is positive, therefore the whole process is positive, right? It's all in the idea. It's all about "you the writer, your way, your style." Yet who is it really for? Our need for money, or the image of the advertisement company?
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