{"id":9155,"date":"2018-08-21T20:38:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T00:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9155"},"modified":"2018-08-21T20:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T00:38:48","slug":"in-article-google-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9155","title":{"rendered":"In-article Google ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have Google ads enabled on this site. Not really worth the effort; my blog site generates mere cents of revenue on a good day.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, I noticed that Google started placing ads between paragraphs inside articles. I would like this if it improved the site&#8217;s profitability. But it didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And those ads are very disruptive, even when (or perhaps especially when) the ad is closely related to the content. Recently, I found myself apologizing more than once when I showed a blog post to someone, because of the silly, disruptive ads in the middle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9156\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/google-in-article-ad2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/google-in-article-ad2.png 560w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/google-in-article-ad2-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What can I say? I turned these ads off. I like Google ads as a source of revenue, but this was taking it one step too far.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9155' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have Google ads enabled on this site. Not really worth the effort; my blog site generates mere cents of revenue on a good day. More recently, I noticed that Google started placing ads between paragraphs inside articles. I would like this if it improved the site&#8217;s profitability. But it didn&#8217;t. And those ads are <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9155' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-internet","category-personal","category-46-id","category-6-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9157,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}