There are a million blogs out there about a million different topics. I should know. I personally have three of them. A lot of people, myself included, are interested in trying to make a little money while running and writing content for those blogs. There are many different ways to try and do this. There is Google AdSense. There is Infolinks. There is direct advertising. There is GoFundMe, Pateron and other sites like that where you can ask you readers to help support you.
I have always wondered where the line is. I don’t mind an ad here or there while reading free content, so where should a blogger draw the line. I have worked with companies who have paid me to talk about certain things in one of my blogs. I have had a widget to buy baseball tickets where I got paid when someone used my link to buy said tickets. I currently have a Pateron. Feel free to donate, by the way.
When does it get desperate and annoying? How much is too much. I don’t utilize advertising much because I don’t have a huge readership. I don’t want to drive away the people who do read my blogs. My Texas Rangers blog is a very specilazied blog. This one is brand new and doesn’t have a ton of followers yet. So does it annoying you when you visit a site and there are ads everywhere, or does it not bother you since you know the poor bloke is just trying to make a little money for his work. I’ve been writing for free online for over ten years. Sometimes I wish I could make some money. Other times I write just because I enjoy it. It is hard to draw the line between not enough and too much.
Personally, I am fine with ads on free sites. I don’t mind an author trying to make a little cash off me. I am just curious what you all think. Advertising is all around us all the time. I don’t think most of us are bothered by it. Just a random thought I was curious about. Let me know what you think in the comment section down below or on Facebook or Twitter.