Thursday, April 3, 2008

Goodbye Google Ads

Now that I work for Microsoft I no longer feel good about having Google Ads on my personal blogs. Don't get me wrong I am not trying to bash Google in anyway, instead realistically this is not a significant source of income for me and to help the competition at this personal level without even having a good cause behind it seems silly.

<adds removed from blog>

I still though like the idea of having ads on my websites and therefore am looking for other options. My first thought was to see if Microsoft had a similar program to place Microsoft ads on my website but was surprised to find no such thing. I am puzzled on why this does not exist... but that's reality.

I did though find three affiliate style programs being offered by the Microsoft Affiliates website microsoftaffiliates.net (beta programs). These programs offer money for adcenter sign-up referrals, Live OneCare trial downloads and even Live Toolbar installs. This does look interesting and I will pursue it.

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